{"id":3711,"date":"2006-03-01T12:30:07","date_gmt":"2006-03-01T20:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/03\/01\/queen-but-whos-paul-rodgers\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T09:14:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T17:14:03","slug":"queen-but-whos-paul-rodgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/03\/01\/queen-but-whos-paul-rodgers\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen! (But who’s Paul Rodgers?)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Queen (plus Paul Rodgers)<\/a> is going to be performing in Seattle<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Who’s Paul Rodgers<\/a>? Aside from the obvious answer of “the guy singing because Freddy<\/a>‘s not around anymore,” that is. Apparently, he’s had a solo career<\/a> along with being the vocalist for three bands — Free<\/a>, Bad Company<\/a>, and The Firm<\/a>. Bad Company is the only one of those three that I’ve ever heard of.<\/p>\n

Hrm.<\/p>\n

It’s a dilemma. On the one hand, I’m a long<\/em> time Queen<\/a> fan, and they have been one of the groups I’ve always wished I’d had a chance to see live — something I’d given up on when Freddy died. So the chance to see even 3\/4 of Queen with someone else standing in is very<\/em> enticing.<\/p>\n

On the other hand…it’s not Freddy. Will the show still sound right? Does Paul have the stage presence that Freddy did (while I never saw them, I love<\/em> listening to the live album ‘Live Killers<\/a>‘ in large part because of the incredible rapport Freddy had with his audience)? There are sample downloads<\/a> on the Queen + Paul Rodgers website, but they’re in a Windows Media format that doesn’t seem to play nice with OS X, so I can’t listen to any of them.<\/p>\n

Ooh, wait…in the ‘Media<\/a>‘ section, there are some clips in a .wmv format that does<\/em> play nice in OS X. I’m…not sold. The music is right, but the vocals…I’m not sure. While I wouldn’t expect it to sound exactly<\/em> like Freddy (and I really do like the job George Michael<\/a> did with them a few years back…I thought he made a very impressive<\/a> pseudo-Freddy), Paul’s got enough of a different timbre that it makes it a little jarring to my ears.<\/p>\n

No matter what, I should decide soon: the show’s on April 10th (a Monday night), and tickets are a little painful (ranging from $50 to $200.00<\/em>!). Decisions, decisions, decisions…<\/p>\n

\"iTunes\"<\/a>\"\" “Dreamer’s Ball (Live)<\/a>” by Queen<\/a> from the album Live Killers<\/a><\/em> (1979, 3:42).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Queen (plus Paul Rodgers) is going to be performing in Seattle! On the one hand, I’m a _long_ time Queen fan…on the other hand…it’s not Freddy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2035],"tags":[13,80,1326],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}