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Post subject: Queen, John Deacon
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 3:55 pm
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Google is "celebrating" Freddie Mercury's birthday today. I'm really trying not to picture Freddie at 65. Anyway, John Deacon has always been a favorite of mine and contributed much more to Queen than he's been given credit for.

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Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 3:58 pm
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oxfan wrote:
Google is "celebrating" Freddie Mercury's birthday today. I'm really trying not to picture Freddie at 65. Anyway, John Deacon has always been a favorite of mine and contributed much more to Queen than he's been given credit for.

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In the age of real time media, thank goodness we don't have to see John in his Magnum PI shorts on stage :mrgreen: :mrgreen: Definitely one of the most under rated bass player out there.

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Post subject: Re: Queen, John Deacon
Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 5:21 pm
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I think we'd need one of these!

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Post subject: Re: Queen, John Deacon
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 1:03 pm
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John Deacon- okay bad picture.


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Post subject: Re: Queen, John Deacon
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 1:22 pm
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stroker vance wrote:
John Deacon- okay bad picture.


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Post subject: Re: Queen, John Deacon
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 1:24 pm
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This would be Auntie Velma and I observing the Freddie 65th B-Day celebrations......

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Was that taken on the "Auntie Velma Comes To Pennsylvania" tour?


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Post subject: Re: Queen, John Deacon
Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 2:20 pm
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I realized how good he was long before I picked up a bass,as a drummer I was connected at the hip with whom-ever I was jamming with and really noticed a difference in complexity and feel when we would do QUEEN tunes,he was great at following the melody and even better when he was just being simple,he knew when NOT to play,which is'nt always the easiest thing to WANT to do,we all like being noticed or looked at,but not as much as the singer or geetarist does :shock: .
Its all good regaurdless of ones style,if you feel it then play it,if you dont feel it then dont play it. :mrgreen:

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Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2011 3:27 pm
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I realized how good he was long before I picked up a bass,as a drummer I was connected at the hip with whom-ever I was jamming with and really noticed a difference in complexity and feel when we would do QUEEN tunes,he was great at following the melody and even better when he was just being simple,he knew when NOT to play,which is'nt always the easiest thing to WANT to do,we all like being noticed or looked at,but not as much as the singer or geetarist does :shock: .
Its all good regaurdless of ones style,if you feel it then play it,if you dont feel it then dont play it. :mrgreen:


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Post subject: Re: Queen, John Deacon
Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 8:01 am
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All the musicians in Queen were top notch. If I had to pick a weak link I could not find one. With most bands you can find one. But musically they were (are) all very sound players, even Freddie's piano playing was not too shabby.


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Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2011 10:42 am
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oxfan wrote:
lawsuitbass wrote:
I realized how good he was long before I picked up a bass,as a drummer I was connected at the hip with whom-ever I was jamming with and really noticed a difference in complexity and feel when we would do QUEEN tunes,he was great at following the melody and even better when he was just being simple,he knew when NOT to play,which is'nt always the easiest thing to WANT to do,we all like being noticed or looked at,but not as much as the singer or geetarist does :shock: .
Its all good regaurdless of ones style,if you feel it then play it,if you dont feel it then dont play it. :mrgreen:


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PLUS 1 :?: ? :?: ,THATS IT ? I thought it should have been at least 3 or 4 LOL!
BTW He had really great tone as well,he was heard through the mix without sacrificing low-end tone and being too thin in the mids,Quit a feat to keep that good tone and still be HEARD through/over/under/between Brian Mays taperstry wall of guitar playing(another great underappreciated musician).

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Post subject: Re: Queen, John Deacon
Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2011 5:40 am
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The way he used to come up with all those bass lines without "stepping on" anyone else's parts, to me it's one of the hardest things to do in a band. And to accommodate the kind of musicians that were in Queen, I can only guess it must've been even harder.

I also admired him for the way he chose to quit playing after Freddie Mercury died, saying there wasn't any point in doing anything lesser, since it was clear Queen wasn't going to get better with anyone else singing.


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