The best Posting on QAL EVER - period

happystar wrote:

Having people laughing at you all day does not make you a credible musician love, its make you an idiot and that is what he is.

See you'd be wrong there, he makes people laugh but they're laughing with him not at him, there's a difference. If he couldn't sing and used the costumes and being funny to deflect from that then yeah you'd be right but that's not the case.

SweetCaroline wrote:

rockchic, I went to the Idol tour. I don’t remember ROF being included. If I’m remembering correctly, he started with Whole Lotta Love, Mad World, Starlight and ended with a Bowie medley of Life On Mars, Fame and Let’s Dance.

Ah right, I must have got it mixed up, I knew he had done it on tour.

happystar wrote:

Can you imagine that Queen & George Michael on tour - wow now i would go and see that.
Two great artists well worth travelling to see.

I remember at the time thinking they should ask him to tour with them but realistically it probably would have had to be a mix of both their music. Would have been great though, I did love George's voice.

GM could never sing a hard rock song. Stop - he surely could do it better than Lameturd who is a senseless screamer. The worst version of a song is his atrocious WHole Lotta Love raping

SweetCaroline wrote:

Would George have wanted to sing other songs in the Queen catalog besides STL? A tour with George would have been more like the QPR collaboration with an equal amount of Queen and George Michael hits in the play list.

I guess he would have wanted to. He sang three songs at the Freddie Tribute.
How would you know what the tour would have been like? I don't. But it would have interesting to hear him sing Queen songs, and Brian and Roger possibly play on a GM song or two.

rockchic65 wrote:

happystar wrote:

George Michael is a legend and your tiny weeny Adam Lambert is a crumb on the landscape of musicians in the world.
George cold i am sure covered many more Queen songs because he was a professional singer and he was not in your face with his sexuality like Lambert is as the moment,
He is a classy great guy and i prefer him to Lambert so will many others.
Brian & Roger have had many bad laps of taste over the last 28 years, and do not forget it was Freddie that saved there careers, because they were on the verge of giving it all up.

George admitted it was the hardest thing he'd ever had to sing and it's far from the hardest Queen song so not sure how he'd have done with some of the others, they aren't really his style.
Why compare people, either voice wise or in any other way, George did things his way, Adam has a different way and as to the in your face part, it's a stage act, he doesn't walk around all day looking and acting the way he does onstage. Maybe to your surprise some people actually find it amusing, which is what he's aiming for.

Emotionally wise, yes it was hard for him to sing. But I do think GM could have pulled of quite a bit of the Queen catalogue. I love how he sang at the Freddie Tribute, he stole the show. And his own music wasn't too bad either.

Iron Butterfly wrote:

rockchic65 wrote:

happystar wrote:

George Michael is a legend and your tiny weeny Adam Lambert is a crumb on the landscape of musicians in the world.
George cold i am sure covered many more Queen songs because he was a professional singer and he was not in your face with his sexuality like Lambert is as the moment,
He is a classy great guy and i prefer him to Lambert so will many others.
Brian & Roger have had many bad laps of taste over the last 28 years, and do not forget it was Freddie that saved there careers, because they were on the verge of giving it all up.

George admitted it was the hardest thing he'd ever had to sing and it's far from the hardest Queen song so not sure how he'd have done with some of the others, they aren't really his style.
Why compare people, either voice wise or in any other way, George did things his way, Adam has a different way and as to the in your face part, it's a stage act, he doesn't walk around all day looking and acting the way he does onstage. Maybe to your surprise some people actually find it amusing, which is what he's aiming for.

Emotionally wise, yes it was hard for him to sing. But I do think GM could have pulled of quite a bit of the Queen catalogue. I love how he sang at the Freddie Tribute, he stole the show. And his own music wasn't too bad either.

Yeah I'm sure it was emotionally hard but he apparently said it was the hardest song he'd ever had to sing as well. He did an amazing job on that one, I really loved how he sang it and although I wasn't too fond of his more pop based stuff I loved some of his ballads - especially a different corner. It's hard to know exactly what he'd have been able to sing of the Queen catalogue, I've never heard him do a rock song but he may have been able to, it just wasn't his usual style of music. Would have been interesting to hear him do some stuff with Queen, I'd have gone to see them if they had toured.

Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go !!!!!

I do think Freddie would have preferred George to do Queen the honours rather than Adam.
George had more experience of the pop world and Wham were a great 80s group rubbing shoulders with Queen in the charts many times. Lambert is more musicals were George is pop / ballad orientated.
Songs like "Your my best friend" "Its a hard life" "Love of my life" are examples of what George would have done brilliantly at. Adam tries his best at it i am sure but sadly he has no substance and sings songs so blank with no feeling to them and to be honest there do not sound as dynamic as Freddie used to deliver them. Still he has had his 15 mins of fame!

happystar wrote:

I do think Freddie would have preferred George to do Queen the honours rather than Adam.
George had more experience of the pop world and Wham were a great 80s group rubbing shoulders with Queen in the charts many times. Lambert is more musicals were George is pop / ballad orientated.
Songs like "Your my best friend" "Its a hard life" "Love of my life" are examples of what George would have done brilliantly at. Adam tries his best at it i am sure but sadly he has no substance and sings songs so blank with no feeling to them and to be honest there do not sound as dynamic as Freddie used to deliver them. Still he has had his 15 mins of fame!

His 15 mins is lasting a long while and he has plenty substance and feeling, just not to you, plenty others find him great though. No idea why you keep saying he's just musicals, he hasn't been in a musical since 2008, that's a lot of years and a lot of different styles of music he's done since. Whilst I'm sure George would have done a great job on those songs I've no idea why rubbing shoulders on the charts matters, it makes no difference to singing ability.

Adam is really sweating and you can see he has gone through the grinder at the end of a show. Singing and having all your muscles clenching in your face and your veins popping out doesn't necessarily mean you are singing with feeling. Fortunately or unfortunately, Adam can hit a lot of notes whether others strain and I think some of you equate that with "soul". To me he emotes many things. Just listen to the breathy, quiet parts of songs that suddently become loud. When he runs up the scale in UP. I don't know what you people aren't seeing. Maybe it is because you have never been to a life show! Adam puts his all into each show and emotes as much or more than other singers, believe me. If he was just a bland, one note singer fans would not keep coming back!

SweetCaroline wrote:

Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go !!!!!

Ah, but there was so much more to GM than just that song.

Lamebird is sweating because he is overweight and knows he is destroying all those great songs

runner_70 wrote:

Lamebird is sweating because he is overweight and knows he is destroying all those great songs

He might forget the lyrics again too xD.

Rockchic: What i am saying here is that George Michael was the same calibre as Queen and worthy of been on a stage with May & Taylor the same way as Paul Rodgers was.
Lambert came from nowhere with no experience and no song writing abilities whatsoever.
Singing high notes does not make him a great singer at all.
Emotion is more important than screaming like Axl Rose on cocaine.
Lambert has really got away with his style and people do not analyse what a bad singer he really is.
A few years ago on here i was chatting to a roadie of Queens and he said he was at the mixing desk and Adam sounded ghastly he also admitted to me that Queen are shit with Lambert and that is coming from a roadie !