Hello Barry
Replying to a message of Barry Laws, Jr. to Michael Reed:
 MR>> influence, Depeche Mode, Queen(Epecially QueenII) and Metallica( 
 MR>> ...And Justice For All) for example. 
 BLJ> I have a lot of Queen CDs...their early stuff (Queen, Queen II, Sheer
 BLJ> Heart  Attack, & Night At The Opera) reminds me a lot of Syd Barrett
 BLJ> (his solo work &  his Pink Floyd work). That's (IMHO) when Queen was
 BLJ> their best (they had their  own Interstellar Overdrive in the form
Queen are probably my favorite band. This is my favorite period of there 
material.
 BLJ> of Brighton Rock). I just wish they  would put out a box set that
 BLJ> would include their songs from Smile, Wreckage,  and Larry Lurex
I've only heard one bit of Smile, on a Queen documentry on telly here in UK. 
I really did like it though.
 BLJ> (for some reason I like the Smile song "Step On Me" and the  Lurex
 BLJ> song "Goin' Back"...did you know former Smile bassist Timothy
 BLJ> Staffel  co-wrote "Doin' Alright" with Brian May on the Queen I
I noticed that it was writen with someone outside the band. But I didn't know 
who.
 BLJ> album). Too bad they  never did a concept album like Tommy or The
 BLJ> Wall (unless you count Queen II a  concept album since side one was
 BLJ> called the "white" side and side two was  called the "black" side
Have you read much about Taosm? A lot of this is about the harmony of 
oposites (black\white). As well as the black side whiteside thing, Brian's 
side really echos a lot of the themes raised in Taosm. It's worth picking up 
a book on this subject just to understand some of the references. I agree it 
would have been interesting if Queen had worked on something like the wall.
Some of the songs on A kind Of Magic fit in with the film Highlander pretty 
well. 
Bye then,
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Michael Reed
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