me and brian may (of Queen)

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as some of you know, brian may - lead guitarist of Queen - received
his PhD in astrophysics this past year. while he was wrapping up his
degree, he also wrote a book - BANG! The Complete History Of
The Universe (whataguy :). as it turns out, brian's in LA next tues for
a book signing of his book and when you order the book, you get to
meet & have brian sign the book. i bought the book :)

UN-BE-LIEV-ABLE!

i get to meet brian may!

UN-BE-LIEV-ABLE!

man-oh-man... it's gonna be great.

(thanks for listening :)
 
Sounds like a fun time. Where's the book signing?

I just turned my boys (10 & 13) on to Queen. Started with Innuendo. One of the American Idol contestants did a cover of "Show must go on" and my boys were astounded that I had heard the song and owned the CD.
 
Wow, Queen is the only artist whose music I hate so much that I change the station every time they start playing one of their songs on the radio. To me, it's like fingernails squealing on a chalkboard. Different strokes...
 
lrsudog said:
Sounds like a fun time. Where's the book signing?

I just turned my boys (10 & 13) on to Queen. Started with Innuendo. One of the American Idol contestants did a cover of "Show must go on" and my boys were astounded that I had heard the song and owned the CD.
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i'm thinking it's gonna be great :)

http://www.booksoup.com/author-events.asp

innuendo was a good album. (turned my granddaughter - age 10 @ the time - on to queen last summer during our vacation. this year she's in to the beatles.)
 
pvmike said:
Congrats! Coming from someone nicknamed "Queen lives" since the year 2000, this must be HUGE for you.
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QueenLives since '94, on prime since '00 :)

yup, for me wrt rock gods, this is big... even bigger than meeting ray davies (of the kinks) several times over the years because brian never *ever* does this kind of stuff in the u.s. ... it's very rare.
 
nsxtasy said:
Wow, Queen is the only artist whose music I hate so much that I change the station every time they start playing one of their songs on the radio. To me, it's like fingernails squealing on a chalkboard. Different strokes...
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hahahahahaha - yup, different strokes.
 
NSXLNT said:
http://www.gearslutz.com/board/video-vault/191126-queen-bohemian-rhapsody-hear-raw-tracks.html

Sad to see Roger Taylor looking so old. Brian looks the same as always. I had a friend who was a real Brian May fanatic - built a replica guitar of Brian's before they were commercially available. I think he had him sign it.
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thx for the link to that video - i'd seen it on tv before and wanted to see it again, so, much appreciated.

ah... age happens; some of us don't wear it so well....
 
Cooool! Sounds like you are going to have a blast. Grats.

PS. Dont forget to pimp your future NSX Honey :wink: :tongue: Brian might want to be your spokesman. :biggrin:
 
NSXrunner said:
Cooool! Sounds like you are going to have a blast. Grats.

PS. Dont forget to pimp your future NSX Honey :wink: :tongue: Brian might want to be your spokesman. :biggrin:
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thx!

and don't laugh on the honey-thing... my wife and i make jams, jellies, marmalades and liqueurs from the fruit of our trees, so i was thinkin' we'll put a special prime-Queen avatar label on jars of pomegranate jelly and tangerine marmalade for him :)
 
nsxtasy said:
Wow, Queen is the only artist whose music I hate so much that I change the station every time they start playing one of their songs on the radio. To me, it's like fingernails squealing on a chalkboard. Different strokes...
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the only artist? Wow. Who is your favourite band/artist/genre?
 
queenlives said:
i'm thinking it's gonna be great :)

http://www.booksoup.com/author-events.asp

innuendo was a good album. (turned my granddaughter - age 10 @ the time - on to queen last summer during our vacation. this year she's in to the beatles.)
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The song innuendo is great. I first found queen/really became aware, through public enemy. They used the 'flash' intro on a song, been a queen fan ever since.
 
nsxtasy said:
Wow, Queen is the only artist whose music I hate so much that I change the station every time they start playing one of their songs on the radio. To me, it's like fingernails squealing on a chalkboard. Different strokes...
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:biggrin:
 
queenlives said:
thx!

and don't laugh on the honey-thing... my wife and i make jams, jellies, marmalades and liqueurs from the fruit of our trees, so i was thinkin' we'll put a special prime-Queen avatar label on jars of pomegranate jelly and tangerine marmalade for him :)
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we (oldest son & granddaughter) had a great time meeting brian - every bit the easy going, low key, well mannered guy we've seen in interviews over the years.

there were a couple of hundred people there for the signing - we were 3rd in line - and though he was obviously jet lagged, he was warm and gracious with everyone he came in contact with.

on the downside, there wasn't any form of q&a with him about the book, science, music / music business these days, etc, so that was a bit disappointing.

(side note: just a few minutes before we were heading in to meet brian, a black '02+ nsx appeared on the opposite side of the street - anybody here?)

hal
 
I heard an interview with him on NPR yesterday regarding his book. He really does seem to be very humble and softspoken/compassionate. He talked a bit about their upcoming album with Paul Rogers.
 
queenlives said:
(side note: just a few minutes before we were heading in to meet brian, a black '02+ nsx appeared on the opposite side of the street - anybody here?)

hal
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Wouldn't you have just peed yourself if it was his?:smile:
 
White92 said:
Wouldn't you have just peed yourself if it was his?:smile:
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now that would have been a hoot.

actually, they delivered him in a big ol' black bentley... nice ride. after brian was inside, the driver of the car put it in reverse and suh-lammed it into the ancient ice cream truck parked behind it.

BANG!

so i said, sotto voce, "well, the name of the book is, 'BANG! The Complete History Of The Universe'"

big laughs from everyone but the bentley driver....
 
NSXLNT said:
He talked a bit about their upcoming album with Paul Rogers.
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Did anyone here see the PBS show with QUEEN and Paul Roger's? It was awesome and Paul look's just as good as he did back in the '80's when I saw him on his solo tour. QUEEN rock's and one of my all time favorite album's is 'The Game'.
 
texasmr2 said:
Did anyone here see the PBS show with QUEEN and Paul Roger's? It was awesome and Paul look's just as good as he did back in the '80's when I saw him on his solo tour. QUEEN rock's and one of my all time favorite album's is 'The Game'.
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yes, i saw it! and i saw them in concert in '06(?) - they were very good, though we missed freddie. the game's a good album.
 

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