Stone Cold Queen

One more Queen tribute album. I was disappointed with the first one, it was so crappy! I'm terrified. If I ought to write the name of each American people who worked on this album, I'm sure that I wouldn't have any place for that! In fact, I'm unable to say who work or worked with without missing out any artists. This one could be the "Who's who" of rock and roll! However, nobody can or will replace Freddy Mercury… Let the music do the talking! First one, Stone Cold Crazy with Robin Zander on lead vocals (Cheap Trick). Nothing to say, but it could be a title track of Cheap Trick. Second one, Play The Game with Marty Friedman (Cacophony, Megadeth) on guitar. It begins and ends like the original I feel that Marty wants to give more but he can't let blow his feelings. After one of the best ones of this album: Fat Bottomed Girl with Joe Lynn Turner (Rainbow, Yngwie J. Malmsteen, Deep Purple) on vocals and Reb Beach (Winger, Ratt, Dokken and War & Peace) on guitar. Big brother gives a lesson in rock! He was able to put in his personal feeling into the groove then Reb goes all the ways like a dog with a bone! The fourth: Somebody To Love… humm… risky to cover it…. Freddy had a specific tessitura like anybody else. I admit that Geoff Tate (Queensrÿche) really did it with feeling and didn't fall into the trap of following the vocal line of the original! I must stop here, otherwise I will have the pleasure of earing my Webmaster say: "Could you make your review a little bit more shorter, please?". For your information, this album pleases me very much without revolutionizing rock culture. Spread Your Wings with Tommy Shaw on lead vocals (Styx, Damn Yankee), Killer Queen with Glenn Hughes' vocals (Trapeze, Hughes and Thrall, Phenomena, Deep Purple) and We Will Rock You, Queen Live Killers version, with Jack Russell (Great White), Bob and Bruce Kulick on guitars and Jeff Pilson (Dokken, War & Peace) have really kicked my ass!