What Brian posted about Adam Lambert today

I don't imagine there will be many kind words here over this, but I posted it over at the Adam Lambert site and everyone is pretty thrilled.

From Brian's Soapbox, August 14, 2009

Brian was at Rob Cavello's studio in Calabasas, where he was producing the new Meat Loaf album:

"And I was privileged to hear a track that the guys have finished for Adam Lambert...a song for a forthcoming film, [i]2012[/i]. I have to say I was completely blown away...it's truly sensational. In fact it is so obviously a number one smash, any bookie would be mad to take bets on it. I am not kidding. I am not easily moved to jelly by male vocalists...but Adam's voice reaches out with sensitivity, depth, maturity and awesome range and power which will make jaws drop all around the world. It's an awesome performance. No doubt about it. The world of Rock has a bright new star."

Damn. I gotta get my head out of my ass and find out what this dude looks and sounds like. I dont watch idol, by the way. The Beatles episode was horrendous aside from the hot chick that played Let It Be. Crappy, talentless( mostly) fakers trying to claim they are a fan of an artist by choosing one of their generic songs to cover and usually doing so badly. No unkind words on the whole subject. Just voicing my opinion.

Lots of kind words and praise for Brian over at the Official Adam Lambert site. ;o)

Adam videos from Idol, including the one with Brian and Roger at the end:

[url=http://www.thebestarts.com/AdamLambert/idol/default.aspx]http://www.thebestarts.com/AdamLambert/idol/default.aspx[/url]

Otherwise plenty of You Tube clips of him on the tour, though their quality is often dubious.

I don't think he's all that great.

I think he's an OK singer, but that's it - it'd make much more sense for Dr May to guest on a Dream Theater record, or to record something for Yes' upcoming album.

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See I don't even know whether to pay attention or not.  Brian said glowing things about Katy Perry and she is utterly woeful as a singer.  I have no idea if she's one of few artists these days who doesn't mime, or whether she writes her own material, or even if she's a fantastic person ...  but an amazing singer she ain't.  I think Brian's paying too much attention to boobs.  He certainly was when the Pepsi thing happened...
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[/QUOTE]So yeah, I dunno.  His word isn't worth much considering he'll praise any crap that comes along.  Does it count that Adam Lambert doesn't have tits and is a far better singer than Katy Perry, though?[/QUOTE]

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[b]Zebonka12 wrote: [/b]

(...)  but an amazing singer she ain't.  I think Brian's paying too much attention to boobs.  He certainly was when the Pepsi thing happened...
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We can't blame him. :P When I watched the Pepsi commercial, I was paying more attention to that than to WWRY.

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See I don't even know whether to pay attention or not.  Brian said glowing things about Katy Perry and she is utterly woeful as a singer.  I have no idea if she's one of few artists these days who doesn't mime, or whether she writes her own material, or even if she's a fantastic person ...  but an amazing singer she ain't.  I think Brian's paying too much attention to boobs.  He certainly was when the Pepsi thing happened...
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[/QUOTE] So yeah, I dunno.  His word isn't worth much considering he'll praise any crap that comes along.  Does it count that Adam Lambert doesn't have tits and is a far better singer than Katy Perry, though? [/QUOTE] [/QUOTE]
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I can't claim to be any authority on Katy Perry. I did listen to a couple of thigs she did, and it seemed to me that without anything backing her up she just sort of bleated, but I don't recall if Brian said anything directly about her voice or if it was about her as a performer. Adam has a great voice and can be quite a performer as well. He is also very versatile.

I really can't see what's so good about this guy... Watched some of the clips with him on youtube and his voice is nothing special. He is not even singing with his own voice, in the "Ring of fire" performance he makes his voice really scratchy and it does not sound good cause you can hear him struggling to do so. He trashes the song in so many ways on top of that. I dont think hes a rock singer, hes the lost backstreetboy.

In Whole lotta love hes actually kind of good tho.... :-/

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See I don't even know whether to pay attention or not.  Brian said glowing things about Katy Perry and she is utterly woeful as a singer. [/QUOTE]

I take a lot of what Brian says lately with a pinch of salt.

Ever since the infamous "Rodgers was Freddie's favourite singer/Freddie wished he could sing like Rodgers" quote.

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I really can't see what's so good about this guy... Watched some of the clips with him on youtube and his voice is nothing special. He is not even singing with his own voice, in the "Ring of fire" performance he makes his voice really scratchy and it does not sound good cause you can hear him struggling to do so. He trashes the song in so many ways on top of that. I dont think hes a rock singer, hes the lost backstreetboy.[/QUOTE]
And I think you are fulla crap. The [i]Ring of Fire[/i] performance on Idol was really good. Adam isn't struggling at all with anything, and even if he does use his voice to create different textures for different songs - WTF is wrong with that? Freddie didn't always sound the same either. It is called versatility and expression. Apparently to your way of thinking a song is untouchable from the way it was originally performed and that's "all she wrote". If you don't like it, then fine, it's not to your taste, but to say that he trashes the song is being spiteful.

Brian's opinion carries weight. Some people around here just trash his opinions when they disagree with him, because that's all they can do. Next thing they will be saying is that he has dementia or something, if that hasn't already happened.

Oh do grow up some of you and get with the picture.  You make me embarrassed to be an adult, never mind a fan of Queen and Freddie.

I only heard of this boy because of the performance with Brian and Roger on the American Idol final that I had heard about, was searching for a clip of and ended up finding on here.  I then looked up some more of his performances.

Adam has more talent in his toenail clippings than some of those artists ludicrously suggested by some fans to front the band (Mica or Lady Gaga, give me a break! In that case, why not just get Kermit or Miss Piggy and be done with it?).  Still, even though Paul Rodgers was the best vocalist Britain ever produced in Freddie's opinion, it wasn't enough for some fans so I shouldn't be surprised. 

For anyone to say Adam's voice is nothing special shows at best blind (or should that be deaf?) bias, or a blatant disregard and disrespect for the opinions of many big players and legends in the industry including Brian, and at worst a disturbing willingness to unreservedly demonstrate plain ignorance.

Maybe it's time to either realise that perhaps these artists you claim to be fans of know considerably better than you what fits them best and give their opinions and decisions the respect they deserve, or just simply remove your cranea from your posteriors and realise that genuine talent can actually come from a talent show.

Loosing My Beat, Adam is not singing with his own voice?  Whose voice is he singing with then?  Please identify the ventriloquist responsible because he is pretty impressive.

As Roger Daltrey said about Freddie:

"When we lost Freddie, we not only lost a great personality, a man with a great sense of humor, a true showman, but we lost probably the best, really, the best virtuoso rock 'n' roll singer of all time. [b]He could sing anything in any style. He could change his style from line to line[/b] and, God, that's an art. And he was brilliant at it."

If that is the case, Loosing My Beat, it would appear that, by your reasoning, the great man himself didn't sing with his own voice either .

Who said the art of the reasoned response was dead...