None other than Guyliner Glambert. Surprise,surprise.

Penis.

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DIABEETUS!

Holy shiat! That's really what Axl Rose looks like now? Dude looks like the Cowardly Lion from Wizard of Oz pinching off a peanut encrusted three coiler.

Ed Grubermann: As much as I hate to admit it, but I think George Michael would be a much better choice. His rendition of Somebody To Love was amazing. And I hate George Michael with the fury of a thousand suns.

The problem is George is an on-going disaster on ice, and he's so delicate that he has a hard time under normal circumstances getting through a tour without canceling dates. Given that he just almost died of a respiratory infection in Austria, he's in worse shape than usual at the moment.

I hate American Idol, and actually think Lambert is a good choice for both him and the band.

basemetal
2012-02-03 06:44:12 PM
Woooo, lots of panties boxers in a wad over this. Excellent.

I was hoping it would be Mika. That boy can sing

George Michael would be a better choice....

Hell, I think P!nk would be a better choice....
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jj325: Two things---

John Deacon, you were an integral part of Queen, and wrote some awesome songs. Thank you for having the sense to understand that your band was the sum of its parts, and when Freddie died it was no more. Brian and Roger are tremendous musicians, but they are not Queen any more than Roger and Pete are The Who.

Anyone who does not know this album is missing out on 45 minutes of pure awesomeness

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Preach it, Brother! I have to listen to side black of that album at least once a week.

Being a Queen fan since I was a kid in the 70's, I have to say that when Freddy died, so did Queen. Brian and Roger can keep on performing if they like, they can even do some of the old songs, but they need to stop calling themselves Queen.

Gary Mullen sounds like Freddie in the 80's, and that's what you'd want. This Mark Martel guy is like young Freddie. But Gary Mullen nails it down perfectly. Either would be preferable to Adam Lambert's over the top warbling anyway.

AdolfOliverPanties: Fark is going to shiat at turbo speed lately.

Well I heard the last singer and he was terrible live.

AaronSynn: George Michael would be a better choice....

Hell, I think P!nk would be a better choice....
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You wouldnt be wrong either, I think michael could do it fairly well.

AaronSynn: George Michael would be a better choice....

Hell, I think P!nk would be a better choice....
Link (new window)

Amazingly enough I think Pink actually has a decent amount of talent. I'm not usually one for much pop music, but I like some of her work, and thought she did pretty good on that Bohemian Rhapsody cover she did.

ReapTheChaos: Being a Queen fan since I was a kid in the 70's, I have to say that when Freddy died, so did Queen. Brian and Roger can keep on performing if they like, they can even do some of the old songs, but they need to stop calling themselves Queen.

+1

ReapTheChaos: Being a Queen fan since I was a kid in the 70's, I have to say that when Freddy died, so did Queen. Brian and Roger can keep on performing if they like, they can even do some of the old songs, but they need to stop calling themselves Queen.

With Adam Lambert in the mix, I agree with you. If it was one of the other people who actually sound a lot closer to Freddie, then it would be fine. But Adam Lambert is an over-the-top diva like Mariah Carey, and he'll fark it up.

eddievercetti: What about the guy who literally sounded like Freddie?

Dammit so much!

I believe that you, like me, mistaken this news as being regarding the 'young performers Queen touring band' contest?

you refer to the young man from montreal who had the "somebody to love" submission video, yes?

FArk all you haters. With exception of Martel's skills (which is weird typing that because my sister is named Martelle) I think Lambert is a great choice.

1. Flamboyant? Check
2. Phenomenal range? Check
3. Pipes? Check
4. Enough bravado to make the girls AND the guys weak in the knees? Yep

Good luck, Adam, we'll be in the front when you get to Houston!

Can't be any worse than Paul Rodgers half assing it. Worst replacement singer ever (yes, including Cherone in Van Halen)

FriarReb98
and a helluva lot better than Roger (whose songs, IMHO, were the weakest out of all four member's contributions)

hey! I happen to like Roger's songs with Queen! They're often more "rock n' roll" than Brian. ("fight from the inside", "all that jazz")

IMHO, Deacon was the weakest songwriter, although he did write 2 or 3 great ones.

/ Ok, "fun it" isn't a great Roger song.
// CSB: when i was in my short "backwards message" phase when i was a teen, I reversed "Don't Shove it............ Fun it!",
and it came out sounding a hell of a lot like "Get off me!.............you slut!"

Thresher: FArk all you haters. With exception of Martel's skills (which is weird typing that because my sister is named Martelle) I think Lambert is a great choice.

1. Flamboyant? Check
2. Phenomenal range? Check
3. Pipes? Check
4. Enough bravado to make the girls AND the guys weak in the knees? Yep

Good luck, Adam, we'll be in the front when you get to Houston!

Weak in the knees? C'mon. Now you're reaching.

what's worse is that Lambert looks like an effeminate version of my cousin, with less facial hair.

Once again, Deacon John must be spinning in his grave.

He's a Queen...Killer. Dynamite with a laser beam.

coco ebert: What about the singer from The Darkness?

I'm seeing The Darkness live next Sunday and it looks like they have been doing "Tie Your Mother Down" as an encore on this tour, should be great.

It doesn't matter how good he is or how much Freddie would have liked him, goldilocks types will still whine about him not looking and or sounding precisely like Freddie

/is also annoyed at people who hated on Tim "Ripper" Owens and Anette Olzon

hbk72777: Can't be any worse than Paul Rodgers half assing it. Worst replacement singer ever (yes, including Cherone in Van Halen)

nope there is one other..

jj325: Two things---

John Deacon, you were an integral part of Queen, and wrote some awesome songs. Thank you for having the sense to understand that your band was the sum of its parts, and when Freddie died it was no more. Brian and Roger are tremendous musicians, but they are not Queen any more than Roger and Pete are The Who.

Anyone who does not know this album is missing out on 45 minutes of pure awesomeness

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Exactly this.
Queen now, for me, have become their own tribute act. I doubt very much the current version would play any non-single tracks from before 1980 - maybe sneak in Brighton Rock so Brian can twiddle for 20 minutes.
For me, Queen were perfect up to A Day At The Races (one of my tied-for-top-5-albums-ever). Once they went full 80s is all started going a bit bland, really. A few highlights here and there but nothing on the art-rock and odd ditty (Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon) that made them stand out in the 70s.
The band, as an entity, was truly greater than the sum of it's parts. None of their individual projects ever came close to the awesomeness of them all together.

MatrixOutsider:
This guy is pretty good too: Marc Martel (new window)

This on is even better
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Adam Lambert couldn't carry Freddie's buttplug.
/not gay
//NTTAWWT

So, that's the long & short of it then? Nobody else is qualified unless they both have and smoke a meat-pole? You'd think having one lead man die from AIDS would be enough.

ReapTheChaos: Being a Queen fan since I was a kid in the 70's, I have to say that when Freddy died, so did Queen. Brian and Roger can keep on performing if they like, they can even do some of the old songs, but they need to stop calling themselves Queen.

This. And I have to wonder why they are even bothering. How much money does Brian May really need? Or is it just that he needs a mass amount of attention? And I don't want to hear that "keeping the music alive" bullshiat. It just blows my mind that those old farts feel the need to do this.

The article seems to say they want to work with Lambert for the next tour, not give him Freddie's job. This has been Queens SOP since Freddie died. No albums planned, no permanent partnership. Queen has worked with Paul Rogers and George Michael, but neither of them is the permanent 'new front man'. I pray and hope this is the same thing.

/That's Marc Martel's job.

Eric Nally.... Just sayin.. Eric Nally (new window).

bulok: I was hoping it would be Mika. That boy can sing

...and talk about sound-alike doppleganger for Mercury, sheesh.

I'm somewhat taken aback they even considered, much less picked, anyone else.

they are gonna have some gay guy replace freddy mercury? man what would his wife think?

I think they should have used Mullen, he could come out dressed exactly like Mercury and just let the crowd know that his impersonation is a tribute to a great singer and performer. I would've liked that instead of watching Lambert.

Guys, stop being a bunch of whiny pussies. Lambert nails the attitude and has the enthusiasm of the other members. That means by the opinions of the people who matters, he's right for the job.

I would be horrified to have a 'sound-alike' doing fake queenage ESPECIALLY without the flamboyant, over-the-top divatude. Saw it happen to INXS, and seriously fark THAT shiat!

unitednihilists: Eric Nally.... Just sayin.. Eric Nally (new window).
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OK, unitednihilist, let me tell you a little tale that happened over the past few hours. I am not a hip man. I am a very uncool 41 year old dad who drives a minivan. My days of jumping up onstage and singing with David Bowie at Radio City Music Hall on TV and Iggy and the Stooges at the Orpheum in Boston (both absolutely true) are sadly in the past. Point being: I have no clue what's new or cool and finding interesting new artists is getting harder and harder for this fossil.

So I see your post. I see a pic of a band that after clicking the link turns out to be one Foxy Shazzam from Cincinatti. I have only read their name in print for the first time maybe 2 weeks ago, tops. The pic in your post made me think "OK, I just gotta hear what these guys might sound like". So I clicked. And watched. 3 times in a row. Googled the crap out of them. Had to bring my kids to see their great-grandmother, but then I swung by the mall and paid actual real American dollars to buy Foxy Shazzam's 2010 major label debut. Listened to the whole album and promptly feel in love with this band and posted the link on several friends' Facebook pages and even called an old friend half the country away and told him to buy the album, sight unseen (or rather "sound unheard"), and if he didn't love the sh*t out of it, I'd pay him twice the money back. That's how much I love this band already.

So thanks. And here's to the power of the internet!

Queen is gone, let it go.

No one will ever replace Mercury but I love Lambert as well so I look forward to this.

ghoulie_mask: but then I swung by the mall and paid actual real American dollars to buy Foxy Shazzam's 2010 major label debut.

Thanks! I like this.

ghoulie_mask: unitednihilists: Eric Nally.... Just sayin.. Eric Nally (new window).
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OK, unitednihilist, let me tell you a little tale that happened over the past few hours. I am not a hip man. I am a very uncool 41 year old dad who drives a minivan. My days of jumping up onstage and singing with David Bowie at Radio City Music Hall on TV and Iggy and the Stooges at the Orpheum in Boston (both absolutely true) are sadly in the past. Point being: I have no clue what's new or cool and finding interesting new artists is getting harder and harder for this fossil.

So I see your post. I see a pic of a band that after clicking the link turns out to be one Foxy Shazzam from Cincinatti. I have only read their name in print for the first time maybe 2 weeks ago, tops. The pic in your post made me think "OK, I just gotta hear what these guys might sound like". So I clicked. And watched. 3 times in a row. Googled the crap out of them. Had to bring my kids to see their great-grandmother, but then I swung by the mall and paid actual real American dollars to buy Foxy Shazzam's 2010 major label debut. Listened to the whole album and promptly feel in love with this band and posted the link on several friends' Facebook pages and even called an old friend half the country away and told him to buy the album, sight unseen (or rather "sound unheard"), and if he didn't love the sh*t out of it, I'd pay him twice the money back. That's how much I love this band already.

So thanks. And here's to the power of the internet!

That's weird, also 41, kids, married,(no mini van though) not hip, etc, and I heard Foxy Shazzam on one of my kids video games a month ago and thought the same thing. Why have I not heard of this band before? I'm snowboarding 4/5 days a week and this is always blasting inside the helmet.

CSB

ghoulie_mask: unitednihilists: Eric Nally.... Just sayin.. Eric Nally (new window).
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OK, unitednihilist, let me tell you a little tale that happened over the past few hours. I am not a hip man. I am a very uncool 41 year old dad who drives a minivan. My days of jumping up onstage and singing with David Bowie at Radio City Music Hall on TV and Iggy and the Stooges at the Orpheum in Boston (both absolutely true) are sadly in the past. Point being: I have no clue what's new or cool and finding interesting new artists is getting harder and harder for this fossil.

So I see your post. I see a pic of a band that after clicking the link turns out to be one Foxy Shazzam from Cincinatti. I have only read their name in print for the first time maybe 2 weeks ago, tops. The pic in your post made me think "OK, I just gotta hear what these guys might sound like". So I clicked. And watched. 3 times in a row. Googled the crap out of them. Had to bring my kids to see their great-grandmother, but then I swung by the mall and paid actual real American dollars to buy Foxy Shazzam's 2010 major label debut. Listened to the whole album and promptly feel in love with this band and posted the link on several friends' Facebook pages and even called an old friend half the country away and told him to buy the album, sight unseen (or rather "sound unheard"), and if he didn't love the sh*t out of it, I'd pay him twice the money back. That's how much I love this band already.

So thanks. And here's to the power of the internet!

I had never heard of Foxy Shazzam until this thread.
Looked them up on youtube.
the singer may look like Freddie, but he sounds more like Russel Mael from Sparks.

Cool band, thanks for the introduction!

eddievercetti: What about the guy who literally sounded like Freddie?
Dammit so much!

MARC MARTEL.
First time I saw his audition video I was floored.
Complete People's Choice.
He even looks a little like Freddie and could be made to look even more so.

Audition: new window

Ellen show appearance - he even plays piano, CAN LAMBERT?!
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Don't the Queen guys have enough money saved up to not do crap like this?

PYROY: Don't the Queen guys have enough money saved up to not do crap like this?

Sure - hell, Doctor Brian May can go noodle around with theoretical physics for the rest of his life. I think they're doing it for the lulz these days.

/Brian May = Buckaroo Banzai