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Post by nica575 on Jun 20, 2014 0:48:17 GMT -5
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Post by wal on Jun 20, 2014 0:48:25 GMT -5
Wild4Adam @wild4adam Adam and Brian 2,
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Post by red panda on Jun 20, 2014 0:48:37 GMT -5
Okay, heading to bed. Can't wait to see what treasures the morning will bring. Glad I could enjoy this with you all. And many more to come.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2014 0:49:34 GMT -5
Marvelously, magically OTT - just like the era from which the music came. If you don't respond to this show with a big grin on your face, you are dead. The music was fantastic. No way is this not the best concert of the summer, or the year.
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Post by nic on Jun 20, 2014 0:50:38 GMT -5
Hello everyone, back to my hotel room. Chicago was a last minute trip and I managed to get seats in row 3 section 3. So I have posted some pics on twitter as "@mesmoreyes". I hope my vids turn out. I will post after I get home and upload. But, for future reference, the catwalk is higher at the stage and slopes/curves downward at the "tip". Didn't matter as I stood and Adam came so close multiple times during the show. If I would say anything at all, it would be that when Adam and the band get to the end of the catwalk, we only see their backs from my vantage point and probably from those who are up front on the other side of the ctwalk, in front of stage. Kind of a shame to pay for VIP seats and not see the whole show from the front view. I will be sitting a few rows back in Toronto so hopefully should get better vids of the songs that were performed there, that I couldn't get here. I am sure others will have vids also that had a front view at the "tip". If the vids I took are ok I will post on twitter and put link here to my YouTube channel. I will say it was mind-blowing. I don't know how I can wait for Toronto now! Goodnight for now, it's been a long day, especially since my flight from Toronto this morning got delayed and some were canceled so I was fretting till we got to Chicago later on. Glad everyone had a great time at the show, it is really epic!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2014 0:51:50 GMT -5
And can I just say he sang Killer Queen basically lying down #alien
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2014 0:53:57 GMT -5
Some of what I saw/interpreted tonite at the concert...I went expecting it to be all about the audio not the visual because i was higher up. Turned out wrong. I was able to see him move in a way i hadnt from vids before and the Q made a great screen. Not a lot of improvised moves at all although some were ones I hadn't seen him use. The center of the Q made an awesome video screen . I was surprised how drop dead gorgeous he looked on all the close ups. His eyes had sparkles around them to go with the twinkle in his eyes-he was beaming with a calm joy. The sets were amazing. Lights etc. A lot had a spacey vibe throughout esp WWTLF where the whole places was part of the spinny starry universe.
I am surprised to read here that Adam held some back because i thought he really laid it all out there. The crowd really responded to the songs that highlighted his voice too. WWTLF stole the show. Sound had issues that improved as the show went on. Adams mic didn't work at all a few times and his mic was too soft and sometimes drowned out by the music, mostly in the begining. Friends in lower section mentioned the same thing.
This tour differs in that it is a put on production. Some well thought out stuff. Esp liked how they had a a grp on the thrust during accoustic part. Adam was in full theater mode and I could only laugh at how much fun I knew he was having. It was great fun but for new fans I do think the couch antics came a little too quick before the entire audience had figured him out yet (and slayed them with the ballads.)I of course loved them.
The cost of this well designed theater was it lacked spontaneity and a bit of authenticity. I didn't feel as much of a love fest with Brian and Roger and would like to see Roger off drums during Under Pressure for this reason. Adam was very much designed as front and center focus rather than them supporting him like papa bears. He of course carried the role perfectly. I imagine as the tour progresses they will loosen up and we might get some organic moments like DA London nite 2.
Crowd seemed to really respond to his voice, cheering loudly at the ballads. When Brian asked how we liked our Adam he received the loudest cheer yet. I didn't sense any doubt at his deserving the job even from the beginning.
i am sure more will come to me tomorrow.
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Post by crispy on Jun 20, 2014 0:56:27 GMT -5
Random thoughts from an epic night: (this is going to be way too long cause I’m still kind of in an adrelanine rush so bear with me)
I was one of the lucky members of the opening night of Q+AL; just me and 40,000+ other people, including a ton of other Atopians whom I regretfully never got to meet. If anyone else was wearing green wristbands, I never saw them and it turned out to be a rather inefficient way to identify people because even at the beginning it was too dark and smoky to see (they must have been testing the smoke machine beforehand). I suggest the glow bracelets instead -at least they would pop.
The arena filled up slowly because they were wanding people and searching purses, or because it was just basically in an Adam time zone, which we all know is at least 45 minutes behind normal time. The crowd around me was every age and a number of nationalities, including one very grumpy man who was really annoyed that people were standing throughout most of it (he actually left before the encore). But everyone else seemed mesmerized by everything happening before them.
The scope of the set was awesome - that gigantic Q filled up the space so well that you never felt like it was a cavernous arena. I’ve been to Bulls games there and that place is huge, but tonight it seemed almost intimate. I’ll admit that I came to this concert as an Adam fan all the way - I’ve always like Queen a lot but never delved into the earlier catalog and am usually too busy to click all of Talon’s links. So I actually didn’t recognize Now I’m Here and Lap of the Gods, but it was really cool to hear something that was totally new to me. I was taken aback by the microphone malfunction in the first song, afraid it was going to throw him off, but he handled it like a complete pro and just laughed it off. The special effects were terrific and the videos in the big Q were so huge that everyone could see everything. But Adam seemed larger than life himself - the set never dwarfed him. It was very, very loud - I had earplugs and totally forgot to wear them. It seemed like it was a little hard to understand him in the beginning (at least where I was - in the 100s section which was actually great because it was almost the same height as the stage). Don’t know what it was like for people on the floor.
Killer Queen was fabulous - no one will accuse Adam of downplaying the gay in this one. He was funny and campy and sounded great, fanning himself with a gold fan and lounging on a velvet chaise. The concert had been so full frontal rock up to that point that I wasn’t expecting anything like this and it was a wonderful zig zag in another direction.
He sang the first 9 songs and I was starting to wonder how the hell he was going to do this every night for the next three months when he left and Brian came out for Love of My Life. Brian talked a little to the audience and the first thing he said was “What do you think of our Adam?” I love the idea that they’ve claimed him as their own.
The whole next section included the audience’s first sighting of Freddie and all the wonderful archival footage of Queen during their heyday and the place went nuts. I think there were way more Queen fans there than Glamberts, although everyone seemed to be his fan by the time it was over. This part with Roger singing Days of Our Lives brought me to tears - I don’t know how any Queen fan can watch this and not be thrilled that these guys get to do this again. They moved the whole drum set and band down to the end of the thrust so Roger was much easier to see, and he stayed there through Under Pressure
Under Pressure sounded great, although I really missed the glory note at the end. Wonder if he’ll ever do it or if they’ve changed it so that he doesn’t have to. I seem to remember that during London, he was doing Somebody to Love OR Who Wants to Live Forever but not both of them - now he’s doing those two as well as The Show Must Go On and Love Kills plus everything else. His voice is so strong he practically blew the roof off. My one complaint was that they struck the drum set right in front of him when he sang WWTLF and it was distracting - I wish he had moved to another part of the stage so all the focus would have been on that song.
Then it just built and built as each song topped the last and you wondered if the whole place was going to explode - which it pretty much did as soon as they started BoRhap. People were waving lighters in the air, which I’m pretty sure is illegal these days but it was awesome. And finally the encore and WWRY - and the crown.
I know there has been some discussion on the board about this but I have to say that in the context of the concert, it was fucking perfect. When he came out in that thing sparkling like Miss America and walking the runway in that hilarious leopard suit, he owned that entire arena. Brian could barely look him because you knew he was about to lose it, and Adam was the one who took the crown off. It looked like he was going to put it on Brian’s head, but Bri handed him the guitar and took the crown and then put it BACK on Adam’s head - as if to say we think you’ve earned the right to wear this and we won’t take no for an answer. And the look on Adam’s face was like “Oh shit, Bri, look what you’re doing to my hair!” It was my favorite moment of the show and a perfect ending. They didn’t do Don’t Stop Me Now, but frankly, it would have been anticlimatic at that point. ALso, gold confetti cannons! And lasers! And a disco ball!
I know there was a live stream and kudos to whomever held their phone up through this entire show - I was shaking the entire time and didn’t even get any decent pictures. This is the only one I’m going to and it was incredible, but I’m very sad that I won’t get to see how the show looks after they’ve done it 30 or 40 times. My guess is that it’s just going to get better and better. Lucky us to be able to experience this, live or through the computer. Pretty fucking awesome.
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Post by viv on Jun 20, 2014 0:56:31 GMT -5
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Post by bridgeymah on Jun 20, 2014 0:56:50 GMT -5
UMMM - just LMAO. Rock cabaret and balls of steel rolling into one amazing song. Something about a 6 foot guy with shoulders like a line backer in gold fringe and platform boots singing Killer Queen like an opera diva while lying on a purple couch is just so fabulously, deliciously ridiculous. And then "look at my couch, it's really butch" Oh and most definitely FU Huff Post!!!!
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