Category: Entertainment

I was poking around on Pollstar, when I noticed that there were some tour dates for Queen. They have been one of my favorite bands for nearly 15 years now, ever since I first saw the video for “Innuendo” way back in the spring of 1991. But not six months later, the hopes of ever getting to see them live were dashed when Freddie Mercury died from AIDS. They put on the best shows of any band I’ve ever seen, live or otherwise, and I was disappointed that I would never get to see them live, nor would we ever have any new music from the original quartet.

So when I saw the tour dates, my interest was piqued… they apparently are touring with Paul Rodgers, the former lead singer of Free and Bad Company (“All Right Now”, “Feel Like Makin’ Love”). Which is an interesting combination, because he sounds nothing like Freddie, and Free was an influence on Queen back in their early days. Unfortunately, all of the dates so far are in Europe and places other than the United States… which is understandable, because Queen only had widespread popularity in the US during the late 70s/early 80s – not counting the Wayne’s World-inspired resurgence in their popularity, which unfortunately came years after Queen stopped touring due to Freddie’s health.

But here’s hoping they make it over this way sometime soon…

And the Sox sweep it in four… pretty cool, I must say. Hopefully it won’t take them another 86 years to win the Series.

On a slightly related note, Google can be really weird. When I was searching for that image over there —>, one of the pictures it pulled up while searching for “red sox” was a photo of Dylan Klebold – one of the Columbine shooters. Kind of creepy.

On a completely unrelated note, now that my upstairs neighbors have moved out, I’ve been watching the Band of Brothers DVD set with the volume turned way up… if you haven’t seen it, I strongly recommend at least renting them… it’s about 12 hours worth of content, but well worth it. It’s alternately inspiring and disturbing, but always interesting.