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Post by lurleene on Mar 23, 2019 21:24:38 GMT -5
Shosh says Adam will be promoting his own music in Nov and Dec...not touring with QAL I bet Adam will he doing the US radio Holiday concerts during Nov/Dec. I think these were used last time to judge if a US tour would be profitable. I thought radio concerts were used to try to get radio play?
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Post by DancyGeorgia on Mar 23, 2019 21:26:50 GMT -5
I‘m also a Queenbert. And I‘m waiting for them to come back to Europe. But I know, there are a lot of things to juggle. Shosh was just asked about November and December. Yesterday I saw somewhere, that Brian told the Chinese fans, that they will (probably?) come soon to their country. I think, QAL will play Asia and maybe Australia in October. There are very strong talks/rumors hinting at it. QAL only play tours that last 3-6 weeks. There is time for Adam‘s solo stuff between that. I don‘t see any way, that Brian and Roger will replace Adam. No way. QAL just toured EU/UK summer 2018. I suspect it will be summer 2020 before QAL tours there again. Then they can do number of the summer festivals.
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Post by DancyGeorgia on Mar 23, 2019 21:32:46 GMT -5
I bet Adam will he doing the US radio Holiday concerts during Nov/Dec. I think these were used last time to judge if a US tour would be profitable. I thought radio concerts were used to try to get radio play? They could have multiple purposes. If Adam headlines a radio concert and not many people come, I doubt any promoters would consider sponsoring a tour. If there is a lot of demand for multiple radio concerts that Adam is headlining, then I would think promoters would see that as an indication that an Adam tour could do well.
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Post by DancyGeorgia on Mar 23, 2019 21:39:56 GMT -5
The demographics of those radio holiday concerts don't seem like they would be predictable about a mature singer and his base. It was almost a disconnect 5 years ago. It depends on which radio show. The one in NY headlined by the younger pop artists was mostly a different demographic. But it was a different story at the radio concerts that Adam headlined. For example, Wilkes Barre & Cleveland were very much Adam fan dominated. And St Louis & Kansas City were split between Adam and Pentatonix fans.
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Post by momtomany on Mar 23, 2019 21:50:27 GMT -5
Recently, when I had one of these super smart-ass people in front of me, who was trying to lecture me on the fact that MM sounds more like Freddie and Adam does not, I tried the following comparison.
So Andy Warhol made many posters/pictures, and somebody (person A) buys themselves a paint-by-number workbook of Warhol's art, and begins coloring. And that person does an excellent job staying within the lines and carefully re-creates a picture that looks incredibly like the original by Andy Warhol.
Then there is a second person (person B), somebody who sees himself as an more edgy and out there in his artistic expression, and he looks at Andy Warhol, tries to imagine what Warhol wanted to say with his work, and then goes out and does his own picture, in the spirit and/or with reverence to Warhol. So he makes a poster and there are no Campbell soup cans in sight. Maybe the poster has i-phones instead of soup cans, now that it is 2019, who knows. Some people love it, some people hate it, some people argue about him as an artist, but in the end, many people pay attention.
Artist B gets to exhibit his art at art galleries around the country. Meanwhile, fans of the guy A start a media campaign trying to tell the world that their guy is the much better replica of the original, and it is a crime that nobody is paying attention to those impeccable copies. And they don't understand why their snowflake does not get to exhibit around the world like the other guy does.
The guy I was talking to said something along the line that Adam was no artist and was not convincing him, etc. I told him that he certainly had a right to that opinion, and that artists, if they do their own thing, usually find themselves understood by some and not by others. The need to live with that dissonance, but also need to follow their own inner voice, and earn the respect, and deal with it, if that respect comes delayed (as imo happened with Freddie and Queen in general).
And I also told him that I thought that MM had done pretty convincing work with his own music, and that I thought he had tons of talent too, but that trying to inhabit the space that Freddie was in, was just pushing him into a paint-by-numbers role, because that was not his natural self in those songs, but that in his own work, I certainly had plenty of respect for him. I also think MM is quite a nice guy.
It was an interesting conversation, and I think that while the guy did not back down about MM in front of me, I think, I did give him something to think about. Just thought I'd share for those that have that eternal MM angst. Maybe that comparison speaks to you too.
Sometimes I wonder if people will ever understand that Brian and Roger were never looking for another Freddie; they wished for someone who could fiercely interpret the music Queen presented to the world, after Freddie was gone. They found their GFG. They've said, many times, that Adam is the only one for now and ever. Had they wanted a Freddie sound-alike or look-alike, they would have chosen MM or the guy who shows up at every performance in Asia. It's Adam . . . and when this gig is over, it will be ending with Brian, Roger, and Adam taking the bows.
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Post by DancyGeorgia on Mar 23, 2019 22:13:47 GMT -5
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Post by bamafan on Mar 23, 2019 22:29:29 GMT -5
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Post by bamafan on Mar 23, 2019 22:30:24 GMT -5
So no EU/UK, So America or So Africa this year.....now somebody needs to ask about Korea/Asia...lol
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Post by donnamb on Mar 23, 2019 22:39:39 GMT -5
I bet Adam will he doing the US radio Holiday concerts during Nov/Dec. I think these were used last time to judge if a US tour would be profitable. I thought radio concerts were used to try to get radio play? Exactly. The shows in the big markets (Madison Square Garden for the iheart stations) were for acts which already had the airwave blessing. The secondary markets - like Wilkes-Barre - were very local affairs, with maybe 3 artists featured with meet and greets. Back then, the featured artists were Adam, a family teen group, and Rachel Platten. I wouldn't want to see Adam doing 20 minute sets in those situations.
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Post by lurleene on Mar 23, 2019 22:59:21 GMT -5
I thought radio concerts were used to try to get radio play? Exactly. The shows in the big markets (Madison Square Garden for the iheart stations) were for acts which already had the airwave blessing. The secondary markets - like Wilkes-Barre - were very local affairs, with maybe 3 artists featured with meet and greets. Back then, the featured artists were Adam, a family teen group, and Rachel Platten. I wouldn't want to see Adam doing 20 minute sets in those situations.
True. And another one that I did not like but where it was escapes me. They had Adam close following Shawn Mendes who was becoming very popular. There were all these kids and their parents there to see Shawn. I even remember one parent complaining about Adam just being on the bill with Shawn. Ugh, please just no. I think it would be fine for one now and then, when appropriate, but not an entire run of those radio shows. We shall see if he wants and does that now but I can't imagine him wanting to do a string of those.
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