THOUGHTS ON QUEEN AND ADAM LAMBERT

I was loving the fact that everybody was using Caps Lock to support the creator of the topic, why did you guys just stopped?!

LOL

I watched the show live with the stream and 3 times again after, i was really suprised with the show, Adam lambert surprised me also. Think his voice is strong and it was good that someone actually could sing who wants to live forever. It was there first gig together and i bet he was nervous standing in freddies shoes. He did a good job so stop complaining guys. But im not sure Queen and Adam Lambert go together. Overall it was good.

Excellent "review" haha , I did not expect perfection from Lambert but the band was not perfect either, they need make adjustments in vocals, and do something with Lambert in his OH AH OH AH awful!

I quite liked the show watching it the first and second time. After the third time it's getting to bother me. I think Roger is quite fit and has a good overall voice.
I don't know what seems wrong with Brian however. It seems he has put too much weight on his back and does not seems to be in real shape. Maybe because of all his side projects. Badger saving, Astronomy books etc. He surely had not find the time to get in touring shape. Seems a bit slow at some points and his licks aren't what we may expect.
Adam does have a great voice for some songs but I really don't see the click or magic here. Somebody pointed out Marc Martel is a Freddie impersonator. Don't see it that way. I think he can do justice to Queen. He plays piano and guitar very well and has a huge interest in classical music. Why not him? I feel Adam could fit in, but than in the 70's Glamrock period.

Setlist is allright to me. But the beginning seems to be a total mess with Flash into the Hero and..... nothing????
Seven Seas of Rhy was nice but it should have ended just like the show on the Princes Trust. Keep yourself Alive didn't fit after SSOR. They should have done Tear it up of Liar here I think.

Really? I thought Brian's guitar playing was pretty much as good as always. But yeah, he's occupied with a lot of things, and by the look of it they didn't have that much time to rehearse either..

Keep Yourself Alive typically came after Seven Seas in a medley sort of thing on the Works tour if I remember correctly, they borrowed that arrangement straight from there.

I sort of agree with the Brian comment but it's always taken him a while to get 'into' a tour, listen to any queen boot from any tour and he's always been rusty as hell in the first few shows. I blame the fact that he doesn't seem to know his scales, so when he gets lost in a solo he goes missing for a month!
SSOR into KYA didn't work because Brian started like the record playing an F when he should have really came straight in on the A like they did on the works tour.

Overall though I thought it was a good performance for the first show and although Brian was rusty he never looked stale at any point. He even attempted the little runs at the and of AKOM, the first time ever I believe.

Freddie moments were the best. Love of My Life duet was beautiful.

[QUOTE] [b]david (galashiels) wrote:[/b]
one point i may be wrong about,did brian completley forget the words to tie your mum down???
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Yes he did and it sounded like Roger had to help him out too.

Am I also right in thinking Brian messed up a little of Champions (maybe one of his strings broke and knocked his guitar out of tune)?

"Yes he did and it sounded like Roger had to help him out too"

Oh. When I saw it I thought that Roger was going to take that verse and then HE forgot the words, so Brian took it instead.

Funny either way.

way better than Rodgers first show with Queen

[QUOTE] [b]shanoon wrote:[/b]
way better than Rodgers first show with Queen[/QUOTE]

Yes I would agree with that.

The other thing that people forget is how shaky Freddie was at some of Queen's early shows, and also how unfashionable his vocal style was to rock songs.

Remember the big names at be time, Plant,Daltrey,Rodgers etc were a million miles from what Freddie was doing.

It's easy to look at Lambert and forget to look back. His type of voice isn't what you'd expect in a rock song. . .

But in 1971 the same was said often about Freddie.

Comparisons to Freddie are meaningless. He was an unknown, playing with other unknowns. What he was when he started out was not what the public heard when the band finally made it big.

Lambert is not new at this. He's been singing for a long time. For him to screw around the way he was at the gig was pretty inexcusable. Honest, the show was better than I thought it would be, but really I think a lot of that was down to Roger and Brian. When Adam concentrated on the music, his contribution was very good. He just needs to understand that he's there to serve the songs, and dick around a lot less.

I'll be interested to hear how the next shows go.

[QUOTE] [b]shanoon wrote:[/b]
way better than Rodgers first show with Queen[/QUOTE]
What ???

Haven't seen anyone reporting it here, but they played Life Is Real last night.