#imagine if he'd tried out to be the singer for Queen then

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I've literally never read any of this segment Gerard Way wrote (?) for Rolling Stone about Queen before?? lowkey got jump scared by his name while reading this article /pos

My dad was a mechanic. He worked on a lot of bottom-of-the-rung cars that didn't have cassette decks. But they had 8-tracks. Somebody left an 8-track tape of Queen's Greatest Hits in a car — the one where they're wearing leather jackets on the cover, and Freddie's got the mustache. I loved it immediately, and I came to emulate Freddie both as a child and as an adult.

"Bohemian Rhapsody" is arguably the greatest song ever written. I'm sure people told them it was too long or had too many movements. But then it came out and just took hold of the world. When you're in a band and you find something that breaks every rule, it gives you creative hope. And Queen were always trying something new; none of their hit songs were paint-by-numbers.

When My Chemical Romance were making The Black Parade, we watched tons of documentary footage about A Night at the Opera, Queen's best album. We used Brian May amps and wrote songs with different movements. But we didn't try to make another "Bohemian Rhapsody." Whenever someone tries to do that, they fail.

I love the way Freddie performed. He would strike amazing poses; maybe he practiced them in front of a mirror, but he wasn't pretending to be somebody else. That was him telling the world, "This is who I am." I remember when the surviving members of Queen were looking for a singer a few years ago, I was like, "I would love to try it." Freddie's songs are just so much fun to sing, and he had such stamina. I would definitely have to quit smoking to be able to do what he did.

Queen fell in and out of being cool, maybe because they were so sincere. Rock music is all about being phony sometimes. And they weren't. They were obviously so psyched to be doing what they were doing.

They had a polarizing quality. I heard a story — maybe apocryphal — that Queen played a festival and got booed off the stage. Freddie vowed they would return as the biggest band in the world. And they did. When we played the Reading and Leeds festivals, we had to follow Slayer, and got bottles of piss thrown at us. I thought, "If we ever come back here, we're gonna headline it." I've always held on to the same dreams as Freddie.

Best Musicians, Artists of All Time According to Rolling Stone – Rolling Stone

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any fun facts you have about axl? or any anecdote about him or something, i need something to kick my feet and blush about !!!

Hey, anon!

Hmm, blushing and kicking your feet, eh? 😏 I've got a few fun facts for you. Perhaps some of these will be a turn on lol.

1. Axl's name is an anagram for oral sex.

2. While recording the moans for Rocket Queen, a former Geffen employee claimed that, before Adriana Smith, Axl had sex with 2-3 other girls but wasn't satisfied with the results. This might be a rumor btw. I find it to be hilarious tho, considering Axl is a perfectionist. I bet you, after having sex with the previous women, he knew how to fuck Adriana a certain way in order to make the right sounds come out of her mouth. I've also heard he went down on her orally in the booth 👀🔥

3. According to Axl’s assistant, Beta, one of the ways he tried halting the breakup with Stephanie Seymour and win her back was going over to "her house in a white suit, riding a horse, and carrying flowers." Furthermore, Axl would bring Stephanie breakfast in bed. He treated her like royalty, spoiling her, only to have her take it for granted later.

4. During the '90s, Axl's other assistant, Craig Duswalt, claimed in his memoir, Welcome To My Jungle, "Axl had a pet baby wallaby on a small portion of the tour. He named him Freddie [Mercury], after the late lead singer of Queen. Axl built a sling, to mimic the baby wallaby mother's pouch, and carried his pet wherever he went. He also fed Freddie with a little baby's bottle. It was quite awesome to watch - Axl Rose, acting like a dad."

5. Another event Duswalt recorded in his book was about him trying to kill a pesky moth at Axl's place. To help out Duswalt, Axl made him bat the moth into a corner. Then Axl grabbed a gun, repositioned himself on the floor, with a chair, and open fired, exterminating the moth.

6. Axl is a pretty hygienic guy who showers 3x a day. Maybe you and him could participate in some water sports 😉 Speaking of sports, his favorite one is sex. Psst, psst...his biggest turn ons are “imagination and aggressiveness."

7. Not only can Axl write romantic ballads, he also writes heart-warming letters. For example, most of the letters he wrote Erin always ended with "Your Axl." Не sometimes wrote down sexual innuendos for her to read.

8. His nipple piercing! Imagine sucking on his nipple, flicking the piercing with your tongue, and gently tugging on the metal between your teeth. The different noises he'd make would fill your ears like music. Maybe he'd ask you to tug harder, causing either a low whimper or a sharp growl to escape his throat 😩

9. Before leaving his hometown to go to L.A. in '82, Axl spray painted a message on a nearby wall - Kiss my ass, Lafayette. I'm out of here.

10. At the Cathouse, an intoxicated David Bowie tried flirting with Erin. She ran downstairs to tell Axl which prompted him to chase Bowie down the street, threatening to kill him. He didn't and the two later made up. Get yourself a man who will protect you like Axl Rose 🤌🏻

I hope you enjoyed!

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zack sabre jr mini-playlist, please? no rush

My boy! He and I have pretty divergent musical tastes but I Tried (TM). Here's the playlist link; actual explanations below the cut.

1.) Hyph Mngo by Joy Orbison -> no lyrics, so no plucking a relevant quote from this one, but it was his fave entrance song of mine back when he was on the indies more. :) Also a really nice electronic track on its own.

2.) Nineteen Seventeen by The Good, the Bad & the Queen -> IDK if he'd like it sonically himself but the entire album is about Brexit/the concept of wanting to "go back" to a Merrie Old England which never actually existed so I like to think he'd appreciate it. This particular song is about WWI but the movement in the lyrics fits a wrestler who travels a lot, I think. And we waltzed around the world/As though we were off our heads/And I say why/Why are we not brought to book?

3.) TV Stars by Jeff Rosenstock -> Apparently one of his fave albums of 2018 (and I get why, I like it too). I chose this one not just cause he's the TV champ currently, but also because it reminds me of his CWC stint - remember his "Harry Potter isn't the only wizard in Britain" line? It’s like somebody traded out my skin/For something I could never feel good in/And told me, “suck it up, get used to it.”/To breathe and repeat it/Instead of listening

4.) DEATHFAME by Quelle Chris -> Never listened to Some Rap Songs (also a fave of his in 2018), but the bit I skimmed reminded me of this album, so here we go. Continuing the theme somewhat from the last song, it's about the nature of fame - specifically, only being appreciated after you're dead, which happens all too often in prowres (but not to Zack himself I hope). Greedy wrist, posthumous spit/Let these corporations sink their fangs in my legacy’s neck before/I did death fame

5.) Dance Yrself Clean by LCD Soundsystem -> I needed another at least vaguely electronic song on this and am but a beginner to the genre okay LOL. In all seriousness: "wry reflections on disaffected modern urban life by someone who is kind of a dick themselves" is a genre of words that reminds me of ZSJ a lot. Talking like a jerk/Except you are an actual jerk/And living proof that sometimes friends are mean

6.) Love in the Time of Socialism by Yellow House -> I'm a sap and wanted at least one soft song on this playlist, regardless of he'd probably enjoy it or not personally, so have a song about...y'know, love and (kind of) socialism. Maybe I was destined for philosophy/Leading leftist ideologies/At the Paris-Sorbonne/Dreaming up the splendid demise/Of the societies we despise/At Café de Flore...but nothing can take my love away.

7.) This is a Low by Blur -> Also decided this needed more Britishness here, so have the song based on the BBC's shipping forecast (by the singer/songwriter who's also in TGTB&TQ)! He's from the Isle of Sheppey too so I imagine water's definitely a thing that shows up in his memories a lot. Sail on by with the tide/And go to sleep/(And the radio says)...