Conference napalm::heavy_metal

    Aye,a good concert overall,i especially like Axl Rose`s "UK" leather
    jacket and that lumunious t-shirt of Jesus.
    
    I turned over at the point of that Aids awareness concert in Africa
    rubbish (to watch an hour or so of "Police Squad") then turned
    back just in time to see James Hetfield doing er,wotever that song
    he wuz doing.
    

    At the end of the gig, when everyone got on stage, I swear I saw the
    Scorpions... but never heard them play!
    
    Any clue's?
    
    Bonzo

I watched also most of the show and it was fine.
It's a difficult task to sing the same songs as Fredie Mercury due to the wide
range of Fredie's voice.
The most impressing was for me George Michael which matched very well.
Paul Young is also very fine and most known in Europe for his mid-tempo and
ballad songs.

Sorin

Yes, good stuff overall. Extreme were excellent. As was Bowie.

To answer some other points. Yes, Tony Iommi was there, and I'm convinced the
Scorpions were there as well. As for Def Leppard, well I went to get another
beer.

Sorry, but I didn't rate Paul Young that much. He tried hard, but his voice
just didn't have the power and projection needed for the stuff he was doing.
George Michael, on the other hand was a revelation. Most impressed.

We ended up with some pretty strange lineups. Like parts of Queen, Black Sabbath
Guns 'n' Roses, with Elton John!! But somehow most of it worked.

I think the greatest tribute to Freddie came from one of the people I was
watching the show with. We were commenting on whether so and so had the
right voice for particular songs and generally we agreed that they did. However,
one of them stopped us all in our tracks by saying that the originals were
all sung by the same person. Now if that doesn't show how great Freddie was,
I don't what does.

One gripe. Due to traffic holdups I managed to miss the opening set, and it
turned out to be one of the ones that I really wanted to see: Metallica.
What did they play? How did they sound (bearing in mind they were opening
and the sound is usually dodgy for an opening band at such events)?

Cheers,
	Keef.

    RE -1
    
    Extreme were as you said excellent.... when they were doing the Queen
    medoly (sp?)... and when Garry wasnot singing... however.... more than
    words sucked just about as bad as ever....
    
    Question to the Boston based noters... were Extreme ever good in a live
    situation?
    
    Bonzo (Opinions vary...)

    >>Paul Young did Radio Gaga.  Who is this guy??
    He had a few BIG hits in the mid 80's...'come back and stay' wherever I
    lay my hat'. He has a great voice, but it just aint powerful enough for
    this material.
    
    Yep Tony Iommi was there, Brian May brought him on to the intro from
    'Heaven and Hell'. I saw Klaus and Rudy from the Scorpions at the end,
    they were most probably hanging out in the Hard Rock Tent and got
    themselves onto the stage for the finale.
    
    As for the concert:
    
    Metallica - Brilliant as usual, 3 songs starting with 'Enter Sandman',
    I cant think of the ohter two. James also did a storming version of
    'Stone cold crazy'
    
    Def Leppard, I always thought they were meant to be a good live band,
    what utter rubbish. They massacred 'Animal' and then proceded to sound
    like the CD on 'lets get rocked'. Mr Elliot just hasnt got a good
    enough voice to do the queen songs, he couldnt reach the notes.
    
    Extreme were superb, I dont really like the band, but they seemed to
    really put some effort into their peformance. But why ruin it with
    'more than words'??. There medley of Queen songs was great and when the
    lead singer did his bit on 'We will Rock you', well it were great.
    
    G'n'R, sang 'Paradise City' and 'knocking...' and sounded better than I
    have ever heard them before, Axel also made Bohemian Rapsody even
    better.
    
    Annie Lennox proved again that she is totally wonderful and the only
    thing wrong with her act was she was singing with Bowie, but I hate him
    anyway so my opinions arnt valid.
    
    The highlight for me was Lisa Stansfield singing 'I want to break Free'
    she has an amazing voice, it is just a shame that she doesnt release
    better songs.
    
    Liza Minelli, I know Freddie loved Cabaret, but I am sure they could
    have found someone better to sing it.
    
    All in all one hell of a brilliant concert.
    
    
    Mark

    Well, live IS suppose to be their forte and thats where that have
    earned kudos from just about everybody that has seen them. 
    I've heard criticisms on their recorded stuff but as far as live goes, 
    they've always excelled.
    What was wrong with "MTW's"?
    What songs did perform?
    Peter

    
    
    Well, I felt bad for Def Leppard.  It was their first time playing with
    Vivian Campbell.  I'm sure they kept looking, expecting to see their
    old guitarist, and he wasn't there..   I mean, unless they are always
    bad in concert I think they should be given a break this time around! 
    Given the choice, they might not have wanted to play so soon with
    someone new.
    
    
    
    Goddess F.

    
    
    Ya, Def Leppard.. I kept asking myself if that was V.C. playing 
    guitar.. He looked different.. I listened to a good part of it
    on WAAF, Extreme sounded good... 
    
    Speaking of Extreme, everytime I have seen them live, they were
    Fantastic, but considering the last time I saw them was in a small
    club.. (might have even been the Livingroom!!)
    
    
    JW-

    Yeah, I watched it too, and heard more on the radio before it started. 
    I was kind of disappointed at the "editing" which had to be done to
    shorten it for FOX.  Oh well.
    
    I only heard the Metallica and Extreme parts on the radio and would
    liked to have seen both bands.  I thought that Extreme's performance 
    was better then many of the ones that got shown.  
    
    High Points:
    
    Brian May's killer guitar tone!
    Anne Lennox & David Bowie on Under Pressure
    Elton John on Bohemian Rapsedy (at least until that idiot Axl butted in)
    Mick Ronson's playing with Bowie/Hunter!
    
    Low Points:
    
    Paul Young
    Liza...  (I really didn't care for her rendition of the song)
                                            
    Surprises:
    
    George Michael actually sounded good and sang something I liked...
    
    I really didn't think Def Leppard sounded all that bad.  I mean, yeah,
    they definately got a bad mix, but I didn't think their performance was
    so off.  The song, however, has sucked from the moment they wrote it. 
    I've heard a major portion of their new album and I'm convinced THAT
    song is the worst thing on there.  Why didn't they play something
    better????
    
    All in all, the show was very enjoyable, albeit a little sad because of
    it's occasion.
    
    gh

I'm running with most of you so far on the good jobs, George Micheal did the
best job for Freddie on "Somebody To Love"! Greg beat me in slamming Axl,
I wish the law had caught up to him before he got out on Bohemian...made me
hurl).

Queen members were fantastic! Very admirable!!

Droid

    Yeah, I meant to include Axl singing on ANY song other then his own in
    my "low points" section.  He just KEPT running out there and butting
    in!  I was thinking "Get that clown off the stage, he CANNOT sing!"
    
    I personally didn't care for GnR's song selection either, plus I
    thought their performance was pretty lack-luster.
    
    gh

    
    Me and Tracy were rolling on da floor with laughter seeing Elton John
    and Axl Rose on the same stage singing together. Nice skirt Axl!

    Did ya notice how Axel didnt particularly like the thought of Eltons
    arm around him, he virtually ran off the stage at the end. But I still
    think that Mr Rose sounded better than ever before.
    
    Mark
    

    Wasn't that "touching" at the end of Bohemian, Axl and Elton all hugged
    up ?  8^)   That's when I thought *I* was gonna hurl.  Axl's voice
    didn't sound too bad on "We Will Rock You" though - screamer for sure.
    
    RE: Vivian with Def Leppard ...
    I only saw part of "Let's Get Rocked".  He played chords and sang some
    backup.  Hmmm, it'd be kinda hard for him to drop the ball on that one,
    eh ?  8^)  I thought they sounded as well as could be expected -
    simulcasts hardly ever sound as good as they do live, and live
    performances hardly ever sound as good as the CD.  Such is life.
    
    RE: Liza ...
    Gimme a break !  What a puke way to end the show.  She sounded more
    like Kate Hepburn.
    
    RE: Brian May's tone ...
    ... violins defined ...
    
    
    Jerry                  

    
    	I only watched bits and pieces but plan on taping the 
    	whole thing on Saturday.
    
    	Pete, I too was cracking up watching Axl and Elton together.
    	Elton should get rid of that wig!  too funny!
    
    	I don't like David Bowie so I can't say much about his.
    
    	I'm anxious to see George Michael.....I've always liked him
    	and if some of you in here who don't but liked his performance,
    	it's gotta be good.
    
    	Kiss 108 was going nuts this morning on the Liza thing.....
    
    	JJ
    

    	Well, not too mess up this gallery of slams...but I thought that
    the whole show was in great taste!  I mean, too get Elton and Axl on
    the same stage?  This is what music is about!  Queen's whole point was
    to pay tribute to Mercury...not get the best looking or best voice.

    	I think Freddie enjoyed his show! I know I would have!  Like
    Axl,hate Axl, Like Liza,Hate Liza...what's the difference...They were
    there to pay tribute...not win a popularity contest.

    B.A.

    
    Freddie was a very big Liza fan, and although I may not like her style
    of music, I thought she did it very well and is a very professional
    performer.

    I think all you Axl bashers are nuts!!  IMHO, Axl was the best singer
    of the night.  Now, don't read that Axl is the best singer of the lot,
    WHAT I AM SAYING IS the monitors on stage obviously sucked (musicians
    covering around the drummer, as no one could hear!!), and while there
    were some killer singers there (Seal, George Michael, Paul Young), Axl
    SOUNDED the best in those circumstances.
    
    I *liked* that Axl took the end of Bohemian...I mean, Elton did a good
    job up to the Opera section, but his voice is not strong enough for 
    that end part (he even dropped some of the range in the first few
    sections)...he just wasn't going to cut it.  Axl wailed the ending of
    Bohemian.  Who do you think they should have gotten...Robert Plant or
    Gary Cherone??   * NOT! *
    
    Also, Axl was a great choice for We Will Rock You.
    
    Overall, I think Queen did a good job of hooking up the guest vocalists
    for their respective songs.  Too bad the sound was a bad as it was...I
    think it could have been a much better show if the main and monitor
    mixmen were more on top of it.

    
     I missed it 8^(. Is it going to be shown again this weekend?
    
                                                                   mike
    

    
    
    
    I don't think Axl or Elton should have sung that song.. I don't mind
    Elton as much as Axl... It was funny though, My girlfriend and I were
    watching it, then when the end of BR came, I said "Watch them put
    Axl out there.." next thing you know.. 
    
    I think he sounded like garbage and ruined the end of the song, I 
    would MUCH rather of heard Gary sing it.. Axl Inhaled.. IMHO! 
    
    You gotta be deaf if you think Axl sounded that good... 
    
    
    
    
    BUT, what it all comes down to is, NOBODY will ever be able to fill
    Freddy's shoes... and I don't think anyone was trying to last night 
    either... 

    MTV's doing a 4hr special this weekend, I *think* on Sunday, but I'm
    not sure ...
    
    Jerry

    
    It'll be on in it's entirety on MTV, Saturday.

    Aye,i agree Axl came over the best. I`m a bit suprised no one`s got
    upset over his Kill your Idol t-shirt.
    
    Er,where can i get one??
    

    Just say NO to AAAAAAACK-SEL!  He sounded like dung!
    
    gh

    Agreed about noone filling Freddie's shoes.  Funny, until last night,
    I never FULLY realized how much Queen WAS Freddie's voice and playing.

Jeez, this really turned into a less filling/tastes great on Axl.  I think he
was great, but then who cares?

Ignoring him, (if possible) I thought that George Michael did a good job and
Annie Lennox was phenomenal.  Both of them had the vocal mannerisms down.  They
had spent some serious time getting ready for this one.

I thought that the drummer and Elton were having a timing war.  Even the crowd
sang faster than Elton.  Too bad, it wouldn't have hurt the song any to slow
it down.

I think they missed a good chance to do Keep Yourself Alive.  It could have been
the theme song for the event.  Maybe FOX just edited it out...

Tim

I think the guy in Savatage sounds a bit like Fred - but, y'all
are right - nobody can (or will) fill his shoes.

I think Axl is pond scum, and sings like it (although I didn't see
this thing last night).

jc

    
    that drummer was Roger!

    re:1  
    
    Paul Young most certaily has "made it to the States".
    
    Do you recal "everytime you go away...... you take a peice of me with
    you".
    
    
    
        or
    
    "I'm gonna tear your playhouse down.......push push"
    
        or
    
    The remake he has playing on the radios stations now.  "what becomes of
    the broken hearted"
    
    Oh,  I'm singing these not just writing them.
    
    

    Since all those people were covering Queen, does that make them
    sell-outs? 
    
    
    Only saw Def Lep, Viv seemed outta place. 

    Full four hours of the concert will be re-shown this Saturday on MTV
    starting at noon.  There will be a pre-concert show hosted by Kurt Loder 
    starting at 11:30 AM EDT.
    
    BJ

    RE: Def Leppard ...
    I guess it's only natural for Viv to look outta place.  This band very
    media oriented with everyone knowing the band's faces, if not their
    names.  A new face, the name will follow ...
    
    RE: sell_out's ...
    I guess I'm like a lot of folks, and forgot that this was *meant* to be
    a tribute/fund_raiser, not a real concert situation.  With that in
    mind, I think it was a big success.  
    
    
    Jerry (but I still don't like Liza, or Anne Lenox ...)

    The parts I head from Viv with Def Lep sounded perdy darn good to my
    ears.  I think it'll work fine iwth time.

    .31�    Paul Young most certaily has "made it to the States".
    
    	I think that the statement made was concerning that Paul has never
    had a real *HIT* in the U.S....only cover songs of other artist.
    
    	I for one don't care for him...he follows George M too much for
    me..
    
    B.A.

    re: last
    
    "Everytime you go Away"
    
    was a hit.
    
    kat

    .36
    
    >He follows Georgie M too much
    
    Paul Young was putting records on the streets a good few years before
    George M, 'No Parlez' is an amazing album if anyof you want to listen
    to him.
    
    Mark
    
    ps
    
    Does anyone know if it is being released on CD/video etc?

    
    re: extreme
    
    I've seen them several dozen times in the Boston area and every time I
    have seen them, their live performance was perfection.  Don't know why
    they are inhaling like they are (from what I've been hearing, I haven't
    seen them live since they made their first album).
    

    
    Paul Young did "Toast" back in 1978. 

    What was his group called, I have been sitting here trying to think,
    unusual step for a wednesday :)

    The band wuz called:
    
    
    THE Q TIPS!!
    

I didn't see the whole show, but I realize that Fox cut a lot out now.

Metallica did great jobs on their songs, but the crowd wasn't there to hear
Metallica songs.  I didn't catch Stone Cold Crazy with James and Queen.

Extreme did really well.  They did a medley of 10-12 songs that started the
crowd up.

Def Leppard did better on the other songs than Let's Get Rocked.  They did
Now I'm Here which is a great tune from the early days.

Robert Plant doing Innuendo was awesome.  The more I see Brian play the more
he impresses me.

Spinal Tap was funny.  "We're going to cut our set 35 songs short.  Freddie would
have wanted it that way"

I don't care what anyone else says.  I liked David Bowie.  Heroes is one of
my favorite Bowie songs.  He did much better there than in Tin Machine on
Saturday Night Live.


Tim

    
    I saw about the 1st 1 1/2 hours of it.  I was impressed with Extreme.
    The medley was great, although I would have changed to order of the
    songs.  There were a couple of songs that I thought he could have sang
    better if they were the first ones.  His voice would have handled them
    better.  But, like I said, I was impressed and think this will do a lot
    for their future.
    Roger Daltry sounded.......er.........so so.  I enjoyed the 3 songs
    Metallica did.  
    If this gets released on video, which I'm sure it will, I think I'll
    pick it up.
    
    Chris D.

    I saw the beginning on MTV on Sat.  Metallica played well, too bad the
    crowd seemed lackluster.  Aack-streme sounded really well (I was
    surprised!).  Also interesting to see Nuno playing a Mauradian guitar
    (the company Pat Badger used to work for...he plays their basses).
    Looks like it was painted in that Magenta color Pat used to be so hot
    about (indeed, it was a great color!).

    
    
    Magenta still is a great color! (got myself a magenta color bass!)
    
    James was great on SCC!! Didn't really know what to do with himself
    without a guitar in his hands though...
    
    
    JW-

    WAAH!  I missed the whole thing Saturday.  Sounds like there was a
    buncha cool stuff not shown on the Fox edited version which I would
    have wanted to see.  When is MTV gonna rerun it?
    
    gh

    If you talk real nice to me, I'll make you a copy!
    
    BJ

    How about I don't pay you anything for shining my drums and I let you
    borrow the whole concert on video?
    
                    Frikzid
    

    That could work!
    
    Greg

    Consider it done!
    
               Frizkid
    

    
    you polished his drums?  when ya gonna do mine?  :').  i'm so lazy with
    them i hadnt polished them for 3 years up until 6 months ago :') even
    then i didnt finish them.  18 rims plus a couple hundred lugs is not my
    idea of a fun weekend...  (plus stands, cymbals, snare... UGH!!!!!!!!)
    

    	I too was impressed with "Extreme" especially the lead singer...good
    strong voice!  May have to change my attitude about them...:*)

    B.A.

    I thought the highlight of the concert was:
      Gary Cherone singing "Hammer To Fall" with Queen.
    He kicked so much @SS! I knew he had it in him....
    
            Frizkid
    
     

    
     You could get some plexi ones, take em to the car wash and hose em
    down! 8^).
                  mike
    

    Sorry..... Lisa Stansfield rules :)
    
    
    Mark

    ACK!!!! I wish I had my ear plugs close when she came on.
    
       Frizkid
    

>    you polished his drums?  when ya gonna do mine?  :').  
    
    Down boy!  I just wiped 'em down with a rag.  They looked like someone
    had pissed all over 'em!
                            
    gh

    
    What do you polish them with Friz? I've tried various things to no
    avail.

    Well,I heard that when he isn't treatin his hair with it,Friz
    uses a hot oil treatment to polish his drums.
    
               Crazy_just_a_rumor_Al

    Greg: Like someone pissed on them?  NO WAY MAN! 
    
    Pete: I don't used anything just a nice cloth. I have no idea what Greg
    used on my kit when he did it.
    
    Crazy Al: HA!HA!HA! Good one!
    
               Frizkid
    

>    Pete: I don't used anything just a nice cloth. I have no idea what Greg
>    used on my kit when he did it.
    
>        Greg: Like someone pissed on them?  NO WAY MAN! 
 
     Now someone has...
    ;^)

    Hi folks!
    
        I live and work in Roma-Italy, and unfortunately I have found jus now
        this note relating to the Tribute, I liked to add my opinion when the
        event was still "hot", but I read as well all your comments and I would
        like to add mine.
    
        The entire Tribute was broadcasted "live" on a private italian TV, and
        I completely saw and recorded it (about 5 hours show).
    
        Next days I had several discussions with some friends of mine on the
        show and the performances of the various singers, and I have to say
        that I have found many similar topics in your replies.
        Basically, I think that the biggest fault in the event interpretation
        is the expectation of much people to "find" another Freddie on the
        stage, or to compare his capacity to be a great performer to the
        way of performing chose by all the other singers.
        I love live music in every situation, playing my guitar or listening
        for unknown bands in clubs and pubs, or watching great concerts
        directly or by the TV, and I think that the power that comes from it
        has a close relationship with the ability of the performer to
        "transmit" his feelings and to be on the stage and manage many
        thousands of people. The greatness of a performer is in being able to
        do this, using his own style and experience and giving a personal
        interpretation on his own songs rather than the ones by others.
    
        Under these conditions, I have to say that, excluding the trush of the
        first part of the show (excepting for Extreme, very good), starting
        from Gun's & Roses to Liza everybody have tryed to do their best.
        Many of them did it, many failed, but sometimes it was just a decision
        to "assign" a wrong song to a singer in relationship to his kind of
        voice and staging (i.e. Elton John has really killed "Bohemian Raphsody
        and "The show must go on", but just because those weren't the right
        songs for him, he did it just for prestige reasons), but my thought
        is that everybody have brought their contribution for a very enjoyable
        show.
    
        Over the personal taste that everyone of us could have in the matter 
        of music, an evaluation must be done of the context in which a show is
        organized and the more or less important reasons it is related to.
        I think that the AIDS awareness is a topic that goes beyond of the
        deciding if Axel is unseenable or on who is Paul Young.
        This was just a way to honour Freddie and his job and an important
        occasion to make worldwide understandable the tragedy of AIDS and to
        raise a warning on all the risks that everybody of us runs
    
        Ciao a tutti
    
        Antonio.
                                                                          

    MTV is rebroadcasting this tonight starting at 7:00 PM as part of
    National AIDS Awareness (day, week, month.... I'm not sure).  Warm up
    those VCRs.

    
    TODAY IS WORLD AIDS AWARENESS DAY!
    
    

    I figured someone would know. . .  The kid and Kurt Loder were
    competing for my attention at that particular moment......
    
    BJ

    
    I taped it.
    
    

    Last night's Queen speical on MTV totally rooled

    ...except for liza minelli....who was flat most of the time and usually
    isn't...sounded to me like she wasn't that familiar with that
    particular song and so she was frequently just *under* the right
    note.....whatever..................../k
    

    
    Re: /k
    
    > ...except for liza minelli....who was flat most of the time and usually
    > isn't...
    
    Liza Minelli can change her bust size at will?
    
    -- 
    Kevin

    AAAAA!!! I was gonna say something like that!

    .....ah jess and kev........i dub you both "masters of the obvious!"...
    ...../k

    She's got "the Pump" bra, from Reebok...

    She was never under Joel Gray.