Is it in the familiar songs being played in front of thousands of people?
Is it in seeing your childhood idols live?
Is it in hearing Adam Lambert sing the songs?
It's perfectly acceptable to feel the "magic" from any of those, but it's just as acceptable to NOT feel any "magic" if you're missing any of those ingredients.
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I'd say all three apply! And dont forget hearing Brian and Roger sing and play the songs as well.
If you don't like Adam, as I know some people dont, you just aint gonna like it, I suppose........cant really argue with that...........
Zamidoo · Member since
I can't see what the problem is - I didn't get that Brian was saying Adam Lambert was better than Freddie Mercury at all in that quote. He was just talking in a friendly way about his vocal range.
The chemistry of the band between the members themselves and the chemistry the audience experiences from the band are also not necessarily the same - from the perspective of a guitarist on the stage, perhaps Adam Lambert does generate a similar energy and spirit to Freddie. As fans, our experience of Queen is obviously very different, but Brian would never have experienced the magic that Freddie generated with an audience from the audience's perspective.
Look at it from his point of view. As a musician, he has found another musician who gives him (and Roger, presumably) a buzz that reminds him of the way it used to feel performing with Freddie. He likes Adam, and likes performing with him, so of course he's going to say nice things about him. He would be looking at it from a band-member's perspective (unsurprisingly, being a band-member), not a fan's perspective.
We can get all over-sensitive about it because obviously the feeling Queen+AL generates from and audience perspective is completely different to Queen with the original members, but that is beyond Brian May's control - he can only judge by the chemistry he feels on stage, which is obviously good, and I think does translate to something good for the audience too, just nothing like the original Queen.
I think it's really nice that he talks about Freddie - I think that they have tried to honour his memory and been very respectful of him as the amazing man/musician/performer they knew. They didn't love Freddie as a fan would love him, so wouldn't understand (or probably care) that to some people it feels like sacrilege to be performing as Queen+anyone at all.
The Real Wizard · Member since
^ excellent post.
7thStranger · Member since
Cool. Adam's not an artist. Freddie was. There's the difference.
And wasn't it Roger who hit all the high notes? What is Brian on about. Ugh.
kevin79 · Member since
The problem I have with Brian's statement is that he's not comparing apples to apples. Obviously, Freddie could hit those high notes, as he did in the studio recordings. And, Adam can obviously hit them too. The problem to me in saying that Adam can hit them live when Freddie couldn't is that the band isn't exactly in full band mode, as they were in Freddie's day. In Queen + A.L.'s case, they've done a limited amount of shows at a time with a few months break between legs. In Freddie's days, they tended to tour with much less downtime between the different legs of the tours and more dates on each leg. And in between touring, they were usually recording. So, it wasn't that Freddie couldn't hit those high notes. It's that he was trying to make sure his voice was maintained for the duration of the tours. If Adam was touring like Freddie did with Queen, I'm sure we'd see Adam hitting less of those high notes too.
7thStranger · Member since
Full band mode means John Deacon and Freddie Mercury. I think those other two are wickedly disrespectful.
LucasDiego · Member since
Sorry, i don´t see queen here, i see Brian, Roger and Adam sings Queen songs.
The Real Wizard · Member since
^ wow, what an original post.
I guess Heaven And Hell in 1980 wasn't Black Sabbath either.
LucasDiego · Member since
^
It´s not the same thing, Black Sabbath had ways to continue, queen, after Freddie´s death, 9 of 10 people says that queen is over, it´s nice that Brian and Roger bring queen name back, but no Paul, nor Adam bring the genious of Freddie back, and this is the people are desespaired, trying to bring Freddie back in Adam, that it´s not nice.
The Real Wizard · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]LucasDiego wrote:[/b]
no Paul, nor Adam bring the genious of Freddie back, and this is the people are desespaired, trying to bring Freddie back in Adam, that it´s not nice. [/QUOTE]
Nobody says they're trying to do that.
Brian and Roger have stated numerous times that they cannot replace the irreplaceable. They just want to play Queen songs. Why is this so hard for some people to understand?
Viper · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]LucasDiego wrote:[/b]
Sorry, i don´t see queen here, i see Brian, Roger and Adam sings Queen songs.[/QUOTE]
I see the exact same thing!
Pingfah · Member since
[QUOTE] [b]LucasDiego wrote:[/b]
9 of 10 people says that queen is over [/QUOTE]
Statistics don't mean anything if you just completely make them up.
Ticket sales say you are full of shit.
LucasDiego · Member since
Statistics don't mean anything if you just completely make them up.
Ticket sales say you are full of shit.
It´s necessary this words for me! Well... I said at the moment of Freddie´s dead, of course, the impact was so big to everyone, that is nice that Brian and Roger got it to perfomance after everything that happened with them in the 90´s
