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It's A Hard Life
Posted by Ahh_Bisto on 29 January 2011 - 11:47am.
The other day I caught some of the Prince's Trust concert from last year. This isn't something I'd actively search for to watch but my interest was piqued by trying to identify who all the musicians were on stage. Anyway, half of Queen came on and Roger sang a low key version of Days of Our Lives. Then Brian introduced Tom Chaplin from Keane who came on to perform It's A Hard Life.
And, boy, did he perform it. The lad's got chops!
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He could at least have made an effort...
and grown an enormous moustache and worn a pair of extremely tight white shorts.
No, to be serious... he was good, wasn't he?! I won't be rushing out to buy any Keane records, but he can sing and - more importantly - command a stage. I was rather impressed by that.
My sentiments
exactly. I'm so wary of modern studio production that I'm never sure if a singer can really sing in terms of live performance but I wasn't prepared for him to be quite so good. He nailed it with the opening line when he has to go from operatic to sensitive in one breath. Class.
Wow... goosebumps.
A more than worthy stand-in for the mighty Freddie.
What a great voice.
He made that look easy, and it certainly isn't as Mr. May said.
(I do have a Keane record somewhere... I'm going to dig it out now.)
He was great, wasn't he..
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Tom Chaplin & Keane
Do not get the respect they deserve. I think they are rather good.
Keane singer
in really quite good shock, thanks for posting. "Hopes and Fears" is a great, great album by the way.
Nice to see a drummer using Octobans
a much underrated bit of kit.
Are they those long, tubular thingys?
I bet Neil Peart's got some. In fact I reckon he makes them.
Yup. Long tubular tthingys, sold in pairs or sets of four
and tuned to provide a pleasing pitch when struck.
It's a bugger to change those teeny heads though.
Octobans
Played by one of my favourite "pop" drummers
Excellent.
Well done Mr Chaplin.
Always liked Hopes and Fears, actually.
We have an answer
...to the question of who could step in for Freddie fronting Queen. Paul Rodgers is a fabulous singer, but let's face it he and Freddie were not on the same side of the road in any number of ways. Tom Chaplin, on this evidence, could probably perform the songs live better than Freddie himself could towards the end, when his voice became very ragged.
Wow.
I'd no sooner buy a Keane record than hammer roofing nails into my balls, but he sang his great big face off, didn't he? Good work.
holy shit...
that lad can sing! Is Brian May going grey gracefully? If he is, I hope Sir Thumbsaloft is paying attention?
He can sing
no doubt about it. In fact he sang his arse off. If you close your eyes you'd think it was Freddie at his peak, come back. He looked out of place a bit, but then he's not in a band that usually does that sort of material and the gig was a one-off.
Thank you, Mr Bisto. That was most enjoyable.
Extreme Freddie
Gary Cherrone did a good 'Freddie' on this medley of Queen songs at the Freddie tribute concert.
I was always struck with how Brian May quite pointedly said "these guys are REAL friends" after Metallica had come on and just played their own stuff