Queen`s boring recording sessions: Roger Taylor

London: Queen drummer Roger Taylor says although he likes the way the members of the band worked together, their studio sessions could be long and boring. The 62-year-old musician is thankful with the way he and his bandmates, Brian May, John Deacon and the late Freddie Mercury - were able to work together and complement one another`s abilities, but says this could make for tedious sessions in the studio, reported "It was serendipity. We had this very unusual blend of voices and we made the most of it. That said, it meant enormously long and boring hours in the studio, recording vocal parts again and again. "We were very painstaking and technically minded and particularly conscious, in the early days, of how long it was taking because studio times cost something like 30 pounds an hour, which was a fortune back then," he said. Taylor is proud of the fact that there was never any tension in the band, which he attributes to their mutual respect for one another. "The thing that kept us together was that we all had a job to do and we all felt part of the creative process. To me, the drummer is the driver of the whole thing, the conductor. Freddie`s job was to provide the unusual, to be the frontman, to deliver the music. "There was never any question of resenting him - I could never have done what he did. He had this zeal, this passion, this energy. He not only created his voice, he channelled it quite brilliantly," he said. PTI