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Pinball Brothers - Queen
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Similar thoughts unfortunately (including the Dire Straits sentiment
) I was obsessed with Bo Rap when I was 9/10 due to Wayne's World, but overplayed the greatest hits albums due to this. Can only listen to hammer to fall or brighton rock on the odd occasion, a lot of the rest I find toe curling sadly
as a performer Freddie was unreal.
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I’m with you John . I get it , Freddie incredible frontman etc , but it’s all a bit Alan Partridge leather driving gloves for me.
Hey. The type of people who listen to this are also the type to push it to 75 on the dual carriage way. Not to be messed with
Alan Partridge would have **** himself when he saw the i want to break free video, then called his mp , then the police..... ha ha ha, another great thing about queen back in the day , took some balls to do that!!
I think that’s partly down to the longevity of their songs and how cheap marketing loves nothing more than literal lyrics - snippet about cycling? Let’s play Bicycle Race. Did a team win? We Are The Champions.
I used to love Queen 70s/80s…. Wayne’s World made Bohemian Rhapsody infamous but not for the best reasons, but there are so many unique incredible sounds they produced - bass on Another One Bites The Dust, vocals on Under Pressure, piano and lyrics on Somebody To Love (best Queen song IMO), rawness of We Will Rock You I think was a range beyond any other band at that time and probably still now. And One Vision drum solos made me buy a drum kit
And of course their videos were pretty unique too…I saw them at Wembley in 86 (supported by Quo, The Alarm and a fairly unknown INXS) and they were amazing. Never thought they could exist in any form after Freddie died but I really like them with Adam Lambert.
Top 4 albums is tricky as they all have hit and miss songs:
Jazz
Kind Of Magic
The Works
Day At The Races
No longer my favourite band, I wonder if they are a bit old now to be popular enough for a pinball…
No Ian
Supported by
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
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And I seem to remember the other act being Heart
Indeed, what a set list!
I was only 13 at the time and the blokes from the local pub I’d gone with were upset they hadn’t played what they considered one of their best live tracks. Spread Your Wings, a track I’d never heard of.
It was certainly an eye opener for a young lad like me. The beer tents had ran out of beer a long time before Queen came on and were selling 1 litre boxes of wine for £5! In 1982. Regardless of cost, these were soon all gone too.
Very Happy Days
Must of been another year. Remember Quo supporting Queen
They did magic tour 1986
86 Magic Tour.
Saw both the Wembley gigs.
Cant remember who supported them in 84 on The Works Tour
I really wanted this pin to be good but the call outs seem dull and not keen on the music being live .Definitely need to play this and want to be wrong,
Thanks for sharing this. Great story! Love hearing things like this.Indeed, what a set list!
I was only 13 at the time and the blokes from the local pub I’d gone with were upset they hadn’t played what they considered one of their best live tracks. Spread Your Wings, a track I’d never heard of.
It was certainly an eye opener for a young lad like me. The beer tents had ran out of beer a long time before Queen came on and were selling 1 litre boxes of wine for £5! In 1982. Regardless of cost, these were soon all gone too.
Very Happy Days
Yeah I totally agree . It’s like it was made by people who have no clue who Queen were, or don’t give a ****. Using up the licence etc Very bland . I hope I am wrong to…
Kinda liking the PF art
Who’s the woman?
Who’s the woman?
Not sure mate, but on the PB intro it also shows her character
Maybe she has a big bum ?
@myPinballs - when I was at School - my best pals dad was the big boss of the fire department at the NEC birmingham.
If we wanted to go to any gigs, we just asked him - and he would walk in with his pass and we could stand pretty well where we wanted as this guy had the power to stop any event held at the NEC in the name of 'fire safety'.
We went on all three nights of the 'Works' tour at the NEC . Got into a soundcheck on the final night, and they asked us if we wanted to watch the gig from the side of the stage (I think the stage manager heard who we were with). Brian showed me his guitar, amplifier and effect units I so wish I could re-live that night again and again.
Met Brian twice since then, he is such a great bloke but unfortunately does not know how to say 'no' to rubbish pinball art.
If we wanted to go to any gigs, we just asked him - and he would walk in with his pass and we could stand pretty well where we wanted as this guy had the power to stop any event held at the NEC in the name of 'fire safety'.
We went on all three nights of the 'Works' tour at the NEC . Got into a soundcheck on the final night, and they asked us if we wanted to watch the gig from the side of the stage (I think the stage manager heard who we were with). Brian showed me his guitar, amplifier and effect units I so wish I could re-live that night again and again.
Met Brian twice since then, he is such a great bloke but unfortunately does not know how to say 'no' to rubbish pinball art.
Great story ! What a memory to have! Brilliant.
Yeah i doubt they are even involved in checking the art. Probably sone other company /licensing grunts
Classic answer mate. Yeah seems weird to have just yet more ****ty generic art on this game... At least get some bicycles in a race in there somewhere... ffs.. ha ha
Imagine if you will this as cabinet art!! Like special edition James Bond games or album specific led zep games stern did. I know I keep saying this but **** man, god damn it…
I'd actually kind of hoped the band might be more interested in how it turned out... I remember the intro to One Vision has Brian playing Harlem Globetrotters... guess there's no inherent love of pinball in the band though given how the artwork turned out
Roger Taylor has pinball machines. Quite a few EMs.I'd actually kind of hoped the band might be more interested in how it turned out... I remember the intro to One Vision has Brian playing Harlem Globetrotters... guess there's no inherent love of pinball in the band though given how the artwork turned out
^^^ and a Star Trek next to Flash
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I'm afraid queen fans will be disappointed by this game. Or at least the game I played at Pinball Expo. It feels super cheap and the code was underwhelming. Layout wise it feels a lot like Black Knight:SOR to me with a lot more clunk. They all seemed to have tech problems during the show also, guessing they will use the word "proto type" as an excuse for that.
I felt the same playing it at expo but I didn’t bother mentioning this as I know they can improve the code like they’ve done on alien
Clunk fest was an understatement, not to mention you couldn’t hear it either
The thing that ****es me off most is the **** artwork! I may have mentioned that once or twice lol!!! …
Also to be fair James bond played like **** at expo to but is getting better
You should have said..
