Coolest Member of Queen.

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Some might suggest that such an individual doesn't exit.

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Watching the DVD that comes with the 30th Anniversary Issue of A Night at the Opera right now, and it strikes me that drummer Roger Taylor is -- if not the coolest dude in the band -- that certainly the least embarassing gent in their ranks. Seriously, Brian May could play like maestro, but that hair! Mercury, likewise, had a voice from the gods, but between the teeth, the harlequin outfits and the prancing, sometimes it just got a bit too much. John Deacon? Gormless. But Roger Taylor -- the man plays drums in a proggy-glammy dinosaur band, and he still looks like he could've been in the Stiff Little Fingers or, at the very least, Motorhead. Couple that with his nasty raspy voice and his burly drum battery, and easily, the man ranks as verily the coolest members of Queen.

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You may beg to differ. State so.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 1 December 2005 15:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Rob Deacon!

He got the hell out after Freddie died and the other two debated on getting Robbie in as a replacement. And everyone else.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Freddie. Ok, maybe not. Certainly not Brian May's hair.

― Herbert Hoover, Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link

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Okay, well, maybe not Motorhead.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:39 (eighteen years ago) link

FREDDIE MERCURY YOU FOOL

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Dismissing Freddie Mercury as the coolest dude in Queen because his act got "got a bit too much" doesn't make sense to me. Isn't "too much" the very essence of Queen? That, to me, is one of the reasons why they are so special.

Plus, that Queen + Paul Rodgers CD proves who the coolest member of Queen was: Freddie. I know May and Taylor are great musicians and good songwriters, but Freddie made Queen.

― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Thursday, 1 December 2005 16:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Brian's dodgy barnet made so much more sense to me when I twigged his enthusiasm for astronomy - think he did an Astronomy degree at university. I honestly think it's some sort of tribute to Isaac Newton.

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― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 1 December 2005 17:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Queen without Freddie Mercury makes as much sense as The Cure without Robert Smith or -- for that matter -- Killing Joke without Jaz Coleman. It simply doesn't work. I mean no disrespect to Paul Rodgers (though if I never heard fucking "All Right Now" by Free again, that would be JUST FINE with me), but he's no Freddie Mercury. Not even close.

...but Roger's still the cool one.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 1 December 2005 17:16 (eighteen years ago) link

I thought they were all cool, minus Brian May's post-Mercury shenanigans (did the world really NEED a "Dragon Attack" remix?). The fact that all four of them individually wrote radio hits is, as far as I know, a rarity in rock.

― Terrible Cold (Terrible Cold), Thursday, 1 December 2005 17:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Ever hear Brian's Star Fleet album? In a word, dire!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 1 December 2005 17:20 (eighteen years ago) link

There is nothing cooler than an outrageously flamboyant Indian opera singer (wannabe) fronting a rock band.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 1 December 2005 17:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Fair point, this.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 1 December 2005 17:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Little-known secret: Bassist is ALWAYS the coolest. Well, not always, but frequently. Standing there unperturbed at the back of the stage, looking bored, chewing gum and driving the song along is practically a living depiction of coolness. Which is, of course, not the same thing as musical greatness. (No, I don't play bass myself nor particularly aspire to.)

(Feel free to prove I'm full of shit by naming the most uncool bassists you can think of.)

― Myonga Von Bottom (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 1 December 2005 17:39 (eighteen years ago) link

(Feel free to prove I'm full of shit by naming the most uncool bassists you can think of.)

The guy in Grand Funk Railroad was pretty bereft of any semblance of cool.

And let's not forget this guy (far left)....

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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 1 December 2005 17:59 (eighteen years ago) link

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Rod Stewart's bass player = not cool.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 1 December 2005 18:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Stuart Hamm
Billy Sheehan...

― Roger from Mokum (betty800), Thursday, 1 December 2005 18:03 (eighteen years ago) link

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― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 1 December 2005 18:04 (eighteen years ago) link

on the other hand...

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― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 1 December 2005 18:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Would Peter Cetera be retroactively uncool?

― Terrible Cold (Terrible Cold), Thursday, 1 December 2005 18:06 (eighteen years ago) link

also cool

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― Roger from Mokum (betty800), Thursday, 1 December 2005 18:07 (eighteen years ago) link

not to forget

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― Roger from Mokum (betty800), Thursday, 1 December 2005 18:08 (eighteen years ago) link

and my fave:

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― Roger from Mokum (betty800), Thursday, 1 December 2005 18:12 (eighteen years ago) link

uncoolest bass player hall of fame nominee:

John Taylor of Duran Duran

― herbert hoover, Thursday, 1 December 2005 23:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Bwahahahaha

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Thursday, 1 December 2005 23:33 (eighteen years ago) link

If you currently have a wife or girlfriend who was over the age of twelve in 1983, I guarantee you that she would've proudly fucked John Taylor of Duran Duran.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 2 December 2005 00:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Andy Sturmer

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 2 December 2005 00:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Hey, why d'you think Cop Shoot Cop were TWICE as cool as the average band?!

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 2 December 2005 00:35 (eighteen years ago) link

nothing retroactive about Cetera!

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 2 December 2005 08:40 (eighteen years ago) link

http://members.home.nl/visionx/

― Rizz (Rizz), Friday, 2 December 2005 08:45 (eighteen years ago) link

you cant forget this guy

he just wants to break freeeeeeee

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― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!, Friday, 2 December 2005 09:50 (eighteen years ago) link

I should be so lucky to have arms like that.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 2 December 2005 20:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Esteban Buttez is totally working on his graphic design portfolio!

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Friday, 2 December 2005 20:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Roger Taylor loses for having released a terrible solo album in 1984 that was in heavy rotation on MTV for a couple days. Ridiculous cover of Springsteen's "Racing in the Streets" too.

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Deacon wins for having written "Another One Bites The Dust" and for steering clear of this asinine Paul Rogers tour.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 2 December 2005 21:00 (eighteen years ago) link

OMG that picture.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 2 December 2005 21:14 (eighteen years ago) link

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I'm too young to remember, but I presume Sting was originally fairly cool ... ?

― Palomino (Palomino), Friday, 2 December 2005 22:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Queen members in descending order of coolness :

John - as mentioned above, the bass player is (almost) always the coolest member of any given band, and being a bassist myself I speak from experience. Also, he looked the most bored in the Radio Ga Ga video.

Freddie - Bohemian Rhapsody is not only the official most-loved UK number 1 single, it's also the story of a gay man being judged by the elders of Zoroastrianism or whatever it's called. Also, Freddie wrote side 2 of Queen 2.

Roger - he wrote Tenement Funster and squirted water on his snare drum so it'd spray everywhere when he played, but he now looks like something from Terrahawks and votes Tory. Also, he wrote A Kind Of Magic.

Brian - sorry Bri, but the hair. And Starfleet. And Anita Dobson. In his favour, he wrote The Prophet Song.

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Friday, 2 December 2005 23:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Freddie Mercury was a musical genius with a godlike voice, and that is the only kind of "cool" that counts in music.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 3 December 2005 00:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Deacon wins for having written "Another One Bites The Dust" and for steering clear of this asinine Paul Rogers tour.

Oh wait! Deacon's not on the new tour? Who is playing bass?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 3 December 2005 00:26 (eighteen years ago) link

fyi::
For the Spring 2006 tour dates Brian May (guitar & vocals), Roger Taylor (drums & vocals) and Paul Rodgers (vocals, guitar & piano) are joined by Danny Miranda, ex Blue Oyster Cult on bass, Jamie Moses, former Brian May band member on second guitar, and Spike Edney, long-time Queen sideman on keyboards. (Queen bassist John Deacon has retired from touring.)

― drone/a/saur (william), Saturday, 3 December 2005 06:46 (eighteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Brian May is the absolute coolest guy in queen. Who else can build a guitar from a fireplace? And I kinda like his hair.

― falconer6408, Wednesday, 28 December 2005 20:46 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

(Feel free to prove I'm full of shit by naming the most uncool bassists you can think of.)
The guy in Grand Funk Railroad was pretty bereft of any semblance of cool.

-Alex In NYC

"...The bong-rattling bass of Mel Schacher!"

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 3 February 2006 08:26 (eighteen years ago) link

brian may's dad.

― geoff (gcannon), Friday, 3 February 2006 09:22 (eighteen years ago) link

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