Anyone else see Queen & Paul Rodgers!?

From http://www.QueenPlusPaulRodgers.com

GO SEE THEM LIVE PEOPLE! BEST CONCERT I HAVE EVER SEEN!
BRIAN, ROGER AND PAUL DID THE MEMORY OF FREDDIE GOOD!
It was WORTH driving 150 miles from BFE to Miami! I came THIS close to going up to Jax on Sunday, but I thought nah, let someone else have the chance to see 'em!
And being only about 20 or 30 feet from the stage on the floor was a plus too!~!!!!!!

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Miami Set List...Includes New Song!

Reaching Out
Tie Your Mother Down
Dragon Attack (1st Time Played as Q+PR!!!!! F-ing AMAZING!)
Fat Bottomed Girls
Take Love (New Song!!!!!! FIRST TIME PLAYED LIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Say It's Not True (Roger sung)
'39 (Brian sung)
Love Of My Life (Brian also sung & dedicated to Freddie...naturally!)
Hammer To Fall (Brian sungs first half)
Feel Like Makin' Love
Drum Solo (Roger)
I'm In Love With My Car (Roger sung)
Guitar Solo
Last Horizon
Bad Company
Another One Bites The Dust
These Are The Days Of Our Lives (Roger also sung)
Radio Ga Ga (Roger sung as well!)
Can't Get Enough
The Show Must Go On
Bohemian Rhapsody

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(Encores)

We Will Rock You
All Right Now
We Are The Champions

And please don't flame me with the "IT'S NOT QUEEN WITHOUT FREDDIE" stuff ok!!!!!!!!!!

It creeps me out.

Maybe he's a long lost relative?!

Don't let the live album "Return Of The Champions" fool ya, they are totally in fine form!

THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!
Lu

And I will flame because it is Queen without Freddie. I listened to some of their stuff on the website and I was in tears - it sounded like a fucking Bad Company concert doing a Queen tribute concert.

Queen had 2 other extremely talented singers who could have continued on the Queen tradition without having to bring in an outside singer (and yes, Paul Rogers has some vocal skills no question about that either).

I'd rather see a Brittney SPears concert then waste one penny on this travesty. Why Brian May and Roger Taylor, two men who did about a quarter of the lead vocals on all the Queen records, didn't handle the lead themselves is beyond me. Some of my favorite Queen songs were song by one of those two (notably "I'm in Love with my Car" and "'39" to name a few).

This whole thing has been jeopardizing Queen's position as my #2 favorite band of all time. I'm thinking Pink Floyd might be ripe for taking over that slot

EDIT NOTE: And btw, it's not even all of Queen. John Deacon retired. Why not retire the name and call their band something new to not insult those of us who were diehard Queen fans since forever

to use the Queen name. When Freddie died they pledged that Queen would be no more out of respect. Guess that respect dried up along with the cash flow.

but what I don't understand is why they had to bring in an outsider for their lead. I mean, this was an opportunity for Roger Taylor and Brian May to shine because both of them had great vocals, especially Taylor. I would have rather they brought in an outside drummer and put Taylor in as lead and then allow May to do a few songs of his own.

And the worse it it wasn't the remaining members of Queen, just two of them. Even Robert Plant & Jimmy Page had the courtesy to not call their work together back in the 90s Led Zeppelin since John Paul Jones was not involved (and obviously Bonham wasn't since he was dead). BTW, Bassist John Deacon retired about 5 years ago.

subtly changed to reflect respect for the loss of the core of Queen.

Several months ago I bought a DVD of Queen live in 1982 I think at Wembly-Freddie you can't take your eyes off him. This is like Charles marrying Camilla and oh yes she's a complete substitute for Diana? Freddie fans like me and my friends, just say NO to this abortion-Queen with Paul Rogers.
Have a good day.

...and I wouldn't even travel 2 hours to see the show when this tour came near me last year. It's NOT Queen without Freddie and John. I'm not flaming you, glad you had fun and enjoyed the show, but- it's just not.

Oh fuck me! I'm dyin' ova here!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok, can we open the bar?! I NEED A DRINK! Godddddddddddamn! I never thought I'd get more flame like this, than, well shit! Maybe I should post on FREEPERVILLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Glad I got my butt-plate on!

Point 1: Freddie WOULD NOT have wanted them to hang it up.
Point 2: Yes they don't have John, but HE GAVE THEM HIS BLESSING FOR THIS!
Point 3: ROGER TAYLOR!
Point 4: BRIAN MAY!
Point 5: I love the stuff Paul did w/ The Firm (yes, I'm a Led Zeppelin mark!) & solo, and yeah even Free & Bad Co, but just to SPITE ALL OF YOU, I'M GOING TO BUY ALL THE FREE AND BAD CO ALBUMS HE IS ON! FUKU!
Point 6: Queen hasn't played this shithole gods-forsaken dump state FloriDUH since November 3, 1978! Urm, I was only 3 going on 4 then! Hey, I still would have gone!
Point 7: Y'all fartknockers are acting like Paul Rodgers is some chode like Axl! Can I just go do massive bong hits now please!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Point 8: This isn't like INXS! Now, they could go and bill it as "Queen". And they have EVER legal right to. But no! They took the high road, and made it Queen + PR. Does INXS bill themselves "INXS + JD Fortune"? HELL NO!

Your witness!

Lu Cifer
AND CAAAAAAAAAAAN YOU FEEEEEEEEEEL THE LOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE TOOOOOONIGHT...
No, not really...

Edit: I really kan't spel four shiit wheen I is pissd!
SHOW ME SOME LOVE! DID ANYONE LIKE THE SHOW?! HELP! And if not, just shoot me and put me out of my misery!

We just would have prefered if they had done it without Paul Rodgers. This isn't to belittle the skills that Paul Rodgers has, just don't want him doing lead for our group.

Anyone with even a slight knowledge of Queen and their music knows that Freddie Mercury did NOT sing all of the Queen songs, he did about 3/4ths of them. If Queen was to continue on, why not have the other two singers in the group - Roger Taylor and Brian May do vocals. Sure, the show wouldn't have the charismatic lead stylings of Freddie Mercury BUT it would have still Queen doing the songs including opportunities to hear some great songs rarely done live because they weren't 'Freddie' songs. And even still, I wouldn't have had a problem with Brian or Roger singing some of those 'Freddie' songs.

We're purists - so sue us!

You may own the earlier CDs. But you don't own the group. May and Taylor can do whatever the hell they want.

You can choose to ignore them, and it won't matter at all to May and Taylor. After all, it's THEIR group.

it's our music too. Paul Rodgers is ruining it and for the diehard fans like myself, we are not happy. Read the thread - it's obvious I'm not alone in this sentiment!

Like I said, you can simply choose to ignore them.

R.E.M. used to be my favorite band. Then, they seemed to lose all originality. I have simply chosen to ignore just about everything they've done since 1993 or so. I enjoy all the old stuff and ignore what they're doing now. Works out well.

There were only actually about 10 people farther away from the stage than I was, but it was still good.

Next time I'll post "I LOVE BUSH!" and get a better response!

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Can Queen with Paul Rodgers possibly sound anything like Queen with Freddie Mercury? Did you find any similarities, or would you say that these were two very different experiences?

like Journey did? I saw the "new" Journey. Yeah, he looks like Perry, he SOUNDS like Perry. But it still ain't Steve Perry.

Brian May and Roger Taylor should have done it themselves - you know they can, there are at least 1-2 songs on every album with one of them as lead singer (especially in the earlier works)

...not making up my mind. The original poster only said something about being true to Freddie's memory, which implies some sort of similarity. I was interested in the eyewitness' experience.

A good sound-alike might be better than a voice that sounds out of place with the material. Might be.

form of flattery, it often just comes across as weird when someone tries to pretend to be someone they're not.

The Journey guy kind of freaked me out. He was too close to Steve Perry. Too weird.

I liked it, for example, when Sammy Hagar joined Van Halen. He didn't try to be David Lee Roth. Didn't sound like him. But the old tunes still sounded fine, I thought. Different, but good.

A local station (ClearChannel, of course) plays it about 10 times a day, which is more than they've ever played any other Queen song, as far as I know.

To me it sounds nothing like Queen and everything like a college coverband with a good sound tech and a skilled guitarist.

Queen died along with Freddie. There can be only one.