8.12.13 AFTEE news, Avicii TRUE Reveal, Bakers' Celebration

Adam and Sauli in Norwegian magazine Julia.
"There are rumors that Adam Lambert has broken up with his love one Sauli Koskinen simply because they have grown apart from each other. But they say that they are good friends."

Thanks for that!!!

Cassie, I am sure that Adam must have struggled back and forth before making his decision, it cannot have been easy. I bet, things got a bit easier, once he had Glee and the other gigs, because that made it a continuum of a successful TV and performance career, with just a transitional label status, versus just an exit into an overall unclear future. Big difference. But there were many months before that, where he already knew that his situation at RCA had become contentious or unsupported, but yet, did not know how things would work out going forward.
It cannot have been easy to put a positive spin on things, while already feeling bad about the situation.

But I also think that this is life. Who of us has not been in an employment situation, where we were unhappy with the situation, but did not see a way out, or did not know how to turn the ship around. Or maybe it is a bad relationship or some other conflict that causes us to have sleepless nights. Whatever it is, sometimes it takes time to sort stuff out.

The good news is, that he got out beautifully, and with at least an immediate future ahead of him. He can right now freely explore his musical direction and I personally think that this is also something that Adam really needs some time for. I don't think he quite knows yet, what his next direction is and we will all see, what will come of it. I am glad that Adam can explore all this, without a voice hovering over him and trying to influence him based on some RCA accountant's opinion of the music world.

He is free.....and count me in the club of those who think he will stay free for a while and go for the eventual distribution deal, rather than the label ties for now. I think he is 'shopping' interesting musical collaborations right now and not labels. Just my hunch.

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In other news of the day, I want to join the choir of those giving a thank you shout out to Reihmer, our resident baker at this time:



Love to find your baked goods and delicacies every day. Thank you so much! Yum!

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Sandy? Sandy? Am I the only one who is wondering about our Sandy (sandy518, sandy618, sandymct, sandysva)?????

Sandy, I don't recognize you anymore. Help!


Sandy, there is no fear involved, and contrary to this image, we are surely not fearing your arrival here, but we would like to recognize you when you show up, and make sure we bake our cakes on the right day for you.

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Finally, want to thank Melliemom who posted that tenor - Les Mis - video on page 2. Reminded me again, how exceptional and unusual Adam's voice is. If you listen just the first few seconds. The song starts out with an octave jump up, which is surely a difficult way to start a song, but this tenor, who seems like the strongest of the four actually, needs to use all his training and vocal control to hit that note, and at least to my ears it sounded like a high note at first....until I started singing that jump myself and realized, it only sounded high to my ears, because it was high in the context of this tenor's personal voice.

A jump from E3 to E4 is for Adam a jump in the lower half of his range, not the upper. Adam would be able to do this E3 to E4 jump, but he would also be able to do the E4 to E5 cleanly (and has done so live, i.e. Music Again). None of these 4 trained tenors here would have any chance at trying that. The highest note in the song is an A4 (halfway between E4 and E5) and only two of the guys are singing it.

Adam is completely in a league of his own, even compared to these professionals here. Given that it's a slow day, if you want to follow along with what I just wrote, here is an online piano with the keys printed on it, that you can open in a window and hit the notes while reading through the paragraph above or while playing the beginning of the song.

www.play-piano.org/play_online_piano_piano.html

Your  points are good but range is about the bottom as well as the top....and a lot of other factors. Colm Wilkinson, and beat-me-with-a-noodle-because-I-forget-the-name-of-the-singer-to-Colm's-right are amazing. The role [and originally that of the Phantom] were written with Colm in mind because he IS so amazing. Keep in mind that this is a really quiet, unadorned and emotion song...it is not like one you can belt out. So these notes can only be compared to Mad World or Soaked or TOMT... and Colm is over 60, singing live. Pretty damn good if you ask me and not to be sneezed at. Not exactly the same timbre as Adam [the un-named one is closer to Adam in 'brightness'] but definitely in the 'same league' IMHO.

By the way...does anybody know if Lea Michelle performed in that special as she was originally Cossette in Les Mis....?

ETA I think Colm Wilkinson is as big in Musical Theatre as Queen in rock.....and Adam would be thrilled to be considered in the company of him.....it is too bad that some of the pure theatre stars do not seem to be as known outside of the theatre. We tend to only hear of them when the cross over into film or television. That is really sad.....

ETA2 Just had to check...he is 69!!