Review of Hot Space

The four-color Simon death nail in Queen's career....the album that's so funky bad that it stinks up any enjoyment for this record....is it one of the greatest train wreck albums in a great band's history.....yes and no.
As a Queen fan, I had open arms for Hot Space and liked it for what it was. Since it was done by one of my favorite bands and I know the rocky history of this project, but I just throw up my arms and had fun with it because I love this band so much. But time had to set in and over time Hot Space had to face a challenge that all albums have to face at some point, can it stand the musical test of time and the music gods took one look and said...sorry.

In a another universe, Hot Space might of have become the dance record it wanted to be, but due to whatever the problems the band was going through at the time, Hot Space ends up being a mix-up contrived project and from a band that knows better. I'm not saying that the group couldn't and shouldn't have made a straight-up dance record, but this was made from a band that wasn't being themselves and where probably being cultural pressured at the time.

When it comes to the dance/funk style...Queen gets it and we heard parts of it before in past work, With Hot Space they understand the style, but they don't know how to construct and deliver in a full dance/funk form. If there's one thing that Queen ain't, that is being James Brown or the Bee Gees. With there last album The Game, the band sure did know how to make a full-fledged pop album, so the odd question that comes to mind is "why not repeat the same type of groove wining style that brought you here in the first place' ? I might be asking for a Game 2 by saying this but The Game kept the band both rocky and funky and in the end they won. It's too bad that songs like "My baby dose me" and "The Invisible man" from The Miracle where not made before Hot Space, since they would have been good blueprints for the real calling card of this album, that of  the rock/dance style. In my mind, there's only two songs that really get the funk feel, is Body Language & Cool Cat.

The other flaw that makes the album feel out of wack is the type of rock/pop songs that are put on the album.
Take "Put out the fire " or "Life is real", the way they are constructed sound so awkward for a rock and pop song and it makes them even more awkward being on a album like Hot Space, with the exception of "Las Palabras" and "Under Pressure", the non-dance songs are not well thought-up enough to be any good on there own. Some will point out the self-indulgent factor and two members of the band as reasons for making these rock cuts end up on the album, but keeping in mind the kind of album that wanted to be made in mind and keeping out anything influence from The Game, makes you understand my meaning of "mixed-up contrived record".

With all it's flaws, more then anything Hot Space ended up being a wake-up call for the band and making them the rock band that there where before. Plus I will agree with others when fans say that Hot Space's song sounded better live then on the album. I could see the potential in Queen to make a record that would make you dance, but in this case they went down the wrong road. There not a "jump and jive to the ground" kind of band, there a "shake, rattle and roll" band. But no matter what, Hot Space is a footnote in the band's history and could been seen as a good album if it was done right.

I would put this album last when it comes to my list as a fan, but I can't since there's another Queen album that's just as wack as Hot Space.

                                             If only you guys where still playing the game........
                                             If only the "Invisible man" had a hand in this project....

My Phil Weinstein interview

the interview----------> http://www.mediafire.com/?jte5vr2wrze

My Robbie Rist interview

Being a fan of the Film Balto, I tried to interview anyone from that movie and Robbie Rist was available. This interview has turn out to be my favorite since Robbie Rist  was so lay back and had great story's to tell. It ended up feeling like a chat with a buddy then it did with some actor and it made it easy for me to work with that kind of approach.

The interview---------> http://www.mediafire.com/?fowdbulwdrd

My Rob Paulsen interview

This was someone's dream come true....it's true. When the radio show was living it's very short life, a YouTube member name 'The DGM' who checks out my stuff from time to time, heard about this radio show I was doing. He ask me the really impossible question of trying to interview Rob Paulsen, a veteran in voice-acting and who works on a lot of shows, I mean a lot. I didn't know if I could do this since Rob Paulsen is the type of guy who's always working and how can you get in touch with someone who's on the run and a big name in this filed ?

So I took a shot at Rob Paulsen's E-mail and it was not working. The server was down and I kept on trying to send the message and see if it went through, but it looked like a dead-end at this point. But the E-mail was working one day and the message got through and before i know it Rob got back to me and the interview was made.

You could say this was may grand victory when it comes to the interviews and since he's has done a lot of things over the years, it was hard to ask him the right kind of questions.

the interview------->  http://www.mediafire.com/?05i31ujcttm

My Dave Woodman interview

                                                             Dave is the guy in black
Some people might consider this interview to be unimportant...Dave Woodman who's that ? But this could be called the gold nugget in this group of interviews. I came across Dave Woodman name after founding out that the work on Cats Don't Dance, a little gem of a movie that started my love for the animation media. This interview happen after a few other interviews I did with actors, so I thought that this guy might not be that interesting since he's a animator, what kind of story's can he tell ? Turns out that he had a lot to talk about and since there's little to no interviews from people who worked on something like Cat's Don't Dance or the other things he worked on...I find this interview to be amazing in itself, you have a guy talking about work he did that has no feedback in anyway.

So Dave Woodman came out as the underdog to me and nice to know that someone came along to talk about his work.

the interview--------> http://www.mediafire.com/?zhdzpgyrxko

My David Kaye interview

Since this is my first interview I'm posting, I need to give a little back-story for the genesis of these interviews..

A few years ago, when I starting out on YouTube and looking at fan sites of my favorite things. I saw that the fan-doms of the things I liked, where not doing progressive activities to move the fan-dom along and I thought with the advent of the internet in general, fans of anything would come together and do things that would give merit to the thing they love and would persistent there interest as something to noticed because it would be build upon ideas to expand it artistically and for artistic merit....but I didn't see any of that. So I took it upon my self and do things that other people where not doing.

One idea that came to mind was to make a radio show based on animation. I call it Live Killer Radio (from the title of a live album from Queen) and yeah it's sounds dumb. The point of this creation was to get fans involve into the show and expand there love and ideas that would come out as interesting conversation and making this topics something to listen to. The idea didn't live long since I didn't have any long-term goals in mind, but what did come out of it was interviews.

I'm kinda socked to look back and see the handful of people I interviewed. I though interviewing would bring big numbers to the show and thought no one else was doing them like I was, but it looks like anyone can contact anyone now-a-days.

The first person I interview was David Kaye, I did know as Magatron from Beast Wars and I did liked that show. I'm not a big fan of his and he was really one of many actors I contacted to set-up an interview with and he was the only one to call back. On the night of the interview, I got a call from someone saying that he might be late for the interview (I thought it wasn't going to happen after hearing that), A hour later his call me and we did it. He was spending time with his kids and that is understandable.

Not my favorite interview, but it is my first and I have to say thanks for David Kaye for doing it.

P.S. if this is hard to make out, that's because I did this on speaker phone.

my interview--------------->  http://www.mediafire.com/?z4mln14b24j

10th anniversary of Invader Zim (Gaz Musical Tribute)

Since Invader Zim's 10th Birthday is upon us, I like to celebrate by making some projects for events like these. I have had a few ideas in mind and one was a tribute to one of the characters.

I picked Gaz since we don't know anything about her and seems like the type that keeps everything to herself. So with that in mind, it made sense to pick a type of love song, the type where a boy likes a girl but can't go up to her and tell her. But this is not just about Gaz, it's also 50% about Melissa Fahn, Gaz's voice actor. Her character maybe the kind that wants to be left alone, but Melissa Fahn just has this lovey grace to her voice, adding some feel of sympathy for Gaz.

The song is based off a tune from MST3K, it's copy word for word and I got a friend to help out for the opening. It's best to know the MST3K version first so you know where this is coming from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv0S2gzcEeU

Just keep one thing in mind, don't mine the singing because we know, I know I can't sing.

link to my version http://www.mediafire.com/?vm0pwecfu6c3869