‘I don’t think those guys want to’: Adam Lambert nixes idea of a world tour

HOLLY2003 - Your absolutley right (inu-liger) had no right to publish my face pic on here,
i could easily report him for doing that, and have him banned from this site.
yes it is the worst kind of bullying /stalking.
i am utterly disgusted that anybody could do that, on these sites.
What was he trying to prove for showing my face pic?

And this is just for Gerry. Because I wuv you so much.

Well i watched 3 mins of your adam lambert video and to be honest he will remain
that boy from "american idol", he has no stage presence at all.
But..... if the people like him each to there own.
Queen look tired and empty on stage with adam, just going on for the sake of it.
When you think 27 years ago Queen were on fire, and taking the world by storm
and looking at Bri and Rog now with a glorified karaoke singer is so so sad.

Queen + AL really doesn't work for me. I can see why Lambert appeals to a lot of people in the same way I can understand how David Beckham received a knighthood - style over substance.

What I can't understand is why he was chosen in the first place. Was he the best option musically? Was he the best fit they could find? Really?

The only reasonable explanation is that Queen are using AL as a vehicle to reach a different, younger and more Americanised audience and if that's the case then it really is a shame.

It really doesn't work and I find them difficult to watch and listen to and to be frank, BM and AL look ridiculous on stage together.

Sadly, I don't think there is another band of Queen's stature that has played out their twilight years as laughably bad as they have.

BOBBYO: Yes i agree with what you said on here about AL + Queen are a bad match,
trying telling all the idiots on here who are musically dyslexic!
I dont know whats got into May and Taylor working with such a nobody like Lambert!
As you rightly pointed out May looks ridiculous on stage with Lambert, there is chemistry
between them like Mercury & May used to have.
As i pointed out in past posts on here Queen were the biggest rock band on the planet at one point
and now they are just fizzling like steradent tablet, and such a waste.
About time they ditched that poncey lambert twit and worked on left over Queen tracks that never got
finished, and by what Freddie says there is plenty of nice little songs to work on.
Over 20 left overs from "The Miracle" album, and maybe more from past albums.
Listen to Freddie on that 1989 radio one Miracle interview with the other 3 members of Queen
getting interviewed by Mike Reid, and you will clearly hear fred saying theres lots of left over tracks running about!
Brian stubbornly denies theres anything left to work on in a future intereview! i believe fred!

in that interview Freddie makes a comparison between the way they worked on the Miracle and how Paul McCartney did in the next studio.
Macca worked on all of his tracks, and then finished the ones he wanted for the album.Freddie makes it clear that they did very little work on the "extra 20 tracks" - that quite likely amounts to the demos we've already heard and a few random melodies with no vocals/anything recognizable as a song
i don't expect much there worth hearing.

Brenski: Freddie also says theres some nice little songs left over, and its these tracks that may appear
on Queens next album.
Brian is considering working on these tracks with Roger.
Not sure how they are going to pursuade John Deacon to come and work on them but it would be brilliant
if he did this for Freddie.
Anyway Queen must have lots and lots of left overs just like the Beatles did, when things started
to be found in the studios!

Gerry you would appear to be the musically dyslexic idiot, as you don't seem to recognise anything as being music unless it involves Freddie Mercury.

Not at all but this is the Queenzone and Freddie is naturally going to be a massive part of this site and the real fans like myself.
I probably appreciate Freddie more than you so your on the wrong site if you think freddie was mediocre.
Ofcourse i have other fav artists but they do not come close to Freddie.
He was so so special, and if you do like A.L. then you need to stop watching pointless programmes like american idol.
Queen fans used to have the reputation of been classy and picky with there music, but not now so it seems!

Yes your right this is queenzone. So the site or rather it's members follow what Queen do, which includes working with other people. Now if you want to stay in the 70's and 80's that's up to you, but the world moves on.

Whoever sings with Queen in your eyes will never be good enough. Blind fan worship is boy band territory, accepting their are other singers who can sing, and do the job while being different to what you expect or even like is just how it is.

I have never said Freddie was mediocre, but he wasn't the perfect, at every show, singer you seem to believe he was.

vocal harmony : But Freddie shaped Queens vocals the way people loved,
now with the new singers spoiling things, Queens Music sounds harsh and theres no
fun there and atmosphere so now theres a fan divide in the Queen camp and i and millions
are against what is happening at the moment, your free to buy the cds and dvds of A.L an Queen
if that floats your boat but yeah i am stuck in the 70s and 80s because those were the glory days for Queen, with Freddie,
now things are bound to get pathetic and worse.
Roger has announced today that Queen may be working on an album with A.L. (yuk)
so you see we dont all have to like everything Bri and Rog put out.

I agree with you we don't have to like everything that RT and BM put out, but by the same thought process we don't all have to stop liking it because Freddie is no longer an immediate part of it.

Vocal Harmony: Disagree with you, Freddies vocals and harmonies gave Queen an instant recognisable
approach and now there will be no more multi layered harmonies and that was Queens trade mark.
taking Freddie away leaves Queen very empty.
i cannot like something if a vital piece of the jigsaw is gone.

Another One Bites The Dust, Crazy Little Thing Called Love both very recognisable Queen hits and both huge sellers with multi layered vocal harmonies mmmmm? No

BM and RT provided two thirds of most of the harmony work on Queen songs, if you go and listen to BM's solo work their are places where their are Queen style Harmonies, Nothing But Blue, for example. To a lesser extent in Smile too. I imagine that the idea for masive vocal harmonies was something that originated with Brian and not Freddie as the Smile sound would seem to indicate. Remember also that their are songs on Made In Heven on which Freddies only input is the lead vocal, but their is nothing missing in the backing vocal sound, so yes they can produce that "Queen sound"

If they choose to record a new album and want it to have a traditional "Queen sound" then that's what they'll do. Maybe you should wait until something is released, if it happens, and then pass judgement because at the moment you're saying "there won't be" but you don't know that.

Yes Freddies voice was a major part of the Queen sound and that has been well cataloged through the years. But that doesn't mean the songs can't be open to reinterpretation on stage. And played for people who still enjoy live music.

There has been rumours by Brian that they may at some point turn back on the work in the studio
that never got finished but i think they will turn there back on that project to make a new album
with A.L. quite sad really cos they want to think they only got were they are now, only from the millions of fans
around the world, so in my estimates the real original Queen line up "spare tracks" are more important
than playing around with yankie lambert.
On the vocal harmonies, Freddie did introduce the other 3 to mock opera vocals, so we got "somebody to love"
"March of the black Queen" "All gods people" in those wonderfull freddie mock opera style which i love!
Add Mays blistering guitar work and you have a cracking track with full on Queen flavour! love it...........