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Post by suzysuzyqt on Feb 20, 2020 22:45:39 GMT -5
Ha! That was funny where Roger's finger was pointing😂😂😂 but I googled the Sydney Morning Herald and the highest review is 4 stars! So Queen & Adam got ****. 4 stars!!! Great review!!
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Post by pi on Feb 20, 2020 23:08:11 GMT -5
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Post by DancyGeorgia on Feb 20, 2020 23:52:14 GMT -5
You know, I just gotta say a couple of things. First of all, with all the thousands of M&G photos Adam has needed to 'pose' for, I think he has found a 'pose' that works for most photos. It's the one where he's serious and looking at the camera. That's it. He isn't full of angst; he isn't feeling 'left out' - he's just posing with a composed, angular look that serves him well. Secondly, I want to speak of something that's been on my mind - and yours, too. For the past two years I've been watching and experiencing my life being rebuilt. I've watched the workers on my home show up before 7AM, begin climbing ladders, digging holes, sawing, hammering, lifting, pouring concrete, plying their talent on roofs in blazing sun. They do it - the music plays - and when the day is over they put away their tools and come back again. Adam does the same thing. Years ago I had my time on stage. I can tell you with absolute truth that at the end of a performance the energy was so high I was ready to do it all again - then and there. When the audience adores you, feeds you, you don't leave the stage spent. You leave with the energy you've received. The challenge is in 'coming back to earth' night after night. I'm not speaking for Adam, for he has said that his life, his energy, comes from performance. It isn't exhausting him. It's fueling him. We are blessed to follow this incredible man who knows how to take care of his gift; how to nurture his gift; how to make it flourish in front of what sometimes seems incredible odds. Actually, I think this is the thing that leaves Roger and Brian in awe. When Brian shows his admiration for another spectacular, sustained high note, it isn't because Adam nailed it; it's because Adam nailed it, again. We are doing our best to support Adam because we know him. I know - I know - we don't 'know' him . . . but we get him. I feel some sort of validation in that he has chosen an 'Indie' label. It tells me he wants to advance his art more than he wants to be a 'star'. From the beginning of my journey, in 2009, I've known I'm following the greatest talent of my life. I don't care about charts, or numbers, or albums sold. Certainly, I am grateful for the success that brings AFL to a level where he can create and expand his horizons on his terms. He will finish this Aussie leg triumphantly! Because this his his JOB. This is what he knows. This is his excellence. It isn't easy, by any means. Nor is it easy to climb a 20-foot ladder and secure a cross beam; nor is it easy to precisely lay a foundation for a home over the ashes of the one that vaporized in a fire storm. Adam said exactly this in an interview!!! It is not just one person's opinion or experience. It is what Adam himself has said is his reality!!!
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Post by bamafan on Feb 21, 2020 0:08:30 GMT -5
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Post by bridgeymah on Feb 21, 2020 1:03:52 GMT -5
I think my quick observation that Adam looked exhausted in a photo, set off a chain of discussion. Was an innocent comment - not meant to assert or imply anything more than what I said. I love what I do, and am sometimes exhausted by it, those things are often true at the same time.
Onwards.
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Post by sizzling63 on Feb 21, 2020 1:15:10 GMT -5
The Sydney Morning Herald
Dinosaurs in space: Queen gloriously upstage themselves
LIVE MUSIC
QUEEN + ADAM LAMBERT ★★★★
AAMI Park, February 19
So this time, Brian May played a guitar solo on a levitating asteroid. Comets whizzed around his star-spangled blouse. Planets circled his enormous poodle hair. Multicoloured lasers sliced the sky, droplets of real rain dancing like diamonds.
Hell of a solo, too. Long, fluid, melodic, drenched in effects and unmistakably Brian. But it's the asteroid we’ll remember. So goes the incremental transformation of Queen from flesh-and-blood rock group to jaw-dropping virtual theme park for the ages.
This is May and drummer Roger Taylor's third visit with the highly capable Adam Lambert subbing for the "irreplaceable" (his word) Freddie Mercury.
Their strategic evolution from band interrupted to hit stage musical to smash family biopic has ensured a doubling of their audience since Rod Laver in 2014.
The songs – about 30 that rugged-up grannies and plastic-wrapped children alike knew well enough to bawl into the intermittent drizzle – remain the same. For some of us, I Want To Break Free feels like a laboured contractual commitment. For others, In the Lap of the Gods and Taylor’s I’m In Love With My Car are gloriously unexpected highs.
On Bohemian Rhapsody – part video flashback, part theatrical re-enactment, all note-perfect delirium – we all agree, with fists and tonsils at full flex. Without Under Pressure, Radio Ga Ga or the encore of We Will Rock You/ We Are the Champions, nobody here would get out alive.
Lambert has grown more comfortable since 2014. He can sing Freddie and then some, but he’s less inclined to over-warble. The vital flamboyance is tempered by expert stagecraft and genuine gratitude to have landed pop’s ultimate part.
May and Taylor, the "two living legends" on stage (Lambert again), perform their anchoring roles with almost apologetic modesty, keenly aware that this monumental legacy is far beyond any mortal design. An electrifying homage to Led Zeppelin and Elvis Presley threw that story into deeper perspective.
Neither of those dinosaurs, sadly, knew the dimensions of staging that bring motorcycles spiralling from the ground, or the breathtaking calibre of digital enhancement that makes riding an asteroid as easy as playing guitar, as thousands raise their phones to take a video of a video of Freddie Mercury miraculously reborn on a blimp-sized TV.
It’s fair to assume such spectacles would be diminished without the actual living Brian May somewhere in there, pulling actual strings. But deep inside Queen’s strategic development division, plans are doubtless afoot to cross that bridge without breaking stride.
www.smh.com.au/culture/music/dinosaurs-in-space-queen-gloriously-upstage-themselves-20200220-p542l1.html?
* I posted the entire review for those who can't access the link, but please click on the link to give them hits if you can.
i made sure to "click" It makes me incredibly happy to see how much recognition Adam gets for what he does. It never gets old. Yes, he is "highly capable", and then some.
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Post by marionm on Feb 21, 2020 12:04:54 GMT -5
svca i just also wanted to let you know that yesterday there were over 50 (i heared 70) demonsrations to show sympathies with the victims and their Loved ones and to take a stand against violence and hatred. I tuched me deeply. Unfortunately there was no such event near where i am right now.
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Post by Jablea on Feb 21, 2020 13:12:40 GMT -5
Was it just me or was that review a bit on the snarky side? Dinosaurs in space? What does that mean? Nah I just think it’s a sense of endearment. He was making some reinvention analogies too in that Queen hasn't stayed in the past production wise, using all the latest technologies to become more than an old rock band and evolve into an immersive experience. So old extinct dinosaurs living it up and adapting to the space age but I don't think it really worked for him so he also referred to Elvis and Led Zepplin as old dinosaurs.
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