"AC"
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news:slrnfimkov.80o.mightymartianca@rotten.egg.sandwich...> On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:00:57 GMT,
> see the tree
almostover.com> wrote:>>
>> "S.F.BZY"
gmail.com> wrote in message>>> On Nov 2, 8:56 am, "RichL"
yahoo.com> wrote:>>>> "tttt"
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>>>> news:fgervm$4do$1@saavi.uwasa.fi...
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>>>>>>>>> see the tree wrote:
>>>>>> "S.F.BZY"
gmail.com> wrote in message>>>>>>>>Good grief, Raja! Have you even listened to Zep albums? If so,
tell
>>>> me one
>>>>>>>>that has no ballads. Now. Do it.
>>>>
>>>>>>>Zep had some acoustic songs in the folk rock context. Who had
>>>>>>>synthesized power ballads... big diff. Who logically led to
Journey,
>>>>>>>REO Speedwagon, Foreigner and the likes.
>>>>
>>>>>> Whose logic?
>>>>
>>>>> Maybe it lead to those through Queen
>>>>
>>>>> I think Journey, REO Speedwagon, Foreigner all have mention Queen as
one
>>>>> of their
>>>>
>>>>> and at least Journey and Foreigner later both work with the same two
>>>>> record producers that Queen had make famous earlier: Roy Thomas
Baker
>>>>> and Mike Stone
>>>>
>>>> Many bands (aside from those you mention) from different genres have
>>>> credited Queen as being primary influences, notably Metallica and
Stone
>>>> Temple Pilots.- Hide quoted text -
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>>> And Queen ripped of The Who (Tommy/Quad) in their operatic bombastic.
>>
>> How so?
>
> Indeed. First of all, I don't really recall anything all that "operatic"
> about Tommy or Quadrophenia. I think you can clearly see the influence
that
> bands like The Who had on Queen, and certainly, as performers go, I can
see
> how Daltrey would have been a pretty big influence on Freddie. Townsend's
> guitar playing was, of course, a major influence on lots of people, though
I
> think Brian May has said on occasion that a major influence for him was
the
> Yardbirds.
>
> The fact is that stuff like Killer Queen and Bohemian Rhapsody are so
> inately Queen that I have a hard time linking them to any other pop or
rock
> act before them. I think that most of that is Freddie, as the others,
while
> good songwriters, never seemed quite so willing to dispense with the pop
and
> rock forms as Freddie was. I mean, is there anyone else in the world who
> would write a song like Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon and put it on a
> (ostensibly) rock album?
The variety of styles they did is enormous, even just on a single album,
"Sheer Heart Attack". Killer Queen, Bring Back That Leroy Brown, Dear
Friends, Brighton Rock, etc. And let's not forget Stone Cold Crazy, which
was covered by Metallica who didn't have to alter their style a bit to do it
and who played it pretty close to the original. No way The Who could have
pulled off half that stuff.
I would say that of the three *big* Yardbirds guitarists, the biggest
influence I hear in May's playing is Jeff Beck.
