QUEEN AND AL - STICK YOUR CRAP HERE

marisa_965
5th January 2014 from TwitLonger

This is my complete recap of my first Adam Lambert concert. The other recap I posted was written right after the show, and it described my emotions at that very moment. This one was written two days later, and it contains a more detailed report of what happened at the concert. It's also ginormous, so feel free to ignore it, LOL!

PART 1 – TIME FOR MIRACLES

When I got to my seat, I was a little neeeeervous. I knew I was in the front row, to the left side. What I didn’t know was that there would be a black curtain in front of me. The stage ended before it reached the left section! I would never be able to get close to him! I told myself that it was OK, because everyone would get up and the seats wouldn’t matter anyway. #realness

The second the lights were off, everyone in my section went to the ropes that separated us from the center section. It would be great to just stay there – what a great view of the stage! But then one girl said, “Go ahead, under the rope!”. I hesitated for a second or two, until I realised that everyone in the center section was standing anyway, and two other people were already passing under the rope. I thought “What the hell?” and went for it. The minute I crossed the hope, I felt a grip around my arm – one of the security guys had reached for me! I went ahead anyway, and eventually he let go of me, thank God! Guess there were just too many glamberts, LOL!!! NO TRESPASSING YEAH MY ASS!!!!

Maybe it was time for miracles, because now there was no one between me and the stage. And then Adam appeared, looking like a New Year’s Dream, complete with champagne, fireworks, eternal happiness and the best sex you ever had, all tied up in a elegant black-and-white package. I think I spent all of IIHY too stunned to really think. Adam was up there and it was just too much for my brain to process. I remember looking at his face and thinking, OMG he’s so beautiful, his skin is so soft, his cheekbones are so strong, his nose is so masculine, his eyelashes are so long, and maybe if I look really hard I can see ther color of his eyes? I also remember thinking his face was more angular than I thought it would be, and much more expressive than I could ever imagine. In a moment he was smiling, then doing his stankface, then giving us the sexy eyes, and OMG, what is he singing?

Not sure how, but suddenly he was singing Naked Love, and I reminded myself to breath and try to pay attention. Focus, Marisa, focus! OK, clothes first. The pants were not tight, but they fitted him like a velvet glove. The white shirt was glorious, and so was the glittery jacket. His body: OMG so strong, so broad, so male!!!! How could anyone in the whole world not WANT him??? Not possible. But look, he’s dancing, and it’s not like anything you’ve ever seen before! His movements are so fluid, so gentle, his hands look so soft.... How can someone be so strong and so delicate at the same time? Again, not possible.

“Walk that walk like you don’t give a freak”, and yeah, Cuckoo had started and I was still in a daze. “Are you guys having fun?” OMG YES!!!!! And then he was laughing, and throwing his head back, I thought I was going to faint. Because his laugh is the most beautiful sound I’ve ever heard, and the way he moves his head is so infectious, you think you might die with happiness. I heard him say something about champagne and then Pop that Lock started. I looked to my right and noticed that my German friend, Micha – the girl who was also seeing Adam for the first time that night – was right beside me. We held hands and smiled at each other.

“It’s getting hot in here, don’t you think?” Hell yeah! Watching Fever live has always been one of my dreams, and there he was, wailing like nobody’s business, not once, but twice, and is is possible to die and go to heaven just like that? I felt like laughing and screaming and whimpering at the same time, because, really? When his voice does things like that, I just don’t know anything anymore.

PART 2 - IT’S TOO GOOD

Maybe it was the piano at the begining, or the fact that it was the first slow song of the night, or just my brain catching up, but when he started singing Chockehold, I lost it. I looked at him up there, so much emotion in his face, in his voice, in his hands, and I just started to cry. Little tears at first, and then I was sobbing, and I looked for my German friend, and she saw me, and just held me in her arms while I cried my eyes out. So many emotions going through my head: how I dreamed about this very moment, how I feared it might never happen, how my personal problems almost stopped me from going, how my friends (online and offline) cheered me up, how I fianlly got here. And how Adam made it all possible.

By the time he finished the song, I was myself again. Right in time for hearing one of my favorite songs ever: Mad World. How much do I love that he reinvented that song yet again for us? And that the new version KICKS ASS??? Rock’n’roll, bitches!!! After throwing us to the floor with his lower register, he takes us by the hand and lifts us up. At then we’re floating, floating, because he’s singing Outlaws of Love and his voice is the most sublime sound you’ve ever heard. Why, Adam, why you do that to us???

“This is a new song, from the Avicii album...” He starts to dance and then procceeds to take off his jacket!!! His tattoed arm is a thing of beauty, and suddenly I realize he is coming in our direction. And then he starts to dance right IN FRONT OF ME, and how does he do that with his legs? “Lower!”, he says. He’s trying to teach us how to do some new step or something, I don’t even know anymore, because, really? Can anyone please remind me how to breath again? Kicking in is next and it’s so perfect I could die right now. HONEY ARE YOU UP THERE? Yes, bb. And I may never come down again.

When he starts talking about Jimmi Hendrix, we all scream like crazy, because we know what’s coming - the ones that were at the soundcheck, anyway. Red House is magnificent, and his voice sings circles around the rest of the band, and then he’s going all the way up and then back down, and for the hundredieth time this night I can’t believe what I’m seeing. It’s like Adam isn’t even in control. His voice just takes on a life of its own, because it knows what to do, and it can never be wrong...

Then there's Queen, and Dragon Attack is as sexy as I thought it would be. Shady comes up and he asks us to sing for him, and his microphone is just a few inches from my mouth, and OMG I’m gonna sing this, but in a second Adam is back to the center or the stage and away from us. Still, that was the closest I ever got to him, and I'm pretty sure my heart has left my chest.

And then it’s all over in a second. He comes back for AYGGMY, and I know it’s problably the last song, and I keep telling myself it’s OK, because the joy and the happiness and the love I have in my heart are not going anywhere. As he kisses us goodbye, I feel so incredily grateful for everything I wanna scream. THANK YOU ADAM, THANK YOU UNIVERSE, THANK YOU EVERYONE. I LOVE YOU ALL.

PART 3 - ONE IN A MILLION

As I seat there looking at an empty stage, something that’s been on my mind the whole concert just becomes really clear. Nile Rodgers was right. In fact, he’s the only one who got it right. Adam IS a genius. Like, Michael Jackson-genius. Elvis Presley-genius. I mean, he is not just a great singer, or an amazing performer, or a hell of a entertainer. He’s one of those artists that are born once in a hundred years. He has a gift. He can see things no one else can, do things no one else can, hear things no one else can. It’s like he has the music inside of him. All music. Everytime he tries something new, all he has to do is go inside and pick what he wants, because it’s all there. It’s amazing, and it’s almost too much. There’s so much music, so much joy, so much love, so

(Squats)






[Leaves giant turd]

¤ponders diet¤

Jasus....

Any Queen+AL crap isn't even good enough for my garden

If those AL-fanboys/fangirls are so happy and confident about this 'collaboration', why are they spending so much time trying to convince those of us who don't give two bits about the whole thing that it's so great? Why can't they just accept that they are having a field day and the rest of the world really doesn't care? Enjoy it, and don't bother me with this crap!

I think all of this is a really bad idea.......

Dont disturb the dead with awful music.....

the expression [i][b]"enough to wake the dead"[/b][/i] -  is just a saying - not meant to be taken literally
(Well, obviously it's not meant to be taken literally; it refers to any manufacturers of dairy products.)

you can't disturb the dead...they're f*cking-well dead. - that's the point

This isn't even amusing anymore. I thought this was a Queen site. I don't visit AL sites to go on about Freddie or Queen.

^the very definition of fanaticism.

I was hoping fellow qz'ers would simply join me in symbolically taking a good deuce


It bears further scrutiny that unless this was a Q+whoever concert, why are you posting here in the GENERAL DISCUSSION forum?

That belongs in the PERSONAL section



I don't really care about his show.

Really vapid fanaticism, but then again where would AL be without it?

I find it pretty retarded and inappropriate that he'd sing red house; he doesn't even play guitar (or write his own songs) red house is usually a tribute by guitarists performed by BANDS. ... not just a cheap concession fashioned by some asshole marketing analyst to "throw a bone to the poor suckers (dad) that had to take their kids to the show"

LOL. That concert recap reads like a parody of bad fan fiction. The only thing missing is that instead of Marisa & Adam, it should say Bella & Edward. ;-)

"As I seat there looking at an empty stage, something that’s been on my mind the whole concert just becomes really clear. Nile Rodgers was right. In fact, he’s the only one who got it right. Adam IS a genius. Like, Michael Jackson-genius. Elvis Presley-genius. I mean, he is not just a great singer, or an amazing performer, or a hell of a entertainer. He’s one of those artists that are born once in a hundred years. He has a gift. He can see things no one else can, do things no one else can, hear things no one else can. It’s like he has the music inside of him. All music. Everytime he tries something new, all he has to do is go inside and pick what he wants, because it’s all there. It’s amazing, and it’s almost too much. There’s so much music, so much joy, so much love, so..."

God bless the imbeciles.

What? Somebody REALLY wrote that about the performance of that guy? A performance I thought it's literally PAINFUL to watch so I never managed to view one complete QAL concert?

Based on the numerous TV performances, I had reservations when I attended the Hammy Odeon concert last year Pitters, but actually i really enjoyed it: far more than any of the 8 QPR concerts I attended.
He might not be the worlds best singer, but he's entertaining and he really drew more out of Brian & Roger than Paul Rodgers did.
As a 'live' experience, you definately have to be there as video releases never capture the essence of a performance.

Now what I'd like to know is this. How come he's so bloody good in Glee? You don't think they use autotune do you? ..... ;-) LOL

Nile Rogers raved about him?

He probably talked about his range (incredible range) but he's a singer not an artist. The review was about the equivalent of "sticky pages on a girlie magazine"... said next to nothing about what it was allegedly reviewing. Nothing but shallow grandiose hyperbole

[QUOTE] [b]brians wig wrote:[/b]


Now what I'd like to know is this. How come he's so bloody good in Glee? You don't think they use autotune do you? ..... ;-) LOL[/QUOTE]

I think he's a great actor in Glee, I think he gets his acting talent from his father "Christopher".

Who would think that years later there would have been a "Queen link" passed on from father to son. I wonder if Adam when he was a child, got to visit the set while his father was filming the "Princes Of The Universe" video with Queen? Can you imagine Adam as a boy meeting Freddie!!!!!

;-)