Is this heresy?

[tuvor]

New frontman Paul Rodgers, Drummer Roger Taylor and guitarist Brian May, from left, of the legendary rock band Queen perform live on stage at a concert in the St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland, Sunday, April 10, 2005. (AP Photo/Keystone, Markus Stuecklin)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/050410/482/bas10404102100&e=1

[BattyDem]

1. Oh noooooooooooo!!!!! This can't be happening!

How could they replace Freddie?!?!?!?!?! This is sooooo wrong! Definite heresy! :mad:


On edit:
I don't care if Brian and Roger are on stage ...
it'll NEVER be Queen without this guy:

[freethought]

2. Heretics!! All of them!!

Put them in the iron maiden!!
Putting in a sub for Freddie Mercury is like trying to replace Robert Plant with Josh Groban for Led Zeppelin. It just aint gonna work!

[progmom]

3. prolly

but he's got nice pecs.

[KitchenWitch]

4. That is wrong on so many levels

Have no issue with Paul Rodgers and Brian May playing together, but to call the band Queen is pure blasphemy. Queen is not Queen without Freddy Mercury!

:banghead:

[BattyDem]

8. Exactly! Form a new band. Queen = Mercury

I like Brian May, but I'm pissed off with him at the moment! :mad:

[KitchenWitch]

9. It would be like

(if Freddy Mercury were still with us) putting Freddy Mercury in place of Paul Rodgers in Bad Company and still calling it Bad Company...wrong wrong wrong

[PassingFair]

12. So what should they call themselves?

...Princess?
Freddy would have wanted them to Carry On, Carry On......

[mitchum]

5. Are they changing the band name to "Butch" now?

[freethought]

6. That's Paul Rodgers!

From Bad Company and The Firm!? That Paul Rodgers?
Well, I'll retract my previous post about halfway. Still, I wouldn't call it Queen and there was no other Freddie. I hope this something new and not like "Queen Reloaded" or something.

[Solly Mack]

7. No Freddie, no Queen.

Sorta like no justice, no peace...

:::::begins to rend clothing:::::


make it stop! make it stop!

[Left Is Write]

10. Yes. It is.

[Elidor]

11. Freddy would have wanted them to carry on

But fuck them all anyway.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

13. I was going to say that, too, but I feared getting flamed...

Not trying to read too much into it, but the last song on the last album Queen released before Freddie died was titled "The Show Must Go On". Freddy knew his time was almost up, and their last few albums had a whole bunch of subtle notes like that.
Who knows? If they sound great, I'll enjoy them. They won't be Queen, but hey...
:shrug: