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Post by talon on Aug 29, 2012 17:33:03 GMT -5
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Post by gabby on Aug 29, 2012 18:07:24 GMT -5
Yes that is them Thanks. Just ordered both! ETA: See? You found that video I was looking for and B&R were able to convince ;D me to buy their GHV album that I was not even aware exist. I thought they were just selling their music CD... and poor RT wasn't even allowed to go to lunch! |
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Post by talon on Aug 29, 2012 20:46:59 GMT -5
So it was worth skipping lunch to convince you to buy the DVDs! :D
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Post by talon on Aug 30, 2012 7:27:18 GMT -5
Today we go vaudeville!
Bring Back That Leroy Brown
Written by: Freddie Mercury
Musicians:
Freddie Mercury - lead and backing vocals, piano, jangle piano
Brian May - guitars, George Formby ukulele-banjo
John Deacon - bass guitar, double bass
Roger Taylor - drums
- Inspired in part by Jim Croce's Big Bad Leroy Brown
- Brian used a genuine George Formby ukulele banjo which was a unique instrument at the time to add a bit of flavor.
- This is a fun upbeat number that shows more versatility than your average rock band!
- For a never disclosed reason when the band added this song to the medley, they did a mostly instrumental version. Freddie sings 'that cutie pie' and the band do the last lines but the rest is instrumental.
QUOTES:
- "The ukulele was incidental to that because it that was Freddie's song. It had this kind of vaudeville atmosphere and I just thought the ukulele would go nicely on it and we worked beside it, so it could be done. And I managed to fiddle a little ukulele solo." - Brian May - 12/24/77 - BBC Radio One
ALTERNATIVE RELEASED VERSIONS
A CAPELLA MIX 2011
- ESSENTIAL listening.
- Released as a bonus track on the bonus EP of the Deluxe Version of the 2011 Island remastering of the album
- As much as Queen did it live instrumentally, the bonus track goes the other way. It isn't completely a capella as there is the occasional guitar note and piano riff but it is mostly and it's great to hear Freddie's harmonies and vocal stylings!
OFFICIAL LIVE VERSION:
LIVE AT THE RAINBOW 1974
- A fun mostly instrumental run through.
UNRELEASED LIVE VERSIONS:
LIVE AT HAMMERSMITH - 1975
- Perhaps Freddie wanted to concentrate on his piano!
LIVE AT EARLS COURT - 1977
- Includes Freddie bantering with the audience a bit at the end.
PERSONAL NOTES:
- Another short track, but I love the fact that it goes well off the beaten path for a rock band. Funny and a good time. On a truly personal note this is my 8 year old daughter's favorite Queen song!
Next up will be Brian May's slightly nightmarish sequence, She Makes Me (Stormtrooper In Stilettos)
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Post by lambo on Aug 30, 2012 9:39:40 GMT -5
Ahh this song. So goofy, especially the deep voice :4OMG:
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Post by talon on Aug 30, 2012 12:56:58 GMT -5
Definitely! I love the low bassy voice. Freddie slowed down a TON :D
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Post by gabby on Aug 30, 2012 17:14:45 GMT -5
Bring Back That Leroy Brown[/IMG] [/quote] Ha Ha! Fun song. Definitely! I love the low bassy voice. Freddie slowed down a TON :D Wow! That was Freddie at 0:31 ??? How low was that key? BTW when I got home the Republican Convention coverage was my background noise when I suddenly heard a snippet of JC's "Leroy Brown" and I thought for their theme they should have played Queen's Leroy Brown's since the lyrics were written by FM as: Gone and got himself elected President
Missed opportunity ;D
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Post by talon on Aug 30, 2012 21:03:40 GMT -5
Not sure how low the note is as I don't have my keyboard at the ready  But it's low! That would have been hilarious...in Queen terms you should say "Lost Opportunity" (it's a Brian song from 1991!) |
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Post by gabby on Aug 30, 2012 21:38:13 GMT -5
Not sure how low the note is as I don't have my keyboard at the ready But it's low! That would have been hilarious...in Queen terms you should say "Lost Opportunity" (it's a Brian song from 1991!) Lost Opportunity! Heh! Didn't know BM wrote a song titled as such. OT.... I re-watched that video The Making of the Night of the Opera. BM mentioned somebody named Mike Stone (?)...was he one of Queen producers in the early days? Why did he leave? |
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Post by talon on Aug 30, 2012 21:58:27 GMT -5
Mike Stone was a studio engineer that worked with the band for quite awhile. He started simply as an engineer that set up the equipment, and the levels and recorded the band for the band and Roy Thomas Baker to produce.
The story went that Mike Stone was so competent at his job that he really began being a useful aide to both Queen and Baker with producing. In fact it was Stone's confidence that led the band to feel confident enough after A Night At The Opera to part ways with Baker and produce by themselves with Stone engineering. Stone actually also added backing vocals to Good Old Fashioned Loverboy and worked so well with the band that he finally was given the title co-producer by News Of The World.
There was no real reason as to why he left. He became a producer in demand after his work with Queen and it just seemed a natural progression as Mike went on to produce other bands and Queen would work more and more overseas so there was no acrimony or any betrayal or anything. It just ended naturally.
By all reports he was a humorous ladies man who was a wonderful collaborator. Unfortunately he passed away in 2002.
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But it's low!