7.23.14 Q+AL CONCERT THREAD -- East Rutherford, NJ USA

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Tonight: Queen + Adam Lambert Tour –
live in North Jersey!!

City: East Rutherford, NJ

Venue: IZOD Center
Concert capacity:

Concert begins: 7:30PM Eastern Time Zone (UTC-05:00)
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Livestream: www.ustream.tv/channel/queen-adam-lambert-izod



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Setlist

This is a typical long setlist – posted here for reference. The final setlist will be posted after the concert.

Recorded instrumental Procession + Flash (concert version)

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")
14. Drum Duel (instrumental, Roger and Rufus)
15. Under Pressure (Adam and Roger duet)
16. Love Kills
17. Who Wants To Live Forever
18. Guitar Solo (instrumental, Brian)
19. Last Horizon (incorporating "Welcome To The Jungle") (instrumental)
20. Tie Your Mother Down
21. Radio Ga Ga
22. Don't Stop Me Now
23. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
24. The Show Must Go On
25. Bohemian Rhapsody

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

Recorded instrumental: God Save The Queen (Queen)


virg1877 "I got the setlist" twitter.com/Virg1877/status/492139799721951232/photo/1

Videos

Jesha84 Playlist link

Queen + Adam Lambert Live In Izod Centre, East Rutherford, NJ 2014 Full Concert Multi Camera HD

youtu.be/qsE2b6ex0zI

Now I'm Here

youtu.be/KZN4Bi9sg_8

Stone Cold Crazy

youtu.be/4TTBQ-3DZrY

Another One Bites The Dust

youtu.be/eiOofcovbRc

Fat Bottomed Girls

youtu.be/zVOHubCI2Wo

In The Lap Of The Gods+Seven Seas Of Rhye

youtu.be/p1MTaP6rKoY

Killer Queen+Somebody To Love

youtu.be/2PtITNaQtb8

I Want It All

youtu.be/OxoWFWwM6sA

Love Of My Life

youtu.be/xZucYlDmwc4

'39

youtu.be/bBYp0MmWmv4

These Are The Days Of Our Lives

youtu.be/D5txguhytF4

Bass Solo+Drum Duel+Under Pressure

youtu.be/po2Q8GLxVbY

Love Kills

youtu.be/vs1sHlNTlio

Who Wants To Live Forever

youtu.be/1yfHFmGkTLc

Guitar Solo

youtu.be/IUtwWIw9UIw

Queen + Adam Lambert - Tie Your Mother Down & Radio Ga Ga (inc. Gimme That Love singalong)

youtu.be/OunPjLFPZ28

Crazy Little Thing Called Love(hello momtomany and Q3)

youtu.be/dBzQ3sq8Tz8

Bohemian Rhapsody

youtu.be/gD9TgtlguM0

WWRY+WATC

youtu.be/3wz-aNQu4WI


Photos


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Vladislav Grach Photography Photos via Live Nation link

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Costume Notes



Notable Events

Know The Score-Crazy Little Things QAL Tour 2014: East Rutherford, NJ
compiled by Jablea

Nile Rogers attends

Curtain Up failure - Curtain collapsed but didn't go up or down- just hung there. Stage hands had to grab it

KQ on belly , plank w/o side plank

Just one spit

No The Show Must Go On

Balloons tossing in audience during whole show

Adam got his hair cut on the sides and back - really short!

"oh I got panties yay" -throws into crowd.  he got them again

miscue at beginning of AOBTD 123 countdown then band member screams and it all stops, Adam steps in with “Are you ready to Rock” and they start over

Dancing tall guy on 2nd half livestream

Smelled pot in the audience and Adam asked “Can you blow some of that up here?”

Brian sat on couch, Adam was appreciative

Adam throwing kisses while on his stomach on the couch

Several kids on the stage seats along with Atopians

Lifted his leg to the back when spitting water

Brian to knees before TYMD almost bowing head to floor

Walking back catwalk before Somebody To Love he says "Ok Oprah just get on with it”

15 second Lord on STL with one knee drop on run at end of note

They passed the advanced portion of this exam (stage right)

Funkiness and dancing for stage left





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The Great Trek continues…..
7.25.14 by Q3

It started a few weeks ago when I flew cross country to hear a preview performance of 8 songs….and it has continued. Two countries, 8 states and 1 province and literally thousands of miles. Along the way, as my family and friends have learned about my Q+AL concert exploits, I have been the subject of bemusement and many headshakes and a bit of envy. I know it is my version of buying that red sports car. But I, do not care – I am having a great time, so don’t stop me now.

I will post full details of the whole amazing adventure later but since that will take some time, I wanted to tell you a bit about one amazing chapter – my one moment on stage with Queen and Adam Lambert.

Partway through the tour I said WTF and contact my dear friend Momtomany and asked if she would like to do the “On Stage” seats with me. She leaped and we bought tickets for these once-in-a-lifetime seats and backstage tour for the IZOG Center concert. People who know me know that this was a huge leap for me in many, many ways. I do not even let people photograph me. I have avoided first row concert tickets because I prefer to go unnoticed. But now I was going to be “one of those people” sitting on stage.

First, I want to say an immense thank you to Momtomany (Mtm) because going with her made it so much more special as you will see.

I will put in a lot of detail but I am saving some of the facts and info that I learned for later. That is not the juicy stuff anyway.

We arrived at the venue at 6:00PM to pick up our ID and tickets. Then we had to wait FOREVER (30 minutes) to meet our tour guide, Andy. There were 9 people on the tour:
A family of four: Dad is a big rock music fan and they do a lot special VIP concert events. He and his wife were delightful. They had a 12 year old boy and a 12 year old girl. None of the four were major Queen fans and they only vaguely knew Adam. The kids favorite concert so far from a long, long list was Selena Gomez and they were pop music fans.

A couple who were Adam and Queen fans. The man’s favorite Queen album was Queen II – my definition of a perfect man. 

The final person was a man who was going to be working on the Asian-Pacific leg of the tour and was training.

Plus, Mtm and me.

Everyone was really nice. We also had a lot of short people. Mtm and I (with our heels on) were the tallest in the group.

We started the tour. Andy our tour guide recognized Mtm who had done the tour before and who is so loveable that I think our group got special treatment.

Andy is one on the tour carpenters. Later in the tour he explained that he (and another carpenter I met later) are responsible for setting the points (the things on the ceiling that everything hangs from) and for assembling the Q which he welded.

Andy told us that the band liked it if the people on the side stage were into the concert and participated in the show. (I knew that for 2 people in that box, there was going to be no issue with participating.) He explained that there was always someone with a phone camera up the whole time videoing it which he asked people not to do but they always did. Our group did not have a videographer in it. I did not even take a photo.

The backstage tour was about what one would expect. I will leave the technical details for later and get to the good stuff.

I noticed that Pete (Brian’s guitar tech) and Steve (the second or “B” guitar tech) was next to us. I met them at the Madison Square Garden concert and I reintroduced myself. So I talked to them a bit. I talked to them more later. Pete has worked for Brian for 20 years and is the keeper of the Red Special. Steve was formerly Roger’s drum tech (he was surprised I knew this) and was on this tour as the second guitar tech. The first amazing moment of the tour was that I asked Pete for a favor – and before I could finish the sentence he said “You want a Brian May guitar pick.” And I said, “No, I really want two.” He ran off and returned with one guitar pick for me and one for Mtm. They are plastic and embossed with Brian’s signature. Not ones he’s actually used but cool.

I talked to the two of them and the other tech crew members for the better part of the next hour. I learned way more than I can post now but I will post it later.

We stopped at the rigging table. There were a lot of harnesses. We learned that the entire lighting scheme is operated manually. There are 6 men hidden in the lightwall and 8 more operators at the back of the house. The fact that this was not programmed at all is amazing to me. It also explain the errors and glitches that happen. Everything is cued to the artists and a lot is cued to Adam who apparently messes up a lot of his cues. (No surprise to anyone tracking his lyrics misses. And yes, Adam f’ed up the kabuki curtain cure in NIH at Madison Square Garden.) There are other misses that happen because it is all so complex. At this point in the tour the crew likes the misses because it makes each show different.

Along the tour we got to the video control area which is run by Steve #2 who Mtm and I had both already met. I asked a few questions, then was standing at the back of the group a bit bored. There are 162,000 pixels on the screen…..there are x gazillion bits of blah blah blah…..then I recognized a man with two women walking by me – before I could think I said loudly “Nile!” He turned and I was standing face to face with Nile Rodgers. I reached for his hands and we stood there and talked for a while (I mean 5 minutes.) I hugged him and turned to try to get Mtm and called her name. She came over and (being more polite than me) asks Nile’s PA is it was OK to talk to him. She told him that she really enjoyed the book. I thanked him for his time and asked if he was going to see the concert (duh!). He replied he was and then turned to go. I MET F’ing NILE RODGERS.

I turned back to the tour again. Pete and Steve were just grinning at me. I hugged Mtm. The we proceeded to the dressing room aisle. We got to see the doors, look at Adam’s wardrobe, all the usual stuff. Then we headed out front.

There were 8 of us on the side stage. Mtm had told me that in the past there had been some issues with people hogging the front row seats and not rotating. I suggested that we put the short people up front so MTM and I were at the side, the family of four up front. We moved the chairs out of the way and cleared the space for dancing. Over time, Mtm and I ended up in the front.

We had a long wait before the show. Mtm nicely went to get some drinks. I went over and met the other carpenter who worked with Andy and a couple other members of the crew. Then I rejoined my new friends Pete and Steve at the back of the stage and got to get a close look at the Q and Roger’s drums and one of Brian’s guitars and ask all kinds of questions. More about that later.

Mtm returned with large tumblers of wine – most needed. We had to keep the drinks at side stage because of all the electrical wires. I chatted a bit with a couple of the crew members. They confirmed that Adam was very nervous at the start of the MSG concert and blew the cue for NIH with a lyrics miss. I suspected this when I saw it. One guy said, “I couldn’t fucking believe it. You don’t mess up a cue at Madison Square Garden.” I replied, “I don’t think the audience noticed it and at least it was better than Under Pressure in Philly where Roger just missed the end completely.” We talked for a while about how these were the things that made the show more interesting – the things that don’t go right. They had done a lot of tours and said Adam was very nice. (Before the MSG concert started two different people who work for Brian told me that they [Bri, Roger and Adam] were nervous about MSG even before the Philly concert. And I think we knew that when Brian spoke about how much being back at MSG meant to them during the concert.)

I returned to the stage – to our section where we were supposed to stay. We had our own local security guard. I discussed the “rules” with him. Basically, we could do anything we wanted as long as we stayed inside the designated area. The chair got shoved into a corner. Now we had a dancefloor!

Before the concert started, a yellow-shirted security guy comes up to me and says, “Are you with the tour?” I did not have a clue what he meant. I finally realized I was dressed in all black like the tour crew and was kind of directing chair removal and looking like I knew something. I asked him, “Why?” “All the VIP stuff is screwed up. I need someone from the tour to straighten it out.” I showed him my wristband and told him I was not with the tour. He went off.

I wondered down to the floor and found someone with the tour. I told them about the issue and pointed out the panicky guy. I was direct to a couple of people and was now almost completely backstage. Security was bound to throw me out at some point – but no one did. I found a nice woman who was with the tour management and left it in her hands. Back to my spot.

I chatted a bit with the other people in our area. And the show began. Most of what happened during the show could be seen, but it was beyond awesome. Mtm danced with Adam right next to me, and got a setlist and a Rufus drumstick. Adam was 18” from me – I am sure I look like a deer with high-beams in my face. When he did the keyboard back and forth with Spike, he literally had snake eyes staring at me – awesome but also bone chilling.

The concert is a bit of a blur for me. Brian looked at Mtm and me a smiled/laughed a number of times, Neil (who I had met and spoken with a couple of times before) recognized Mtm and maybe me, he hugged and kissed me on the cheek. A delightful man BTW. I was behind the keyboard for part of the concert and could read Spike’s iPad. The whole thing was beyond, beyond. At one point I gave a note to Spike for Brian which I now know Brian received. Yes, it was a thrill to see Adam up close, and Roger, Spike and Neil. But the true trill for me was Brian played the Red Special about 2 feet in front of me more than once, and was really having fun with the fact that Mtm and I were dancing up a storm, and was just so close to us a few times. I honestly have a huge crush on Dr. Bri.

I promise to relay all the technical and Queen trivia and tour info later. But to answer a couple big questions.

- The late arrival of Spike on the “Last Horizon” part of Brian’s guitar solo in Philly and MSG was because they got back on stage too late.

- The “Killer Queen” fainting couch and arrangement was all Adam’s doing.

I have to go now and drive on the Mohegan Sun. More later as the show must go on.




Recap from toofragile:

I am a permanent lurker here. First of all, thanks to all you, guys, for all goodies that you are bringing here. Such a joyful and happy place!
Izod was my second concert. The first one was MSG and my DH was with me. It would probably be appropriate here to describe our endless arguments about Adam Lambert, his voice, music and playing with Queen but I won't because it's different story for another time. But to make the story short I'd like to mention how my DH was happy at the concert and cheering and singing and having such a great time! Only this fact made me very happy, because he is not an Adam fan. Even though he liked him a lot in Idol, after American Idol has finished, he became very cool. His words "Lambert's music is not my cop of tee." I am the only person in the family who is total cuckoo about Adam and would buy everything, even if Adam decides to release a phone book. My 2 sons politely refused to go with us and that was some kind of disappointment . But some day they will understand - I know.... And the reason for this assurance that their mother has extraordinary taste in music and in singers .

From the very beginning I thought that MSG would be tough to top. I was definitely wrong. Also I thought it will be enough. O, how I was wrong! It is never enough! EVER!!! So, I got the occasion: my mom's birthday. The decision was made I got the tickets and now I am so happy that I did it. Seeing my mom having literally a time of her life, she is 81, was absolutely priceless! And you know she totally got it. She told me that Adam's vocals are Opera worthy for her it's the highest complement. She is classical music freak. And also she made a very good point: because of Adam, timeless Queen music got the new young fresh vibe! Mom I love you - you totally, totally got it! My impression of the concert - the best that I witnessed. He was FIERCE! "Somebody To Love" - I couldn't breeze! And unexpectedly "Tie My Mother Down" became the favorite. The moment when Brian and Adam started challenge each other - Adam vocally and Brian with his guitar - This moment, o, this moment!! "Is this a real life, or is this just FANTASY?" The only complain - the concert is too short! Some girls behind us were shouting "We want more!" Can not agree more! WE NEED MORE!

PS. It was such a pleasure to meet Hoppers and Happycat at MSG. Also saw Michael Slezak in Izod Center. He was with his mom and nephew. He told me for him it was the first concert and he was expecting a lot. But I did not see any comments coming from him yet. O, well, we are patient.....