rockchic65 wrote:
Iron Butterfly wrote:
I'm relieved AL doesn't overdo it as much as he once did. Because sometimes it was...painful ;-).
He's learned to hold back, and from where and how I look at it, that's the biggest improvement of all.
Yeah I actually really like how he sings now, I wouldn't mind the odd insane vocal run on his solo tour just for fun but not all the time on nearly every song, it loses it's wow factor if you do it all the time, maybe that's why he's toned it down a lot. Plus it can't be great for your voice to do that as much as he used to.
I like it as well. And he still does his insane vocal runs, even with Queen. Just not that often, but still at least once or twice a show. That’s how you can actually say as a listener, when his voice isn’t that well on a concert day. On these days, he refrains from doing these runs.
These runs aren’t a problem for his voice, if done technically right. They would be for an untrained singer.
The whole Queen show is demanding. Therefore it’s structured to make it a bit easier to sing all these songs night after night without hurting the voice (too much). They almost never do more than two shows in a row. That goes for Adam’s solo tours as well, because more would be very hard on the vocal chords.
The Queen shows start with some fast and upbeat songs. They aren’t only there to get the audience going, but also to warm up Adam’s voice. Of course, he and the rest of the band do a vocal warm-up. But Adam has said, that it’s not that extensive, because the first songs are also more warm-up songs. I found it simply astounding: This guy sings WWRY, Hammer to fall, Stone Cold Crazy and so on and says, they are easier for the voice to sing. :-D
Just that shows, what an extraordinary singer he is. These songs sound great, and i know, many singers struggle to perform them in a convincing way, when they just try to sing one. It also shows, how much self-confidence Adam has. Some might call it arrogance. I don’t think, he would have been able to do, what he does without it. You must be brave with a ton of self-confidence to step into Freddie’s role on stage.
As a singer, who ends the main show by singing Who wants to live forever, The Show must go on and BoRhap sometimes even non-stop (with the easier on the voice Radio GaGa thrown in), he has every right to be as confident as he is. He is a monster of a singer.
I know a lot of singers personally. I don’t know or have seen anyone with his abilities. He is not only insanely talented. Adam must have been working to develop his singing techniques for almost his whole life. That was really hard work. Some fans, who try to put Adam down, because he doesn’t play an instrument, seem to have no idea, how much more is behind Adam’s singing ability. Because: We all can sing. To some extend at least. So being a singer is easy, right?
Adam Lambert is someone , to whom a lot of singers and people of musical knowledge are looking up to in absolute aw. Kenny Ortega was shocked, when he heard Adam’s singing ability. He worked with him on „The Rocky Horror Picture show“ and mentioned, he had never heard a talented voice like this. Every take of the song had been a new experience. For your info: That man worked with Michael Jackson and many other big stars. And Adam only had a minor role, no need „to big him up“. And Ortega wasn’t the first one to say things like this.
I know, that doesn’t help Queen fans, who just don’t like Adam or his voice interpreting Queen songs.
So far, nobody has yet been able to bottle that voice and create songs, that showcase it in a great way -other than the Queen catalogue. Or at least some songs of it.
I don’t know, if it will ever happen, but IF Adam ever gets the right songs for his solo career, he might become a huge star. Somehow Brian and Roger can be happy, that it didn’t happen so far...
