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Post by Q3 on Jun 29, 2014 23:28:13 GMT -5
PostFestumPF PostFestumPF 53s WOW! Great! RT @jafoal: K here's the pics from the vid. He was full view of the stage so vid will be awesome view. pic.twitter.com/Rxu6HjltFG
 
 
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Post by evergreen on Jun 29, 2014 23:50:34 GMT -5
What an amazing resource this is! If anyone has not already bookmarked it, take a look. Tabs for each concert make it easy to find what you are looking for. With so many great videos, this could be a deeeeep rabbithole... The recaps and videos here on Adamtopia have been great. So much wonderful talent here - thanks to all for sharing. I LOVE this place! And... great to see the "kids" having fun in SF today. They've earned a day off. Do you think the "dads" are out and about, too - or just resting?  |
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Post by wal on Jun 29, 2014 23:55:55 GMT -5
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Post by shimoli710 on Jun 29, 2014 23:56:50 GMT -5
Can I ask a question here because I'm seeing it more and more. It's been seeming more and more because of the annoyance of FLD or whatever that now if a reviewer says that Freddie was better that the only reason that could be is that they don't want to admit that Adam is better? Can't it honestly be that someone just thinks Freddie has something that Adam doesn't? I mean I know I think that way. I know many here think the opposite. I also know that I've highly enjoyed the collaboration. I've also enjoyed the conversation here and I know I'm on an AL site so maybe I should just shut up....but for some reason it's bothered me. I don't even mind people saying they like Adams renditions better than Freddie because that's opinion but the thought that Freddie being better is not a legitimate opinion is just limiting. In fact implants to go into these concerts hoping and pretty much knowing I.m going to love it...but I know that if I think in my head that Adam is phenomenal but he is still not the one I want to be hearing right now, it won't be simply that I can't accept it. Am I making sense? Am I missing something? To be honest, I don't personally have a problem with anyone going to a QAL concert, and walking out saying "That was good, but damn I miss Freddie". Because that, in my mind, is a totally legitimate way for someone who saw and loved Queen in its nadir to feel. But - again in my opinion - its one thing to say "I liked the way Freddie sang that better" and another to say "The new guy can't sing". And that's what the description of "bland" means to me. Adam may not have Freddie's grit. He also doesn't have the richness of Freddie's low baritone notes (Adam after all is a tenor, and his lower range - while better than it was - doesn't match Freddie's strength in that area). But Adam's voice isn't "bland". When I read a review like that, it comes off to me as "I want Freddie so much that I refuse to listen to what Adam brings to the table". IMO, YMMV, etc etc etc. ETA: That said, the obvious love for Brian was awesome and heartwarming (Yay Bri!!). But, yeah, the "bland" was annoying.  THIS!!! |
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Post by cassie on Jun 30, 2014 0:02:44 GMT -5
phlambert14: I see you sneaking in down in the chat box. Most people don't look down there, so pop up into the main thread and say hello. Welcome!
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Post by mirages on Jun 30, 2014 0:13:10 GMT -5
Y'know, when this tour was announced, I girded my loins (such as they are) for so-so sales, given the number of legacy acts touring this summer, often on the nights before and after QAL in the same cities, sometimes the SAME night (Heart played Calgary the same night as QAL, Cher seems to be playing just ahead of QAL most places). However, we saw MSG sell out the same day, more concerts added and so far as I can tell, every actual concert so far has been packed to the rafters.
I was also similarly girded for an onslaught of appalling reviews and diatribes about Adam's presumptousness in taking on this role, about B&R's craven cash-grabbing, about Adam's screeching and flouncing ... and it hasn't happened. The reviews have actually been amazingly good -- so good in fact that often, I look hard at the source thinking it must be a Glambert writing on one of those Examiner-type anybody-can-publish-here sites. It feels like for whatever reason, everybody was just READY to embrace Queen in North America this time, and they were ready for Adam to step up to the mic with them.
I also thought audiences full of classic rock fans might resist Adam's "Killer Queen" moments, and especially that crown at the end, but they've eaten it up and had a great laugh WITH him. Increasingly, I'm hearing not, "He's no Freddie," but "Freddie must be smiling/Freddie would be proud". That is a shift of seismic proportions.
Adam is, as Q3 put it, performing in the house Freddie (and Brian, Roger and John, I know, but Freddie was the face and force of Queen for most people) built, and they are invoking him throughout the concert. There is no way people will NOT think about him and reviewers WILL write about him. Not to do so would be to ignore the fabulous sparkly elephant in the room.
Lately I've also been glad to see more raves for Brian and Roger, because I thought early reviews focused too much on Adam -- of course, he's the "new boy" and he's the frontman and there's the "from Idol BR audition to fronting Queen angle" and, well, he's been spectacular and when you're in the stadium it's hard to stop thinking, "He was born to do this." But it's made me smile lately to see more reviewers lauding Brian ... would be nice to see a little more love for Roger (and Spike and Neil), too.
(Talon, does Roger get much respect in the classic rock crowd as a drummer? I think he's amazing and also love that he sings, plays guitar and keyboards, writes songs and produces as well -- amazing guy. But when I googled lists of "best rock drummers," he wasn't on any of them -- seems weird.)
I'm rambling. My point was that things have gone exponentially better for EVERYBODY on this tour -- band, promoters and audiences -- that I expected, and exceptionally better than Queen themselves experienced during their North American tours in the day. That, and any opportunity to actually experience these guys having so much fun and creating such great moments together, is worth celebrating.
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Post by birdieeve on Jun 30, 2014 0:16:19 GMT -5
Pisceslady - I PM'd you . |
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Post by theosgma on Jun 30, 2014 0:19:46 GMT -5
I have a ticket available for The Forum, LA.I think it's a very good one - Section 127 row 7....about level with the head of the thrust! I was happy with this seat for a long time but eventually felt constrained to buy a floor seat. I have hung on to the ticket because I actually thought I might take in two views - first half in section 127 and second half in row 5 on the floor. I now realise this is not as reasonable as it seemed to me at first! I seem to have lost the plot.... I paid $225 for it but it comes without the VIP package because they will not post to the UK. So $200?If it doesn't sell then I will have less of a conscience about a double location concert experience.... Sophie I have a ticket available in the same section LOL! Section 127, Row 10! I paid the same & I've already ordered the T-shirt so cannot include the VIP stuff. I was originally asking $200 for my ticket too but so far no responses. I think I'm going to list it for resale on TM with a best offer or maybe $100? I'll have to see what similar tickets are going for. But hey, if it doesn't sell, it's no big deal. I'm happy I upgraded. Just hate to see this ticket go to waste! I listed mine on TicketMaster for $25 less net to me and it sold right it away. It was a less expensive ticket but still. your prices are reasonable. I think if you list it it it will sell. |
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Post by crazy4you on Jun 30, 2014 0:25:32 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2014 0:25:50 GMT -5
I posted this the other day. (I don't think anyone commented, but I wouldn't know. Major computer crash had to reload the whole system) Wanted an opinion. I didn't have any gold jewelry so had this made to match symbol Adam is using on his fan site. Think it is ok to do this? Had second thoughts after I had it made.  |
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