QAL in Newcastle - Review

Vocal harmony wrote:

The Newcastle gig was one of the best, if not the best, I've seen on this tour.

The entire band put loads of effort into the show. TOTV saying Lambert came across as insincere and not hungry for it makes a nonsense of what the rest of the audience saw. The connection between the three of them is evident by the eye contact and smiles. Anyone at the front or along the thrust to the B stage would have seen this.

Those like LOTV who are quick to critise Lambert's rehearsed lines seem to have forgotten how much Freddie would stick to the same pieces of chatter. Or the king of the one Liner David Lee Roth using the same line, not just show after show, but tour after tour! Or Paul Stanley's song into's to Love Gun or Cold Gin or the whole of Metallica's poor touring me set in which Hetfield's lines to the audience where as reheased as anything Lambert has said.

The truth is if your presenting a show as big as the current Queen production, with so many moving parts, both lighting, video and staging everything has to be rehearsed.

Having access to YouTube gives a different prospective to live touring shows. But the best way to see any gig is to get a ticket and lose yourself in the moment which is what most of the audience do night after night

Standing ovation.

SweetCaroline wrote:

Adam is magnificent! Just ask Brian!

As much as I'm on your side, that's not a great argument. Of course the artists involved are going to promote their current project in any way possible. That's basic PR 101.

Overall, Lambert is great - but you're not going to find a lot of people who saw Queen with Mercury rave about how life changing a nostalgia show is.

The show is excellent, but let's be real here.

scallyuk wrote:

Of course freddie (and the rest of them) never ever missed a note, sang the wrong lines or had to start a song from the beginning beecause they had totally Fu**ed it up.
I have to say from my memory of the 30 or so gigs I saw there was NEVER a perfect gig technically or performance wise

There were many absolutely awesome shows where the band gave their all and still got something wrong.
BUT the point is we went to see the band not analyse it later on an internet forum.

Neil

Bang on.

I can only wonder what internet forums would look like if they were around when Queen played Japan in 1979...

Vocal harmony wrote:

The real truth, and one that some a lot will find hard to except, is trying Lambert seems to be a much more consistent vocalist than Freddie was live.

I've said this for years.

And as right as you are - Mercury wrote songs that will be remembered a hundred years for now, and that's all that ultimately matters. This current chapter of the band's history is a welcome and unexpected one (this seemed completely impossible in, say, 2003), but all the right notes in the world won't better the catalog for what it is. This period isn't a vital organ - it's an addendum.

They haven’t told us the reason why there was only one or two days before the tour leg on Europe. Maybe it was impossible for everyone to be there because of other commitments. After 20 plus shows in NA maybe they felt the basics were in place and just needed some fine tuning.

I guess I still need someone (Icy?) to point out to me what Adam did when he messed up BoRhap. Maybe there were some lyrics out of the right order?

Good grief, sweetcaroline. It was pointed out to you by another poster called GrowupGlamberts exactly how and where AL messed Bohemian Rhapsody up. You still didn't or couldn't admit to then or now. Do you think it will hurt AL's career, or his perfection and magnificence you think he has if you admit that he messed it up?

Icy, I guess I missed it because he covered it up so well. I’ve been listening to all of the live audios. So I guess I should google BoRhap from the first show in Prague?

LOTV wrote:

the whole thing was so scripted and safe. Adam's speech about Freddie is so scripted it doesn't come across as genuine at all, he even cracked the same Frank head jokes.

The internet makes it so easy to make this criticism in 2017.

Queen's show was entirely scripted in 1974, including the majority of Mercury's banter. Have you listened to the concert tapes?

"Maybe next time we'll come back with an orchestra?"
"There have been rumours that we're going to split up."

You may not like the old Queen much longer if this is how you feel about a show being well paced and thought out.

You missed it because you can't admit to yourself or others that he messed up. It was pointed out to you here on QZ where he messed it up. Maybe because non Glamberts pointed it out, you probably thought it was a lie or something. Either way, you not admitting to it, makes you look silly. And no, he didn't try to cover it up, let alone not covering it up well.
It's funny. You give Adele shit for messing up Fast Love at the Brit Awards, but you don't understand anything about that. You can't admit AL messed up Bohemian Rhapsody. That's quite unsettling that it seems you think he could never do no wrong, and is always perfect and magnificent, no matter what. That's a high pedestal you have placed AL on. He isn't so perfect after all, and there's nothing wrong with that. He messing up Bohemian Rhapsody took me by surprise, it wasn't the first time he sang it, it wasn't a new to him Q song, that is what sticks out n my mind. More rehearsal time was needed than just a day. Do you see where I'm coming from with this?

I agreeed always with.. The Real Wizard, he is an hero! Love his site!

Butterfly without Wings,

Maybe some do not technically "hate" him but they dislike him immensely. This is one of the kinder posts I've read:

"personally cannot stand the fairy fellow, nothing but a reality show karaoake winner and I have zero interest in seeing the band with him fronting."

Sorry. Meant Bullet with Butterfly Wings.

First off, where did that comment come from? And is it a big deal even if some people dislike AL? Is the constant shoving him down people's throats supposed to help his career? The constant defense and excuses as to why he isn't as popular as some other artists supposed to help him, the untrue claims of homophobia, payola? Because I've read plenty of it in the last few years with nothing to back it up. So I look at is as a sort of defense and promotion that some Glamberts resort to, some posts by a poster here end up doing that, even now. I find it so ironic All doesn't give TwoFux anymore, and some his fans go all out thinking they are helping him. What will be the excuse/s be if his next solo music won't get airplay or sell well, or get the nominations and or awards? It seems every excuse in the book has been given already.
By the way. AL messed up Bohemian Rhapsody three concerts in a row at the beginning of the tour, not just once.

That comment came from this forum. I could post many, many Queenzone posts about AL that are much more hateful than that. Ever since I came here, I've felt the need to defend AL because of the absolute venom spewed here about him. I belong to a few other forums (AL forums and professional forums for my line of work) and I have NEVER encountered such a miserable, nasty bunch as some of the Queen "fans" on this forum. Truth.

Bullet, how about this lovely comment from a prior post: Are you sure its because he is gay and not because he is a massive cunt?


Dare I ask.....why exactly is Adam "a massive cunt"? In every interview of him I've seen or read, he comes across as a pretty nice guy.



On the rare occasions I have been able to stand watching him for more than half a nano second I form the opinion he is a massive cunt. There is no science or psychology involved, its just what I think.