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- Me_Wise_Magic
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Re: Hologram Performances Discussion
Well I can understand Taylor's logic that you bring up some emotions on stage and sadness over the loss of their friend. Nobody can truly 100% recover from losing a loved one. I think he wants to use this Extravaganza as a means of keeping the music alive instead of having things like Glee fuck with it. I do hope the wish him and Brian the best with the Lambert tour. Even though it really isn't my cup of tea. Even though Queen's music deserves greater respect then being the backing track for a Lays potato chip commercial.
Re: Hologram Performances Discussion
You're probably not overplaying Roger's grief. He became VERY close to Freddie in the later years. They took a break after "A Kind of Magic" and when they got back together for "Miracle" and Freddie told them, Roger just kinda bonded to him. They were even better friends then, than they were in the prime. Including appearing in Freddie's "Great Pretender" video. By the time they shot the videos for "Innuendo", and Freddie was obviously Staley-emanciated at that point, Roger stayed close to him and visited him in the decline.
So I very easily can see it being tough for Roger to almost see Freddie's ghost in front of him. They also might want to let their final moments with Freddie die on that Magic European tour in 1986, which was a fuckin' killer tour.
Roger talked about it in a couple documentaries, which was kinda interesting how he broke down the band dynamic, and when bandmembers are co-workers and actual friends (made me think alot about GN'R). How Roger was there all the time and Brian & John weren't. Not that they didn't care, but it was tough for them too to see him like that.
In other words, it's totally believeable that it crushed Roger that his FRIEND Freddie died. Not his singer.
At the same time though, it seems odd to me that they have literally whored the Queen name and music out CONSTANTLY in the last 20 years so much, yet suddenly they don't want to do this, which the fans would love?
I get the difficulty, but at the same time... I kinda think "you aren't over that YET?". To me it'd be more difficult to look out there as 'Queen' and see Adam Lambert basically doing a Freddie impression, rather than Freddie.
- Me_Wise_Magic
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Re: Hologram Performances Discussion
Yeah that's the sort of the way I've been looking at the recent events as of now.
Re: Hologram Performances Discussion
Apparently Roger's rejections were actually a lie to try to not spoil the surprise. Top trend on Yahoo!, Freddie hologram has been in the works for awhile.
Freddie Mercury will rock stage again via optical illusion
by Courtney Garcia / MSNBC.com
Queen will bring back the band's late frontman Freddie Mercury through optical illusion for Monday's tenth anniversary performance of the London musical, “We Will Rock You.”
The BBC Reports that the rock band has been trying to figure out a way to revive Mercury for the show for some time now, and that the results will impress. Queen guitarist Brian May told the BBC, "People will come out saying, 'Did we actually see Freddie?'
Mercury died in 1991.
The production team is considering a similar technique to the one used to resurrect late rapper Tupac Shakur on stage at California's Coachella Music Festival in April, which is technically not a hologram, but uses similar technology. The British musician also emphasized that the idea had been in the works prior to that event.
"It's a little unfortunate they did that thing with Tupac as we've been trying to make Freddie appear on the stage for quite a while," May said. "[That technique] is something we've looked at ourselves, but I think probably for a show that runs eight shows a week, it's not really quite practical."
The musical, based on a collection of the band’s hit songs, was written in part by May and Queen drummer Roger Taylor, and opened on May 14, 2002. It has since become the longest-running musical at its venue. The special performance on Monday will celebrate the show’s accomplishment, and according to BBC, nearly all the original London cast as well as producer Robert De Niro will be in attendance.
The Mercury revival news comes only weeks after Taylor told Billboard magazine he opposed the idea.
"I don't think I want to," said the drummer when asked about Mercury appearing. "Were somebody (else) to use a hologram of Freddie, I would have no objection... It just doesn't sit too well with me. I don't want to appear with a hologram of my dear friend. It's the real one or no hologram for me. But I think it's an amazing effect when used properly -- obviously in darkness."
Since the Shakur appearance, rumors have spread that other dead musicians could virtually come back to life. In April, the R&B group TLC hinted that a reunion tour could include a simulation of the late Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, and E! News reported that Michael Jackson could find new life on the road with his brothers.
Musion Technology Ltd, the company who produced the Tupac hologram, told NME that other stars could also receive the treatment.
Sanj Surati, head of music at the firm, said, Elvis onstage with Justin Bieber ‘would be a cool thing," and that other artists could include Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain and Whitney Houston.
In April, MTV News took a poll of music fans, who cited John Lennon and Amy Winehouse as others they’d like to see resurrected.
