QAL in Europe and the UK

SweetCaroline wrote:

snifflese, we have so much in common. I would have been married 48 years this year if my poor husband wouldn’t have died from a sudden, massive heart attack right before his 36th birthday!

I discovered Adam very accidentally
when I tuned into AI and saw him perform “Satisfactiom.” My first impression was that his profile resembled Elvis and his voice was out of this world. I was not a regular viewer so did not see his audition of BoRhap or when he performed MJ’s “Black or White.” Then I just happened to tune in when it was country week and he performed that totally amazing version of “Ring Of Fire” and have been a fan ever since. I certainly do not “lust” after him and never have. I look at him more like another son. As usual, icy has it all wrong! Anyway I enjoy being his fan and love that he fits so well with Queen.

I didn’t get to be an Elvis fan, was too busy raising two little kids. Adam has been my Elvis. He is an amazing person and talent and I’m happy for the wonderful relationship he has with Brian, Roger, Neil, Spike, Tyler and Rufus when he was there. He is not riding on anyone’s coattails because he more than holds up his part of the bargain.

To lose your husband like that, I'm genuinely sorry sweetcaroline.
I remember watching AL's season of AI, and I never thought he had a resemblance to Elvis, looks, or sounds wise. I though he was his own person, one of very few who had his own thing going on more often than not. Good for him I say.
Please be honest, because your posts are still there and mostly over there. I don't have it wrong at all. I don't know if I would call it lust, but you have posted plenty about how AL looks on both Queen boards. You post how sexy and gorgeous he is, then turn around and say you look at him as another son. Did you call him sexy, gorgeous to defend him? Is the reason you look at him as another son, the reason why you defend him? I'm trying to understand your way of thinking about it.
I think he is riding on Brian's and Roger's coattails. What part of the bargain does he hold up for you?

I look at Adam as another son because he is younger than both my son and my daughter. I am definitely old enough to be his mother if not his grandmother, but I can still appreciate that he is good looking and even sexy. I still can’t believe he is the overweight ginger haired young man on the video of his graduation. Yes, I defend him because of the unwarranted criticism he gets that he is too fat, too camp and just a karaoke singer! I’ve never seen a video of him calling people “darling” like Freddie used to do so why do diehard Freddie fans say Adam is “too gay?”

I don’t understand why every thread Adam fans start for the QAL shows ends up being pages and pages of attacks on Adam. He is still not being accepted after almost 7 years of performing in this collaboration.

An interview with Brian, Roger and Adam:

http://www.rtve.es/m/alacarta/videos/telediario/queen-celebra-40-anos-su-we-are-the-champions-dos-conciertos-espana/4621394/?media=tve

SweetCaroline wrote:

I look at Adam as another son because he is younger than both my son and my daughter. I am definitely old enough to be his mother if not his grandmother, but I can still appreciate that he is good looking and even sexy. I still can’t believe he is the overweight ginger haired young man on the video of his graduation. Yes, I defend him because of the unwarranted criticism he gets that he is too fat, too camp and just a karaoke singer! I’ve never seen a video of him calling people “darling” like Freddie used to do so why do diehard Freddie fans say Adam is “too gay?”

I don’t understand why every thread Adam fans start for the QAL shows ends up being pages and pages of attacks on Adam. He is still not being accepted after almost 7 years of performing in this collaboration.

To say a celebrity is like a son to you, and you can still appreciate him being sexy. That's quite out there, sweetcaroline.
Many times you had to feel like you had to defend AL, and defend him over the years by saying he is sexy, good looking etc, that is nutty as well. There wasn't much discussion here on QZ about how AL looked before you started to post again last August, but you still wanted a thread right away for you to say how good looking and gorgeous you think he is. Apparently, you did that here because of what was posted on QOL. That's not defense, it's something like a pre teen would do.
I'm afraid there are a few things I will never understand where you come from and what you come out with.. Why you feel the need to defend AL so much, the way you try to defend him and that you have done it for years now. It's mind boggling. Often times you became very upset over next to nothing.
Do you think every gay man should act like each other. Yes, Freddie said darling often, AL doesnt say it that I'm aware of. Not two people will ever say and act the same way. Once again though, you are comparing them. Two different men at different times. For Freddie is was a word he used often, I'm sure AL has his own words he likes to use often.
Not going to get into it that some people felt AL was/is too gay.
It's no big deal to me that some people still don't accept Adam performing Queen songs. To me, he hasn't replaced Freddie, and to me he isn't the new singer of Queen. There was only one Queen for me, that was and always will be Freddie, Brian, Roger and John.
People were called whiners by you very early on in this thread, and haters was also mentioned by snifflese. I guess that was for happystar and myself. You don't allow or even want another POV,
unless it agrees with yours sweetcarolinee. You don't want me to post in AL threads even, you made that clear a few weeks back. Do you think saying I'm like Trump is supposed to calm the waters? I know what you think of Trump and I by now. Thing is, you don't accept any responsibility for what you do. You still blame me for things that I have no idea about. That's a big part of the problem right there. Yes, I've been harsh, but I've not been the only one.
Enjoy the upcoming shows, sweetcaroline. I'm one of bummed there is no word of the guys rehearsing. Very little chance of being surprised set list wise, I figure. I hope I'm wrong.

Icy, just curious why you are so worried about rehearsal time? You always mention it and it is honestly something that wouldn't occur to me. I think everyone is in London so they may all be practicing but after 200 some shows, how much practice do they need? They play a pretty flawless show with only a minor glitsch here and there. Adam has said the music is internalized at this point so I doubt they need the amount of practice that was necessary in the beginning. No need to tire themselves out at this point as they have a busy summer and Sept. I imagine you are looking for a new song? But I doubt that woud take days of practice. I am sure they will practice until they are confident in their product, so I wouldn't worry about it. I have read that the Vegas shows will be shorter as they are not that long in the casinos and they are extremely strict about going over the time. Anybody know?

snifflese wrote:

Icy, just curious why you are so worried about rehearsal time? You always mention it and it is honestly something that wouldn't occur to me. I think everyone is in London so they may all be practicing but after 200 some shows, how much practice do they need? They play a pretty flawless show with only a minor glitsch here and there. Adam has said the music is internalized at this point so I doubt they need the amount of practice that was necessary in the beginning. No need to tire themselves out at this point as they have a busy summer and Sept. I imagine you are looking for a new song? But I doubt that woud take days of practice. I am sure they will practice until they are confident in their product, so I wouldn't worry about it. I have read that the Vegas shows will be shorter as they are not that long in the casinos and they are extremely strict about going over the time. Anybody know?

I'd like the chance of some other songs being performed or returned to the set list. That's why ;-). I think rehearsing is important as well.
How much practice do they need? More than a day or two. I don't want to start anything up again, but if there was more rehearsing, do you think it would have been likely that Bohemian Rhapsody would have been messed up three times in a row? It still strikes me as odd, out of all the songs AL messed up, it was that one in particular. Maybe he was nervous, off night,or something, I don't know, because he has never explained why he messed BR up.
I do think it's unlikely a new song will be added, or any song returned. I figure it will be fortunate if DOOL is done a couple of times. There is so much good, even great music in the Queen back catalogue after all.

I would enjoy a new song or an old one like Now I"m here, I Was Born to Love You or Save Me, something that they haven't sung for a while. Rehearsing a previously sung song shouldn't be too time intensive and a new one shouldn't be that hard either. Maybe they are practicing and we just don't know it as not everything is known to the general public.

I am not sure that more practice would save a flub like BR. Maybe you are different, but once I make a mistake, like someone's name, I am more likely than not, to do it again. My son had a teacher, Mrs. Small and I often called her Mrs. Little! It was really hard to get it right and normally such things are not a problem for me.

Singers and musicians make mistakes and most folks aren't too riled up about it. I don't see why Adam would ever have to explain what happened. It isn't our business and he may not even really know. In the big scheme that was a tiny, tiny flaw when you consider all the hundreds of hours of performing and singing. Nobody is perfect at the end of the day. If Freddie could mess up his own music, I am sure Adam might occasionally also mess up someone else's songs. I know he has flubbed a few things on his songs occasionally. No biggie!! I doubt most people even notice!

Hoping for Liar or White Queen this time around. Hell, I'd even take Great King Rat or Father to Son. Maybe Nevermore?

Brancelli wrote:

Hoping for Liar or White Queen this time around. Hell, I'd even take Great King Rat or Father to Son. Maybe Nevermore?

Would love them to do White Queen and Nevermore but I suspect I could die holding my breath tbh. Probably half the audience would never have heard of them so I can see why they might not do deep cuts though.

I still say singing the verses of Bohemian Rhapsody out of order is NOT as egregious as a multi Grammy winner stopping in a TV awards performance on two separate occasions and starting over. Now we will have 3 more pages from you know who why THAT was fine but what Adam did by professionally covering up was unforgivable and due to a lack of rehearsals!

Adam on the Sunday Brunch Show in the UK, June 3rd:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=PDS91gqa4fM

More Sunday Brunch, making mango coconut mousse:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bs2Jb6jH1XQ&time_continue=2

snifflese wrote:

I would enjoy a new song or an old one like Now I"m here, I Was Born to Love You or Save Me, something that they haven't sung for a while. Rehearsing a previously sung song shouldn't be too time intensive and a new one shouldn't be that hard either. Maybe they are practicing and we just don't know it as not everything is known to the general public.

I am not sure that more practice would save a flub like BR. Maybe you are different, but once I make a mistake, like someone's name, I am more likely than not, to do it again. My son had a teacher, Mrs. Small and I often called her Mrs. Little! It was really hard to get it right and normally such things are not a problem for me.

Singers and musicians make mistakes and most folks aren't too riled up about it. I don't see why Adam would ever have to explain what happened. It isn't our business and he may not even really know. In the big scheme that was a tiny, tiny flaw when you consider all the hundreds of hours of performing and singing. Nobody is perfect at the end of the day. If Freddie could mess up his own music, I am sure Adam might occasionally also mess up someone else's songs. I know he has flubbed a few things on his songs occasionally. No biggie!! I doubt most people even notice!

I'd really like it if Save Me was performed again. I'd really love it if DOOL was performed again. In short, I'd be all for it.
It seemed AL flubbed the lyrics at the same place in the song, three nights in a row, so something was up.
Yes, every musician make mistakes. And hey, I noticed AL messing it up because Bohemian Rhapsody is an important song in the Queen catalogue.

SweetCaroline wrote:

I still say singing the verses of Bohemian Rhapsody out of order is NOT as egregious as a multi Grammy winner stopping in a TV awards performance on two separate occasions and starting over. Now we will have 3 more pages from you know who why THAT was fine but what Adam did by professionally covering up was unforgivable and due to a lack of rehearsals!

I don't think you could even try to understand the emotion performers can have. It's no surprise it was emotional for her to do, and I'm not holding it against Adele for how she did it. She was very heartfelt and she pulled it off.
I'm not sure why that bothers you about Adele and my feelings about it, because you don't like Adele, and you aren't a George Michael fan. Then again, you obviously wanted AL to sing the tributes to George Michael and Bowie, your reaction when he didn't get to do it, is all too clear.