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changingplumbob · 7 months

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Foster Household: Chapter 6, Part 3

Reece is trying to improve his skills for the football team, but how does that work when you're crushing on a teammate?

Deanna is in the computer lab playing on one of the expensive computers and Paris is getting into arguments.

Paris: No, you're the one inappropriately dressed

Reece: What are you doing?

Paris: This boar thinks just because she's a 4 star celeb she can tell me what to wear

Reece: It is freezing

Paris: So?

Reece: And you're wearing shorts

Paris: But so is she!

The two sims that were arguing with Paris storm off angrily.

Reece: Are you going to be warm enough

Paris: I have a cold weather outfit in my locker if I need it

Alfonso: If it isn't little miss frostbite

Paris: You shut the duck up!

Reece: Okay Paris, breathe, calmly

Paris: He started it... they always start it

Reece: You don't need to finish it every time, come inside, find Deanna

Paris: Fine, but I'm not afraid of that son of a llama

Deanna: Rough morning?

Paris: Why won't people accept I know my own mind

Deanna: Because you're female

Paris: *grumbles*

Deanna: I've got the warm clothes

Paris: Thanks babe, that stupid foster home dryer was meant to be fixed days ago but no, "things can drip dry in winter"

Mr O'Bryne: If you think math is useless, buckle up because I have some bad news. You'll be needing to use math for the rest of your life. So get comfy, put your phones down and for the watchers sake pay attention!

Samir: Why

Lilith: Why what?

Samir: Our team

Lilith: In case you didn't realise, you and me do not make up a team alone

Samir: New people. Not for me.

Lilith: New? We already know Reece

Samir: In passing

Lilith: Please try, he needs help

Reece does need help as he gets a sad moodlet since his crush is upset😑

When they get to the club room Samir is still very tense. Reece tries to lighten the mood by telling a joke. For a long horrible moment I think Samir is going to yell at him. Then his face lights up and he bursts out laughing despite his bad mood. Phew.

Yes they practice football in the hall. I do not want to chance the weather freezing Samir. Unfortunately practice does not go well and both end up hitting each other in the face. Reece is ashamed of his poor performance so heads to the gym to squeeze in a workout.

Deanna: Did you see where Reece went?

Samir: Lick his wounds? Boy can't throw for ship

Lilith: Has your throwing improved

Samir: *silence*

Lilith: Exactly

Paris: Be nice to Reece, he really wants this to work

Samir: Why

Deanna: His sisters cast long academic shadows

The bell rings and Reece rejoins the crowd for class

Deanna: Are you okay?

Reece: Maybe, maybe not

Deanna: Since we can't talk now make sure you call me after school

Reece: Yeah, sure, whatever

Lilith: Football practice will be great Reece, I promise

Reece: If you say so

Science class is a blur for Reece who is piling up the embarrassed and sad moodlets. I had hoped he'd grab a seat by Deanna but he was too slow. Deanna tries to brainstorm encouraging things to say while Samir is getting so tense his pencil will go through that paper any minute.

After school Harvey spends some time teaching Carson how to ride a bike. After dinner Carson does some beach-combing for trash while Harvey practices football with Reece. Their friendship bar halves in the process, is football practice really so destructive to friendships?

Kayleigh plans to spend her day off catching up on chores, but both boys run into trouble at school. Between fixing applinces, sorting washing and talking to the schools she doesn't get a chance to work on her logic skill. She needs to improve it to be promoted.

After school Carson spends time trying to learn to ride his bike. Try as I might I can't seem to get any teen/adult to teach him for more than 20 sim minutes before they walk away to judge decor or dance. I love that the bike light turns on when it's dark though.

Carson and Reece aren't seeing eye to eye. Last rotation Carson had a mean streak now Reece is stuck in one. There's a lot of teasing each other about minor things, but they still consider each other friends (probably because they can't practice football together)

Reece: I like him like him

Deanna: Must make practice awkward

Reece: No, I'm cool at practice, I can focus on the ball

Deanna: Sure, how's your text game? I drafted most of my early texts to Paris on a separate app so I didn't send duds

Samir: What are we talking about?

Reece: Hey Samir, we we were talking about, umm, I forgot

Samir: Texts

Reece: Right yes texts

Deanna: I was... asking Reece... which text was best to send my sister

Samir: Show me?

Reece: We sent it already, but how, how are you?

Samir: Tense, the crowds

Deanna: Really? I thought the school was pretty empty

Samir: 20 students

Deanna: My brother would blame the watcher for the increase

Reece: Will we see you in art, or will you be adventuring

Samir: No

Reece: So that's a yes to art?

Samir: Yes

Samir: Later

Deanna: That was so awkward, I feel bad for you, does he often talk in tiny sentences

Reece: Maybe, I'm normally distracted by his eyes and biceps and-

Rather than concentrating in art the pair exchange draft text ideas for if Reece ever texts Samir.

Noe: Why the sports outfit

Paris: I was thinking I might go for a run

Reece: It's still snowing quite hard

Tamika: Hey, the girl did a french braid in the bathroom, that's an accomplishment

Paris: Thank you Tamika

Deanna: Hey is Samir heading this way

Reece: Oh I gotta jet

Paris: Reece you have got to see this meme

*switches to whispering*

Paris: Don't be a ducking coward Mr High Confidence

Reece: Are you stopping me from leaving

Paris: He's not friends with any of us but you, if you leave it'll be awkward

Reece: If I talk it'll be awkward

Paris: Look, he came to sit with you, you have to meet him halfway, he'll think you dislike him if you leave

Reece: Guess I hadn't thought of that

He turns back to the table

Reece: Hey Samir

Samir: Leaving?

Reece: No, nope, definitely not. Football am I right?

Tamika: I don't get how you athletes do it

Deanna: I like exercise but I cannot do footballs to the face

Noe: You ever been injured doing football Samir

Samir: Concussions

Reece: I'd call the relationship tanking from football practice injuries to my social life

As the last class of the day draws to a close Reece fits in a selfie. I think he's trying to get a sneaky picture of Samir. At football practice he gets a pop up saying his crush unexpectedly stopped by, considering Samir is on the team you would hope he would be there.

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Queen live at Forest National in Brussels, Belgium - August 24, 1984

Some parts of the Hammer To Fall promo video were filmed during this show - the camera was filming the audience reactions during TYMD, Radio Ga Ga and Hammer To Fall. On the next day 20 fans from the Dutch fan club were invited to come again to the filming of the promo video.

At the gig, the band asked the audience to return the following day for the shoot. However, most likely assuming it was all a joke, the vast majority stayed away; in fact only a dozen fans turned up. Undeterred, the shoot went ahead anyway, with the band's performance that day interspersed with footage shot the previous night.

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This is the first show of The Works tour.

According to the July '89 issue of Record Collector, Queen ran through about 40 songs during rehearsals. This list of songs rehearsed that didn't end up in the setlist comes from someone who worked on the tour:

Great King Rat (longer version), Brighton Rock (full song), I'm In Love With My Car, Sweet Lady, White Man, We Will Rock You (fast), Play The Game, Need Your Loving Tonight, Put Out The Fire, Las Palabras de Amor, Life Is Real (both Freddie solo piano and Freddie/Brian acoustic duet versions)

The keyboardist for this tour (and also the '86 Magic tour) is session musician Spike Edney. He would also lend some vocals to many songs and play rhythm guitar in Hammer To Fall. He and Roger Taylor would form a band called "The Cross" in 1987 which spawned three albums, and he would return to Queen in the 21st century to play on the tours with Paul Rodgers and Adam Lambert.

Spike was recruited in a very informal way by a Queen associate. He went to Munich for their first rehearsal in early August, wound up partying for most of the first night, and missed the first day's rehearsal. It later transpired that everyone else had. He recalls, "The next day, we all managed to get to it eventually, to the first rehearsal, and all the gear was set up. The stage was huge, and I thought "Oh well, here we go then" and we got to the first song , and what I'd forgotten was that they hadn't actually played together for two years. So they said, OK, let's try one of the new songs, I think it was Radio Ga Ga, and we started playing it, and course, I knew it, I'd been studying it for weeks. You know, 1,2,3,4 and we start and we get about a minute into the song and the whole thing collapses. And they all look at each other, you know, very sheepishly, and they say, "Anyone know how it goes?" and I say "well, actually, I know. I know how it goes" and they said "Ah". And so I started showing them the chords and everything and Fred looked at me and said "You don't know the words, do you?" and "Well, yeah I do actually" so then they all came round the piano and we spent the whole day just going through songs, and I thought, "I'm gonna be all right here, this'll be OK"!"

The show started very late, as the band were still doing soundcheck when they were supposed to go on. Apparently over the previous week there were few occasions when all four band members actually showed up for rehearsal. Many songs (likely those listed above) never made the setlist, and soundcheck was an extensive cramming session, particularly for the older material that they hadn't played in years.

Roger Taylor later reflected that this European tour was one of his favourites, and many fans cite the early Works setlist as their favourite ever played by the band. Three medleys are now played, two of which have revived many old songs: Killer Queen, Seven Seas Of Rhye, Keep Yourself Alive, Liar, Stone Cold Crazy and Great King Rat. Staying Power from Hot Space returns to the set, as does Sheer Heart Attack from News Of The World. Only half of Staying Power is played, and it runs into Dragon Attack, followed by an improvisation running into a more compact version of Now I'm Here compared to previous tours.

Many people who attended shows on this tour recall Queen having a very heavy sound, especially on songs like Liar and Stone Cold Crazy. By 1984 they had gained a reputation as being one of the best live rock acts in the business.

Six songs from The Works are performed each night, and the introduction tape is from the album track "Machines". After the heavy G chords are heard on the tape twice, the band walk on stage in the darkness to play the chords the third time, which leads into the brand new "Tear It Up". This is yet another effective opening to a Queen show, something they would perfect time and time again.

I Want To Break Free is performed each night in 1984-85 as the first encore, with Freddie coming on stage sporting a pair of huge plastic breasts under a pink shirt. Part way through the song, he would remove the breasts and twirl them around for a while before finally throwing them into the audience. Some souvenir! As a result of this gag, Another One Bites The Dust has been moved from the encore to be earlier in the set.

This tour showcases an incredible lighting rig and an overall setup mimics the movie Metropolis, from which scenes were used for the promo video of Radio Ga Ga last year. The huge wheels behind the stage (modelled after the ones on The Works album cover) rotate at mostly random times - usually because they are turned manually by various crew members such as Roger's tech Chris "Crystal" Taylor whenever they have a free moment (Freddie Mercury's assistant Peter Freestone told the tale in 2021):

“Yeah, I mean Rio was… amazing. The feeling from that crowd… you know, something like 350,000 people. Oh, you can’t beat that. And when you’re flying in a helicopter over that crowd, it was stunning. But the thing is, I know this sounds really, really stupid but [laughs]… one thing I will always, always remember from that tour was, remember, in the back of the stage you had these wheels that turned every now and then, not constantly but just every now and then. That was because there was… the guy looking after Roger’s drums and me who actually turned those wheels. And there was no set cue or anything that, “Oh, it has to start on this bar, on this song.” No, it was when he wasn’t doing anything and I wasn’t doing anything, we’d say “Ok, let’s go and do it.” And we turned the wheels for a couple of minutes and then left them alone. He had then to do something for Roger and I would just sit there like I always did. And then you’d go back and you’d turn the wheels, like a hamster. We were like hamsters…”

However, a crew member who worked on the tour recalls otherwise: "I do know local crew members were used on the UK shows and certainly (a number of) European gigs. The other thing is that Radio Ga Ga had a set piece with the cogs and lighting, using low ambient lighting and strobes to emphasise mechanical motion of the cogs during the instrumental break. Would Roger Taylor be happy with no one covering him/his kit during a show? Possibly Peter Freestone is remembering production rehearsals when any spare bodies might have been asked to operate the cogs?"

During vocal improvisations on this tour, Freddie would often include bits of "Foolin' Around" and "Living On My Own" from his pending first solo album, which he had been working on during this period.

Freddie now plays a Telecaster for Crazy Little Thing Called Love. It would remain like this through the Magic tour.

The band no longer bring a gong with them on the road. Roger now does a cymbal roll at the end of Bohemian Rhapsody.

A fan recalls hearing the band running through Tear It Up whilst queuing up to enter the venue.

Freddie's voice is in superb shape for this show, but it will quickly weaken as the tour progresses. As incredible as Freddie Mercury was, he certainly did not take care of his voice at times, especially in the mid-80s. After a couple years of heavy smoking, Freddie's voice now sounds a lot deeper and raspier overall.

Before It's A Hard Life, Freddie says, "I think tonight we're gonna do songs from just about every album that we've ever made. You heard some very early stuff from the first album. Right now I think we're gonna do something very new, and we'll see what you think of it."

Freddie does a vocal exchange with the audience before Staying Power, singing "Get Down Make Love" and "Gimme Some Lovin" a few times. The band would improvise bits of the latter a couple times in 1986.

This is the only show on the entire Works tour where Roger plays regular acoustic drums on Another One Bites The Dust (before which Freddie teases the audience with a bit of Mustapha). For the rest of the tour, he'd play electronic drums. He'd also integrate the electronic drum kit into a few other songs, like at the beginning of Hammer To Fall, where one might argue that his sounds don't appropriately complement the guitar to create the intense, heavy sound.

The band sound very tight on this opening night of the tour, with the only exception being the rough transition from Stone Cold Crazy to Great King Rat. The keyboard and guitar solos are integrated together for the first few shows of the tour, during which Brian plays a few bits from Machines. Spike Edney uses his vocoder (a Roland VP-330) for the "machines" and "back to humans" lines heard throughout the tour during this spot (he would use his vocoder for the "radio" lines in Radio Ga Ga as well). After this segment, Brian then gets a few minutes to play on his own as usual.

Parts of the promo video for Hammer To Fall were filmed during this show. Claims from some (even official) sources state that Freddie invited the audience back for (what would actually be "additional") filming the following day aren't true. Here is all that Freddie had to say before the song: "This next song we're gonna use in our next video. So everybody just go mad and maybe later you'll see one of you guys inside the video one day. Oh, just go crazy, take your clothes off. It's called Hammer To Fall." After the song, he simply says, "Good night, you guys!" as that was the last song of the set.

Here is a fan's recollection: "On the night of the gig, there was a camera mounted on an arm that would swing over the front rows of the audience during a few songs. These audience shots were taken during Tie Your Mother Down, Radio Ga Ga, and Hammer To Fall itself. I guess they also had a camera up in the box at the back of the hall [as there are a few shots of both the audience and the band]. I don't remember any cameras onstage during the gig - just the one mounted on the arm."

The Dutch fan club invited only about twenty of its members to attend the video shoot the next day. They were instructed by a roadie to sit quietly on a chair and not to move or approach the band members. After a few hours, Brian came over and had a chat with them, checking to see if they were enjoying themselves and if they were hungry. He then promptly ordered them some take-out!

A minute of Tie Your Mother Down from this show was later broadcast on the Belgian TV station "RTBF" (x) (x). An audience-shot video allegedly exists as well, containing five songs.

After years of speculation, the existence of more footage from this show was proven when bits of it were included in the promo video for Let Me In Your Heart Again in 2014. About 30 seconds of Somebody To Love (largely crowd shots) were seen. There is, however, no accompanying audio. (x)

The first photo is from the autumn 1984 Queen fan club magazine. Brian is seen with a watchful eye over the proceedings. Tour manager Gerry Stickells and his wife are also in the shot.

Pics 2 through 6 were submitted by Alessio Rizzitelli, and the seventh pic was taken by Dave Matkin.

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