6.19.14 Concert Thread - Q+AL Chicago, United Center
Jun 19, 2014 1:06:13 GMT -5
Post by Q3 on Jun 19, 2014 1:06:13 GMT -5
Note: This thread is only for the 6.19.14 Queen + Adam Lambert Chicago Concert. Post general Adam and Tour news in the daily news thread.
Tonight: Queen + Adam Lambert Tour Begins!!
City: Chicago
Venue: United Center
Concert begins: 7:30PM Central Time
Worldclock: QAL061914_Clock
Twitter follow list: twitter.com/adam_events/lists/june-19-chicago-illinois
Watch for…..
United Center @unitedcenter 6.18.14
Hey, Chicago! Are you a #Queen + #AdamLambert fan? You won't want to miss @windycitylive tomorrow on ABC from 11 a.m. - 12 noon!
Pre-Concert
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6.18.14 • United Center
Musical tradition will meet sport tradition on June 19th at the United Center in Chicago, IL
Setlist
www.queenonline.com/en/news-archive/queen-adam-lambert-set-list-opening-night-chicago/
19th June 2014
Queen + Adam Lambert Set List - Opening Night, Chicago, United Center
1. Now I’m Here
2. Stone Cold Crazy
3. Another One Bites The Dust
4. Fat Bottom Girls
5. Lap Of The Gods
6. Seven Seas Of Rhye
7. Killer Queen
8. Somebody To Love
9. I Want It All
10. Love Of My Life
11. ’39 - Brian
12. Days Of Our Lives - Roger
13. Under Pressure
14. Love Kills
15. Who Wants To Live Forever
16. Guitar Solo
17. Tie Your Mother Down
18. Radio Gaga
19. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
20. The Show Must Go On
21. Bo Rhap
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22. We Will Rock You
23. We Are The Champions
Videos
Queen + Adam Lambert Live In Chicago USA 2014 Full Concert Multi Camera
youtu.be/wbri2XcGOcg
Nowmark30
Queen+Adam Lambert Audience Video List via mmyy9 t.co/oJOvnR03T8
Jadelle11's 403 Videos Playlist link
Good Compilation Playlist www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDHFa1FVKxYTQWSM20UEi8AM1DQq2lKYI
Complete Show by jungpeter1958gmail
youtu.be/nqqh-QGoUEI
youtu.be/YA8HwBUyqtI
youtu.be/j9fsP5GlX7o
[5-CAM Mix] Queen + Adam Lambert - Killer Queen (Chicago, IL)
youtu.be/Ur779NY4ajk
Sebastião Mota
Now I'm Here
youtu.be/_qdV87neUC4
Stone Cold Crazy
youtu.be/YGzY28RA0dQ
Another One Bites The Dust
youtu.be/XC8yS7eulP0
Fat Bottomed Girls
youtu.be/wLhHll5X-G8
In The Laps Of The Gods+Seven Seas Of Rhye+Killer Queen
youtu.be/_egVr3eVuRY
Somebody To Love
youtu.be/Hp0aJN8jGOI
I Want It All
youtu.be/q4F812r0LcI
Love Of My Life
youtu.be/0cpcYuQGUUc
'39
youtu.be/YlW68tiXkMo
These Are The Days Of Our Lives
youtu.be/ItvT4ZpRuNI
Drum Battle+Under Pressure
youtu.be/Em6Zz3lgnaQ
Love Kills
youtu.be/hGN-zlMLdPo
Who Wants To Live Forever
youtu.be/24MwLlfP58U
Guitar Solo
youtu.be/IZTsD1wLl-g
Tie Your Mother Down
youtu.be/hFfqF6Ljqew
Radio Ga Ga
youtu.be/mMLR_gBzyvY
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
youtu.be/A3drWC5sas0
The Show Must Go On
youtu.be/RfNx-A2geEM
Bohemian Rhapsody
youtu.be/FwChTdywP3U
WWRY+WATC
youtu.be/Q9Fgghh2u9U
Photos:
judys.smugmug.com/Queen-Adam-Lambert-Chicago/i-PVp2xsq/A
(excellent photographs)
Pro Pics Courtesy of daisy_roots daisy-roots.livejournal.com/165083.html
mymindseyeimages.smugmug.com/Queen-Adam-Lambert-Chicago/
@alikat1323's gallery t.co/EwXw6MGesH
Qoatg: qoatg.smugmug.com/Music/Queen/42138948_LpJSVj#!i=3331079569&k=qNzLqXT
4EverAdam's Photobucket: s1280.photobucket.com/user/overttones/slideshow/QAL%202014%20Tour/QAL%20Chicago%202014%2006%2019%20Personal
adamarie915's Album adamarie915.imgur.com/
My Minds Eye Images mymindseyeimages.smugmug.com/Queen-Adam-Lambert-Chicago/
Reviews
www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-queen-adam-lambert-review-queen-chicago-20140620,0,5542786.story
By Althea Legaspi, Special to the Tribune
8:29 a.m. CDT, June 20, 2014
"We've played to some of your mothers and fathers," Queen guitarist Brian May remarked to the full-house crowd during their show at United Center on Thursday. "And some of your grandchildren, I'm sure." Certainly, Queen's reign has spanned generations. And with their current incarnation including former "American Idol" runner-up Adam Lambert as singer, the audience's ages at the opening night of their North American tour ranged from younger Glamberts, as Lambert's fans are called, to folks who may have seen Queen with their late singer Freddie Mercury in the '70s.
After Mercury died in 1991, Queen's May and drummer Roger Taylor had toured with Bad Company's Paul Rodgers, but their teaming with Lambert proved a better match as evidenced at Thursday's concert. From Lambert's amazing vocal range to his sense of style, humor and showmanship, he was a natural fit to the bombast and over-the-top production that is Queen. And while Mercury's virtuosic voice is unparalleled, Lambert's impressive take on the material paid appropriate homage while adding his own flourishes to the mix.
They launched the show with "Now I'm Here," the rocking, dramatic opener set the tone for the theatrical performance, which was punctuated with laser and strobe lights, a disco ball, smoke blasts, drum riser hydraulics, a catwalk leading to a middle stage, a video backdrop and of course, many costume changes. The set mixed hits with more obscure offerings, such as a rendition of Mercury's 1984 solo tune, "Love Kills," which was made for Giorgio Moroder's restored version of the 1927 film, "Metropolis."
The chemistry among the trio was evident: Lambert grooved to Taylor's beats on the drum platform, May and Lambert's respective guitar and vocal gymnastics interlaced effortlessly. Queen also took individual turns front and center. Taylor and his son Rufus, who was part of their backing band, conducted a giddy drum duel that segued into an excellent "Under Pressure." May's poignant, acoustic guitar-led "Love Of My Life" on the middle stage featured him duetting with Mercury via the video backdrop.
Lambert's role was not to be underestimated, though. He brought spine-tingling prowess to the epic "Who Wants To Live Forever" and "Somebody To Love," campiness to "Killer Queen," rockabilly dance poses to "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" and respect during "Bohemian Rhapsody," where he traded vocals with Mercury on screen as the band and audience harmonized along.
While there were a couple misfires – the mix was a bit muddy, the mic went out during the first song and the audio cues to the video were not always on target — the show epitomized Queen, in all its flamboyant glory.
More pics here: galleries.apps.chicagotribune.com/chi-adam-lambert-queen-perform-photos-20140619/
Queen and Adam Lambert's Tour Opener: 5 Things We Learned
Regal rock band and their new frontman make a grand U.S. debut at Chicago's United Center
By Dan Hyman
June 20, 2014 11:55 AM ET
Even when he was auditioning for American Idol, singing "Bohemian Rhapsody" for the judges with all his falsetto fireworks, it was readily apparent Adam Lambert had a major soft spot for Queen. That he would later perform with the band itself at the end of his season — and brilliantly so, at that — only solidified the increasingly obvious fact: This singer and all his octave-defying range and theatrical flair owed a clear debt of gratitude to the late Freddie Mercury.
It was fitting and not altogether surprising, then, when Lambert quickly linked up with the legendary act, serving as their frontman at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards and again during a brief European tour. Last night, kicking off a 24-date North American run at Chicago's United Center, the union of Lambert and Queen became official.
"It's so crazy that this came out of American Idol," Lambert admitted during a recent interview with Rolling Stone. Yet if the singer was any parts bewildered by his luck, he didn't show it on Thursday evening: The tour's opening show was a spectacle of the grandest order. Here are five things it taught us:
Adam Lambert is no Freddie Mercury, but the man sure can sing.
This isn't the first time Queen have attempted to replace their iconic frontman: Everyone from Wyclef Jean to Robbie Williams to Bad Company's Paul Rodgers, who toured with the band for the better part of the Aughts, has stepped into the late singer's massive shoes. From his cheeky call-and-response during "Another One Bites the Dust" to his outsize take on "Killer Queen," spreading out on a purple lounger and fake-chugging champagne, Lambert proved as brilliant a fill-in as you're bound to find.
It's a shame he wasn't given more a cappella turns, however: "Somebody to Love" was goose bump-inducing thanks to Lambert's vocal acrobatics. And that's to say nothing of his vocal magic during "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "We Are the Champions."
Queen don't skimp on spectacle.
Queen put on a rock show, but one that often feels more like a Vegas spectacle. Dizzying, rainbow stage lights: check. Red-and-green laser lights draping the entire arena in a Christmas hue: surely. A floating drum riser from which Taylor smacked the skins during a thrashing encore rendition of "We Will Rock You"? Of course. A gold glitter shower to close out the evening? How could they not? These flourishes were always for the best.
Queen have a boatload of hits... and a boatload more.
Beyond the classics, Queen earned a huge response from tracks like the slinky soiree "Who Wants to Live Forever," the Broadway-esque "The Show Must Go On" and the swaying "In the Lap of the Gods." Their greatest undertaking? A reinterpretation of Mercury's "Love Kills," a 1984 solo track that the frontman made with Giorgio Moroder for a restored version of the 1927 silent film Metropolis. Here, the band slowed it down, performing as a trio at the front of the catwalk. Lambert's vocals hung just below the upper-deck risers: "Bless him," he said in a toast to Mercury. "But we do a version of this our way."
May and Taylor are supremely underrated talents.
Lambert made the headlines, but his vocals would have nowhere to sit if Brian May and Roger Taylor weren't such pros. Last night, the former channeled David Gilmour during a brilliant extended guitar intro to "Tie Your Mother Down" and unleashed far more thrash and distortion then many would have expected. The latter, meanwhile, kept his sticks on the pulse all evening, dropping smacking martial beats during "Another One Bites the Dust" and "Radio Ga Ga."
The wardrobe department came through bigtime.
Let's be honest: What's a Queen show without some spectacular outfits? By our count, Lambert wore eight different ones during the two hour gig. His bandmates? They stuck to more traditional attire — shirt and slacks — but don't worry: May did don a gold cape during "Bohemian Rhapsody." It was only fitting.
Read more: www.rollingstone.com/music/news/queen-and-adam-lamberts-tour-opener-5-things-we-learned-20140620#ixzz35UEUckaC
Adam Lambert did Freddie Mercury proud last night
Adam Lambert is almost as fabulous as Brian May's hair.
A few years ago, when Queen—which presently consists of guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor—toured with Bad Company lead singer Paul Rogers, the whole affair felt sort of like a nonevent. I don't have anything against Paul Rogers insofar as there's nothing, like, fundamentally wrong with him, but I heard a rumor that they would occasionally play Bad Company songs on that tour, including but not limited to bluesy biker-bar-jukebox jammer "Can't Get Enough," and I'm afraid I don't have any use for that at all.
Queen with any lead singer who isn't the inimitable Freddie Mercury will always be its own thing: Queen with [blank]. And any singer filling in the [blank] is ill-advised to try too hard to emulate Mercury because, like I said, it's not a thing that's possible. Adam Lambert, who's front-manning on the tour that kicked off last night at the United Center, is no Freddie Mercury—nor did he try to be. Nor should he. He's so completely his own flamboyant thing and he's amazing in his own right. He was reverent without relying on mimicry. I'd like to think Freddie would approve. The crowd sure seemed to.
Lambert came in second place when he competed on season eight of American Idol. Remember who beat him? ME NEITHER. (All right, it was this guy.) It was common consensus among people with brains that Lambert was robbed, but what a hearty last laugh he must be having now. Remember: Lambert sang "Bohemian Rhapsody" in his initial audition and was criticized by Simon Cowell for being "theatrical," like that's a bad thing. What do you do when you're theatrical? You front a band like Queen. That just five years later he's singing in arenas with one of the biggest bands in history, I mean, it's enough to move you tears. Well, it was enough to move me to tears. Like, a couple of times.
The spectacle of it all was overwhelming. The stage's backdrop was a gigantic Q with a video screen in the center, used alternately to show footage of the band, close-ups of May's fingerwork, and, on a few songs, vintage Freddie footage. The Q's leg extended out beyond the stage like a catwalk into the crowd that ended in a circular platform. The whole set was so impressive looking, so meticulously crafted that it seemed mildly ironic when Lambert's microphone failed during the first song ("Now I'm Here"). It was small, easily remedied—another mike stand was mere feet away—but first show of the tour, a little fuckup can really cast a pall on the entire night. Lambert was mostly unfazed.
By the fourth song, "Fat Bottomed Girls," he was good and loose. You know when Freddie instructs, "Get on your bikes and ride"? Lambert went with, "Now all you fat-ass bitches out there, get on your bikes and ride," which might've sounded crass had it not come from a man who wears glitter eyeliner. He really hammed/glammed it up for "Killer Queen," which he performed from a chez lounge at the tip of the stage's protrusion. "Hey, Chicago. Look at my couch," he said, "It's really butch." He was being facetious.
Really, the greatest thrill was sharing air with May and Taylor (and 40,000 other people). May's hair has grown silver—and looks not unlike a really beautiful version of a barrister's wig—but his ability, incredibly, hasn't aged at all. The soaring tones and the staccato finger tapping that makes his guitar sound almost like a synth are spandex-tight. Taylor, also spry, showed off by engaging in a drum battle with his son. Lambert was at his best when he was belting—"Crazy Little Thing Called Love" was fine, but Christ, I wanna hear him swing for the fences. I could curl up and live the rest of my life in his upper register. A complaint: ending with "Bohemian Rhapsody" and encoring with "We Will Rock You" and "We Are the Champions" felt so obvious.
Actually two complaints, a thing I bet bands with massive catalogs never hear: they didn't play my favorite song. The chez was cool, but someone get Lambert a piano.
Plus the playlist.
www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2014/06/20/adam-lambert-did-freddie-mercury-proud-last-night
Queen, Adam Lambert Blast Off With Bombastic Tour Opener
by Lauren James | 20 June 2014
Queen and Adam Lambert rocked the United Center with a tour kick-off to remember.
Queen and Adam Lambert have managed to ace the nerve-wracking first night of their tour in North America, rocking Chicago's United Center to its foundations with a bombastic rock show to surpass all others. Combining theatrical flair with jaw-dropping vocal abilities, Queen's adopted singer, Adam Lambert proved his worth as the successor to Freddie Mercury once more.
A Stormingly Successful Opening Night Left Queen & Adam Lambert Fans Hungry For More.
"We've played to some of your mothers and fathers," guitarist Brian May remarked to the full-house crowd during last night's show. "And some of your grandchildren, I'm sure." Noughties Queen singer Paul Rodgers may have had the ability to pull of the power rock group's more challenging numbers, but it is Idol alum Lambert who truly embodies the spirit of the late flamboyant frontman.
May told iHeartRadio last year: ''He's extraordinary. It speaks for itself, his voice. That's one voice in a billion. Adam can do things which really I have never heard anyone else ever do in my life.''
The 31 year-old certainly looked the part last night, clad in an array of studded leather garments with white trousers and even a full animal-print ensemble at one point. He gave a charismatic performance of the band's show-stopping tunes, including 'We Are The Champions,' and 'The Show Must Go On.'
Meanwhile, May's unparalleled instinct for an air-guitar inducing rock solo was showcased alongside mellower moments, as best seen on the acoustic track '39,' which is a tale of love and time travel. Naturally, the degree-educated astrophysicist felt it was time to impart some of his impressive scientific knowledge upon the crowd, launching into a beginner's guide to Einsteinian relativity.
Lambert may have taken centre-stage but the band made sure to pay its respects to Mercury, dedicating the song 'These Are The Days Of Our Lives' whilst a photo montage of Queen's younger days was shown. After singing the tribute, drummer Roger Taylor broke into a joint drum feature with his son, Rufus Tiger Taylor.
Without any noticeable opening night jitters, Queen and Adam Lambert not only managed to pull off a rock show worthy of the history books but also further their continued relevancy in the music industry.
'Bohemian Rhapsody' was, naturally, the jewel in the crown of a glittering and glamorous evening, leaving fans whether Queen will capitalise on the firepower that Lambert lends them by recording a new album.
Review+many more photos here: www.contactmusic.com/article/adam-lambert-brian-may-queen_4252085
Other information
soundcloud.com/spikedrice/queen-adam-lambert-chicago
To download the soundcloud audio, copy and paste: mega.co.nz/#!DY9AAKpS!TC-pq8vgkKFD3EoByyT8Kh0hib4fAHhuAyg581PlDwk
Know the Score – Crazy Little Things QAL Tour 2014: Chicago
compiled by Jablea
Curtain Up
Shiny Gold Confetti at finish
Adam crowned by Brian
1st time Brian asked "What do you think of our new boy?"
Keli @keligreeneyes • 1h Brian says, "What do you think of OUR Adam?" **heart eyes** ♡♡♡
Champagne bottle was corked
Mic didn’t work first song, Adam used other
Sound check issues made for late start
It's a gold car wash!!!! Fringes
Brian broke a string
Adam says couch is "really butch"
Zebra shirt/white pants (Adam ends up eliminating white pants from wardrobe because he doesn't like the way they look)
FIRST AND ONLY CONCERT THAT LISTED ON MAIN MARQUEE - ADAM LAMBERT + QUEEN
Also listed the usual Queen + Adam Lambert but also listed Adam Lambert + Queen in two places
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