Adam Lambert can't say in an interview, "I'm having trouble finding a label" because if he said that, other record companies would think he's problematic, and they'd steer clear of him. It's also possible he faced complications with Warner Brothers... and passed the message along. If his music is released on some small label, that's probably what happened.
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If a record company released him... he is free to release music. But, it also means... he needs a record label to do so.[/QUOTE]
No he already explained about the last time when he chose to walk away, he wasn't free to even announce it for around a year. The day after he did he was signed to Warner. In legal terms it's called a non compete.
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You keep saying he's not free to release music. Maybe what Adam means by "complications, paperwork, etc" is that... "I can't get on a fucking label, no one wants me!"[/QUOTE]
The way he's talked about the situation a few times makes it sound that way, the same as the last time when he walked away from RCA. I may be wrong, no way to know, I do know he has one song coming up that's part of the playmobil movie but that's next year. I'm sure whatever the situation he'll work it out, he's still going in the studio so he's obviously intending releasing it at some point.
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If a record company released him... he is free to release music. But, it also means... he needs a record label to do so.[/QUOTE]
Sure he can release music, I suppose. And have sweetcaroline as his publicist, PR person and all that...
Oh wait, she thinks she already is.
I think it will be a while before he realeases and album. Gut feeling.[/QUOTE]
Me too. It sounds like he's satisfied with Queen anyway. SweetCaroline will always be in the audience ;-) Really, though. Queen is what he finds comfort in, and he's obviously having label problems and needs something to do.
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[QUOTE] [b]MisterCosmicc wrote:[/b]
If a record company released him... he is free to release music. But, it also means... he needs a record label to do so.[/QUOTE]
No he already explained about the last time when he chose to walk away, he wasn't free to even announce it for around a year. The day after he did he was signed to Warner. In legal terms it's called a non compete.
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Adam didn't walk away from Warners. Considering they took his name down from the page, they dropped him.
[QUOTE] [b]MisterCosmicc wrote:[/b]
Adam Lambert can't say in an interview, "I'm having trouble finding a label" because if he said that, other record companies would think he's problematic, and they'd steer clear of him. It's also possible he faced complications with Warner Brothers... and passed the message along. If his music is released on some small label, that's probably what happened.[/QUOTE]
There's only so many big labels so it's possible they might be wary of signing him if it turns out he was the one to walk away but we don't know the situation yet and tbh as he himself said it's not for fans to worry about. I'm sure he's got a team to sort all that stuff out so I'll just wait until he's ready or able to let us know.
[QUOTE]If a record company released him... he is free to release music. But, it also means... he needs a record label to do so.[/QUOTE]
Mister Cosmicc, you haven’t as much knowledge about the music business as you pretend to have. Actually, a lot of your statements and assumptions have faults. This is quite possibly one of them.
Reminds me of: “Oh yeah, I‘m the great pretender!“ ;-)
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Adam didn't walk away from Warners. Considering they took his name down from the page, they dropped him.
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Not necessarily, they would do that either way, they aren't gonna promote an artist they are no longer representing.
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It sounds like he's satisfied with Queen anyway. SweetCaroline will always be in the audience ;-) Really, though. Queen is what he finds comfort in, and he's obviously having label problems and needs something to do.[/QUOTE]
Of course he likes working with Queen, why wouldn't he? The movie's just been out and Queen are racing up the charts so realistically they will be doing a tour on the back of that. If he was ready to release music next year he'd do it anyway regardless, it didn't stop him last time, and he might yet but either way he's not short of other work and he likes to be busy so whatever he's doing is all good.
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[QUOTE] [b]MisterCosmicc wrote:[/b]
Adam Lambert can't say in an interview, "I'm having trouble finding a label" because if he said that, other record companies would think he's problematic, and they'd steer clear of him. It's also possible he faced complications with Warner Brothers... and passed the message along. If his music is released on some small label, that's probably what happened.[/QUOTE]
There's only so many big labels so it's possible they might be wary of signing him if it turns out he was the one to walk away but we don't know the situation yet and tbh as he himself said it's not for fans to worry about. I'm sure he's got a team to sort all that stuff out so I'll just wait until he's ready or able to let us know.
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Adam spends his touring days singing songs by other people... what can be so bad about Warner Brothers that Adam left the label? I imagine he was kicked off... but why? "Oh, I wanted to write songs alone..." That can't be it. An 80's album idea come up again? I'm sure Warner Brothers were like, "Hey, let's sign Adam up... we can have him do an 80's cover album featuring a ton of songs from other labels, it'll bring us in... mediocre money." That wasn't it, and it'd of been brought up before he even signed his name. He was dropped, for what reasons, I don't know. Maybe they asked him to perform some rock 'n' roll. Maybe it was his Queen commitment and he didn't want to ditch the piggy bank.
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Adam spends his touring days singing songs by other people... what can be so bad about Warner Brothers that Adam left the label? I imagine he was kicked off... but why? "Oh, I wanted to write songs alone..." That can't be it. An 80's album idea come up again? I'm sure Warner Brothers were like, "Hey, let's sign Adam up... we can have him do an 80's cover album featuring a ton of songs from other labels, it'll bring us in... mediocre money." That wasn't it, and it'd of been brought up before he even signed his name. He was dropped, for what reasons, I don't know. Maybe they asked him to perform some rock 'n' roll. Maybe it was his Queen commitment and he didn't want to ditch the piggy bank.[/QUOTE]
Like I said no way to know, I'm sure at some future point when it's all settled he'll spill, he did last time. They were aware of the Queen commitment when he signed with them so I doubt that's it either. Maybe they weren't on board with the type of music he's choosing to do, the album he did with them is completely different than his first two, he's said this new one won't be anything like the third one, maybe the direction he's going is something they aren't prepared to support. It's pointless to speculate really, we'll know when we know.
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[QUOTE] [b]rockchic65 wrote:[/b]
[QUOTE] [b]MisterCosmicc wrote:[/b]
You keep saying he's not free to release music. Maybe what Adam means by "complications, paperwork, etc" is that... "I can't get on a fucking label, no one wants me!"[/QUOTE]
The way he's talked about the situation a few times makes it sound that way, the same as the last time when he walked away from RCA. I may be wrong, no way to know, I do know he has one song coming up that's part of the playmobil movie but that's next year. I'm sure whatever the situation he'll work it out, he's still going in the studio so he's obviously intending releasing it at some point.
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If a record company released him... he is free to release music. But, it also means... he needs a record label to do so.[/QUOTE]
Sure he can release music, I suppose. And have sweetcaroline as his publicist, PR person and all that...
Oh wait, she thinks she already is.
I think it will be a while before he realeases and album. Gut feeling.[/QUOTE]
Me too. It sounds like he's satisfied with Queen anyway. SweetCaroline will always be in the audience ;-) Really, though. Queen is what he finds comfort in, and he's obviously having label problems and needs something to do.[/QUOTE]
Of course AL is satisfied. He is making more money with Brian and Roger than he ever could with his solo career that way that turned out for him. Pretty easy way for him to get the almighty dollar.
I will say again, he will be in for a shock once Q+AL is over. Won't be so easy for him then.
[QUOTE] [b]Iron Butterfly wrote:[/b]
Of course AL is satisfied. He is making more money with Brian and Roger than he ever could with his solo career that way that turned out for him. Pretty easy way for him to get the almighty dollar.
I will say again, he will be in for a shock once Q+AL is over. Won't be so easy for him then.[/QUOTE]
It works both ways, Brian & Roger are getting to play arena's again on a large scale consistently, they've done large festivals and have said they wouldn't be doing it if it weren't for Adam. As they've all pointed out it's a mutually beneficial arrangement.
As to his career afterwards, all the appearances he's been doing, being asked to appear at events, give speeches, the movie part etc say that he'll have no problem after Queen ends. Despite what some people seem to think he gets a lot of credit and interest separate from the Queen thing, it's obvious the way people treat him that they don't see him as some kind of reject that Queen took under their wing, he gets a lot of respect.
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[QUOTE] [b]Iron Butterfly wrote:[/b]
Of course AL is satisfied. He is making more money with Brian and Roger than he ever could with his solo career that way that turned out for him. Pretty easy way for him to get the almighty dollar.
I will say again, he will be in for a shock once Q+AL is over. Won't be so easy for him then.[/QUOTE]
It works both ways, Brian & Roger are getting to play arena's again on a large scale consistently, they've done large festivals and have said they wouldn't be doing it if it weren't for Adam. As they've all pointed out it's a mutually beneficial arrangement.
As to his career afterwards, all the appearances he's been doing, being asked to appear at events, give speeches, the movie part etc say that he'll have no problem after Queen ends. Despite what some people seem to think he gets a lot of credit and interest separate from the Queen thing, it's obvious the way people treat him that they don't see him as some kind of reject that Queen took under their wing, he gets a lot of respect.
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Brian and Roger would be hyping up anyone they toured with. Heck, they said Paul Rodgers was Freddie's favorite singer.
It's hard work beng in the entertainment business, and no doubt in my mind AL does work hard. I do think it will be a shock for him once Q+AL is over. Brian and Roger playng on TwoFux didn't turn that song into a hit.
[QUOTE] [b]Iron Butterfly wrote:[/b]
Brian and Roger would be hyping up anyone they toured with. Heck, they said Paul Rodgers was Freddie's favorite singer.
It's hard work beng in the entertainment business, and no doubt in my mind AL does work hard. I do think it will be a shock for him once Q+AL is over. Brian and Roger playng on TwoFux didn't turn that song into a hit. [/QUOTE]
I don't mean what they say about his voice etc. Could they have found someone else to tour with, yeah of course, but they didn't find anyone they wanted to until they met Adam, that's what they mean when they say he's the reason they're doing this, he made them want to. It didn't appear to end well with Paul and there were rumors they had JSS on standby to step in at the last minute on their final tour, maybe that made them wary of giving it a go with someone else. Brian has said they'd only do it if it was fun and they enjoyed being with the person they're touring with and with Adam they have that so I don't see them saying so as hype, it must be nice to work with someone who they feel that comfortable with.
His own music will work or fail on it's own merits, it isn't gonna make a difference that he's toured with Queen but he's got a lot more things he can do besides music so regardless of that he'll get work and he enjoys doing lots of other things. Music's his first love but there's no reason he can't do that on a smaller scale if he chooses and still do other stuff besides, not everyone needs to be a Taylor Swift, there's plenty of bands touring around smaller venues who aren't mainstream.
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[QUOTE] [b]Iron Butterfly wrote:[/b]
Brian and Roger would be hyping up anyone they toured with. Heck, they said Paul Rodgers was Freddie's favorite singer.
It's hard work beng in the entertainment business, and no doubt in my mind AL does work hard. I do think it will be a shock for him once Q+AL is over. Brian and Roger playng on TwoFux didn't turn that song into a hit. [/QUOTE]
I don't mean what they say about his voice etc. Could they have found someone else to tour with, yeah of course, but they didn't find anyone they wanted to until they met Adam, that's what they mean when they say he's the reason they're doing this, he made them want to. It didn't appear to end well with Paul and there were rumors they had JSS on standby to step in at the last minute on their final tour, maybe that made them wary of giving it a go with someone else. Brian has said they'd only do it if it was fun and they enjoyed being with the person they're touring with and with Adam they have that so I don't see them saying so as hype, it must be nice to work with someone who they feel that comfortable with.
His own music will work or fail on it's own merits, it isn't gonna make a difference that he's toured with Queen but he's got a lot more things he can do besides music so regardless of that he'll get work and he enjoys doing lots of other things. Music's his first love but there's no reason he can't do that on a smaller scale if he chooses and still do other stuff besides, not everyone needs to be a Taylor Swift, there's plenty of bands touring around smaller venues who aren't mainstream.
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I'm pretty sure if Lady GaGa sang and toured with Brian and Roger, they would be hyping that up as the best ever, wouldn't be doing it otherwise. All the hype from Brian and Roger bestowed on AL comes across as little false.
I can't help but wonder where AL's heart is. Apparently he had some input in a recent photo shoot, so maybe he going for the 70s vibe look and sound wise? Who knows. The music business is always changing, and AL focusing so much on Q+AL that very likely put his own music career on hold. Of course he will never admit to that.
