Brian: Show with Adam Lambert is equal to Freddie Mercury

He could also just stay calm as he realized that he can't stop them and doesn't want to behave like Roger Waters did in the 80s who sued his former bandmates for using the name Pink Floyd (and couldn't stop them). Or he simply wants to stay out of public view to not to be recognized as a celebrity anymore. Or he just likes coining in without working anything. Or........ There are many possibilities, this is just speculation. Perhaps we'll never know.

[QUOTE] [b]user1 wrote:[/b]

Or he simply wants to stay out of public view to not to be recognized as a celebrity anymore. [/QUOTE]

That too!

[url=http://ultimateclassicrock.com/adam-lambert-freddie-mercury-comparison/]http://ultimateclassicrock.com/adam-lambert-freddie-mercury-comparison/[/url]

^^^^^ Key quote from that article being where Brian says Adam "can sing higher than even Freddie could, in a live situation."

^^^^^

And it's still a shitty thing to say King. Brian was deeply upset that Freddie used a soundalike on 'Let's turn it on' from MIH. Imagine if Freddie said that guy had better vibrato or a cleaner tone than Brian. Brian would have popped his cork. IMHO, Brian is a wonderful gentleman with an ego a mile wide and is doing some serious revisionist history, As one of the commenters in aforementioned link says, Brian is correct that Adam can sing higher. He just can't sing with the fullness of Freddie, he has no grit or balls for rock and roll. Adam is perfect for Queen circa 2014. He would have ruined them in 1973-1979 when they were a rock band with a rock singer, not a pop band. IMHO.

The full quote is this

[QUOTE] [bBrian May wrote[/b]

There’s too much range that plenty of people can’t sing them in the original key — even if they are good singers. Adam comes along, and he can do it easy. He can do it in his sleep! He can sing higher than even Freddie could, in a live situation.”

[/QUOTE]

Now, Brian is correct: He can sing higher than Freddie, that's a fact.
BUT! He choose not to talk about the lower register, which, in Queen songs its as important as the higher register.

While the full quote shows that he wasnt interested in making Freddie look less or make Adam more interesting, I feel Brian is trying way too hard to make non Q+AL fans being interested in the current line up that he is about to place himself in a very, very dangerous place.

If I could give Brian an advice it would be:

Brian, after 22 years, some people still hate and critizice Deep Purple for having Steve Morse and want Blackmore back, stop trying to make people accept Adam! If someone is willing to give him a chance they will see Q+AL live and if after a concert they still think Adam is not worthy, then non of your words will change it, so please, stop!

I do not give a stuff if Lambert can sing higher than Freddie,
it is not a competition, Freddies voice is better than lamberts it has emotion, charisma, excitement in it where lamberts voice is like a straight line, boring and wooden.
Brian is the master when it comes to telling fibs and hyping something as been great, but i am sorry Brian your pleas that lambert is special smells of desperation.
Queen fans are very fussy and know when something is not right.

[QUOTE] [b]gerry wrote:[/b]

I do not give a stuff if Lambert can sing higher than Freddie,
it is not a competition, Freddies voice is better than lamberts it has emotion, charisma, excitement in it where lamberts voice is like a straight line, boring and wooden.
Brian is the master when it comes to telling fibs and hyping something as been great, but i am sorry Brian your pleas that lambert is special smells of desperation.
Queen fans are very fussy and know when something is not right.[/QUOTE]

It isn't a competition about who can do what with their voice.

BM has never said that Lambert is better in any way than Freddie. As had already been said it's a fact that he can sing higher, which live goes someway to compfortably hitting some notes Freddie couldn't or at least had trouble with.

Remember BM is speaking from the prospective of standing next to Lambert every night and being a part of what is being produced. He is in a far better position to know how that feels when compared to the old days.

I'd still like to see or read an interview with BM where he says this tour is better than anything we've ever done and our current singer is better too. It hasn't been said. Why do so nanyang people fill in their own interpretation of what has clearly been said

[QUOTE] [b]gerry wrote:[/b]


Brian is the master when it comes to telling fibs and hyping something as been great, but i am sorry Brian your pleas that lambert is special smells of desperation.
Queen fans are very fussy and know when something is not right.[/QUOTE]


Brian said Adam can sing higher than Freddie live. How's that a fib?

And as hard as it may be for you to believe.....some of us Queen fans actually LIKE Adam, you know........I'm getting sick of your constant sweeping generalizations.........

Let me try to explain, Brian has been hyping adam for months now with all the shit that he can sing anything as good as freddie, and that there performances with adam are as good as anything they ever did with Freddie which is bollocks and you know it.
He has tried everything to get the critics to put there bums on seats, but we all know Lambert is not talented he only sings in a karaoke fashion, he does not play piano, write songs he just screeches out loud high notes, hardly a legend is he! Anastacia could sing higher than lambo.

Please show me where Brian said Adam can "sing anything as good as Freddie". I must have missed that quote!

And I didn't know you have to play piano and write songs to be a good singer! Funny, I always thought Joe Cocker and Elvis Presley were good singers, guess I was wrong....

"we all know Lambert is not talented" (sweeping generalization #435679 from gerry!)

Oh I didnt know that yet............thanks for filling me in on all these things.............

(just a bit of sarcasm there, in case ya didnt know)

[QUOTE] [b]gerry wrote:[/b]

Anastacia could sing higher than lambo.[/QUOTE]

Uh, wrong!


A tip: Don't make statements about something you dont know when its SO easily looked up!!

http://therangeplace.forummotions.com/t77-adam-lambert

http://therangeplace.forummotions.com/t679-anastacia

http://www.divadevotee.com/2012/04/vocal-profile-adam-lambert.html

http://www.divadevotee.com/2011/12/anastacia-vocal-range-profile.html

Seems they top out at about the same note!

The king of Rhye: i did not make anything up, and it is a well known fact that Anastacia is a louder singer than lambo, here range is much higher.
But all this crap on here about who can sing higher than somebody else is rubbish, its not important.
A good singer does not need to reach the top of a mountain.