Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody A Capella, an other astonishing vocal performance

2 Responses to “Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody A Capella, an other astonishing vocal performance”

1. John
   July 9th, 2008 at 4:03 pm

   

   Hi again….Queen….so far ahead of their peers in being able to utilize technology, and create those incredible layered sounds. I was listening to the Houston ‘77 live recording recently, and it’s just phenomenal…

   Your post reminds me of a show in Japan (I think it was Japan, my memory of the concert years is a little hazy - youthful indiscretions and what not) where there was a problem with voltage matching or something, and the middle part of Bohemian Rhapsody, which was being played from tape, was a half step out of tune.

   I was wondering what your thoughts were on creating something in the studio that’s so complex it can’t be performed live?

2. Ovidiu
   July 9th, 2008 at 4:47 pm

   

   Well, depends, first of all, I was always sure (this video proves me wrong) that Bohemian rhapsody can not be played live. Period. But these guys shows that I am wrong and with a lot of hard work, it can.

   I don’t have anything against this. If you make a song that is so complex that it is virtually impossible to play live, it’s OK. Actually art should not be bound to that. I love Gamma Ray and they have on Insanity and genius album, if I remember well, a song that always reminded me of Bohemian Rhapsody , a song with a lot of breaks, voices, piano/guitar mixtures that I was just sure it would be very very difficult to play live, but this didn’t bother me.

   I think that on an album an artist should make the best efforts to bring his best because that is the most proficient place he/she will ever be in. Live is an other thing, but on a record he should bring his best in creativity.