C/D: John Deacon of Queen

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Right then. Where do you stand on He Who Licked His Fingers Whilst Playing Bass?

Right now, I'm saying Classic, just for his work on side 2 of "Queen II" that I'm grooving to currently.

― Kingfish MuffMiner 2049er (Kingfish), Tuesday, 8 February 2005 23:56 (twenty-one years ago)

He's a legend. Check this out for a laugh: www.deaky.com

― musicjohn73, Tuesday, 8 February 2005 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

He's a complete classic, and anyone who says different has his or her head lodged worrying up their own posterior.

Although I'll say this....his hair here was troubling:

http://www.queenmustgoon.net/download/sfondi/sfondo-rgg.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 01:15 (twenty-one years ago)

dude wrote "Another One Bites The Dust."

classic.

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 02:18 (twenty-one years ago)

heheheh JD's hair is hardly the only troubling aspect of that shot

― Will(iam), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 02:41 (twenty-one years ago)

deaky's front page translated

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― mullygrubbah (bulbs), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 02:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Miccio & Alex OTM.

― Flying Pig (popshots75`), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 02:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Classic obv. He's responsible for "Ice Ice Baby" right?

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 02:53 (twenty-one years ago)

He wrote "You're My Best Friend." That is my favorite Queen song.

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 03:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Classic obv.

Totally classic for staying out of the current Queen reunion (he and Bill Berry should start a band!)

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 03:41 (twenty-one years ago)

"In Only Seven Days", "Another One Bites the Dust", "Who Needs You", even "Spread Your Wings". He was Queen's corniest songwriter, but hardly bad. Marginal classic.

― Dominique (dleone), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 03:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Neither nor. A good songwriter, but a really wooden player who neither disappeared into the background nor carried the rhythm forward (and with Roger Taylor on drums, Queen coulda used that kind of a bass player), so he was sonically just kinda there. That said, also capable of some really lovely melodic playing ("Under Pressure", most obviously).

"Another One Bites the Dust" sounds like what it is -- somebody trying to figure out how to play "Good Times" and failing.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 09:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Classic...

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Classic without a doubt, for You're My Best Friend, Misfire, In Only Seven Days, and for refusing to participate in We Will Rock You (the musical) and the current "reuinion" shenanigans. Just what *does* he do all day?

― harveyw (harveyw), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Nice solo on Liar from the first album. Always reminds me of Hooky's stuff on The Perfect Kiss. I think his best song was maybe I Want To Break Free. And his biggest misstep was probably Friends Will Be Friends, but I've always been quite fond of that too really. I like to think of him as Queen's pop sensibilty personified, and therefore what kept them going through the 80s.

I'm afraid that my hair used to look EXACTLY like JD's in that Radio Ga Ga shot upthread. Except that I had it in 1991 instead of 1984. And ooh, we've got the same initials too.

― JimD (JimD), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

All that's starting to look very, very suspicious, JimD!

You ever been seen in the same room with John Deacon, huh?
(Ha, that's wot I suspected!)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 11 March 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

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