Moscow July 3rd concert - my review

ptr wrote:
Listen to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A1mej1TMrg
Compare it to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watchv=4H6FIOXGJIg

Not even talking about Adam's weak performance on this song
(vocally, artistically and everything) but when you listen to
both versions, man, what a difference in the sound! Ok, Live Aid
may be Brian and Roger's prime, but the contrast is too big.
Also, here you can see what a difference one John Deacon can
make. Listen to his bass: it's so powerful and precise! In
this Q+AL thing you can barely hear the bass, and the sound is
pretty weak and slow too. I wouldn't talk about Adam but I
just have to: he sounds like a chick in this song.

P.S: I guess I don't need to talk about Freddie's maestry.
Every Lambert fan coming around this forum, check this and
stop saying your boy is alike Freddie in artistry. He's not
and never will be.

Why would anyone critisize Valentines review? A personal review is just that. I appreciated it and the way it's written.

suprnatrulcat wrote:
Remember Queen+AL had two weeks of rehearsal and Adam had to learn a lot of songs.

Please also remember that Adam had months to listen to and learn the words of most of Queen hits, so he would have known how the songs went before he stepped on the rehearsal stage with Brian and Roger.

Daniel Nester wrote: YourValentine, your post/review was in fact subjective. And informative. And biased. And that's OK.

Of course it was subjective:-) After all, music is a very personal thing. If you mean I was pre-judging when you say "biased" I would challenge that. I do have a problem with casting shows but I never blame that on the contestants, just on the producers: I do not care how a singer became famous - "talent will out" the one or other way. I went to the concert with an open mind. When you still go to Brian and Roger concerts after so many years you expect to experience this little extra excitement they can always provide - but Adam Lambert could not provide that for me. I do not apologise for my opinion and I do not care what other people think. I know that many people like that set up and that is perfectly allright for me. I am not someone who wants to spoil it for the fans who like these QAL shows and I never was someone who claimed that Freddie would not have liked it or that "real fans" should not like this or that  or similar rubbish. I still think I can and should voice my opinion and for me AL was  horrible. He would have been better if Brian and Roger would have picked songs for him that suited him better but  they did not because they think that the set list always must contain the 10 unavoidable mega hits.

Traveling to london next week YV ?

Yes, I do - the July 11th concert :-) You too?

I think that everyone pretty much sees and hears whatever they want/expect to see and hear from these shows.

YourValentine wrote:
Yes, I do - the July 11th concert :-) You too?

Yep we can meet again. I am doing all 3 shows. Because then my chances to hear inneundo live are bigger... ;-)

Hope the setlist will be slightly different each night.

cacatua wrote:
I think that everyone pretty much sees and hears whatever they want/expect to see and hear from these shows.

yes

ghostwithasmile wrote:

YourValentine wrote:
Yes, I do - the July 11th concert :-) You too?

Yep we can meet again. I am doing all 3 shows. Because then my chances to hear inneundo live are bigger... ;-)

Hope the setlist will be slightly different each night.

Dude, I don't mean to burst your bubble, but if Innuendo was going to be on the setlist, they would have thrown it in there right from the get-go as that song would've been too huge to limit to just one show or two in a tour.
I highly doubt at this point it's going to make the setlist.

I think you're correct about Innuendo, although I do hope/expect they will throw in the odd surprise at the Hammersmith shows.

I wasn't there but I did watch some videos on YT, and I think it was OK. It reminds me of how great they used to be ... they didn't do a bad job but it sounds, more than ever, like a Queen tribute band which happens to have two of their former members. Adam has the popularity, stage presence, blah, blah, blah but he's not *that* great IMO.

I loved the fact they did Life Is Real goes to show the Queen repertoire DOES include other things to choose from other than the same hits as always), but I think Brian's solo on that song was really mediocre. By mediocre I don't mean I could do it better, I mean he could do it better. Had it been someone other than Brian, I'm sure a lot of people in the audience would've booed him.

Brian and Roger are great musicians but they're not even the shadow of what they used to be. I wonder how the KYA solo would've sounded...

Brian didn't turn up at all for the solo. Very weak. He could've done what Nuno Bettencourt did for Love of my Life at the Fred Tribute concert i.e rearranged the song to give the acoustic solo a fuller sound. I thought that was great.

YourValentine wrote: ...a screeching Mickey Mouse-like voice squeals some "hello Moscow" and starts singing with this annoying sqashed vibrato - just awful, what a downer. This roller coaster continued through the whole cocert: emotions, warm feelings interchanged with the horror of ths awful shrieking voice. (...)

The best parts of the concert were the ones when AL was not on stage at all: "Magic",

(...)  AL is a very bad choice, he turned a Queen concert into a travesty.  I never felt so alienated in a Queen related concert, it was very disillusioning. 2012 seems to be the year of  the end of the adventure for old fans like me. I have a ticket for Hammersmith Apollo and of course I will go but in future the "glamberts" and "Queen Extravaganza" fans will have to take over.

Brian and Rog probably slapped his face later coz in Wroclaw he wasn't freakin out with his voice.
On previous shows (includind Kyiv) he sings tragic. Now he sings better but his voice STILL DOESN'T FIT QUEEN!

Come on... weren't somewhere someone else?

shamar said:

"Come on... weren't somewhere someone else?"

As I've said elsewhere, Brian and Roger were very much impressed with Adam's voice from when they worked with him at the Idol finale. I don't know that it was so much a matter of choosing someone as it was that they had all been wanting to get together and have a go at it.

Now you may not like it, and you have lots of company there, but they seem to be having a good time and getting better each show. Adam was always a very polite and well mannered fellow on the show, who took criticism constructively and was helpful to others, and if that follows here then they are able to make adjustments to better the show. Brian has said he is a joy to work with so it sounds that way.

If you do not like Adam or his voice, then none of that will matter to you. I have been able to let go of Freddie's presence and listen with a more open mind, and either I am imagining things or Adam has dropped his voice a bit lower and stronger. I personally thought they sounded pretty good at Wroclaw, from what I was able to glean from the abysmal assortment of videos on YouTube, which either had good sound and no picture or good picture and lousy sound, or both good but the camera jerking all over the place.