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highplainsdem

(49,004 posts) Wed Nov 3, 2021, 08:45 PM Nov 2021

Queen + Paul Rodgers: All Right Now

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Queen + Paul Rodgers: All Right Now (Original Post) highplainsdem Nov 2021 OP

Just no we can do it Nov 2021 #1

Why not? pnwest Nov 2021 #3

I'm just weird. we can do it Nov 2021 #6

Not weird, necessarily -- but if you like great rock vocals, you highplainsdem Nov 2021 #7

Just love watching Brian May play guitar. ProudMNDemocrat Nov 2021 #2

Brian May is a double genius!! InAbLuEsTaTe Nov 2021 #4

So do I. One of the top rock guitarists, with one of the top rock vocalists, highplainsdem Nov 2021 #5

we can do it

(12,189 posts)

1. Just no

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Wed Nov 3, 2021, 08:47 PM

Nov 2021

pnwest

(3,266 posts)

3. Why not?

Reply to we can do it (Reply #1)

Wed Nov 3, 2021, 10:19 PM

Nov 2021

Just curious.

we can do it

(12,189 posts)

6. I'm just weird.

Reply to pnwest (Reply #3)

Thu Nov 4, 2021, 07:12 AM

Nov 2021

I like Bad Company and Queen but not together. I guess I should like it since it’s his song.

highplainsdem

(49,004 posts)

7. Not weird, necessarily -- but if you like great rock vocals, you

Reply to we can do it (Reply #6)

Thu Nov 4, 2021, 09:27 AM

Nov 2021

shouldn't miss out on Paul Rodgers. Free broke up a few years after they recorded this song, and their brilliant lead guitarist, Paul Kossoff, was gone, tragically young, a couple of years later.

But Rodgers is still around, and I can't think of any rock singer whose voice has held up better for more than 50 years. The videos below are Free live in 1970, and Rodgers in 2015, age 66.

And singing a Sam and Dave classic:

FWIW, I agree with the people commenting on those videos who consider Rodgers the greatest rock singer ever.

ProudMNDemocrat

(16,786 posts)

2. Just love watching Brian May play guitar.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Wed Nov 3, 2021, 08:52 PM

Nov 2021

He is one of the top Rock Guitarists in the world. Not bad for a bloke with a PhD. in Astrophysics.

InAbLuEsTaTe

(24,122 posts)

4. Brian May is a double genius!!

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Wed Nov 3, 2021, 10:33 PM

Nov 2021

highplainsdem

(49,004 posts)

5. So do I. One of the top rock guitarists, with one of the top rock vocalists,

Reply to ProudMNDemocrat (Reply #2)

Wed Nov 3, 2021, 11:01 PM

Nov 2021

doing one of the top rock songs.

Paul Rodgers is amazing. The Doors wanted him to become their frontman after Jim Morrison's death. Deep Purple wanted him as their lead singer after Ian Gillan left. I'm glad he formed Bad Company, love a lot of their records, but this song he recorded with Free has always been my favorite.

And I love this performance with Queen.

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