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Post by skaschep on Aug 21, 2019 16:45:20 GMT -5
My guess is that Keith Spera could not name another singer who could front Queen as well as Adam does. And if he DID name another singer, I sure hope it wouldn't be MM or another one of those impersonators who Brian and Roger said would be an awful choice. Actually, I don't care what this guy thinks. Hoping this review just runs its course. Two more shows to go! Then it's VELVET TIME! It turns out he ment that other folks find Adam a better fit than him. Not that he thinks others would be a better fit. He didn't phrase that very clear I think.
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Post by svca on Aug 21, 2019 16:51:48 GMT -5
The author replied on Twitter a couple of times. Simone the lack of retweets on a review always tells a lot about how well received the review is. The really great ones get 100's of retweets from the fans. I'm not so sure yours will hit 20. Question: do you even like Queen music? Keith Spera @keithspera I do, quite a bit.... Simone well that didn't show in your review. Maybe next time do yourself a favor and leave your bias at home. Go to the concert with an open mind and perhaps you even have a good time and enjoy yourself like I'm pretty sure the 15,000 others in the arena did. Keith Spera @keithspera I do like Queen, but I don't think Adam fits in as well as some other folks do.Hm, let me guess....a MM fan?
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Post by skaschep on Aug 21, 2019 16:53:42 GMT -5
Can anybody find me a live recording of "Under Pressure" where Freddie even contemplates to do the "Why?". It is not very strong even on the studio version, once you compare it to Adam's. It was meant as a rhetorical question, but I really had to google it. Here is the first ever live performance on Under Pressure in 1981. Freddie was in a pretty good voice. Yet there was something missing... youtu.be/U_IhiEUp2bQ?t=144I find it interesting that the "Why?" was there in QAL 2012, then disappeared in 2014 and it took about 3 years to show up again. I wonder if Roger or Brian discouraged Adam from doing it in order to preserve his voice, and then eventually Adam could not hold back and decided to reincorporate it in the live shows? That's a question I would ask if I were an IG user The "Why?" is now my first go-to moment on any live recording, even before TSMGO and WWTLF. Interesting. Thank you for bringing this over. It clearly is missing something at the WHY part. I also watched the rest and it struck me how this wasn't performed as a duet back then. Freddie just sang all the parts. Even at some point when Roger started to sing the Bowie part and Freddie started singing as well you see Roger stopping and accepting that Freddie was the front man. Roger might not have the same voice anymore that he had back then, but I always love this duet between Adam and him very much. It's also often named in the reviews so I think it's great that they gave Roger the whole Bowie part with QAL.
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Post by skaschep on Aug 21, 2019 16:56:59 GMT -5
The author replied on Twitter a couple of times. Simone the lack of retweets on a review always tells a lot about how well received the review is. The really great ones get 100's of retweets from the fans. I'm not so sure yours will hit 20. Question: do you even like Queen music? Keith Spera @keithspera I do, quite a bit.... Simone well that didn't show in your review. Maybe next time do yourself a favor and leave your bias at home. Go to the concert with an open mind and perhaps you even have a good time and enjoy yourself like I'm pretty sure the 15,000 others in the arena did. Keith Spera @keithspera I do like Queen, but I don't think Adam fits in as well as some other folks do.Hm, let me guess....a MM fan? See my post just above yours.
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Post by nica575 on Aug 21, 2019 16:57:17 GMT -5
I find it interesting that NYT didn’t bother reviewing MSG shows this time around( unless I missed it)... one would think that they’d do it given the “answer” they got from QAL re “harmonies being too good to be live”...
oh well... I guess too much stuff going on in the city ...
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Post by skaschep on Aug 21, 2019 17:03:46 GMT -5
I find it interesting that NYT didn’t bother reviewing MSG shows this time around( unless I missed it)... one would think that they’d do it given the “answer” they got from QAL re “harmonies being too good to be live”... oh well... I guess too much stuff going on in the city ... I haven't seen anything about it. I was travelling so could be I missed it, but then it was very bad as well as nobody shared it around. There are a couple of people who tweet out all the Google search articles so even if they didn't tweet about it it would have popped up somewhere I think.
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Post by skaschep on Aug 21, 2019 17:04:17 GMT -5
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Post by skaschep on Aug 21, 2019 17:06:42 GMT -5
In other news: the new 5SOS song had a bit of an IIHY vibe to it. It got released this afternoon and within 20 minutes of that release there were also about 20 young people tweeting that it was giving them Adam Lambert vibes. Nice to see that he is on their minds!
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Post by christina91 on Aug 21, 2019 17:18:05 GMT -5
I really hate doing this because it is an Adam fansite and I think we should respect both Freddie and Adam. I get some people don't dig Freddie's voice that's cool everyone has a preference but Freddie wasn't an amateur. No he wasn't musically trained but he had a fantastic voice. His voice ended up in horrible shape for various reasons but the main thing was his nodules that plagued him since 1975. This could have easily been fixed but Freddie refused in fear of losing his voice completely. Prior to that Freddie was great at singing live. One of my fave retro Queen concerts was The Rainbow 74. Freddie was stellar. Compare it to a year later where exhaustion and nodules had begun to take their affect on his voice and you can see the difference. Of course as I've said other things factored into it. It reminds me of the recording session of Bohemian Rhapsody. Freddie did many different takes and from there decided which worked best on each part of the song.Or when they re-recorded Keep Yourself Alive it sounded like a totally different song. While at the time there was no autotune and so therefore what you hear is their natural voices(sometimes layered to cause that sound like its 50 voices instead of 3)they did have the option of re-recording it till they got it perfect. As I said because he was struggling with nodules till the end of his life during a tour there is no way he would attempt to do the "why" on Under Pressure and risk blowing out his voice mid way through the show. His voice did give out on him many times in 79. And back then Queen's tours were much longer and much harder on them due to the schedule. That doesn't mean if he wanted to he couldn't do it if he was fully rested. As for Live Aid I've watched the rehearsal footage and it is in no way the same as the actual performance. Of course it was rehearsed this was a major event which would also be aired live on tv and Queen hadn't played together in 6 months. Everyone said Queen took it more seriously then everyone else and clearly it paid off as we see even today. Plus at the time he performed against doctors orders. Infact most of the time from what I've seen in performances Freddie wasn't rehearsed as in it wasn't a carbon copy of the show (ex: Freddie didn't say exactly the same thing night after night) he always threw in something different. In a show you have to be rehearsed to some extent. As for why people prefer Freddie I've said this a hundred times it's what's drilled into them. I'm not saying Adam doesn't have a stellar voice but we have to remember Queen was a rock band and rock back then was not crystal clear vocals. I'm one of those people who likes both crystal clear vocals and gritty vocals hence why I like both Freddie and Adam. Ok I'm done. I just had to say this because I hate when people make Freddie seem like he wasn't a great performer. Everyone is allowed to have their opinions but still. Also the irony of it was Freddie's voice was prob at it's strongest the year prior to his death even up to a few months prior to his death (ex mother love, SMGO) One more thing the critics didn't like them in the beginning of their career but after it seemed like interest grew and slowly they got more respect. I don't think Freddie's death triggered the respect I just think it elevated Freddie's status in the rock world but again that doesn't mean he wasn't talented of course he was you have to be talented to do some of the things he did whether it was recorded or not.
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Post by christina91 on Aug 21, 2019 17:25:32 GMT -5
It was meant as a rhetorical question, but I really had to google it. Here is the first ever live performance on Under Pressure in 1981. Freddie was in a pretty good voice. Yet there was something missing... youtu.be/U_IhiEUp2bQ?t=144I find it interesting that the "Why?" was there in QAL 2012, then disappeared in 2014 and it took about 3 years to show up again. I wonder if Roger or Brian discouraged Adam from doing it in order to preserve his voice, and then eventually Adam could not hold back and decided to reincorporate it in the live shows? That's a question I would ask if I were an IG user The "Why?" is now my first go-to moment on any live recording, even before TSMGO and WWTLF. Interesting. Thank you for bringing this over. It clearly is missing something at the WHY part. I also watched the rest and it struck me how this wasn't performed as a duet back then. Freddie just sang all the parts. Even at some point when Roger started to sing the Bowie part and Freddie started singing as well you see Roger stopping and accepting that Freddie was the front man. Roger might not have the same voice anymore that he had back then, but I always love this duet between Adam and him very much. It's also often named in the reviews so I think it's great that they gave Roger the whole Bowie part with QAL. I think Roger did that cause it was the first time and he wasn't sure this is 1986 version of Under Pressure in Budapest seems like Roger stays with him through the Bowie parts. It also seems like Roger's mic is turned down a bit could be the mixing I'd have to listen to bootlegs to see. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE1BmFl6tDg&list=RDZE1BmFl6tDg
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