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I’ve a feeling these guys will be pretty big soon.
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“Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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This is some good guitar playing here.
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Very good album! Bought this the night it was released. I still remember delivering pizzas that night when I heard the dj mention the new album was out in stores and I swung into Westgate mall to grab a copy of the CD.
I tried taking the longest routes all night trying to maximize my ride time.
At the time I remember thinking it might be a bit indulgent compared to The Miracle but Innuendo definitely grew on me and I loved the artwork. As with all their albums this one had a completely unique flavor to it. I think the bright spots were Headlong, Going Slightly Mad, Ride The Wild Wind, Bijou, and These Are The Days.
A very reflective album for obvious reasons. I’m not sure that May played all the guitar parts on the song Innuendo though. Seems the liner notes mentioned a guest guitarist who played the Spanish flamenco on the classical acoustic.
I’m tempted to look it up now. Brian May has always been a hero of mine. I ordered his Star Licks video tape the first year I started playing.
“Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ah!
It was actually Steve Howe from Yes who played the classical parts on Innuendo…
“ When the members of Queen asked if Howe wanted to play on the title track, Howe politely suggested they’d lost their minds. It took the combined weight of Mercury, May and Taylor to persuade him.
According to Steve Howe:
Inside, there’s Freddie, Brian and Roger all sitting together. They go: ‘Let’s play you the album’. Of course, I’m hearing it for the first time […] And they saved "Innuendo" itself until last. They played it and I was fucking blown away.
They all chimed in: ‘We want some crazy Spanish guitar flying around over the top. Improvise!’ I started noodling around on the guitar, and it was pretty tough. After a couple of hours, I thought: ‘I’ve bitten off more than I can chew here’.
I had to learn a bit of the structure, work out what the chordal roots were, where you had to fall if you did a mad run in the distance; you have to know where you’re going. But it got towards evening, and we’d doodled and I’d noodled, and it turned out to be really good fun.
We have this beautiful dinner, we go back to the studio and have a listen. And they go: ‘That’s great. That’s what we wanted’.”
Turns out Steve Howe was the only non-Queen musician to ever play guitar on a Queen album. Quite an honor.
John Deacon played rhythm guitar on a few songs he wrote on Hot Space.
It was actually Steve Howe from Yes who played the classical parts on Innuendo…
“ When the members of Queen asked if Howe wanted to play on the title track, Howe politely suggested they’d lost their minds. It took the combined weight of Mercury, May and Taylor to persuade him.
According to Steve Howe:
Inside, there’s Freddie, Brian and Roger all sitting together. They go: ‘Let’s play you the album’. Of course, I’m hearing it for the first time […] And they saved "Innuendo" itself until last. They played it and I was fucking blown away.
They all chimed in: ‘We want some crazy Spanish guitar flying around over the top. Improvise!’ I started noodling around on the guitar, and it was pretty tough. After a couple of hours, I thought: ‘I’ve bitten off more than I can chew here’.
I had to learn a bit of the structure, work out what the chordal roots were, where you had to fall if you did a mad run in the distance; you have to know where you’re going. But it got towards evening, and we’d doodled and I’d noodled, and it turned out to be really good fun.
We have this beautiful dinner, we go back to the studio and have a listen. And they go: ‘That’s great. That’s what we wanted’.”
Turns out Steve Howe was the only non-Queen musician to ever play guitar on a Queen album. Quite an honor.
John Deacon played rhythm guitar on a few songs he wrote on Hot Space.
“Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Queen just put out a previously unreleased song with Freddie.
It’s not bad at all.
It’s not bad at all.
“Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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This concert opens with my most favorite live Queen track ever. I got the Flash Gordon vinyl as soon as it came out when I was little.
I always thought it was an excellent record. The Hero has always been a very underrated song in my opinion.
Of note in the vid is some material off Hot Space with John Deacon playing some very funky riffs on rhythm guitar and maybe the best live version of Fat Bottomed Girls I’ve heard.
I could kick myself for missing these guys live when I had the chance but I was still pretty young and only had Greatest Hits and Flash Gordon at the time. I didn’t fully immerse myself in Queen until around ‘88. By then I thinked they already played the last dates they would ever play in America or at least the southeast.
I always thought it was an excellent record. The Hero has always been a very underrated song in my opinion.
Of note in the vid is some material off Hot Space with John Deacon playing some very funky riffs on rhythm guitar and maybe the best live version of Fat Bottomed Girls I’ve heard.
I could kick myself for missing these guys live when I had the chance but I was still pretty young and only had Greatest Hits and Flash Gordon at the time. I didn’t fully immerse myself in Queen until around ‘88. By then I thinked they already played the last dates they would ever play in America or at least the southeast.
“Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson