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Once a tour really gets rolling, things inevitably fall into a routine. You get into a groove where you rarely need more than a 15-minute sound check. With all that extra free time on the road, it’s a great opportunity to use that beautiful stage to work up some new material for future shows. That’s exactly what we did on our tour of Germany in early 2020. Bit by bit, we would chip away at figuring out which two songs we wanted to put together into an exciting medley. Two songs that we loved, but didn’t feel the need to play in their entirety. By the end of the One Vision Of Queen tour, we were ready to slip a brand new medley into our set. (Little did we know we’d have to wait almost a year before we got to perform it!) Both well-known Queen tunes, to be sure, but never played together like this before. So this medley is our own unique twist on a couple classics.
“Seven Seas Of Rhye” was Queen’s first single from their debut album, and I consider “Bicycle Race” to be on the level of “Bohemian Rhapsody” in regards to sheer creativity, packed into a tighter package. I also like that the former is a bit of a deep track (especially to the average North American fan), and then we hit you with one of Queen’s most infectious ear worms to balance it out. Having performed this medley already quite a few times, I now know to make sure to watch people’s faces as they light up upon the first instance of “BICYCLE! BICYCLE! BICYCLE!” But I can always tell the hardcore Queen fans by the ones cheering at the first notes of the iconic arpeggiating intro of “Seven Seas.” This is our fresh, new one-two punch!