Bohemian Rhapsody tribute - January 2009

Hola! In January I was lucky enough to be a fill-in guitarist for a tribute band that was doing a 7 gig trip in the eastern states. I've chucked together some highlights and random video that I took.

Now truth be told I'm not actually expecting anyone to watch this - my real motivation for uploading it is to see how a roughly hour-long video looks on Youtube at this bitrate. I'm STILL working on a movie I started about five years ago and when I upload it sometime before I turn 30, I don't want to get a nasty surprise as far as image quality goes.

But anyhoo. This is also just to prove that I did, in fact, go on a trip east and that I wasn't lurking about in Fremantle or something.

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• queen
• tribute
• band
• bohemian
• rhapsody
• thomas
• crane
• australia
• tour
• trip
• live
• coffs
• harbour
• yamba
• woolgoolga
• nambucca
• freddie
• mercury
• brian
• may
• roger
• taylor
• john
• deacon
• red
• special
• guitar
• drums
• bass
• rock
• rare

[inuliger]

Hah! Nice 'Hero' fakeout @ 1:15:12-1:15:21! :-)

[Zebonka]

It was somewhat unplanned!  Had a laugh about it afterwards.

[ReelMusicProductions]

I too, watched more than I thought I would. This is really great. Wish I coulda seen one of these shows. re: the equipment, at the end of the day, it comes down to the individual's skill & knowledge of the instrument/music, and a good musician will still sound killer on cheap/shoddy equipment, while some pretentious emo kid strumming powerchords will always sound like mediocre shite, no matter how much overdrive/expensive gear they attempt to use.Everything you need is mostly all in the head.

[Zebonka]

I'd agree with that, pretty much. I learned how to play on a broken guitar with a lousy amp. Wasn't until years later that I got nice gear.

Cheers!

[pieman419]

I wasn't that impressed by the Casino videos, but as said, with skills like that, get your ass to hell Brian, you've got a golden fiddle to take from the devil! You squeezed some damn good tone from the amp too considering it was a cheap solid-state Behringer modeler. =D

Still surprised I watched all of it(Even if spread over three days of boredom), but I do have to say it was entertaining, and cleared up a lot of discrepancies about bands on tour for me.

[Zebonka]

Yeah, never been happy with the Casino stuff. I'm much cozier with that guitar now but at the time it was alien to me.

Thanks for sitting through it - I would not have been offended if you only got halfway!

PS. Yeah, That Great Behringer Sound ... !

[inuliger]

@Zebonka Ahh, I kinda figured it had to be partly improvised. Good one though!

It just shows how big you guys are into Queen - as well as testament to your musical abilities I'm sure! :-)

And surprises like these are always awesome!

[Frustrated4ever]

Freddie does Jeff Lynne too? An album I love-"A New World Record". You're approaching summer, here it's quite the opposite. Getting cold and it sucks. That you didn't have to learn all the Queen stuff is quite cool. You got the chops my man, no question. I love Queen. Way back we thought we were blessed to live in a time of such amazing music. We also thought Freddie M. was nailing chicks left and right. What did we know. Long live Freddie. I'm going to get down there some day.

[Zebonka]

Someone watched this?? ouch!!

Truth be told the Casino video was never going to be any good, I need to own a guitar for a while before I can get a handle on it. I play by feel and I don't learn songs or read tab - I didn't rehearse for this tour, I just like Queen songs.

Tom (Freddie) is fantastic, I think he's even better when he's just mucking about sometimes. A great singer, whether he's doing Freddie or ELO or whatever

Anyhoo - thanks for stopping by

[Frustrated4ever]

Hell, I can't believe I watched the whole fu**ing thing. And I don't even speak Strine. That Freddy sounds just like Freddy M. He is really quite good. And you--to be honest, once I saw the vid where you got the Casino I was fairly unimpressed with your chops. After seeing this--crikey! Sideshow Bob would be jealous.

What shit! We gave you Sideshow Bob and we got Crocodile Dundee--is that an even trade? What a shame that American pop culture inundates down under. Maverick? Goose? Ick.