I have, that's the beauty of the forum. They don't have to write anything anymore. At their age and level of career they are doing what they enjoy and world wide they have an audience who agree.
Amazing that in 2018 this still needs pointing out, but - an active band with a fluid lineup changing singers is *somewhat* different than half a band resurrecting a band years later and that band having been fronted by one of the most icon frontmen of all time. DUH!!!
The sad thing is is that the nostalgia market is fucking massive, and they could have literally anyone fronting them now and they'd sell the same amount of tickets. If McCartney and Ringo announced they were doing a world tour with Gareth Gates fronting - people would buy tickets and it'd be huge. They aren't selling tickets because people think Lambert is great, they're selling tickets because of the brand. DUH!
Mike Hunt, Respect to you and a great post, yes Queen is a brand name and no matter if the cat over the road fronts Queen they will sell out in 20 mins !
Adam Lambert is a total embarrassment for Queen, i was watching a clip on you tube last night of Lambert sat on a couch with massive stiletto heals and been a proper ponce fanning himself and i am thinking what the f*ck has happened to Queen having this jerk front what was once the greatest rock n roll show on earth in the 70s and 80s !
At least Paul Rodgers was talented and had a good musical pedigree, something that Lambert will never have.
I am like you Mike in that i will never go and see Queen live ever again for it is too painful and embarrassing.
Rodgers was right though when he wanted the band called Rodgers/May/Talyor Instead of Queen +. If they got an old time Bass player it would have been a proper supergroup. Even If they didn't last, and obviously they were out of ideas by 2008 as far as writing new material. I did see them In concert, I figured it would be my last and only chance too see a Queen related show and I respected Paul, even though I wasn't crazy about how he sang Queen songs. I thought it was worth it. Lambert and Queen I really don't like. He could sing in a Broadway style, but when I see him sing some of the Rock stuff like Dragon Attack I actually feel embarrassed to be a Queen fan. The rocks songs sound really bad.
Sons of Apollo isn't a "new band". Their music was new 20 years ago, now it's another metal jam act recycling the same generic shit.
Really, a Sons of Apollo listener complains about the "inconsistent and sometimes crappy" Freddie who "borrowed and stole like any other artist"?
I don't like Adam Lambert. I'd prefer they played Queen stuff on their own. BUT...if that's what they want, and people want to see it, so be it. I attended ONE of the shows a few years ago just to see Brian one last time. I wouldn't go again. Despite not liking AL, I feel that some of the comments here are not just wrong, but completely unfair. His style was like that before he joined Queen. He was also one of the highest earners before Queen, so he's not merely "making millions from a dead legend". In fact (I need to find the exact source) I hear that AL earned more than Queen last year.
It is what it is. It polarises people.
As for the future, I can only ask for what everyone seems to want: archive material, demos etc. I don't want Brian to die for it, though.
For me it's embarrassing what they are doing now, not telling them what to do etc, it's their right.
The couch thing is pathetic........
I never even seen the couch thing, That's how interested I am in the whole thing. When I watched Dragon Attack I never put that crap band on again. He sounded awful. In my humble opinion.
Your narrow mind is the only solid foundation I need in the argument about this ordinary Freddie of yours - the one armed with Aretha Franklin's records and dressed in Suzie Quatro's leather pants.
About misunderstood concepts. Are you familiar with the concept of fanzone - people sharing admiration, not criticism marketed as "proves and facts"?
aristide1, narrow mind? I don't think so, but believe what you want.
As for Freddie being ordinary, I didn't say that.
Aretha Fanklin, I didn't use her in any of my posts
Dressed as Suzi Quatro, I didn't say that either. Go back and read the facts. Someone (Happystar) posted on here that Adam Lambert had stolen the leather look from Freddie because that was his thing. I counted that by pointing out that a number of people had done the leather thing before Freddie, back to that borrowing ideas from earlier artists.
Yes I fully understand what a "fan zone" is. Unlike you I understand what an open view and a broad outlook is too. I have shared plenty of admiration for the members of the band on hear through the years. What I won't do is claim that anyone of them is untouchable as singers or musicians or that everything they created had no influence from any outside source,because that view is a million times more narrow minded than anything you can claim of me.
