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Oct 17, 2008, 00:05

i dunno. i'm going to stiick my neck out here and say that mercury was overated. he had like a trained west end singer voice but with a rock edge. i hated the way he'd sing things like 'everbadeh' for everybody, to bring more power to the vocal delivery. the same with heavy use of the letters EE sung hard together are a good strong team for hoding a hard line and sustaining it with vibrato. that guy from the band from the late eighties Thunder, he does that too and it gets on my tits, it's such a disciplined way to get the high notes over and over strong. just a bit too contrived if yiou ask me.

where's their ragged edge? you never saw mercuries on stage.

so he was a no go really, not even in the league of real rock singers who hang onto their notes only just but are always attempting to find that note between notes that'll scratch that shitkicking itch

george michael stept into freds shoes vocally and look how trained (west end-ified) his voice is. no real heartfelt stuff as far as i'm concerned.

sorry fred.

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