THE GLOBAL WINGS THREAD
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21st Century Paul:
We were talking bout Elvis, and about Freddie... this is when I say "don't mess with my divos" (there's a girl in the karaoke that kind of say "don't mess with my divas", or should I translate like "get off my divas", when someone there sings Mariah Carey, Withney Houston or Celine Dion stuff) American Idol-Tim Urban "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
any comments about this one? get off of my divos! (or are these words 2 strong? I don't know...)Terrible. I saw it the other night on tv. He's a good-looking guy, but he should be an actor or something. He only reason why he made the Top 12 was because somebody else got disqualified.
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audi:
21st Century Paul:
Now that I'm talking about my fav singers... (Freddie, Paul, Elvis and John) Long time I've searched for a song that both Freddie and Paul have sung... and I can't find any...
there's lots that Freddie and Elvis have sung, or John and Elvis, even John and Freddie (Imagine), Paul and Elvis... and of course Paul and John
Now if someone know of any, I would appreciate it.
As far as I know Paul has never sang anything by Queen, and Freddie has never sung anything by Paul or the Beatles. But here's stuff that Freddie has sung (and surprisingly Paul has never sung...) Jailhouse Rock Tutti Frutti You're so square (baby I don't care) Imagine Hello Mary Lou this is one of the greatest bootlegs ever, Queen doing Imagine just hours after John passed away... (obviously the crowd gets mad)
I love their version of "Baby I Don't Care" at the Wembley concert in '86. Who was doing all those harmonies? Funny: Freddie Mercury said that Queen was going to stay together as a band, and yet, that was their last show.
you mean, when Freddie said "the rumours are we're gonna split out, what do u think?" and all the crowd shouts NOOOOOOO "They're talking from here (the ass)"
hey I didn't know this one, Extended versionHey, they didn't split. It was their last tour. Not his last concert though. They stopped simply because Freddie knew he had AIDS in 1986. So the tour of The Miracle album (1989) never happened, and of course the Innuendo (1991) either. Anyway Freddie hate touring because he suffered a lot while singing and after the shows (vocal nodles...). They remained together 20 years (they were just meant to play together), until Freddie's death, quite a record. The harmonies here are done by Roger Taylor (the drummer), who sang higher than Freddie so usually did harmonies with him live or sang the notes he couldn't sing. Though John Deacon (bass) is having such a good time than joins in in some harmony (he was the only one that virtually never sang, less than Ringo in the Beatles) maybe you'll love this one... when Elvis died Queen recorded a tribute song kind of imitating Elvis called Dreamers Ball... then in 1980 Freddie did it again with Crazy Little Thing Called Love, and then in 1983 is when Freddie is closer with this one, written by himself. Queen-Man on the prowl (and Brian sort of tries to play like Scotty)
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audi:
21st Century Paul:
We were talking bout Elvis, and about Freddie... this is when I say "don't mess with my divos" (there's a girl in the karaoke that kind of say "don't mess with my divas", or should I translate like "get off my divas", when someone there sings Mariah Carey, Withney Houston or Celine Dion stuff) American Idol-Tim Urban "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
any comments about this one? get off of my divos! (or are these words 2 strong? I don't know...)Terrible. I saw it the other night on tv. He's a good-looking guy, but he should be an actor or something. He only reason why he made the Top 12 was because somebody else got disqualified.
yes, but Elvis was good-looking too, and they say Freddie was kind of sexy... and they were years light away singing... "this is karaoke", maybe we'll throw something too at him in our karaoke... If you picked up the 11 best singers that go to "our karaoke" the level would be much higher than this American Idol top 11. That's why these shows are a bit of a joke. There are horrible people that get to the final castings (and almost horrible to the final show).... and I'm sure there tons of great singesr that doesn't pass the first audition... (I've known quite a few here...) Funny auditions (the final ones, in front of Simon) 2010-American Idol
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we were talking bout music theory... I've been watching the Montserrat concert... you know Elton and Paul play piano on Hey Jude then. On rehearsals they just didn't remember the chords... so Elton and Paul searched around for the Beatle record (fortunately Beatle records are everywhere :lol
, to pick up the chords by ear. Can you imagine that...? "Do you have a Beatle record in your car?, well, Paul McCartney and Elton John need it to play Hey Jude" Today they would use youtube
How great they are
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I've posted new recordings, but I don't know if they belong here, so they are on the Supernova thread... They are a different version of Rock and Roll with Audi, Cryin' with Adam Lambert, and American Trilogy with Elvis (in the pure Olivelvis tradition...)
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Brian May has produced an album for a singer called Kerry Ellis
and the greatest thing is he has played guitarHe kills me always with his guitar... Steve Vai said recently he can easily mimick every guitar player in the world... but Brian May, "who's in a higher ground". Steve even tried to do it with Brian's home-made guitar... "but it sounded like Steve Vai not like Brian May..."
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Happy Easter everyone!!! Here's a better headless version of my first S&G tune.
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I've been away from this thread for quite a while, And I see it is the intention to post videos of yourself. Well, this one is from last December. It is live. We play 'Brown Eyed Girl' by Van Morrison. Who is 'we'? The people who take guitar lessons with me. I am on leadvocals. (White blouse, far right)
People tell me the vocals are not very good hearable, but I think it's quite good hearable. (In the beginning, the one who is next to me sings along. But he quits doing that after a little while) Here is one better. This is me solo. I play 'Behind the Moon' by Matt Costa. This one is from January 2010.
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Ever-Present-Paul:
I've been away from this thread for quite a while, And I see it is the intention to post videos of yourself. Well, this one is from last December. It is live. We play 'Brown Eyed Girl' by Van Morrison. Who is 'we'? The people who take guitar lessons with me. I am on leadvocals. (White blouse, far right)
People tell me the vocals are not very good hearable, but I think it's quite good hearable. (In the beginning, the one who is next to me sings along. But he quits doing that after a little while) Here is one better. This is me solo. I play 'Behind the Moon' by Matt Costa. This one is from January 2010.
vocals are not very heardable at the beginning but they are quite hearable after the first minute, people makes a lot of noise you know
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vlivantje:
Happy Easter everyone!!! Here's a better headless version of my first S&G tune.
Happy Easter everyone! I'm realizing Paul Simon's songs got a lot of chords, changing constantly from one chords to another, sometimes I just don't understand how can you learn to play it... I would get mad... I can do it with the piano but I think it's a lot easier...
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I'm recalling now the duet of Evie and me.
Still no-one has "attacked" my piano playing on youtubenotes should have had more "length time", and big reverb (sort of what I did with Mad World), now it sounds like Lady Madonna...
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21st Century Paul:
vlivantje:
Happy Easter everyone!!! Here's a better headless version of my first S&G tune.
Happy Easter everyone! I'm realizing Paul Simon's songs got a lot of chords, changing constantly from one chords to another, sometimes I just don't understand how can you learn to play it... I would get mad... I can do it with the piano but I think it's a lot easier...
Do you know Paul Simon's son? Harper Simon. I believe he released his first album last year. 3 Of his songs are on his MySpace. He sounds a lot like his father. I think you'd like it. http://www.myspace.com/harpersimon <<
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21st Century Paul:
vlivantje:
Happy Easter everyone!!! Here's a better headless version of my first S&G tune.
Happy Easter everyone! I'm realizing Paul Simon's songs got a lot of chords, changing constantly from one chords to another, sometimes I just don't understand how can you learn to play it... I would get mad... I can do it with the piano but I think it's a lot easier...
They may have a lot of chords, but Paul Simon does have a knack for creating absolutely fantastic songs with some of the "easier" chords...so there's less problem for me to learn them, haha.
That's not to say I will ever be able to learn how to play songs like "Anji" or "Overs"
:...Because I probably won't be able to. Those chords are probably simple (maybe, in come cases), but they seem crazy!!
Anji may not be the best example because it's not a Paul Simon tune. As for the Beatles' an Paul McCartney songs...wow, a lot harder to learn (IMO)...I don't know why...they just feel more difficult!
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21st Century Paul:
I'm recalling now the duet of Evie and me.
Still no-one has "attacked" my piano playing on youtubenotes should have had more "length time", and big reverb (sort of what I did with Mad World), now it sounds like Lady Madonna...
No 'attacking' necessary....your playing was great!! Sure, there's always something that could be better but I always think that with my guitar playing as well.
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vlivantje:
21st Century Paul:
vlivantje:
Happy Easter everyone!!! Here's a better headless version of my first S&G tune.
Happy Easter everyone! I'm realizing Paul Simon's songs got a lot of chords, changing constantly from one chords to another, sometimes I just don't understand how can you learn to play it... I would get mad... I can do it with the piano but I think it's a lot easier...
They may have a lot of chords, but Paul Simon does have a knack for creating absolutely fantastic songs with some of the "easier" chords...so there's less problem for me to learn them, haha.
That's not to say I will ever be able to learn how to play songs like "Anji" or "Overs"
:...Because I probably won't be able to. Those chords are probably simple (maybe, in come cases), but they seem crazy!!
Anji may not be the best example because it's not a Paul Simon tune. As for the Beatles' an Paul McCartney songs...wow, a lot harder to learn (IMO)...I don't know why...they just feel more difficult!
"Anji", do you mean Rolling Stones' "Angie"? I don't know which one is "Overs" Well, many Beatle songs are composed with piano, as they didn't come naturally with guitar to the composer they can be harder to play with it... I didn't know Paul Simon has a musician son.
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21st Century Paul:
"Anji", do you mean Rolling Stones' "Angie"? I don't know which one is "Overs" Well, many Beatle songs are composed with piano, as they didn't come naturally with guitar to the composer they can be harder to play with it... I didn't know Paul Simon has a musician son.
Noooooo, not Rolling Stones' Angie. I mean Anji! It's a guitar tune by Davey Graham originally but Paul Simon arranged it and played it on the "Sound of Silence" album.
Here Paul Simon plays it with his brother Ed (they look almost like twins :shock. And "Overs" is the one : I loooooooooooove this song!
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vlivantje:
21st Century Paul:
"Anji", do you mean Rolling Stones' "Angie"? I don't know which one is "Overs" Well, many Beatle songs are composed with piano, as they didn't come naturally with guitar to the composer they can be harder to play with it... I didn't know Paul Simon has a musician son.
Noooooo, not Rolling Stones' Angie. I mean Anji! It's a guitar tune by Davey Graham originally but Paul Simon arranged it and played it on the "Sound of Silence" album.
Excuse me then.
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vlivantje:
21st Century Paul:
I'm recalling now the duet of Evie and me.
Still no-one has "attacked" my piano playing on youtubenotes should have had more "length time", and big reverb (sort of what I did with Mad World), now it sounds like Lady Madonna...
No 'attacking' necessary....your playing was great!! Sure, there's always something that could be better but I always think that with my guitar playing as well.
I just think it doesn't match the "spirit" of the song, it's sometimes rude... and the song is anything but rude. It's nothing about notes, just about the feeling. I just found out Elton did a cover of it... or I should say a copy
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I just read in Freddie's bio a similar thing than what Paul and Elton explained about playing Hey Jude in the Montserrat concert. Freddie said that if you asked him to play on the piano, for instance, "Love Of My Life", he would not be able to play it. Even though they sang the song every night, only with Brian May at guitar. He wouldn't play any song composed by him (or others...) without lots of time for searching for the chords or so... Now, there's something I don't get here
So Elton, Paul McCartney and Freddie Mercury couldn't play any song on the piano by ear... not even their own most famous songs, but they needed quite a long time of searching for the chords, even if they're not strange (Hey Jude doesn't have strange chords, I think...). And well, and I think I can play any song just simply starting to play it. (well, it if has some not very usual chords, I need to play it for some minutes to find them... but not for a song like Love of My Life or Hey Jude...) now there is something wrong here
anyway... the "divine" Freddie with the "divine" Montserrat Caballe, it didn't sell a thing, but what does it matter really? Guide Me Home
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by the way, the original request of writing the anthem for the Barcelona 1992 Olympics was for Paul McCartney, he was choosen for writing a song. But Freddie came with this one and it was so obvious that the McCartney project was stopped.
And then, well, Freddie died and then they called Lloyd Webber and he wrote "Friends Forever". Anyway this is the unofficial anthem of Barcelona.