Queen
So I just got home for the Queen Concert to which I went with Steph. overall It was a pretty decent concert, there were some spots where it seemed the sound tech turned the wrong switch or something with mics not coming on right away and the like. It also seemed that with the lack of the flamboyant front man (Freddie Mercury, duh) they decided to up the guitar solos from one Brian May (Main guitarist for Queen (the dude with the really big hair)), which again for the most part was fine, except for one spot when Mr. May was just doing a solo for about 10-15 minutes. It would have been fine if he had been doing actual picking/strumming of the guitar and amazing fingering, which, granted, some was, but a large portion of it was electronic manipulation of the notes, which I didn't find necessarily all that amazing. Anyway, the frontman for the evening was Paul Rodgers of Bad Company fame ("Bad Company", "Feel Like Making Love", "Alright Now" are some of their songs). And he is truly a front man from the 70s-80s because he LOVED to twirl the mic stand. There were 2 really cool song performances during the concert. The first came when "Love of My Life" was performed. Traditionally Freddie and Brian would sit on stools, Brian would play the acoustic and Freddie would sing. Well obviously that couldn't happen, so Brian went out and performed the song himself with an empty stool next to him, really awesome. The other was Bohemian Rhapsody. I was continually in limbo as to whether they were going to do this song, because it is more or less, at least for our generation, Queen's signature song, on the other hand, it's Freddie's song, no can, nor should do that song like Freddie. So, what did they do? they showed video of Freddie doing the song live, with Roger Taylor (drummer) and Mr. May playing the parts they were supposed to. Paul came in at a few spots later in the song that aren't as signature, but most of the song was done by Freddie, first time I've ever had a dead guy sing for me. Anyway, if you have the opportunity to see the concert, I would say check it out. Paul adds his interpretation to the Queen songs, which since he (and probably most other people) does not have Freddie's range, is good. I was unaware that a white Brit could have so much soul, so once I got to the idea that he was doing his thing with the songs and not trying to mimic Freddie, the concert got better. K, I'm done.
Night!
Night!