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Roger Taylor
Drummer: Roger Taylor
Main Style: Rock
Main Band: Queen
Brief Summary: Roger Taylor is best known as the drummer, backing vocalist and occasional lead vocalist of British rock band Queen. In addition to being the drummer he composed at least one track on each of Queen's studio albums.
Other Facts: a.k.a. Roger Meddows-Taylor
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Anyone heard about the Queen Extravaganza he is putting together?
there was a Classic Albums show (VH1) about Queen last night. Lots of cool inside info. Roger sang all the highs in the backing vocals. Still plays Ludwig
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Roger is a very talented drummer, and a very important influence.
My favorite album is "A Night at The Opera", but I love all of Queen's releases!
I'm a big fan of Roger Taylor. He along with Phil Colins, are the drummers stuck most in my memory.
I LOVE QUEEN!
I watched "Queen, live in Montreal" on Netflix last night. Simply awesome. Loved it when he sang "in love with my car"!
...quite an art singing and drumming like that.
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Speaking of Roger Taylor, anyone seen this? Got this somewhere on VHS. It's a case of spotting who's who in the classic rock world!
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Great drummer! I saw Queen in Oakland back in the mid '80s. Awesome show and great band!
I just watched this over the weekend as well. I noticed that Roger has sort of an odd habit in this show -- well two actually. He spends a lot of time almost crouched over staring at the floor near his hi-hat. That seems to be his default position any time there are no fills going on. It looked really uncomfortable to me, but his playing certainly was no worse for it.
Secondly he has an odd technique with his left hand where he changes his grip in between snare shots and rests the stick on the drum head during the off count.
One of my favorite bands of all time, so those are not criticisms, just something that stuck out to me as sort of odd.
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I was lucky enough to see Queen twice.
The first time was at Elland Road, Leeds in 1982, and the second time was at Knebworth in August 86, their last ever concert with Freddie.
I still consider that one to be the best show I've ever been to.
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Saw them 3 times back in the day, just, Amazing, truly Amazing band. Each one the members was a whole 25% of the band, every song, anthem and classic track would not exist without those drums, that guitar, that bass or that voice. Never as strong as when together, in my opinion.
Roger Taylor has 'the feel', just sublime.
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