We Will Rock You

[erictheweary]

Kevin whatsisname "Curly Watts" was Pop and did a very creditable job too.

I once met him in a nightclub in Birmingham. Glad to hear one of my tenuous claims to fame is still in employment.

[musophilr]

I've never seen the West End show but I am very familiar with it, because my school is doing a production of it and I'm playing guitar for it. The songs are just brilliant, there is no getting around that (although I'm not too keen on how some of them have been re-arranged). I'm having to play a lot of the harder solos which are very well-known, so there is very little margin for error - I have to get them exactly right. That goes for Bohemian Rhapsody, in which I'm supposed to actually come onstage. I also have to do the really fast, difficult C major lick at the end of the Seven Seas of Rhye solo (which is normally bounced between two guitarists) on my own. That's the bit I'm least looking forward to.

The plot-line is just horrifically, embarrassingly awful but there comes a point when that transcends shiteness and becomes rather endearing

I'm absolutely loving playing in it though, brilliant music. Very very much looking forward to performing.

If you can do the scale stuff in 7 seas on your own you're a far better man than me! Bo Rap was a piece of cake by comparison!

Best of luck!

[SeriousCat]

I've never seen the West End show but I am very familiar with it, because my school is doing a production of it and I'm playing guitar for it. The songs are just brilliant, there is no getting around that (although I'm not too keen on how some of them have been re-arranged). I'm having to play a lot of the harder solos which are very well-known, so there is very little margin for error - I have to get them exactly right. That goes for Bohemian Rhapsody, in which I'm supposed to actually come onstage. I also have to do the really fast, difficult C major lick at the end of the Seven Seas of Rhye solo (which is normally bounced between two guitarists) on my own. That's the bit I'm least looking forward to.

The plot-line is just horrifically, embarrassingly awful but there comes a point when that transcends siteness and becomes rather endearing

I'm absolutely loving playing in it though, brilliant music. Very very much looking forward to performing.

break a bone bud - i did a couple of musicals at around your age (bugsy and little shop of horrors) and it was the nuts

[Pendragon]

Went to see the We Will Rock You musical at the weekend. Took the whole family
Grandma, wife and kids (8 and 14).
It may not be high brow and it is a bit silly, but what a great show.
I was greatly entertained, my son (8) nearly wet himself with excitement and was on the
edge of his seat for the whole 4 hours.

Queen certainly penned some great songs.

The overall singing/dancing and musicianship was top notch (one of the guitarists is ex Wishbone Ash)

I certainly recommend it.

+1
Saw this in Manchester in 2011. Silly storyline, but fabulous music and theatre. I understand the musicians play every song live each night, but the sound was so precise I would have sworn they were using actual Queen tracks. Brilliant

[ChrisJordan]

Bucket, I hope these help you.

[clare_bear]

I saw the show a few years ago and it is superb. Great fun and brilliantly performed.