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| From | "Sager, Greg" <greg.sager@bankofamerica.com> |
| Subject | I'm In Love With My New Cars ... Not |
| Date | Tue, 04 Apr 2006 06:21:19 -0400 |
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> Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 13:39:44 -0700
> From: "AssociationWorks" <AssociationWorks@comcast.net>
> To: <audities@smoe.org>
> Subject: Re: New Cars
> Message-ID: <026201c6575e$be244c30$6701a8c0@Franklin>
>
> The only thing worse than the new Cars line up is Paul
> Rodgers fronting
> Queen.
> For the love of god.....WHY!!!!
> Do these people still have mortgages to pay or something?
I'm not sure that I want to put myself in the dubious position of defending a band that hasn't released new studio material in over a decade, and which has come out of mothballs in spite of missing half the original quartet -- including one of the most unique and distinctive frontmen ever. I'm definitely of the mind that Queen is one dinosaur that should've remained extinct, especially with Freddie Mercury no longer around.
Nevertheless, as long as Roger Taylor and Brian May feel compelled to resurrect the band, I like the way that they did it. The easy and logical thing for them to do would be to find a new singer whose vocals and persona resembled Mercury's; instead, they went for the exact opposite of Mercury in hiring Paul Rodgers instead. It's like hearing the Queen songbook imbued with a bottle of Bellringer Gin instead of the traditional magnum of Moet & Chandon. I think that a lot of Queen's material isn't particularly suited for Rodgers, but you have to admire May's and Taylor's audacity in hiring him. How many guys their age from a superstar band would've opted to take such a daring chance rather than play it safe?
As Stewart said, what the New Cars are doing is vastly different. It's new guys trying to sound as much like the old guys as possible, in spite of the fact that the new guys bring so much to the table in their own right.
If you're going to trot out an old band in order to gear up the ol' moneymaking machine, at least roll the dice a little and make things interesting for the listener.
Gregory Sager
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