THOUGHTS ON QUEEN AND ADAM LAMBERT

I just came back from final night of Queen Extravaganza. After watching the Q AL thing, Martel and Jeff Scott Soto make Adam Lambert look like a true amateur. If JSS and Marc Martel were with Brian and Roger it would be a huge improvement.

As many people said here, IMHO too has been Paul Rodgers better Queen+ singer than Adam Lambert. With Rogers all Queen songs were more "blues" and I was very surprised, how could sound some Queen pieces, some versions were amazing.
On the other hand, the only interesting thing of the Queen + AL show was the playlist with older or not very often played songs (with Paul Rodgers like Don't Stop Me Now, Keep Yourself Alive or Dragon Attack), and that was all, folks. This show itself seems to me like an average revival band, lot of Queen revivals are better than this performance.

It´s a pitty that Brian + Roger didn´t continue with projects like to help Taylor Hawkings with Red Light Fever or re-born the Smile with Tim Staffel, as they played together in 1992 or when.

[QUOTE] [b]the dude 1366 wrote:[/b]
I just came back from final night of Queen Extravaganza. After watching the Q AL thing, Martel and Jeff Scott Soto make Adam Lambert look like a true amateur. If JSS and Marc Martel were with Brian and Roger it would be a huge improvement.[/QUOTE]

Honestly, this is a no brainer. Why the hell is a great vocalist like Soto performing with a Queen Karaoke band, while a Queen Karaoke singer like Lambert is performing with the real band?!

It makes no sense.

Tarabostes 7/4/2012
Sacrilege, cried hard core fans , stuck in the past
and their fears , hate, hate spread by Adam 's immature haters, both appalled that a runner-up would front their highness!(BTW, not a fan of reality-shows, have to admit though the contestants pass through lots of genres, they're not boys-that shoot-a-video-in-their-room-and-post-it-on-you-tube.) Who the public are voting as winners is a problem here , there, everywhere.
What most of us seem to forget is that AL sings/performs like no other, no, no like...What about like FM? The same wide range, the same theatrical way to "act" the tunes and the lyrics, the same dramatic and powerful renditions of old/new stories of sadness/joy, weakness/strength
sin/redemption.Both loved by men and women alike.
To compare AL to PR is useless, don't forget he was also a replacement. Boring for some, spectacular for others , with or without improvisations Queen&Adam Lambert, together brought to a new life some of the greatest rock songs, ever.

For me , it was an ok , which in Queenstandards is not that good, but still... Adam wasn´t that bad, in fact in some songs he was pretty good IMO. Some songs he was absolutely fucking terrible . And Dear God in heaven, please don´t let AL anywhere near the stage when Bohemian Rhapsody begins, the next time. That´s a crime , really. That was my only SHUT UP , AL - moment of the show.

"Don´t stop... " was terrible. I love that song. I didn´t like the arrengement. I hated the fact that, the original version was based on the piano, now this version was only guitarr and really no piano at all. Also " Somebody To Love", was really bad for me...

Love of my life and These Are the Days were my favourites I saw the tears in brian´s and roger´s eyes when they sang , and found myself crying also.

All in all , it was an 8+ for me. If i was asked, I´d prefer Paul Rodgers.

Does anybody have an idea on , with who they perform in the olympics ?

Oh , and also...

I loved to see Rufus on there. I think he has talent , and I really hope that he has a great future in music bussiness

EXACTLY! Lambert was there to honor Freddie, not COPY him. That would have been disrespectful.

Pesso, I am a sister, not a brother. Met Sauli one time with Adam. Such a cutie! Anyway, Rakastan. That's the only Finnish I know! P.S. Do you know what OOFTA means? Sauli and Adam got this as matching tattoos.

I think Adam did respectably, given his instrument, but I never cared much for the sound of his voice. It's too screechy and warbly like Axl Rose. Tempos seemed dire in several songs, as Pittrek said, and I think Brian seemed unfocussed and made some odd choices (not accompanying LOML on the guitar fully, etc.). Highlights for me were the Dueling Taylors, WWTLF, UP, and maybe TSMGO and IWTBF. Did we really expect that any ONE singer could nail EVERY style of Queen song, or aren't we just glad that AL is bringing to life some of the songs PR couldn't really mesh with in his style?

Can someone post a video of someone whom they LIKE singing with Queen? I doubt any other could sing all of these songs in one concert and do well on all of them, spectularly on some of them, command the stage, have a great onstage rapport with Brian and Roger AND look super HOT all at the same time like Adam. Please show me a video and prove me wrong.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZfeL2YzuS8

Holly, my point exactly. Nice voice, but if I sat thru a 20 song set with him in concert I'd probably fall asleep. And if you sit Adam on a stool with just a piano and had him that song I bet he'd sound just as good if not much better.
Adam is a complete package for a "show."

[QUOTE] [b]someonewholikesadam wrote:[/b]
Can someone post a video of someone whom they LIKE singing with Queen?[/QUOTE]


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYEFpHge-Vw

[QUOTE] [b]someonewholikesadam wrote:[/b]
Can someone post a video of someone whom they LIKE singing with Queen?[/QUOTE]

another one, if you'd like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPB0h7g9JwA

George Michael? Gotta love him. But I think Adam is just as good. The second video, eh, I like more theatricality and sexiness which Adam has. and I still prefer Adams voice. Chocolate and vanilla. None of these videos are blowing me away. but I guess the thing is they have more of a "rock" tone which Queen fans prefer. Even though I still love when Adan sings rock. I think his rendition of WLL is superb.