Adam Lambert On Working With Roger Taylor, Brian May: More Stuff Coming Up

[QUOTE] [b]Zebonka12 wrote:[/b]
Funny how the best songs of the Q+PR tours were when Paul was taking his coffee backstage. Seriously, I've been watching a lot of those videos, and the best stuff is when he's not even there.
Also, fuck off Adam Lambert.[/QUOTE]

... and don´t forget Paul´s own songs !! at least to me, Bad Co., Feel Like Makin Love, Shooting Star, etc etc sounded much much better than any of the Queen stuff they played with Paul on vocals.

... and yes, f-o Adam Lambert too.

Adam Lambert can fuck off!

There was a time back in the 70's and 80's even early 90's when Queen fans used to be open minded and up for musical exploration...sadly these days are long behind us now and most seem dull lifeless musical rednecks...

Back in the 70's fans liked Queen because they dared to be different and try stuff that the mainstream said was ridiculas or pompous. I suspect Freddie turns in his grave and some of th stuff said here by so called fans.

So Lambert's not Freddie, no shit, but you know what his sold more records than all the fans on this site put together. As for Rodgers well he is a true rock legend and frankly anyone with any REAL musical appreciation could see what he brought to the band.

It is very sad that so many here simply dont get what Queen is really about, musical exploration...

Brian wig > that is exactly my point THIS lambert guy can't sing. He is a JOKE.

"There was a time back in the 70's and 80's even early 90's when Queen fans used to be open minded and up for musical exploration..."

That time, for me, was as late as 2008. Plenty of people have given their subsequent projects a listen, and not all of it has been terrible.

Adam Lambert is not some new, undiscovered experiment - they jammed, it sounded bad. We know what will happen - it's only a damned idiot who keeps trying the same thing and expecting a different result.

Anybody who spends even 5 seconds defending or justifying the kind of grasping that sets up a depthless, pointless artist  like Adam Lambert  to be a repeat stand in for Freddie Mercury simply has little musical taste.  It's not much more complicated than that.  I know that's kind of an obnoxious statement, and about something that everybody should allow a good deal of subjectivity for.  But little taste I think nonetheless, and little 'REAL musical appreciation' either, to steal a phrase.

[QUOTE] [b]GratefulFan wrote:[/b]
Anybody who spends even 5 seconds defending or justifying the kind of grasping that sets up a depthless, pointless artist  like Adam Lambert  to be a repeat stand in for Freddie Mercury simply has little musical taste.  It's not much more complicated than that.  I know that's kind of an obnoxious statement, and about something that everybody should allow a good deal of subjectivity for.  But little taste I think nonetheless, and little 'REAL musical appreciation' either, to steal a phrase.[/QUOTE]

I love you GratefulFan! You gotta see the comments on these videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjA0-0rZtPY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOVKNEfmo68&feature=channel_video_title

I commented on both videos, and the second link is myself and my friend TSS_Killer discussing the EMA performances!

FUCK OFF ADAM LAMBERT! Come back Paul Rodgers, a real rocker not a c lebrity tosser!

Where were all these Paul Rodgers defenders when he was around? I felt like the only one defending him. Now people want him back. Well let's let Brian and Paul know that their "falling out" should be fixed

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[b]Gregsynth wrote:[/b] I love you GratefulFan! You gotta see the comments on these videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjA0-0rZtPY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOVKNEfmo68&feature=channel_video_title

I commented on both videos, and the second link is myself and my friend TSS_Killer discussing the EMA performances![/QUOTE]

I spent a little time on both of them. :)  I've already given Adam Lambert far more of my time and attention than he warrants, but it's hard to avoid him here.  It's not my impression that it's particularly hard to avoid him in Europe, which makes it all the more regretful that Queen seems to have dived in with such inexplicable relish.  The exposure to American audiences is probably enticing.  They have seemed to me for some time to have a rather fixed and less than perfectly healthy or wise obsession with achieving in the United States.  Looking for gold or trying to best some long ago Achilles' heel maybe.  I don't know.  I just know Adam Lambert can't sing Queen songs in any way that is worthwhile, and frankly the whole lot of them should know that too.

Quit making sense GratefulFan. Be a mindless Stepford and accept the fact that a glorified karaoke singer with an inflated sense of self-worth is a perfect fit for two delusional old men who haven't released any vital music since the early 1980s at best. That's 30 years ago, which is why they lost their US audience. Adam Lambert is the man to bring back the audience they lost with Hot Space, resistance is futile.

I think the public perspective on Queen has been hugely twisted in recent years. back in the day, Freddie was thought of by most of the music industry as a twat, he was pretty well loathed by most and only really became a Rock God after Live Aid and then more importantly his death.
The way people here speak of Lambert is EXACTLY the way most spoke of Freddie until he died.
No artists wanted him singing on their records unless they were personal friends of the band, there was a grudging respect from him after Live Aid but that soon faded again until he was gone.
Thousands of peolple suddenly came out of the woodwork saying they had always loved Queen and Freddie was simply the best rock singer of all time, a fact most Queen fans realised long ago.
But today I see the same stereotypical crap spouted about anyone Queen choose to work with. When Paul Rodgers came in it was stunning to see how he got slated by 'fans' on here, everyone from Robbie Williams to most recently Dappy gets the same treatment, ironically the same stuff Freddie would get from the public and the press.
To me Queen have always pushed the boundaries, from hard rock to disco, from led Zep to Dappy...that's the point guys!! that's what they do and have always done, it would be no different if Freddie was alive, believe me, had he lived we would have seen Queen and Mercury doing all the stuff you seem to hate, he would have loved to work with all sorts of people, if Queen could have worked with Liz Taylor or Judy Garland he would have been there, if they were still around today he would be the first to praise Lambert.
And we would have had a string of albums ranging from dance music to rock as a result, the one thing he never did was stay the same.
Personally if they tour with Lambert or Gilbert O'Sullivan for that matter I would be first in the que to see what it would be like, why, because that's why I became a Queen fan, back when they were unfashionable and everyone hated them...

[QUOTE] [b]Togg wrote:[/b]
I think the public perspective on Queen has been hugely twisted in recent years. back in the day, Freddie was thought of by most of the music industry as a twat, he was pretty well loathed by most and only really became a Rock God after Live Aid and then more importantly his death.
The way people here speak of Lambert is EXACTLY the way most spoke of Freddie until he died.
No artists wanted him singing on their records unless they were personal friends of the band, there was a grudging respect from him after Live Aid but that soon faded again until he was gone.
Thousands of peolple suddenly came out of the woodwork saying they had always loved Queen and Freddie was simply the best rock singer of all time, a fact most Queen fans realised long ago.
But today I see the same stereotypical crap spouted about anyone Queen choose to work with. When Paul Rodgers came in it was stunning to see how he got slated by 'fans' on here, everyone from Robbie Williams to most recently Dappy gets the same treatment, ironically the same stuff Freddie would get from the public and the press.
To me Queen have always pushed the boundaries, from hard rock to disco, from led Zep to Dappy...that's the point guys!! that's what they do and have always done, it would be no different if Freddie was alive, believe me, had he lived we would have seen Queen and Mercury doing all the stuff you seem to hate, he would have loved to work with all sorts of people, if Queen could have worked with Liz Taylor or Judy Garland he would have been there, if they were still around today he would be the first to praise Lambert.
And we would have had a string of albums ranging from dance music to rock as a result, the one thing he never did was stay the same.
Personally if they tour with Lambert or Gilbert O'Sullivan for that matter I would be first in the que to see what it would be like, why, because that's why I became a Queen fan, back when they were unfashionable and everyone hated them...[/QUOTE]

There's a fair bit of truth in that. I've taken a bit of abuse here before for pointing out there wasn't a queue of bands/artists waiting to team up with Queen or cover their songs -- until Fred died. And they did indeed get dog's abuse from the music press in the UK. Why they were popular among fans is partly due to what you say, but also because they kept their trademark "sound" intact, while still experimenting. And the experiments were fun --self-indulent and completely oblivious to criticism (until Hot Space tanked: then it was more difficult for them to ignore the criticism). However, during this time at no point did Queen team up with a series of non-entities to promote their work, or try to bask is some kind of reflected glory from "flavour-of-the-month pop stars. What they achieved was their own work. Now, however, they're shamelessly teaming up with people they wouldn't have given the time of day to in the past -- the type of people in fact they've openly criticised (Radio Ga Ga; Nation of Haircuts; C-lebrity). And the reason they're doing it is not to create anything new or innovative, it's to keep the Queen brand in the public eye, so they can continue to flog old product. And that's fine. But PLEASE don't quote artistic reasons to me for the likes of Queen + Five or Queen + Adam Lambert, and please don't tell me what they're doing now is the same boundary-pushing they did in the past, because that's just ridiculous.

I think that Paul Rodgers was good with Queen. The fact that he was involved with them when Fred was around showed that he was at least good with Fred at one point saying to the band "don't make me try to sing like Paul".

Lambert with Queen: well one of those things that will be slated until stuff comes out. Not so sure of it myself to be honest. A lot of people slated Paul Rodgers and some of these people gave it a chance and changed their minds.

We will have to wait and hear what is released and what will happen. I think that Queen will probably play out their final years with other lead singers till such time as they do retire for good. When that day comes they will definitely do a "farewell tour" and I hope that during that that John Deacon comes back for that one last time. Then most of us that missed Fred have a chance to see 3/4 of the band as anyone that have seen them post Freddie will have had just Brian and Roger.

RIP Freddie, we miss you loads and your music will live for ever with us all x

Sunday Jan 29th is Adams's 30th birthday. What will 2012 really bring?

In the summer of 2010 he launched his Glam Nation tour through the US, Europe and Asia
and managed to sell out nearly all of his 113 shows. I think he has
been working hard and chasing his niche ... he is an interesting figure and he does sell tickets. I can see
why Roger and Brian take an interest in him ... take a look at some of his showmanship:

http://youtu.be/fWUC-EsOvD8