6.22.14 Queen + Adam Lambert start Canadian Invasion!

I have not abandoned ATop. I am sequestered with family, aging parents and non-stop, every moment packed commitments for this family visit. It is uncanny how many of Adam's big moments have happened while I am incommunicado with family. How does that happen? It is half past midnight and I finally have time to sneak on line and write a few lines about the concert and Adam. 

First, if anyone is not planning on going to a concert but might be playing with the idea... GO! Hearing Adam's voice live is a matchless experience. iPhones and home video cameras, or even professional cameras cannot capture the frequency range, the brilliance, the full resonance of Adam's voice in a venue. 

Secondly, while I did not think it was possible, Adam's voice is better, purer, more resonant, more refined, more controlled, more flexible than ever. That boy did not only get with a trainer to define his abs and pecs, he has been doing a lot of work on his instrument. Forgive me for blasphemy, but there were times in the past couple of years when I privately thought that Adam was getting a little sloppy, a little lazy. The repertoire did not require his utmost skill to perform, and maybe he was a little bored? Not enough challenge for such a prodigious instrument? 

In any case, Adam must have recognized that this Queen tour was going to be the most challenging, strenuous and exhausting enterprise he had ever undertaken. He must have been doing strength and endurance work with a vocal coach, as well as working and experimenting with different sounds and textures for different parts of his range. That head voice is beyond amazing. It doesn't sound real. He is belting out these huge rock anthems and gives the impression he still has power left in reserve. I get the impression that he knows exactly how he wants to a sing every note, every phrase, and is so in control that he can quit thinking about how he is singing and fall deep into the emotional content of the song and the performance.

i could launch into how he has grown in terms of performance and mastery of the stage also, but I need to stop for now. Doesn't someone want to sponsor me to go to about ten more shows? How can Adam have improved so vastly on what I had already thought was practically perfect?j   I could not agree with you more.  I love your notes about how Adam has grown.  I thought he was perfect on Idol, now he's like 115% perfect soooo  much better.   I am so thrilled he has gotten & taken on this challenge because no one in the world could sing these songs w/ the way he does & do a 2 hr. show for all these dates; no one.  He is truly a perfect match for them & I am sooo proud of him & the way he's grown.  Just like Paula said, "You will be Iconic, Yes you will!!!!" It's gonna happen for him I feel it & he deserves it.  The next time he has a twitter party thingy I hope someone asks if he did a lot of vocal training to prepare for this queen catalog, I'm dying to know. 

Ok so here is a quandary for people. Tour ends in Brisbane at end of August (ok so probably not but right now it does)... There is an A3 album out there somewhere that needs to be released and promoted.

Which would you prefer - more QAL dates or A3 this year?