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Post by scotia on Mar 9, 2014 23:45:08 GMT -5
At the end of the thread, as usual....but it'll be interesting to see if the majority of the new album will contain mainly material recorded during the 2 months in Sweden or if some tracks will be ones he worked on last year. Not sure how to tell except based on which producers the various songs have. As Adam said in the Dirty Pop interview...'there are a lot of producers in Sweden'...or something to that effect.
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Post by jean1010 on Mar 9, 2014 23:54:54 GMT -5
Started getting a bit down reading some nasty Queen fan comments but then looking at the old Q+A concerts and iheartradio helps to erase that negativity. But yikes! Antidote was seeing some positive Queen fan comments, esp about wanting to see Brian and Roger one last time are great. I took your advise and listened to the iHeart concert and visited the comments. Seems a lot of Queen fans were checking Adam out. There were some die-hard Freddie fans that will never accept Adam, but many Queen fans seemed pleasantly surprised. This is one of my favorites from that group. frantomo1 day ago What a suprise... Adam fits just perfect for this... and - to be honest - sometimes is just better than Freddie, especially from late 80's tours (please don't kill me:).. a first Freddie's stand-in who's really handling his vocal stuff without going over his posibilities.. nice to hear and watch:)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2014 23:55:43 GMT -5
At the end of the thread, as usual....but it'll be interesting to see if the majority of the new album will contain mainly material recorded during the 2 months in Sweden or if some tracks will be ones he worked on last year. Not sure how to tell except based on which producers the various songs have. As Adam said in the Dirty Pop interview...'there are a lot of producers in Sweden'...or something to that effect. The liner notes always say which studio the song was recorded in. You know how Adam is Geography and time challenged, you all? He's only been in Sweden since around Feb 13th, so not even a month yet!
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Post by DancyGeorgia on Mar 10, 2014 0:24:36 GMT -5
Sweet night dreams to everyone! Hope everyone gets the tickets they want in the morning! LAMBERTLUST @lambertlust 13h FEEL THE LOVE ☺️???? purpleELMA: oh boy! pic.twitter.com/lp8CiXkKWk
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Post by junkets on Mar 10, 2014 0:44:57 GMT -5
Started getting a bit down reading some nasty Queen fan comments but then looking at the old Q+A concerts and iheartradio helps to erase that negativity. But yikes! Antidote was seeing some positive Queen fan comments, esp about wanting to see Brian and Roger one last time are great. I don't worry abt anti-Adam comments on Queen fan site. There were tons and tons before the UK concerts and I can't tell you how kindly the audience accepted Adam. The worst haters on the Internet are always rock fans that argue abt any kind of minutiae, going back to who is better, Stones or Beatles, who the greatest guitarist, how so and so actually sucked, and srsly, whether Yoko broke up the Beatles still being debated, etc, etc. I basically put such arguments as being in the same camp as who is a better superhero, Batman or Superman. It's laughable in so many cases. I think younger ppl are less cynical and less obsessed with indie cred and being cool. And I usually classify ppl who like to decry their bands as "selling out" as being stuck in the 80s/early 90s. Their complaints just don't hold water anymore, especially since rock is no longer such a popular, and some might say relevent, genre. And EVERYONE who wants to make a living in the music industry NEEDS to do things that would have been anathema in the indie cred rock days--licensing their songs for commercial use, using sponsors, selling tix thru places like Tickermaster. I am saying this as a reformed indie-rock snob (although I would never dream of telling someone I thought their taste in music wasn't cool--that's so individual, akin to telling someone their religious beliefs aren't valid, but did I did really bristle when songs were first starting to be used in commercials). This indie cred thing really went away with the end of grunge, when Kurt Cobain wore a t-shirt on Rolling Stone cover that said "Corporate Magazines Still Suck." See? Still profiting from the exposure but being able to retain indie cred by doing it "ironically." That's how ppl saved face, and it's still done. As long as you are being ironic, you can do anything as a young person. (say, "I only like One Direction *ironically*") Things pointing this way are Dave Grohl's induction of Rush to the RnR Hall of Fame saying "When did it become cool to like Rush?" and Pete Wentz from Fall Out Boy saying he used to just mumble the name of the band when ppl ask what band he was in because they were considered kind of lame when punk cred was very important (and Green Day were considered punk poseurs) and now he says "Fall Out Boy" proudly and ppl say, "Cool." (although they still have their hipper-than-thou detractors). The original punk bands are senior citizens, so punk cred isnt even relevant because nobody can trace their roots back to them. I also think that ppl are emboldened in their musical tastes because there are always like-minded ppl on the Internet, somewhere. Anyway, that's a long-winded way to say Haters gonna hate, lol.
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Post by Q3 on Mar 10, 2014 1:12:39 GMT -5
Started getting a bit down reading some nasty Queen fan comments but then looking at the old Q+A concerts and iheartradio helps to erase that negativity. But yikes! Antidote was seeing some positive Queen fan comments, esp about wanting to see Brian and Roger one last time are great. I don't worry abt anti-Adam comments on Queen fan site. There were tons and tons before the UK concerts and I can't tell you how kindly the audience accepted Adam. The worst haters on the Internet are always rock fans that argue abt any kind of minutiae, going back to who is better, Stones or Beatles, who the greatest guitarist, how so and so actually sucked, and srsly, whether Yoko broke up the Beatles still being debated, etc, etc. I basically put such arguments as being in the same camp as who is a better superhero, Batman or Superman. It's laughable in so many cases. I think younger ppl are less cynical and less obsessed with indie cred and being cool. And I usually classify ppl who like to decry their bands as "selling out" as being stuck in the 80s/early 90s. Their complaints just don't hold water anymore, especially since rock is no longer such a popular, and some might say relevent, genre. And EVERYONE who wants to make a living in the music industry NEEDS to do things that would have been anathema in the indie cred rock days--licensing their songs for commercial use, using sponsors, selling tix thru places like Tickermaster. I am saying this as a reformed indie-rock snob (although I would never dream of telling someone I thought their taste in music wasn't cool--that's so individual, akin to telling someone their religious beliefs aren't valid, but did I did really bristle when songs were first starting to be used in commercials). This indie cred thing really went away with the end of grunge, when Kurt Cobain wore a t-shirt on Rolling Stone cover that said "Corporate Magazines Still Suck." See? Still profiting from the exposure but being able to retain indie cred by doing it "ironically." That's how ppl saved face, and it's still done. As long as you are being ironic, you can do anything as a young person. (say, "I only like One Direction *ironically*") Things pointing this way are Dave Grohl's induction of Rush to the RnR Hall of Fame saying "When did it become cool to like Rush?" and Pete Wentz from Fall Out Boy saying he used to just mumble the name of the band when ppl ask what band he was in because they were considered kind of lame when punk cred was very important (and Green Day were considered punk poseurs) and now he says "Fall Out Boy" proudly and ppl say, "Cool." (although they still have their hipper-than-thou detractors). The original punk bands are senior citizens, so punk cred isnt even relevant because nobody can trace their roots back to them. I also think that ppl are emboldened in their musical tastes because there are always like-minded ppl on the Internet, somewhere. Anyway, that's a long-winded way to say Haters gonna hate, lol. Just a word of caution -- many of the anti-Adam comments being posted on YouTube videos and news articles from "Queen fans" and "Freddie fans" are posers and trolls. Some even misspell Freddie's name. The comments on the official Queen fansites are almost universally positive. Overall, I would not take people who post online as representative of Queen fans -- particularly of US Queen fans. The official sites are very UK-Europe centric. Most of the activities are in the UK or Europe. **** Regarding anyone using the Queen Extravaganza as a measure of the potential for a Queen tour, I strongly doubt it. It was a tribute banded, Marc Martel is quite good but unknown, it was in small venues and US Sales were not that good. Here are the US shows that there are sales for.... The Brick Minneapolis 441 / 1,077 (41%) $13,440 9:30 Club Washington, D.C. 907 / 1,200 (76%) $31,745 Ferguson Hall Tampa 810 / 1,042 (78%) $34,051 Plaza Live Orlando 787 / 837 (94%) $26,907 Club NOKIA Los Angeles 1,010 / 2,400 (42%) $32,448 Regency Center Grand Ballroom San Francisco 481 / 1,424 (34%) $16,256 They played many dates but these are the only sales I could find. A note related to my comment about Queen fan comments. Marc Martel (who I like) happens to be a Christian performer and is straight. Many of the Marc is better than Adam comments are by people who are not interested in music but who support Christian artists and traditional values. More info about his band and music: www.downhere.com/***** Not everything posted online is what it appears to be. ***** New thread is up.
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Post by betty on Mar 10, 2014 1:26:01 GMT -5
Haha, chapf, this is brilliant! I must admit that some of the endless discussions in today's thread got on my nerves a little bit , but your smiley made me chuckle again in the end!
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Post by rpeura on Mar 10, 2014 1:27:50 GMT -5
I just wanna be happy about Queen and Adam touring. This is a full-tilt, pull out all the stops tour. It makes me sad to keep chewing on that old piece of rawhide about Adam's past albums today. Discouraging to see replaying this past garbage over and over again. What happened, happened. Done. Finito. I had a hell of a good time with both albums and still listen to them. And that A3 will or will not be a huge success. It hasn't happened yet. Queen IS happening. That's where my focus is. A3 will get here when it gets here. For one day, can't we just be happy? This tour is huge, I get to go, I don't have to stress about tickets as the venues are large. What could be better than this??? Maybe brownies with pecans..got more? #beggingforchocolate Grouch will leave now.. I'm with you vivlite !
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Post by belle on Mar 10, 2014 8:10:38 GMT -5
At the end of the thread, as usual....but it'll be interesting to see if the majority of the new album will contain mainly material recorded during the 2 months in Sweden or if some tracks will be ones he worked on last year. Not sure how to tell except based on which producers the various songs have. As Adam said in the Dirty Pop interview...'there are a lot of producers in Sweden'...or something to that effect. The producers and songwriters often spend periods of time in LA and elsewhere abroad working and making music. Who knows if some of them worked with Adam already last year in LA for example. I guess we'll never know if a song was written in one location and the recording done in another. But I'm glad if he had met and worked with these people earlier because then it sounds more natural to commit to an extensive period of collaboration. It could be organic development of their working relationship. That again sounds better to me than the label finding several new people here and there for a couple of days - that work could be forced and awkward. I like the idea of working with a smaller group of people; there's some familiarity in the process, understanding increases, visions align etc. This kind of concentrated effort both people and timewise is a different way of doing things than before. Time will tell how the record turns out but I think it's good he tries something new.
I base this thinking of 'meeting before, organic development' on the tweets we saw last summer from several people about working with Adam. I believe it's been a long process trying to find suitable people to work with and with the Swedes it's now the real thing.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2014 2:16:08 GMT -5
I do make a mean baklava. It's made with walnuts and insane amounts of sugar, so it is positively yummylicious! Btw, so sneaky of you to pull the 'WWII mom sending treats to brothers' card just to get a piece of my candy:) I thought I could get away with just a few well-placed compliments:))) This site has a great explanation of a lot of rhetological fallacies: www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/rhetological-fallacies/. And to make it (somewhat) relevant to Adam, this is the rhetological fallacy matrix applied to a speech against same sex marriage: infobeautiful2.s3.amazonaws.com/RhetoricalFallacy_SameSexMarriage.png(Can I please please have some baklava now? I LOVE baklava, but don't have a good place to buy it anymore since we moved). Thanks for the links, Nic! Home made baklava coming your way:)))
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