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Here be dragons
Joe Lynn Turner appeared on The Real Music Observer podcast. It starts with talking about music (Slaves & Masters, in particular), but quickly deteriorates into JLT ranting. About stuff. And nothing says ‘level-headed individual’ better than a good old-fashioned rant into a wide angle lens. /s
Proceed at your own peril.
Thanks to Mike Whiteley for the info.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
We all seem to have a love/hate feeling about JLT. I couldn’t stand his limp-wristed panderings to the teeny-boppers back in the day. That’s one reason Cozy Powell quit: it all got a little sissified. Having said that, there was also a lot of great hard rock. And, hopefully, we’ll all matured.
June 19th, 2023 at 00:40LOL !
I like JLT…He delivered the “goods” when needed, & has a great voice, & a little magic note-book full of lyrics too !
People can take or leave an after-hour discussion with someone once the spot-lights turned off, & no doubt the header-comments are true.
His latest album however, speaks volumes about what he’s up do & been doing work-wise imo. It’s kind-of-a-shame that his stint with DP is always a point-of-discussion, especially since times & fortunes were far more agreeable with his earlier stint with Rainbow…And to maintain a solo-career too after all this time shows he has endurance, & for some people, the music made conveys-over better than conversation.
Peace !
June 19th, 2023 at 01:04I think looking back it served the band quite well in the Long run having done Slaves and Masters.
June 19th, 2023 at 06:45DP tried to be radio friendly with The House of Blue Light and it was a disaster not musically but commercially so they had to replace the singer.
The 90s and late 80s destroyed so many classic rock band and Black Sabbath is similar example. When Dio joined Black Sabbath back in the early 90s and it still was not a commercial success.
So JLT is talking lots of sense. And I love S&M and he is part of DP history whether you like him or not.
Peace ✌️
I quite liked his Rainbow stuff, though not great as a front man. Listened to S&M but it was another Rainbow album really. Now, I hate his rewriting of history, his anti-vax rants and his support for Putin. It’s just embarrassing now.
June 19th, 2023 at 09:33Poor Joe – A great singer in his genre, but always seems to be frustrated about something in his interviews.
Contrast that with the guys in Purple. Their interviews are usually relevant and interesting, with the ever-present humour there too.
June 19th, 2023 at 09:42@ 1 – I could be missing some of my Rainbow history. I am wondering when did Cozy have anything to do with JLT? I always thought Cozy left after the Down to Earth touring. Cheers
June 19th, 2023 at 09:46Good singer…I like to listen to him
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edRL0XgSOz4
June 19th, 2023 at 10:36@ 3. I Really enjoyed the 90’s Black Sabbath era with Tony Martin, and seeing the Headless cross tour with Cozy Powell. But at that time Grunge had started to make it’s mark in music and we all know what happand next. Sure it was going to be tough to replace Ozzy & Dio but i think now people are starting to explore those 90’s TM albums and really finding the material quite good except the last one Forbidden with Ice Cube and Ice T on it.
June 19th, 2023 at 12:24@3 Gillan wasn’t replaced because The House of Blue Light wasn’t a hit. He was replaced because he was stone-cold drunk and carrying on. He said so himself.
June 19th, 2023 at 21:42I like his hair or the lack thereof, he has an expressive face.
I also think that Slaves & Masters is a worthy album in the Purple canon – not DP like we knew it, but interesting nonetheless.
He’s a good singer too though I never cared much for him in Rainbow (I do like a lot of his work with Fandango though). He was hired to make Purple more radio-friendly and he did just that, unfortunately a couple of years too late for that type of bluesy AOR to still have an impact.
As for his political ramblings which are a mix of the naive, the populist & the conspiracy-driven (or should I write: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly?) plus perhaps having your heart in the right place, but not thinking too deeply about the implications of what you want: Joe is entitled to his (not always conflict-free) opinions of course, but the less that is said about them the better.
Never knew he was once in a band with J.T. Taylor, the honey-drip voice of Kool & The Gang which I’m a great fan of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2bB8HIJVso
But it makes sense, they are both about the same age (JLT born ’51, J.T. born ’53) and spent their youth in Hackensack, NJ.
And I once did hear from someone who knew him from Ezra’s high school gigs at the time that Joe was regarded as one of the best guitarists on the New Jersey circuit then.
“In a career that spans nearly 40 years and includes over 60 album credits, Joe Lynn Turner remains one of rock and roll’s most distinctive, soulful and expressive vocalists.
Born August 2, 1951 in Hackensack, New Jersey (U.S.A.), he played the accordion as a child, grew up with an appreciation for classic Rhythm and Blues (R&B) and became an accomplished guitarist in his early teens. In fact, his first band, Filet of Soul, featured singer J.T. Taylor who would later have success with Kool and the Gang. While in high school, Joe formed Ezra, performing original material and cover songs by artists who were a great influence on him: Jimi Hendrix, Free and Deep Purple.”
(from Joe’s own site: https://joelynnturner.com/bio/ )
June 19th, 2023 at 23:51I love Joe’s stuff with Rainbow, but I think he’s kinda joined the tin-foil hat brigade these days when he starts talking politics. Not a good look for him at all.
June 20th, 2023 at 00:41MacGregor @6. In an interview of Don Airey cited in 2020 in the Metal Talk webzine, Don discussed the eventual replacement of Graham Bonnet within Rainbow: “”As keyboard player Don Airey told me: “We were driving through New Jersey, me and Cozy, we heard a band called Fandango on the radio, local band, ‘Who’s That!!?’, so we checked them out, and their singer was Joe Linquito, before he changed his name.
“And it was in the back of our heads that Graham [Bonnett] wasn’t going to last, sooner or later. And he had a health issue, Graham, well he had a couple of health issues, we knew we’d have to look for someone at some stage and Joe was the obvious choice, a very good singer.””
June 20th, 2023 at 04:06DeeperPurps @ 12- thanks for the update on Cozy & JLT. So we can presume from that, that Cozy probably had second thoughts after seeing JLT in concert then? I thought he had enough of the commercial aspect of Rainbow well before the end of his stint. Anyway that is one aspect to a interview with him many decades in the past now, from my memory of it all. I do remember Blackmore’s take on Cozy not being in the band anymore to a journalist ‘Cozy now has plenty of time to enjoy his passion for fast cars & motorbikes’ something like that. Cheers.
June 20th, 2023 at 08:31James Steven Gemmell @9
June 20th, 2023 at 13:45Thanks for the correction 👍
Peace ✌️
Don seems to allude to something that has been mentioned about Graham before, but not in more recent years. I remember Michael Schenker saying in an interview after Gary Barden rejoined MSG after his sucessor’s/predecessor’s hurried departure from ze föld that Graham, great singer he is (Assault Attack is one of Schenker’s favorite pieces of own work), “can’t really tour with us because of his epilepsy condition”. And that the MSG live fiasco where Graham exposed himself and dragged out Michael’s guitar tech from behind the Marshall stacks to show to the crowd that he played the rhythm parts when Michael soloed live was not – as it is nowadays often represented – alcohol-binge-induced, but happened in the aftermath of an epilepsy fit of Graham a few days before the gig.
That might tie in with what Roger reported when he made prior to Graham joining Rainbow discreet calls to people who knew Graham and heard what a great singer and guy he was but also “always a ‘but’ lingering in the background, without anyone speaking up though” or that Graham would sometimes “forget” to eat all day on tour. And Graham has a son with Asperger’s syndrome/suffering from autism (that is how he got to know his current life partner/bassist Beth-Ami Heavenstone – in a self-help group for parents of children similarly afflicted, she has a son suffering from it too; both have mentioned this in interviews), so there might be something running in the family. It might help explain why his solo career never really stabilized.
It’s been a very long time since I’ve read epilepsy and Graham’s name in one sentence, hopefully medication is now such that it is no longer the impediment to his life it once was. Age might have something to do with it as well, it’s a disease that strikes children, adolescents and young men more often than middle-age or senior men.
June 20th, 2023 at 13:50Back to Joe then: What Cozy and Don saw must have looked and sounded something like this (minus the wow and flutter of course!):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZPDemZ7JMA
I challenge anyone here to fault that performance. You might not like AOR and think it twee (I like it and think it’s an American art form), but Joe’s vocals, the arrangements, the harmony guitars and harmony vocals, the tunes – all the ingredients for good to great AOR are there. I doubt that Cozy and Don had any qualms about Joe being perhaps the right guy to conquer North American airwaves after having seen him like this.
Also, and this will win me no friends here, but Joe’s intonation as a live singer puts – deep breath – Ian Gillan, David Coverdale, Glenn Hughes and Graham Bonnet to shame as regards accuracy, he really is in RJD territory there, THAT good.
My only quibble is that Joe is to me a more convincing front man with a guitar in his hand than without. And I wonder whether if Ritchie-“no-one-plays-guitar on-stage-but-me” had not been better advised to use Joe’s guitar skills more often (he did play rhythm guitar live whenever they played “Difficult To Cure”, the song) for that lush Boston’esque harmony-drenched multi-guitar sound that became de rigueur for Yank AOR pretty much from the mid seventies to the late eighties. If you want to please the Yanks and beat them at their own game, do it right forchrisssakes! Joe Lynn Turner-fronted Rainbow never really pulled the AOR concept through, they only dabbled with it and that was Ritchie’s inability to muster the necessary discipline to do it fully.
PS: By the way, judging from the above vid, Joe had a real nice groove with his strumming hand, very American and fluid, could have helped AOR-Rainbow not sound so god-awful stiff live (as they always did, which was fine with the Dio material, but fell flat on its arse with the JoLT-era). And if you think Joe was a slouch on lead guitar than listen at 54:55, he could have had a job with Molly Hatchet or any other Southern Rock multi-lead guitar outfit easy.
Which leads me to conclusion that he’d be better off doing guitar playing and singing instruction podcasts than voicing his, uhum, in-depth, balanced and highly analytical political views.
June 20th, 2023 at 14:34Oh my, great funky guitar solo by Joe at 09:53 of the Fandango live gig during ‘Mexico’, jazz phrasing (did Joe own Al Di Meola records?) and all. They were really jammy too, something not a lot of AOR bands dared to be. I even hear a bit of Tommy Bolin in the other – even better – lead guitarist, the late Rick Blakemore (name similarity a coincidence).
What you really see and hear at that Fandango gig is all the key ingredients of good North American rock, that inherent musicality of the people of the melting pot. Love the percussion and keyboard playing too.
June 20th, 2023 at 15:02Love the gospel’y intro to ‘Devil Rain’ at 33:58, très américain! This recording is a real treasure.
June 20th, 2023 at 15:20Talented musicians the Fandango guys. However in hindsight (as usual these days) that AOR slash dual (duel) guitar rock ballad style was an old thing by the time they were doing it. The power ballad, American rock & arrangements with the bands Kansas, Boston, Foreigner etc who were much more on the ball. Kansas were at it first & although much more progressive in many arrangements than the other AOR bands did also have the hits & the odd ballad. The market was drenched with those sort of bands by the late 1970’s, so Fandango missed the boat it seems. I can understand JLT not playing guitar in Rainbow simply because that isn’t what he was joining for. Also his lead guitar playing isn’t anything great on this Fandango to my ears, much better to leave it to the proper guitarist & yes they were trying out the twin guitar thing, so I suppose JLT was getting his little input in there. Talking of Kansas I have been listening to their majestic 1970’s material, (easily the best American rock band for me). Superb band, compositions, playing & everything else. The two Steve Morse albums from the dreaded mid 1980’s (meaning commercial interest first & pressure from outside influences particularly the 2nd album) I haven’t played those for so long. Power the first album is the stronger song wise & also a much better direct rock style production, less is more. A very good album & Steve Morse & Steve Walsh write most of the songs. with a little help from a few others on a couple of songs. Also plenty of Morse (The Introduction album influence) on that. The second album In The Spirit of Things is a different beast indeed. Too over the top with lush production, sequencers, electronic drums etc & 6 cover songs (why). A few power ballads also, there are some fine songs here & there on that album though. Bob Ezrin producing & co writing a few songs also with Morse & Walsh. Record company wanted more no doubt & then dropped them post album release apparently, the times did move quickly it seemed. It is great to hear those albums again after all these years. Steve Walsh as a mighty fine vocalist & keyboard player & songwriter & he & Morse appeared to write well together. Cheers.
June 21st, 2023 at 00:44Yo,
JLT did on occasion pick-up a red Gibson SG & played along-side RB in his stint in Rainbow. When the band played the instrumental “Difficult to Cure” JLT would pick-up his axe & back the tune up…And it is plugged-in & can be clearly heard…Kudos to JLT !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XvlsM39C-U
Peace !
June 21st, 2023 at 08:54I think JLT is a great singer. But unfortunately he thinks he’s bigger than he is. And their interviews are usually disastrous.
June 21st, 2023 at 13:57I dont care much for the ‘JLT show’ and how he saved Rainbow, DP and rock music
Ive always thought he was a mediocre singer who fell lucky. His own output was generally unsuccessful and boring. Without Blackmore he would be another no-name singer, as it is he is just a tribute act for DP & Rainbow with a few quickly forgotten ‘latest album’ songs thrown in.
June 22nd, 2023 at 08:52@22…
qt.”(1) I’ve always thought he was a mediocre singer who fell lucky.(2) His own output was generally unsuccessful and boring.(3) Without Blackmore he would be another no-name singer, (4) as it is he is just a tribute act for DP & Rainbow with a few quickly forgotten ‘latest album’ songs thrown in”…
R1. Yes, we all like different things, but RB thought him good enough to slug-it-out for 3 + albums ( & DVD )…And they got US-of-A success with JLT.
R2. It’s a tough world, & there’s a lot of solid competition. Possibly the best musicians in the world live around the corner from most people, but they don’t bother with the industry & the circus.
R3. They same could be applied to RJD, Graham Bonnet, Doogie & Ronnie Romero…
R4. And why not ??? He has a fan-base & an audience to please. Not easy to make a living in this circus…Here one minute, gone the next !
JLT’s last effort is a monster, & pretty-good imo !
Peace !
June 23rd, 2023 at 09:08Technically, Joe Lynn Turner is actually a very strong singer. As I‘ve written before in RJD territory as regards masterful control of his voice. You don’t get phoned up as a session singer or for advertisement jingles, where time is of the essence, unless people know you can deliver vocally night and day. Joe delivers that.
Now you might say that his tone of voice does nothing for you (like Thom Yorke‘s voice or that god-awful singer of Muse do nothing for me, but fans of Radiohead and Muse would no doubt disagree), but that doesn‘t make him a „mediocre“ singer. David Lee Roth is a(n actually less than) mediocre „singer“ if you can even call him that (yet legions of Van Halen fans never seemed to mind that he could barely hit a note and that his vocal lines were spoon-fed to him and recorded piecemeal in the studio).
I was never a fan of Joe‘s look, lyrics plus stage raps and demeanor, but his sheer singing cannot be faulted. He‘s a vocalist in the Paul Rodgers/Lou Gramm AOR vein, a type of voice many people rightfully deem as commercial though it has none of Gillan‘s, RJD‘s or Bonnet‘s identity and/or originality.
June 23rd, 2023 at 14:02@23
JLTs last effort is a monster
You say ‘Monster’, i say ‘Dire’
Its all opinion
June 23rd, 2023 at 18:23Indeed Jolene is a fine vocalist indeed, I much prefer him than Bonnet & that was a good move by Blackmore even if it was more into the dreaded AOR territory. And I agree regarding his woeful ‘look at me’ stage presence, how can I ever forget that very first VHS I purchased in 1983, Live Between the Eyes, look at me or what! I actually was reminded of that just recently when Gregster posted that link regarding JLT ‘playing’ the guitar, thanks for that Gregster. A memory that was very faint has now been resurrected again & now I am scarred again, for life no doubt. Between you
June 23rd, 2023 at 22:01& Uwe I don’t think I will ever be the same again regarding being dragged into an abyss of video clips of all sorts. Cheers.
I am afraid that I just see JLT as a ruiner of bands. Slaves & Master’s is Deep Purple’s only unlistenable album to me. Same for his work with Rainbow. I don’t think he’s a bad singer or a bad person, I just don’t like his songs. Then I saw him do an interview and saying he didn’t want to sing the drivel written by former members of the bands he joined. So the thing is that he just doesn’t like the kind of music that I love if he thinks that Machinehead and Rainbow Rising are drivel.
June 24th, 2023 at 01:12@25…
Yes, everyone’s opinion is correct. It’s big world, & it is good that we all like different things, & at the same time, even better when people come together & agree !
@26…
“Live Between the Eyes” is simply awesome…The whole band is one fire, & deliver the goods. A great representation of Rainbow at a later-career peak. And the “Live in Munich” DVD is also a very solid representation of the RJD era that probably equals it, though it’s a different show, vibe, & presentation.
I do have a soft-spot for “LBtE’s”, since at that time, it was the only DP oriented video available…We got 2/5 with RG & RB…
The Cal-Jam didn’t appear this way until 1985, & as good as it is, we only got 3/5 when viewed from Mk-II eyes !
Peace !
June 24th, 2023 at 04:03LBTE is a good performance, but a lot of the contained song material is questionable. Stuff like “Power” is frankly inane and makes some of the worst stuff of the Scorpions seem intellectually refined.
Joe says one thing in an interview and then something else in another, Italians from New Jersey talk too much, you know how they are, you have to tie their hands to get them to shut up. That said, I‘ve always found that his renditions of Gillan (or Dio) material showed a lot more taste and respect than anything David & Glenn attempted when singing Mk II stuff.
June 24th, 2023 at 14:57Yes the set list from that LBTE tour was mediocre at best. That second JLT Rainbow album had too many fillers & sad attempts at AOR, we were all (myself & a few comrades) disappointed in that album out here in OZ. The DP MK2 reunion came at an interesting point in the members ‘solo’ careers. Blackmore & Glover with Rainbow, where was that heading as it was evidently petering out big time. Gillan & the fiasco with his band, Ian Paice with Gary Moore after the Whitesnake issues & Jon Lord hanging on in the Snake for whatever reason. Long Live Rock ‘n Roll indeed. Cheers.
June 24th, 2023 at 21:50He actually sounds great on a recent show in “Russia” . He is of course copping out singing Rainbow and Purple tunes and none of his own stuff. His vocals are a little bit more growly and suited better to the purple tunes than when he was in the band. I think he would have done a better job than Ronnie Romero on the whole in the last live shows. Good luck to him
June 25th, 2023 at 09:01And why shouldn‘t he be playing Rainbow and Deep Purple songs I cry?! He sang AND WROTE with both bands and his type of vocal melodies left a large imprint on Difficult To Cure, Straight Between The Eyes, Bent Out Of Shape and Perfect Strangers. You might not like his style or deem it unoriginal, but there is such a thing as a JoLT way of writing and singing.
Don‘t try to write the poor guy out of the history of both bands, he did what it said on the tin with him. And I thought his treatment of Dio, Bonnet, Mk II and III (remember how he did Burn with Mk V) not too shabby either. I don‘t believe that Ian Gillan or Ronnie Dio would have done a better Job with I Surrender, Stone Cold, Street of Dreams or The Cut Runs Deep. Think about it.
June 25th, 2023 at 12:38Of course you cant right JLT out of the history of both bands, he wont let you forget lol!
June 25th, 2023 at 14:15Not having listened to the interview yet but went straight into the comments.
If one is lucky enough good reacting connaisseurs will give an impression to start with.
I once read Cozy allegedly saif he d have stayed around if he d known Ritchie would do an album like SBTE. Not knowing where it originated so dont know if he really said/meant that.
I regarded after missing out to work with PAUL RODGERS in DP this choice,JLT, wasnt a surprise.
R0dgers btw, has done a new album.
The first thing I noticed were the keyboards and wondered how a DP album with him would have sounded.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJSykCGb5aE&ab_channel=PaulRodgers-Topic
I played LBTE to death, never had issues with his behaviour or performance on it.
Rotterdam 82 was excellent, Vorst Nationaal in Belgium as well though it could have ended very soon.
I wrote about that special day before.
June 25th, 2023 at 15:40Nice track, RV, very Rodgers.
How would DP have sounded with Paul Rodgers? Probably something like this here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdBc3m-Y-Sc
And how would have Bad Company sounded if Rodgers hat not vetoed Jon Lord joining them before he eventually went with Whitesnake? Ralphs, Kirke and Burrell wanted him in, but Rodgers was concerned that Jon’s Hammond sound would date them for the next decade. But then Bad Co were unhappy campers too by the late 70ies and did not last too much longer. Doubtful whether Jon joining them would have changed that. Wouldn’t have minded hearing the result though!
David Coverdale once quipped that Bad Co “sounds like a cross between
June 26th, 2023 at 22:46Deep Purple Mk III and JJ Cale”. I could see where he was going with that comparison. : – )
I have often wondered about how those 3 Bad Company members ended up being on the Jon Lord Before I Forget album track, Hollywood Rock ‘n Roll. So there we have it. I have always thought that Paul Rodgers & Blackmore would not have worked out in DP. Too strong a personality there in Rodgers & we have a little idea about Richard’s personality. Rodgers is an accomplished musician & songwriter & I really like those early Bad Company albums, they did runout of steam by the late 70’s though, however I enjoyed his foray with Jimmy Page in The Firm. However Blackmore trying to get the best out of Rodgers before he ‘discards him’, I doubt that would have happened. Paul Rodgers has always come across to me as a guy who takes no prisoners & definitely doesn’t take a backward step at all. Poor ole Blacker’s would be out of his league there me thinks. Cheers.
June 27th, 2023 at 06:47@36…
Paul Rodgers I thought did quite well in more recent years with the short collaboration with Queen, & “The Cosmos Rocks”… His voice remains very strong, & the tunes made blended well with Brian & Roger. It’s actually a pretty good & more solid effort than weak, as I wasn’t expecting much from it, thinking “what an unusual mix of people”… And like some collaborations, it did the right thing too, where the album was made, tour followed, & then they called-it-a-day. And like most one-off’s like this, the album holds much more merit when cranked-up fully…It is good Rock’n’Roll after-all !
Peace !
June 28th, 2023 at 09:52I dissent, lieber Gregster, to me Rodgers and Queen didn’t work at all! The live stuff where he was out of his depth with the Freddie Mercury material was incongruous, the album with new songs unremarkable and labored. I understand why John Deacon opted out.
I liked Rogers with Free and Bad Co, even The Firm were better than their reputation and he’s a very good singer though not one – much like Dio – that takes any risks live stretching himself to the limit.
I agree with Herr MacGregor that had Rodgers joined a band with Ritchie in it, fists would have been flying sooner or later. And as regards band-interaction, Rodgers is not a pleasant man either. The late Andy Fraser would have had a comment or two on that.
June 28th, 2023 at 16:13Regarding Paul Rodgers with ‘Queen” I steered clear of that. More so because I do think Queen died with Mercury, I still do think that. I never followed Bad Company after Rodgers left either, some things change too much for me to stay with the original act. Regarding Blackmore potentially dancing with two devils at that time in the early 70’s. He certainly was getting himself into darker waters if that Phil Lynott band had ever eventuated & secondly with the Paul Rodgers idea. Ending up with a rather naive, young & green David Coverdale certainly was a easier & less eventful outcome. Although eventually wasn’t it a few years after Deep Purple’s demise that Blackmore & Coverdale had an exchange of sorts? Rainbow v Whitesnake backstage or something, early Whitesnake from what I vaguely remember reading somewhere. Cheers.
June 28th, 2023 at 23:39@38…I must admit to not seeing anything from the PR & Queen tour, & so can’t comment, but do enjoy the album. Well over 1/2 of it is good Rock imo.
Interesting to note that PR never asked RB to do anything together lol…Mick Ralphs could produce & play some great R&R, but his soloing was more like a BB King, but still hit the mark in the end. There’s so-much-room in them to explore, but I guess some things are left to the imagination.
Peace !
June 29th, 2023 at 02:13@ 40 – it is the live concerts of ‘Queen’ & Paul Rodgers & with Adam Lambert also that I avoid like the plague. The album with Rodgers may be ok although I did read quite a few disappointing reviews at that time. I should lower my expectations a little, stop being so critical & have a listen to a few tracks online. Cheers.
June 29th, 2023 at 08:44@ 36
Exactly my point. I do have that EP with advert for the Rotterdam 81 show,still remember where I bought it, the exitement.
I once dreamt of becoming a singer and I tried JEALOUS LOVER, maybe I was wrong but I didnt do very emberassing, is my memory.
Such a shame no tape was ever saved by my cousin and me. I also drummed on a camelcushion.
I ve always been a huge fan of OLD Queen and still am sick about what they did after JAZZ
Still they had their moments and in the end they seemed to steer away from all the commercial disco shit.
I regret never having seen them with Freddy for this reason, I used to make that wrong assumption a lot, didnt go to see shows when my perception of the latest studio effort was wrong IMO.
Went to see them with Rodgers which was a strange experience.
Weird mix.
I now recall the appleblossomshampoo smell of the girl next to me…..
I felt it was very wrong to use Mercurys image and voice during Bohemian Rhapsody.
Saw Rodgers twice solo in 94 and that excellent, 2 different line ups within 1 year.
BAD COMPANY never came to my country with Rodgers during the reunionyears, they did tour in Germany but by then I was trying to safe myself from drowning financially.
Earlier on I had indulged beyond what I could afford.
Did find it odd to see Howard Leese from HEART joing BC.
July 4th, 2023 at 21:20My own forever leadguitarist in HEART was /is the underated Roger Fisher.