First Time Hearing Queen Dragon Attack Live Montreal reaction 

They did a medley of Now I’m Here, a shortened but highly epic version of Dragon Attack and then went back and ‘Reprised’ Now I’m Here. Dragon Attack, it’s funky, so so sexy and in my top 5 live performances. John’s bass drives the whole thing, the whole band are just having a jam session, so good

Each Queen performance will be your favorite, until the next one.

Shirtless Freddie, oh my Lordy. He is sexy as hell in this song and John is absolutely killing it with his bass, as he always does. He is so underrated, I think he was Queen’s secret weapon

"Shirtless Freddie". LOL I love the full concerts where he starts off with pants, some sort of shirt, and a jacket, and shoes too and ends up with short shorts alone. Freddie didn't have an incredible physique (don't jump down my throat, of course he was perfect) but he was so comfortable in his own skin that he could pull this off in front of thousands of people and not bat an eye. That's commendable! Remember his interview where he said something like if people got tired of listening to his singing he might become a stripper or something? I also get a kick out of him singing in the bubble bath every time I watch it. He was Freddie all the way and not embarrassed.

“Dragon ​🐉​🐉​ Attack” penned by Brian ​​is a hard-rocking early cut from Queen’s 1980 album, The Game. 🥁 Roger Taylor has listed it as one of his favorite songs out of Queen’s discography, while guitarist 🎸​🌟 Brian May admitted it was completed from late night to early morning, while they were “probably very drunk ​🍺​😵​.” Although this song is not one of Queens most popular, it was a live staple of theirs for years. "It's my favorite song" -John - 🎸♪♫♬1982.

This was inspired by their time in Munich. That’s why “Mack”, producer at Musicland Studios, is mentioned and “the room where the beats all round” along with the line “take me back to The Shack” is referencing a cool club all members and crew frequented in Munich called the Sugar Shack.

Queen does do transitions really well. They do fine medleys transitions too , always bringing them back to some part of the first song they play in the set. oh, what am I saying ? I just LOVE QUEEN! The "Now I'm Here REPRISE" is the from the song before Dragon Attack, they'd played "Now I'm Here" just prior, so they just brought it full swing and closed it.

Loving your Queen Sundays. THREE songs in one day! You're simply the best. Love your Queen reactions. 😍

Hey Rad thanks for the Queen Sunday!! 👑 This song evolved from a bladdered jam session in the studio!! This is John Deacon’s FAV song to play! It is very heavy on the bass!! We love shirtless Freddie & the white wranglers!! In the lyrics “Take me back to the shack” is referring to a night club called The Sugar Shack🍻 “Dragon on my back” is a term referring to drug addiction. I cannot confirm nor deny what the lyrics mean in this song! 🐉🐉 Sassy song!! Freddie the great!!

This performance is one of my top 5 for sure!😍 The hole ensemble is just amazing, intense, furious, energetic, funk. John's riff is awesome, Brian is killing the guitar, Roger with the drums, and Freddie, 😱, that man is on 🔥. The strutting on stage, the moves, the vocals, everything was 🔥😍💖👑

The repeats on Freddie’s voice is using the same delay effect that Brian uses for guitar solos. They write the notes as a “round” if you’ve ever sung Row row row your boat with someone who waits to start singing you have the same effect. I’m all for Queen Sundays! The band is too, as they have a sort song called Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon! Thank you for the effort you put into your reactions and your open mind and ears!

John Deacon slappin the bass!

This is one of my favorite performances ever. Each one of them smashed the hell out of it. Great reaction! The lyrics were written, as I understand it, after the instrumentation came out of a jam session, so I don’t think it’s that poetic kind of song you have to stress over ‘not getting.’ It’s about them being artisans of their respective instruments ❤️

Love it! Now you need to do “Now I’m Here” live from Wembley 1986!! 🔥🎶🔥

Now I'm Here was performed right before Dragon Attack and then at the end of Dragon Attack, they went back to (reprised) Now I'm Here.

This one was John’s favorite to perform. Such a funky beat. That every member wrote hit songs and Freddie could sing them all allowed for the most diverse songs of any rock group. Live it was electric!

Freddie rock with those rocking shoes:) thanks for Queen he looks great in his shorts also, Patricia

Queen is amazing! Bassist John Deacon's expertise is in the field of Electronics and he made the band's amplifiers. All four of Queen's members are exceptional people! 💯% awesome!!!

I don't think there is one clear answer to what Dragon Attack is about, but I may be wrong. I always heard it started in a jam session. Written by Brian, you have to assume the "dragon" is either his love/obsession with music, or perhaps women? Because the whole song sounds sexy as hell. I don't really think anyone knows for sure since the guys have said on many occasions that they never shared the meaning of their songs. I do love that he mentions their new producer, Mack. Great clip and reaction, thanks!

I'm finding just listening to your voice during your reactions are soothing!

Such a fun Queen performance. This whole concert is incredible. Love how they use transitions and do it well. It's always fun when Freddie interacts with the audience and they do love it. Love shirtless Freddie. And Freddie in those shorts later. Oh dear. 💜💜💜💜💜💙💙💙💙🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞

This is only about maybe half of Dragon Attack and the rest is a reprise (encore) of a song they played earlier that evening Now I'm Here. I always thought Dragon Attack was about the recording studio/music business...there's a reference to their producer Reinhold Mack ("It's Gotta Be Mack"). You might try the studio version, it may make more sense. Brian wrote it, so the dragon on his back may be his guitar.

This is the concert where the crowd were told by the director not to move around and just sit quiet. This is why Freddie needed to buck then up during the call/response section. They didn't need too much encouragement!

I believe Freddie’s Adidas were actually boxing shoes. Also, Freddie didn’t wear a headset so he was naturally in tune. Most singers today have to wear a headset to stay on key.

Dragon Attack is my favorite Queen song. ❤️❤️❤️❤️🥰🥰🥰🥰

I think its about studio work..They mention Mack the producer and the shack is what they called the studio.

This song started as the guys were just jamming and Brian just threw in the lyrics and the song was included in the album The Game.

Lol you are like so many that get into Queen. Each song you hear you say this may be my favorite Queen song. Then you hear another one. 😂That’s Queen a masterpiece every song or two , a surprise every time.

They are actually amazing and their body of work is timeless. Freddie's voice is beyond beauty. Brian's guitar work is superb. Roger's drums are solid. John carries it with the bass. Still sounds fresh today. With a powerful voice and charismatic presence, stands out as the greatest frontman in Rock and Roll history. Once he stepped on the stage, the audience knew that they were a part of something special. Having over a four-octave vocal range coupled with a flamboyant personality, Mercury kept his concerts alive every second.

Dang! What a finale to a Queen Sunday trifecta! Sunday will now become my favorite day of the week simply from anticipation of Queen Sunday. Great idea and another job well done, Rad! 🙋🏽‍♀️✌🏾👑

That's just Freddie having a real good time! Crazy? In a mad genius kind of way! Which is why his work is still so relevant. He's still unique, one of a kind.

Magnificent!! That’s why we alllll love Queen!! Me- since 1976!!

The Game came out when I was 11. Dragon Attack was one of my faves on the album. My best friend and I would listen to this record over and over and sing all the songs. We loved Sail Away Sweet Sister and The Game.

Este concierto, entero, es una auténtica locura. Yo lo veo cuando necesito un poco de subidón y nunca me defrauda.El mejor Queen, el mejor Freddie!!!!!!

Yet another First Class performance from the boys. The consistency of Queen is just awesome.

This song was written/recorded in Munich 1980. It was conceived after a night out at the Sugar Shack, a frequented nightclub (take me back to the shack), and they were all tipsy. “Give me the rack” could be a rack of speakers, and “Gotta be Mack” refers to Mack Reinhold, their studio engineer, who went with them (at times)and was in the Munich recording studio with them. Freddie and John were Mack’s youngest sons godfathers. The “Dragon on my back” may be Brian’s guitar. Per Benoit Clerc (he wrote a book “QUEEN All the Songs, story behind every track”), this song’s sound was influential in Aerosmith’s WALK THIS WAY w/ Run-DMC done in 1986. He also stated the Queen song was influential on the “rock-rap fusion movement that followed. Even the attack of the solo on ‘Walk This Way’, which begins at 1:32, is reminiscent of the solo on Queen’s track, which starts at 1:00.”

Freddy owning every stage and heart in the crowd. Love this!This! I love the drummers talent just insane!

THANK YOU TO MaryAnn for recommending the version w the reprise!💕 I've only seen it reacted to once or twice (which is a shame). FYI Jarrett, there's also a extended version of this segment that actually starts w Now I'm Here, transitions into Freddie's audience participation/Dragon Attack, then back to the Now I'm Here reprise. (I think I've seen it reacted to once.)🖖

What a kick ass song! Alright!

Take me to the Shack is reference to their favorite hangout place in Munich, Mack is their producer who they were very fond of working with. There is a photo in a studio where the keybosrd has the color of the keys reversed, the normal white keys are black and the black keys are white. The dragon on his back could possibly be the pressure of producing songs for their album, his guitar or? No one ever has clearcut meanings or rven references definitively explained

He's always energetic this performance of freddie it,s just stunning great ever just the best voice and show man out of this world includes every one in this band just perfection 🥰 💞

QUEEN… GOAT 💜💜💜

These 3 songs show their versatility pretty well!😊

This is a medley shame most reactors don’t react to it all & miss out on the whole thing ( Now I’m Here/Dragon Attack/ Now I’m Here Reprise) glad you did the reprise bit still love it though x

From what I've read, the Adidas that Freddie wore (most of the time) were the Hercules wrestling boots.

Yes Sir!! Always headphones with Queen! I love your reactions- you can see the genius of these men-

All four are working hard, but they are enjoying this jam session.

Queen...."It's Late"

Reprise is when the song comes back around again after a break.. the reprise of Sgt Pppers intro song on side2 is probably Rock's most famous reprise

Love your channel brah!!

A great song to showcase the band and their extreme talents.

I apologize, I have been missing, my father passed away 1 week and 1 day ago. I wonder when that count will end? I have been getting things done (my goodness the details) while at the same time walking around in a haze and sleeping a whole lot, at strange times. I am little by little getting back to where I was before but grief has a way of setting you back from time to time. Anywho, I love this song and this particular video of it. It has all the things, crowd interaction by Freddie, I absolutely love the way Freddie moves in this video, he covers the entire stage, Roger and amazing drums, Brian’s awesome solo’s and riff’s, and an outstanding bass by John. The song itself is awesome, it is clever, the entire song is pure fire, kinda like a dragon? Even the sounds Freddie makes is dragon like? And I know when Roger drops his head to keep time on those drums and maybe to settle into it, he has a workout ahead, and it is so funny when Freddie comes along and messes with him! Perfect timing by all as usual. It has all the things that I personally love about Queen. ❤️

Hi Jarrett! I’ve just found your channel and have subscribed straight away and turned notifications on! I’m 20 years old from the UK and a HUGE Queen fan. It warms my heart to see you appreciate true talent and enjoy the amazing experience that is Queen. Your reactions are amazing, I much prefer them to the ones that scream at the camera and overhype everything! Keep being you, enjoy your journey of discovering Queen! Their music has helped me through so really tough times in my life, I hope they can do the same for you. Congratulations on so many subscribers in such a short space of time! Em x

He loved his fans and his fans loved him.

Love Queen Sundays. Sassy Freddie is the best Freddie. All the boys kill it here. The end result of a drunken jam session. “Take me back to the shack” is a reference to the dive bar they all frequented in Germany. FYI-A reprise is a repetition of musical material heard earlier in a composition, album, or live performance. Repeated sections of songs are reprises. So are motifs that re-appear in a section of a classical sonata or a Hollywood film score. So, too, are songs that come back toward the end of a musical theater production. 😎

I’m totally obsessed with adidas, too. I wear my “Freddie” pair more than anything. I even have his yellow jacket 🐝

So funny because every time I see this video I note the sneakers -as a child of the 80s I'm like Adidas! but wasn't fully sure. Yep. I also love that kinda walking bass that happens mid way through right under the guitar. Amazing band.

Those Adidas that Freddie wears are boxing shoes...they are super flexible and comfortable. I love t his song...it is so amped up. Bass rocks and Brian's solos are unbelievable. John said this is his favorite song to play live. That echo is called cannon effect. It is a delay/repeat with several layers. Brian really likes using this. Prophet's song has a lot of it and is an amazing song. A reprise is a musical repetition of something already played.

Men I won´t be missing the Queen Sundays, love see you fall in love with them

I had never saw the reprise before. This is why it’s hard to find a favorite song. Till the next one. 🔥

IMHO. Greatest frontman to ever grace the stage. His range, presence and interaction is unmatched.

i was lucky enough to see queen in denver in 1983.Best live band my wife and i have ever imagined we woul see..They video taped the show , so we wondered if we were ever in one of their videos, lol..I just wish you could have had the same experience in your life.

Love seeing a new Queen/Freddie fan !!! Deaky is a beast in this one and Freddie is 😍

I’ve never seen fans of Queen who never loved his audience persistence love like Freddy did.

They're rockin' out!

MG it so powerful I love Freddies groovie voice he so 🔥🔥🔥 im get goosbombs all over 😉 I dont think it an be better than this…….Queen is the best o the best ever, and will always bee!! Great react from you……👑

It's all about the performance..its like a chance to jam ..some of the medleys live seamed they was jamming ..I saw them 4 times and no song was the same each gig ..check out the tutti frutti medley from Wembley four guys messing about in front of 80000.... I waa 30 metres in centre left ...amazing times ..gimme gimme gimme fried chicken 🍗

If you want to get a bit of a vibe of how the band interacts with each other I would strongly suggest "The making of One Vision" There are 2 versions. Pick the longer one (only about min longer) It's 22min 23 seconds. Also there is a reaction session where the now much older Brian and Roger watch (most of) the Montreal concert and react to it (suggest turning on the CC for that) Just hit playlist and one will flow into the next. Probably have to chop it up into a few videos though as it's about an hour plus long. So worth it though. You learn a lot about behind the scenes stuff from 2 of the guys who know it best. ru-vid.complaylists There are several out there. I just watched Queen Absolute Greatest With Commentary. (43 minutes) Various lengths. It's really cool that they did this type of thing. You learn so much.

Sunday Funday, Sassy Sunday could only mean one thing .....Freddie the Great ( thanks for the moniker Rad) and the rest of the G.O.A.Ts Roger, John and Brian.

This was a awesome performance. 3 in one day, love it. Great reaction.

One of my favourite performances too! reprise in this context means, a short repetition of an earlier piece of music; the song before Dragon Attack was Now I’m Here, the reprise was a short instrumental and bits of lyrics from that song. Queen often did this and medley’s (a few songs running into the next, not full songs).

Don't Stop me now!!!!

Great!!

I believe the song is about all of the different places they recorded, like a description of the rooms. One was Black and white, one was his red reference, correct me if I am wrong but I am pretty sure I read or heard that somewhere? ❤️

If you really want to see a good live version of this song, watch them doing it at The Bowl (Milton Keynes) from 1982. In this one, the lyrics are screwed up, the song just kind of ends, and is not very good. (Granted, it's Queen live so it's still good, but not anywhere near great like the '82 version.) As a bonus, Brian breaks a string and has to switch guitars, so John does the bass solo that was never done live.

Thank you for reacting to my request. 🥰 You should check out their performance of "Now I'm Here" at Wembley (their Saturday night concert). In my opinion, it was the best performance of the night! The whole band were amazing as always, but Freddie and Roger just killed it! #EPIC 💯🤘👑

Oh this has to be one of my all time favourite Queen live performances. You should definitely react to the version of this song at Milton Keynes 1982, there's a little mishap with Brian's guitar, so there's an impromptu bass fill from John, but it's completely solid. And also my personal favourite live rendition of Somebody To Love is from Milton Keynes'82 so you can consider that too! And as for their transitions and impromptu jamming, you can check out 'impromptu' from Wembley'86, Freddie hits some high notes on there.

Adidas, yes!!! We have something in common, Rad. I started wearing Adidas in 7th grade, and even had a pair of Adidas boxing boots like Freddie wore but of course outgrew those teenage years' shoes fairly quickly. But what we really have in common-- I was wearing those before, long before, I'd even heard of Queen or Freddie Mercury. And, yes, I still wear Adidas, or nothing at all. Great reaction as always my man-- and Queen Sundays, I'm all in!

Dragon Attack is so good musically who cares about the lyrics! My friend mentioned, that Freddie is moving here like a cat. Pls, make a reaction to the Cool Cat next Sunday.

Freddie is not wearing Adidas. They are the soft soled shoes that boxers wear. (He boxed in his boys school). He had the stripes added to look like Adidas. They lace up high to support ankle movement. Check out his videos to see the soles.

I recommend "Fat Bottomed Girls live at The Bowl 1982', is one of Freddie's sexiest performances

The song starts at the 2 min mark Everything before is crowd fun I love the slink he does at the start of the song kicking those legs out at the knee and dragging the back leg's toe behind. Lucious! Roger (drummer) has said this is the hardest song for him - hard on his wrists This is a 2 night show being filmed as one concert. The film makers PISSED the band off by forcing the crowd to stay seated and be quiet (so opposite to what Queen is all about) and then told the band to wear and do everything the same the 2nd night. AGAIN completely not what Queen is about. So during the encor night 2 Freddie purposely wore the short short white shorts to screw with the continuity. The fact they played angry is testament to the upmost professionalism and amazing showmanship! The song is about drugs (colored pills)

The Freddie Strut.

Oh AND we need to do some searching and see if we can find you Freddie style of Adidas shoe, it was a boxer’s shoe? That might be difficult but we need to look! 😂 ❤️

Review the actual album track, its pretty awesome.

Hello new to this but have he reacted to the very last video queen did Those where the days

😂 Freddie was mad at all of the cameras, there was a point to them all, which I won’t go into here. The entire band was mad but especially Freddie. The entire thing interfered and that was not something that Queen was okay with, no matter what the point of all it was. The people filming had a goal to it all, (honestly we are the lucky recipients of it because this was recorded with the best they had in cameras and sound at that time) but there were audience rules, they didn’t want them moving around, etc, they tried band rules and you can imagine how that went. They were suppose to wear the same clothes for the 2 nights in Montreal but the 2nd night Freddie came out in the tiniest white shorts you have ever seen, no shirt, barefoot, a bandana tied around his neck and a baseball cap. It makes me laugh just thinking about it. Try to make Freddie Mercury follow rules, what were they even thinking? Should have gone to plan B? 😂

John's bass carries many of their songs but unless you are familiar with bass it can get swallowed up in the overall sound. Actually @7:20, it looks like Brian gets a little out of synch and John does a countdown with his arm to get them back together.

Where do we vote for next Sunday's songs?

Please react to 'One Vision & Tie Your Mother Down - Live at Wembley 1986/07/12 ' , is one video, The greatest live performance of these two songs ever.

Next try Don't Stop me now or Tie your mother down or Bicycle races [ official video not live].

Microphone in one hand the audience in the other

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸

I've been binge watching your queen videos and I have one suggestion. Yes, queen was awesome live, BUT the filmed concerts often had overdubs- as in - they added alterations over top of the original performance. (This song was fine though) This is an example from the Montreal show from '81 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oHXaQrWUhec.html

Loved today's 3 reactions. Looking forward to next Sunday. OK, another plug for "The Show Must Go On." Brian wrote most of it, but was hesitant to give it to Freddie because it's really challenging and his health was not good. Freddie downed a shot of vodka and said "I'll fucking do it darling!" then nailed it in one take. Brian still regards this as one of Freddie's best vocals. WHEN you react to this song (because it's a MUST), I suggest not using the official version because it's just a bunch of clips from past videos. Freddie was too sick to perform this live, and generally, I would never recommend a fan-made video, but someone pieced together clips from a 1986 concert in Hungary to make it appear they're performing "Show Must Go On" live. I showed it to my son and when I told him this never happened, even he was impressed, and he's a millennial. LOL ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-36ncula-IDw.html

Try Queen - Innuendo

Please react to Freddie…one year of love & cool cat!!!

It's Vodka, not soda.

O think this was edited. Because the song is actually longer.