On Nov 2, 1:41 pm, AC
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> RichL
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>>news:slrnfimkov.80o.mightymartianca@rotten.egg.sandwich...>>> On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:00:57 GMT,
>>> see the tree
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>>>> "S.F.BZY"
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>>>>>>> see the tree wrote:
>>>>>>>> "S.F.BZY"
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>>>>>> me one
>>>>>>>>>>that has no ballads. Now. Do it.
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>>>>>>>>>Zep had some acoustic songs in the folk rock context. Who had
>>>>>>>>>synthesized power ballads... big diff. Who logically led to
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>>>>>>>>>REO Speedwagon, Foreigner and the likes.
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>>>>>>>> Whose logic?
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>>>>>>> Maybe it lead to those through Queen
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>>>>>>> I think Journey, REO Speedwagon, Foreigner all have mention Queen as
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>>>>>>> and at least Journey and Foreigner later both work with the same two
>>>>>>> record producers that Queen had make famous earlier: Roy Thomas
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>>>>>> Many bands (aside from those you mention) from different genres have
>>>>>> credited Queen as being primary influences, notably Metallica and
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>>>>> And Queen ripped of The Who (Tommy/Quad) in their operatic bombastic.
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>>>> How so?
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>>> 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
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>>> bands like The Who had on Queen, and certainly, as performers go, I can
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>>> 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
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>>> think Brian May has said on occasion that a major influence for him was
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>>> Yardbirds.
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>>> 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
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>>> act before them. I think that most of that is Freddie, as the others,
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>>> good songwriters, never seemed quite so willing to dispense with the pop
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>>> 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?
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>> 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.
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>> I would say that of the three *big* Yardbirds guitarists, the biggest
>> influence I hear in May's playing is Jeff Beck.
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> It makes sense, though May is a virtuoso in his own right.
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> Let's also remember that Queen also had some Prog Rock roots as well, which
> kept popping up all over their catalog (lots of stuff from the first albums
> and even Innuendo is an extend prog rock piece). They were big-time genre
> benders, which, to my mind, demonstrates their appreciation for the Beatles,
> who were also lovers of songs much more than lovers of genres (unlike Raja,
> who I can only imagine would be a horror in a band "You wanna play Mr.
> Moonlight, you're such a fag!").
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> Aaron Clausen
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Like like Mr. Moonlight a lot, so you are wrong as usual.
