For all of you who took note, I am posting about mustaches, more specifically, bands with mustaches in them (or mustached people if you prefer). I think I have enough information so enjoy the pictures.
Deep Purple. Mustache bottom right.
This one was obvious. Some people say that ZZ Top became popular because of their beards (and mustaches).
John Bonham (far left) from Led Zeppelin is definitely a great drummer too.
He's basically the best drummer ever.
Kansas has it all set with mustaches and an eye patch. Don't forget the awesome music.
OH MY GOODNESS ANOTHER MUSTACHE.
This is Rush by the way. They are an amazing band.
Queen is 20% cooler with Freddie's mustache. Those who get the reference, good work.
I'm glad that I watched the London Olympics Closing Ceremony yesterday because it was pretty cool. I was glad to see that Freddie Mercury made yet another appearance in the closing ceremony as well as an epic guitar solo from Brian May himself.
Brian May with his awesome guitar solo.
After the solo, Brian May and Roger Taylor went into one of Queen's most famous songs, We Will Rock You. Sadly, instead of Adam Lambert or the Freddie Mercury hologram playing, pop singer Jessie J sang instead and my reaction to that was much like this:
I used a sensor bleep for the sake of keeping this stuff family friendly.
Here's what Freddie looked like at the closing ceremony.
Here's a video of the song. I couldn't find the solo or a better version because of copyright reasons.
I was sad to hear the song ruined by Jessie J, but it was still cool.
At the end, there was another performance from The Who. They played Baba O' Reilly and My Generation. It was really cool to watch and summed up the closing ceremony nicely.
I mean, who's more British than The Who? I'll tell you who. The Who of course!
Now I could go on and on about all the other cool stuff like John Lennon and David Bowie and stuff, but that will make it very long so I'm going to end right here with this octopus.
Oh, and before I forget, for all of you Monty Python fans out there, there was a little segment with Monty Python stuff. It was pretty fun to watch.
I know the opening to the Olympics was quite a while ago, but I haven't thought to write about it until now. I feel great that a lot of great classic rock songs were featured in the Opening Ceremony in London including Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, She Loves You by The Beatles and My Generation by The Who (Of course they were all British songs because the ceremony was in London). I loved all the fireworks too. The end was also cool because Paul McCartney (who was part of The Beatles) sang and performed the ending to two songs, Hey Jude and The End. All in all, it was a great Opening Ceremony.
During the fireworks, they also played Pink Floyd's Eclipse.
And here's Paul McCartney for all of you guys who didn't believe me.
We also have Queen here because they are my favorite band and my favorite song by them was played in the Opening Ceremony. This is a 70's photo of them because they wrote the song Bohemian Rhapsody in the 70's.
As you can see, I have added a poll to the side of the blog. I'm taking votes right now for a future project so it is important that all you guys out there vote. I know that there are a bunch of famous singers missing, but I just want you all to choose from what I got there. There will be more polls like this in the future so be warned.
Awesome! Lots and lots of pictures!
A lot of people know about the song Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, but do they know what it's really about? A lot of people would say it's about a guy who killed a man and tells his mom. Some people think it's about a guy's mom who frames his son for killing a man (what an evil mom). Freddie Mercury is the one who knows for sure, but he never told anyone and now he's gone. Part of the greatness of the song though is that no one really knows what it means. Queen has sworn to never tell the meaning of any of their songs. We may never know what it really means, but the not-knowing makes the song 20% cooler.
Brian May said in an interview that if everyone knew what the song Bohemian Rhapsody meant, it would lose some of its meaning and wouldn't be as good. (Paraphrase)
Or as I always say, "If I actually listened to the lyrics of this song closely, it might have some sort of deeper meaning to it."
This is the 1975 album that the song Bohemian Rhapsody appeared on.
If you want to take a look at the song yourself, I have the lyrics below to help you figure out the meaning.
If you think you know what it means, please comment below. I want to see what other people think.
A lot of people seem to be looking at the Freddie Mercury Post that I posted a couple weeks ago, so I thought that I would show some more stuff. Like this:
This is just so random. There's an explanation at the Colleen Coover's website. I have the link in the other Freddie post which has it's link up above.
What next... how about a video! I know just the one...
Perfect! I think that the song "Somebody To Love" doubles in greatness when it's live. Plus, I love the ending!
If you look on Youtube, you see tons of song covers by many different people on their guitar or piano. I found something more unique. I found a cover of the song "Don't Stop Me Now" by Queen by a guy playing a violin. A violin cover of a classic rock song! It's amazing! I have the video right here:
Freddie Mercury is an amazing man. He was a very talented singer for the band Queen. Queen is my favorite band. (It's a really long list) What I really love about Freddie Mercury though (Besides his beautiful singing) is his fans that have made him into a meme. You can learn more about them at: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/freddie-mercury
Also, a really cool place you can visit is http://www.colleencoover.net/?p=3102 to find some other cool Freddie Mercury stuff.(There's not much, but what's there is really awesome.)
I also have another picture. It's right here:
I like Freddie Mercury best with his mustache.
I don't really have much else to say so I'm just going to leave you now with this information in your head.
Sorry for the late post. I had trouble with my computer yesterday. So, today I will show you what I was going to do yesterday.
Bohemian Rhapsody is Queen's most famous song. Is was featured on the 1975 album a Night At The Opera. Freddie Mercury wrote this song. The way this amazing song goes is that Freddie connected the ballad part with the guitar solo and hard rocking part with an operatic part. The opera mixed with the hard rock and the ballad make this song so amazing. It is also what my friends and I call Rockra (mix of opera and rock). The opera and Freddie's voice mixed with the guitar solo is what really makes this song stand out so much. Anyway, I have the music video below.
Make sure that you listen to this song loud like it should be!
Roger Taylor is the drummer for Queen. He has also written many of Queen's songs such as, Radio Ga Ga, A Kind of Magic, I'm In Love With My Car, Fun It and many more. What separates this drummer from other drummers is that he wrote and even sang many of Queen's songs. He did a lot of back-up vocals during concerts. He also sings one of his songs that he wrote. It's called, I'm In Love With My Car. This song is featured in Queen's most famous album, A Night At The Opera which came out in 1975. This album also featured Queen's most famous and incredible song, Bohemian Rhapsody. In this song, during the operatic part, Roger sings the high "Galileo!"s while Brian May and Freddie sing the other lower parts. Anyway, I have a live version of Roger's song.
Here it is. The post I warned you about on Sunday's post. All I can say is this: You've been warned.
Thing is what do all guitarists have in common? I mean ALL of them. I can't tell you in words though.
I will have to tell you in picture form. They say pictures are worth a thousand words, so I just saved you a lot of reading! Anyway, here is what all guitarists have in common:
See, even Brian May himself thinks F chords are stupid. I agree with him being a guitarist myself. I bet Eddie Van Halen will agree too.
P.S.
For all of those experienced guitarists out there who are thinking "That is not an F chord in that picture", I must say I don't really care. It's just a funny picture so don't freak out that he is not playing an F chord.
Today my post is about the bassist for the famous band Queen, John Deacon. He was also the youngest member of the band. He wrote many of Queen's songs including the famous song "Another One Bites The Dust". This song featured the bass as the primary instrument throughout the song.
John never really did much to stand out at all, but without him Queen would be a very different band. I mean songs like "Another One Bites the Dust" and "You're My Best Friend" would never exist.
All this week, I'm going to be focusing on the band members in many famous bands that weren't put in the spotlight. This week I'm not going to talk about guitarists or singers. I'm going to put more focus on the bass players and the drummers or possibly even the rhythm guitar players and every other instrument player that put in a lot towards a band that wasn't put in the spotlight.
P.S.-
At first this post had a lot of words so I got rid of some, but then I added a lot of pictures. I hope you keep reading this week to see some great videos and learn some cool stuff. Enjoy!
This week's guitar of the week is Brian May's Red Special. He made it himself out of old firewood. Even today Brian still uses that guitar. Brian May was in the popular band "Queen" with many great hits. one of their most popular songs which is used in many sports and such was written by Brian himself. This song is "We Will Rock You" and its common partnering song "We Are The Champions".
Brian's guitar was so iconic and famous that Brian May now has his own line of signature guitar lookalikes of his own Red Special.
It comes in many different styles based off of his own guitar that are VERY expensive. They are not something I would suggest for someone buying for the first time. On the right you can see some of the guitars
