7.20.14 Q+AL CONCERT THREAD -- Columbia, MD USA

Note: This thread is only for the 7.20.14 Queen + Adam Lambert Merriweather Post Pavilion Concert. Post general Adam and Q+AL Tour news in the Daily News thread.




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Tonight: Queen + Adam Lambert Tour –
live at Merriweather!!

City: Columbia, MD

Venue: Merriweather Post Pavilion
Concert capacity:

Concert begins: scheduled to start at 8:15PM

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Livestream: possible streams- www.ustream.tv/channel/connorghauck and www.ustream.tv/channel/hannabec2


Setlist

Note: setlist was modified because this venue has a noise curfew.



Recorded instrumental Procession

1. Now I'm Here
2. Stone Cold Crazy
3. Another One Bites The Dust
4. Fat Bottomed Girls
5. In The Lap Of The Gods...Revisited
6. Seven Seas Of Rhye
7. Killer Queen
8. Somebody To Love
9. I Want It All
10. Love Of My Life (Brian lead vocals, Freddie recorded at end)
11. '39 (acoustic, Brian solo)
12. These Are The Days Of Our Lives
13. Bass Solo (Neil, incorporating "Don't Try Suicide," "Body Language" & "Staying Power") need to be confirmed
14. Drum Duel (instrumental, Roger and Rufus) need to be confirmed
15. Under Pressure (Adam and Roger duet)
16. Love Kills
17. Who Wants To Live Forever
18. Guitar Solo (instrumental, Brian solo "Last Horizon", "Brighton Rock", and improvisation incorporating "Welcome To The Jungle")
20. Tie Your Mother Down
21. Radio Ga Ga
23. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
25. Bohemian Rhapsody

-encore-
26. We Will Rock You
27. We Are The Champions

Recorded instrumental: God Save The Queen (Queen)


Videos

Jadelle11's Complete Playlist link

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TALCvids Playlist link

Jesha84 Playlist link


Queen + Adam Lambert - Merriweather Post Pavilion 2014 (Full Show - multi-cam)


youtu.be/yR_lbNJhEPw


Now I'm Here

youtu.be/JStO3dZsavU

Stone Cold Crazy

youtu.be/2bZadsx7wFI

Another One Bites The Dust

youtu.be/8H3uyqJoMes

Fat Bottomed Girls

youtu.be/y_89iCMgUys

In The Lap Of The Gods+Seven Seas Of Rhye

youtu.be/g-iKrgC8BS0

Killer Queen+Somebody To Love

youtu.be/GVL2473RNds

I Want It All

youtu.be/LcrjpZ4E70s

Love Of My Life

youtu.be/nfc56o1wBg4

'39

youtu.be/1PXeMeeLTso

These Are The Days Of Our Lives

youtu.be/Pc5M09j6Thc

Bass Solo+Drum Battle+Under Pressure+Love Kills

youtu.be/3MMF8JlpmaE

Who Wants To Live Forever

youtu.be/7juzKiqvZtc

Guitar Solo

youtu.be/zbHFOBvorjg

Tie Your Mother Down+Radio Ga Ga(includes Gimme That love with jimmy crack corn)

youtu.be/WIQIlU3-CTM

Crazy Little Thing Called Love

youtu.be/bIYUjGipThs

Bohemian Rhapsody

youtu.be/lrJ0i6tb8ZA

WWRY+WATC

youtu.be/79mBtKx7hGE




Photos

Adam Lambert and Queen rock Merriweather Post Pavilion

Algerina Perna
Entertainment, Maryland, The Baltimore Sun Adam Lambert, Merriweather Post Pavilion, queen

Photo gallery with 22 Photos darkroom.baltimoresun.com/2014/07/adam-lambert-and-queen-rock-merriweather-post-pavilion/#1

Marty Martin FB Photo Album www.facebook.com/martymartinFL/media_set?set=a.10204435545470386.1073741838.1283874639&type=3

Photos by Simon Heseltine www.flickr.com/photos/stripedtiger/

tuke18 Photos link

Wild4Adam @wild4adam · Jul 22
Complete set of pics from Merriweather Pavilion, MD 7/20/14 - Enjoy! s982.photobucket.com/user/Wild4Adam/media/Queen%20and%20Adam%20Lambert%20-%20Maryland%2007-20-14/IMG_0343_zps9a167516.jpg.html …



My @queenwillrock + @adamlambert photo album from Maryland/DC show | slideshow s228.photobucket.com/user/indybeck71/slideshow/Maryland%20QAL … downloads s228.photobucket.com/user/indybeck71/library/Maryland%20QAL …














Costume Notes





Notable Events

No 'The Show Must Go On' tonight


Know The Score-Crazy Little Things QAL 2014 Tour:Merriweather
compiled by Jablea

No Q but put up the big screen and lighting rig, picture frame frames

Bra twirling during FBG

Adam on knees during???

Had fringe for awhile then took off, just vest and tank

Sang on belly – did plank to side plank on the couch with feet on the arm

Beautiful, bravo darling, I’ll drink to that

"Oh..you have a cast on, Shit. Is it ok?.. It's like the Sea World show up here, the first five rows may get wet. I got you wet? Sorry." Screen showed lady with leg cast. "I think it will be ok, ya good? I love you darling” but didn't spit twice like he normally does after that one.-Adam during "Killer Queen"

It is fucking hot

Tina Turner dance move during FMSTL

Short catwalk to thrust, brought the disco ball

Skipped TSMGO (perhaps venue time)

White to red tank

"Jimmy crack corn and I don’t care, gimme that love ‘cause I don’t care"-Adam

"What the fuck I'm I singing about? I think I managed to put jimmy crack corn in there. What was that, what the hell"-Adam

Glitter

Touched some audience hands

Adam to the front & make him bow by himself

Lots of kids

During sing-along w Adam, the big cam scanned his body from boots to head. As the crotch centered on the big screen, the singing halted. LOL

During CLTCL, when Adam reached over Spike's keyboard, Spike held Adam's finger & pounded the correct keys w it.

-For the first time, no left/right screen "Now I'm HERE" / "Now I'm THERE", possibly because the two screens had the same feed.

-Curtain went down.




Reviews

Adam Lambert a natural fit with Queen at Merriweather Post Pavilion


By Matthew Hay Brown, The Baltimore Sun

11:34 a.m. EDT, July 21, 2014

(To view photos from last night's show, visit the Darkroom's gallery.)

True story: I was watching "American Idol" one night during the season that Adam Lambert was competing. I said to my wife – Mrs. Brown will vouch for this – “that guy should sing with Queen.”

The band was casting about for a new frontman after ending its five-year partnership with former Free/Bad Company/The Firm/The Law singer Paul Rodgers, and Lambert was enlivening another dreary season of Idol with his three-octave range, upper-register confidence and flamboyant stage presence.

The point being: This whole thing was kind of my idea.

So I’m delighted to report that the pairing of the 32-year-old singer with Queen drummer Roger Taylor and guitarist Dr. Brian May (original singer Freddie Mercury died in 1991, and bass player John Deacon has lost interest) is a near-complete success.

At Merriweather Post Pavilion on Sunday night, Lambert managed to be both respectful in his approach to the material – all of which dated from Mercury’s tenure – and confident as he worked a catwalk that curved around from behind the drum riser and out through the first several rows.

(Also through a comprehensive regimen of costume changes. I took notes through the first several, but got lost somewhere between the gold-tasseled black tunic and the zebra-striped blouse.)

And while Lambert’s voice is neither as full nor as rich as Mercury’s – he wouldn’t have been onstage if his predecessor had been available – it does cut with a contemporary R&B edge that had the effect of updating the band’s sound.

About that sound: May (one of the great innovators of rock guitar) and Taylor (one of its most influential drummers), augmented by a bassist, a keyboard player and a second drummer, brought the familiar, unmistakable thunder. May conducted the ensemble from his homemade Red Special, alternating between his melodic, endlessly sustaining lead runs and end-of-the-world barre chords.

Still, bombast wants balance. The show worked when Lambert was strutting, posing and winking over the heaviest of metal. It flagged after he departed, leaving Queen Mach II to pursue its Jazz Odyssey, a succession of overlong instrumental solos.

An early highlight was “Killer Queen,” which Lambert delivered, salaciously, stretched out on a purple velvet couch. Also “Another One Bites The Dust,” which was made to be played loud. Arranging “Radio Ga Ga” around May’s guitar, instead of the keyboards of the studio version, has improved it; the more experienced Queen fans among the audience joined in the ritual double-claps of the chorus.

In introducing "’39," May – a genuine astrophysicist (he is the author of both “A Survey Of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud” and “Fat-Bottomed Girls”) – spoke of traveling through time. But the show, with its multiple generations (Lambert is young enough to be May’s son; Taylor’s actual son, Rufus Tiger, doubled him on drums), its laser lights, disco ball and early-MTV video effects, and its long familiar music, existed largely outside of time.

An emotional high-point came during May’s “Love of My Life,” which he sang solo on guitar. Before he began, May said Mercury used to stand at his side as he sang it. During the performance, his old friend returned, fading in on the video screen behind the stage to sing the final line.

From that point on, Mercury was seldom far from view. He appeared, with May, Taylor and Deacon, goofing around in the 40-year-old clips that were projected on the video screen during “These Are The Days Of Our Lives,” and returned for “Bohemian Rhapsody,” the inevitable finale, to trade passages with Lambert.

It was not quite a passing of the torch, but a poignant tribute, and a fine conclusion to a satisfying evening.

LINK: t.co/wY20RkVpAN


Adam Lambert leads a cross-generational Queen through the hits at Merriweather



Adam Lambert and Brian May of Queen perform at Merriweather Post Pavilion. (Kyle Gustafson/For The Washington Post)


By Dave McKenna July 21 at 12:14 PM

Adam Lambert is the latest in a line of Freddie Mercury fill-ins to front Queen in the last couple decades. (Elton John, Robbie Williams and Paul Rodgers came before him.)

At 32, he’s also the youngest, and the May-December aspect of the alliance was impossible to ignore during Sunday’s Merriweather Post Pavilion show whenever he stood next to drummer John Taylor, who turns 65 this week, or guitarist Brian May, now 67.

But somebody’s gotta sing these songs. A 2006 survey rated Queen’s first greatest hits collection as by far the greatest selling record in England’s history; press materials for the current tour claim that it can be found in “one in three British households.” (That poll also ranked Queen’s “Greatest Hits II” as the seventh biggest British album of all time.) And Lambert is likely the best choice out there. His fame came via a second-place finish on “American Idol” in 2009, and in the season finale, he performed “We Are the Champions” alongside Taylor and May. He still seems a little shocked by his hiring as Mercury’s stand-in, however.

“I’m onstage with Queen!” Lambert squealed, after getting up from the lavender couch he sprawled all over while crooning “Killer Queen,” wearing the second of many leather-spike-sequined ensembles he’d sport on the evening. Mercury was far more than just a singer, and early in the show Lambert occasionally stumbled when trying to entertain the fans in nonmusical ways; he spit a drink on the crowd awkwardly, and he didn’t seem comfortable introducing “Fat Bottomed Girls” with a crude and not-safe-for-work order for large females in the crowd to dance.

But Lambert showed he could handle the rockier passages in the Queen songbook, and he got the huge crowd jazzed by belting out “Tie Your Mother Down” and “I Want It All.” Lambert ended “Somebody to Love” with the sort of Christina Aguilera-like multi-octavial blitz that helped him catch Simon Cowell’s eye and ears back on “Idol.”

Lambert led his elders on “Another One Bites,” the pop dance tune that was the band’s biggest selling U.S. single. It was written by Queen’s original bassist, John Deacon, who has declined to join any of the band’s tours since Mercury’s 1991 death from AIDS complications.

Lambert was occasionally subservient, however. He went backstage a few times as May came front and center. May is viewed as having one of the bigger brains in rock; his PhD thesis in astrophysics is entitled “A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud.” He briefly tried explaining Einstein’s theory of relativity to the crowd before leading the singalong on the folkie time-travel tune, “39.” Less brainy was May’s decision to walk around the stage alone, save for his guitar, lasers and smoke, for a brutally long solo that started off stagnant and remained inert. Fans could rightly wish for a time machine to get back the 15 minutes or so they’d spent watching that.

The show also flagged as a result of other non-brainy staging decisions. Neil Fairclough, Deacon’s understudy, was given a bass solo while others left the stage. He’s likely a fine musician, but it’s even likelier no more than a few of the folks who showed up could even name him, and likeliest that even fewer wanted to see a bass solo. Momentum flagged again when Taylor moved to a second drum kit so he could do a percussion duet with his son, Rufus Taylor.

Lowest of all, “Bohemian Rhapsody,” the prototype Queen song, was hardly given its due. The tune’s inclusion in the 1992 film “Wayne’s World” allowed secret Queen lovers everywhere to start belting out this operatic bombast whenever it came on the car radio. But on this night, half of “Rhapsody” was played via a pre-recorded video shown on the amphitheater’s big screens. The live bodies returned in time for May’s gargantuan outro guitar solo, but that staging still turned what should have been a home run into a ho-hum.

Things picked up one last time when Lambert came out for the encore of “We Are the Champions,” sporting a glittery crown on his head. Hail the new king of Queen.
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/adam-lambert-leads-a-cross-generational-queen-through-the-hits-at-merriweather/2014/07/21/419100a0-10e1-11e4-ac56-773e54a65906_story.html?wprss=rss_entertainment


1059 The X- Mark Madden

FEY, CAMP, OVER THE TOP...

...and absolutely marvelous.

I saw Queen + Adam Lambert Sunday night at DC. Why didn't somebody think of this ages ago? Lambert is a natural for Queen. He doesn't imitate the late, lamented Freddie Mercury, but he certainly channels him. Amazing voice. It SOARS.

It's good Queen is doing this. There aren't any new rock stars, only old ones. But Lambert latches onto Queen's legacy with terrific aplomb. People just want to hear the songs. The "American Idol" product sings them very well.

The two Queen originals, guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor, get a well-deserved shot of glory and appreciation at every performance. As I watched Queen, I couldn't help but think: Jimmy Page deserves this.

Page should round up John Paul Jones, Jason Bonham and Alter Bridge vocalist Myles Kennedy, then hit the road. Nobody can tell Robert Plant he has to be in Led Zeppelin. But nobody should be able to tell Page he can't.

www.1059thex.com/onair/mark-madden-25939/fey-camp-over-the-top-12591144/#ixzz38DOhP4CQ








Best Tweet

Dr. Brian May ‏@drbrianmay 8h
Merriweather folks ... you were an AMAZING audience to play to tonight. So warm, so young and hot singin'. We were shocked ! THANKS! Bri


ADAM LAMBERT ✔ @adamlambert
That crowd was CRAZY!! Love y'all



Other information

mmmgoodcracker's recap:

Hey Guys! Here are my Merriweather impressions. Thanks for allowing me to express all the wonderful goodness of seeing my concerts. It’s a little long, so remember scroll is your friend.

The difference between the locations of Philadelphia and Columbia were astounding to me. With all of Philly’s tall buildings, my room on Broad Street allowed me to see a vista all the way to the concert venue and the Ben Franklin Bridge. It was open and accessible. I walked everywhere and when the distance was a little far I took the subway. Compare that to Columbia where the forest became walls and hid the community making the distances deceiving. Having a car was a necessity especially since my hotel that looked close on a map was actually about 7 miles or 10 minutes away.

The concerts were similar in that in Philadelphia I could see everything. I might not have been front row, but everything was open in front of me. At Merriweather I was stage left in the little General Admission standing are crammed in with 148 fans all jockeying for position. I was about the third person back from the catwalk, but most of the people were taller than me so again invoking the forest walls of the local community. I had taken my son and daughter in law, but she was feeling claustrophobic so they stepped back from the teeming masses. Darn it! I wanted to truly share this concert with them. Yeah! My son is 6’1” so now he can take pictures!
The concert experience itself is where the openness vs. walls metaphor gets flipped. In Philadelphia, Brian and Adam seemed tired and anxious and it affected their connection to the audience by putting up a psychic wall. They seemed guarded. Couple that with my own experience of having an aggressive ass yelling and mocking me. It was inevitable that while the concert was amazing there were too many barriers to truly immerse in the joyful flow.

In Merriweather, though, all the constraints and barriers seemed to be lifted. From the first few measures of music, it was apparent that Adam and Brian were totally present and receptive to the audience’s energy. I was lucky enough to be behind the 3 Germans that I had originally seen in London during the first Hammersmith show and then had seen again recently when someone had posted them in the states following the QAL concerts. The tall German with the long blond hair couldn’t stop grinning when he heard the first notes, “Now I’m Here”. The older man stage right at the beginning of the catwalk with the Freddie mask couldn’t stop grinning. Hell, none of us standing stage right could stop grinning, singing and WooHooing. While my ankle has a hard time handling the strain of standing for hours, I would definitely do standing tickets again. There is something about the release of having to be careful of standing, dancing, singing and yelling your appreciation. All the people beside me and in front of me were so into the flow of energy given off between the performers and the audience that it felt that time had sublimely stopped -that some inverse property of “39” had taken place. That instead of time travel, we were stuck in an infinitly loop of gorgeous stasis. The music followed its linear list, but we were caught up in the magic of the moment. Even now that I have put some semblance of analysis to the experience, I relive the feeling of pure joy and majesty. Even now, I tear up at the beauty and oneness. It remains a truly happy place.

We were all so happy where we were that we noted that the band didn’t play TSMGO, but it didn’t matter – the two hour moment was magic. Perfection wasn’t my goal, unity with Adam, Brian, Roger and the audience was. When the concert was over and I was floating giddily back out of the group unison, my son remarked, “Mom, I give you shit, but I do love seeing you happy.” (That’s MY Boy!!!) I was and am happy. Touching that oneness between the band and audience for hours was amazing and a pinnacle of experience for me.

As we left the very crowded venue, I couldn’t wipe the smile off my face. Now as I’m writing this, I still can’t keep the smile off my face. I will close with a quote from The Lego Movie song – “Everything was Awesome!!!