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Post by seoulmate on Jul 10, 2014 12:19:24 GMT -5
Exit (also known as State of Exit) is an award-winning summer music festival which is held at the Petrovaradin Fortress in the city of Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Serbia. It was officially proclaimed as the 'Best Major European festival' at the EU Festival Awards, in January 2014. The EU Festival Award is considered one of the most prestigious festival awards in the world, and for the 2014 ceremony 620 000 people voted, choosing between 360 festivals from 34 countries. Wow! Thanks for sharing, toramenor! I just googled this, and what an amazing place to have a music festival! No, not related to Adam or QAL right now, but in the future it would be so much fun to see Adam performing in a magical place like this!   |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2014 12:31:43 GMT -5
(Tiny humanoid wearing oversized plumed hat and carrying tiny ukulele materializes, looks around surreptitiously, then writes on Q3's blackboard) Adam can sing but he is no... Tiny Tim(Giggles and strolls away playing a cover of Jake Shimabukuro's cover of "Bohemian Rhapsody" -- link )
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Post by Holst on Jul 10, 2014 12:35:32 GMT -5
(Tiny humanoid wearing oversized plumed hat and carrying tiny ukulele materializes, looks around surreptitiously, then writes on Q3's blackboard) Adam can sing but he is no... Tiny Tim(Giggles and strolls away playing a cover of Jake Shimabukuro's cover of "Bohemian Rhapsody" -- link ) Oh, it's so fun to have you around again. Don't dematerialized for too long.  |
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Post by coo.coo.ca.choo on Jul 10, 2014 12:35:39 GMT -5
Was at the concert last night so am still reeling from the experience. Peeps exiting the arena just kept looking back at the stage as if they simply could NOT believe what they had just seen and heard. Made me so happy! Now I need to come back down to earth and pretend that I am listening to hubby as he chatters away about whatever, when I am actually replaying last night in my head. So far he hasn't caught on. LOL  ......I know exactly what you're saying! Hubby: "Got the blade on the lawn mower, blah, blah, blah....." Me: "Thighs, baby thighs!" |
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Post by melliemom on Jul 10, 2014 12:36:07 GMT -5
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Post by smokeyvera on Jul 10, 2014 12:43:50 GMT -5
Forums > Queen + Adam Lambert > Q+AL - a musician's perspectivewww.queenzone.com/forums/1389352/q-and-al-a-musicians-perspective.aspxExcerpt: Music is an experience of emotion. It is the soundtrack of our lives. Songs bring people back to their youth. Changing any one variable can translate to being an attack on one's memory or not being faithful to their past. Just take a deep breath and know that nobody's trying to trivialize that. But let's call a spade a spade. This feeling of having realized that 30 years have passed and that your dreams didn't come true and that you're 50-something and missed the boat are then externalized onto the music of your youth, that time of hopes and dreams - when we were kids when we were young and things seemed so perfect, you know - and the creators of said music are typecast into the listener's past and are almost not allowed to live in the present. Ask Journey fans who can't hear Steve Perry sing Don't Stop Believin' with his old mates anymore, or Yes fans who can't hear Jon Anderson do And You And I or Roundabout. Some people would prefer to see Brian and Roger call it a day because Freddie Mercury died. Fortunately they don't care about your opinion. Even if they did, they wouldn't have time for it. They have packed arenas to play to. Read more... The whole thing needs to be posted for posterity. This guy said it so well and intelligently!!!!!!!!
In my general absence here as of late, I thought I'd offer a little something to the ongoing discussion about the current tour.
The negativity on this forum is not unexpected, but still incredibly disappointing to witness. A decade ago Queen fans were aching for any kind of collaboration between Brian and Roger, never mind full-scale tours where they are playing songs they haven't played in 30 years (or ever).
They aren't spring chickens anymore. Brian May is 68 next week. How many 68 year old musicians who understand the health issues and touring schedules of 68 year old musicians and have the balls to cut other 68 year old musicians to shreds over their choices to play their music live as they want to? That's right - none. The self-appointed experts are exclusively those who haven't got a clue about the strain on one's health it is to do one nighters (travel, hotels, soundchecks, tech meetings, physio, etc.) at any age, never mind age 68. I do. I've done it. It's grueling. Most people are completely ignorant of the challenges and hardships one has to put themselves through for months at a time so that you can be entertained for those two hours ONCE.
A few years back Brian May played on Lady Gaga's song You And I. He soon joined her on a big awards show to perform the song, and immediately tens of thousands of kids are asking, "Daddy, who's the old guitar player?" And suddenly they're on YouTube watching Bohemian Rhapsody, perhaps for the first time. Brian May knows exactly what he's doing. He knows his days are limited, and he wants the kids to know who Queen are. The kids know who Lady Gaga is, and they know who Adam Lambert is. They are vessels to the next generation.
Those who found Paul Rodgers unfit for Queen's throne said he was too masculine, too bluesy, too different from what Queen once were. Now they have a flamboyant frontman who wears six outfits like Cher, has an incredible vocal range, and has his own approach to theatricality that smoothly blends into what Queen were all about. Comparing Adam Lambert (or anyone) to the timeless, unadulterated, irreplaceable genius of Freddie Mercury is pointless - but there is no rationale in arguing that he doesn't fit the profile. He does, perfectly. Equally pointless is turning it into an either/or boolean type equation. This mentality is why people of one religion are able to smite those of another. At the risk of sounding pathetically mundane, can't we all just get along?
Sure, Lambert has messed up lyrics on a couple songs he has only sung a few times. So did Freddie Mercury, on songs he had sung dozens or hundreds of times. These guys are human, not machines. This really need not be explained to anyone who isn't fueled by confirmation bias in a time warp.
Osaka '76 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAlNy3t5eiQ#t=25
Stockholm '78 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNS35apx8xk#t=28
Buenos Aires '81 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZoHrbZNRIg#t=15
Birmingham '84 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR5ng7ZmG5I#t=30
Bottom line? Shit happens. Move on.
Music is an experience of emotion. It is the soundtrack of our lives. Songs bring people back to their youth. Changing any one variable can translate to being an attack on one's memory or not being faithful to their past. Just take a deep breath and know that nobody's trying to trivialize that. But let's call a spade a spade. These feelings of having realized that 30 years have passed and that your dreams didn't come true and that you're 50-something and missed the boat are then externalized onto the music of your youth, that time of hopes and dreams - when we were kids when we were young and things seemed so perfect, you know - and the creators of said music are typecast into the listener's past and are almost not allowed to live in the present. Ask Journey fans who can't hear Steve Perry sing Don't Stop Believin' with his old mates anymore, or Yes fans who can't hear Jon Anderson do And You And I or Roundabout. Some people would prefer to see Brian and Roger call it a day because Freddie Mercury died. Fortunately they don't care about your opinion. Even if they did, they wouldn't have time for it. They have packed arenas to play to.
When one has run out of arguments (such as "all they play is the hits - boring!" now that they're doing a few obscure tunes), the last resort is to complain that the tempos of the tunes are too slow. These guys are in their 60s. Do you not realize that a 60-something year old body doesn't work like a 20-something year old body works? Some people can just never be pleased. I have news for you - the tempos of many of the tunes were once getting much too fast. Let Me Entertain You started to sound a bear trapped in a cave high on angel dust. Oh, the silliness of youth. They've grown up now. Perspective sucks, doesn't it?
It's easy to throw stones from your glass house, and so much harder to cast your ego or preconceptions aside and simply be happy that these guys who formed a band you supposedly love are touring again. Do you think they're playing Now I'm Here, Stone Cold Crazy and Love Kills for the man on the street? No, you numbskulls. They're playing it for YOU - you know, the thousands of people who read forums like this and have been waiting 30 years for Queen to tour the US and play the old songs again. They're saying thanks for waiting for the circumstances to present themselves and for the right moment to arrive. And that moment is now. And you're all too stuck in the past and your own anger to notice. Instead of trying on a different coloured shirt, you're on setlist.fm changing every song of every show to "Queen cover," as if to imply that your definition of Queen is more valid than the people who formed the band. To quote the great Roger Taylor - I pity you. You suck.
So I echo the sentiments of those who say the naysayers tend to be unhappy people who want to drag happy and successful people down to the basement of life where they currently reside rather than seek their own happiness. I fear that many people will be kicking themselves one day for choosing to miss out on what may be the final tour of the remaining members of Queen. I don't expect to change anyone's mind, but stranger things have happened.
Contrary to what's happening in the real world where there are a ton of positive reviews of the tour (including from Rolling Stone, a magazine that has notoriously panned Queen as if it were a sport), there seems to be a need to provide something to complement the overwhelming "waaahhh, waaaahhhh, I'm a binary thinking closed minded idiot and can't perform a resurrection, therefore Lambert sucks and Bri and Rog should retire and/or die" attitude that tends to pervade places like this in times like this. So let the mudslinging, reflection, glee, and/or despair begin.
"The more generous you are with your music, the more it comes back to you." -- Dan Lampinski
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Post by seoulmate on Jul 10, 2014 12:52:45 GMT -5
Was at the concert last night so am still reeling from the experience. Peeps exiting the arena just kept looking back at the stage as if they simply could NOT believe what they had just seen and heard. Made me so happy! Now I need to come back down to earth and pretend that I am listening to hubby as he chatters away about whatever, when I am actually replaying last night in my head. So far he hasn't caught on. LOL ......I know exactly what you're saying! Hubby: "Got the blade on the lawn mower, blah, blah, blah....." Me: "Thighs, baby thighs!" |
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Post by Holst on Jul 10, 2014 13:07:29 GMT -5
Very touching. It reminded me that I was going to tell about my older brother, a 60-year-old guitarist and lover of all things musical. While I was visiting him during the start of the QAL tour, he asked if I had any more Adam videos to show him. (He doesn't do computers, so I have made special DVDs for him over the last couple years.) He really enjoys Adam. So we watched the iHeart tour preview and the Chicago Killer Queen on my laptop in my mother's living room. As we finished, my mom sad that my brother looks like he really enjoyed it and might have been teary eyed. He confessed, he did get teary. Songs of his youth. I don't remember him being a Queen fan, but certainly he knew the music. For a couple years, my mother, who is in dementia but still living "alone" next door to my brother, has stated that she does not like to have the radio on or any music. She just prefers silence nowadays. However, she is now visiting my sister and hubby who have been playing a stack of CDs of music from Mom's youth. Sis and hubby put headphones on her because she has hearing loss, and apparently she is sitting still with complete focus listening to this music. She has the CD cases all lined up in front of her so she can look at the tracks and liner notes. Then she's ready to listen again. Also, she is a musician and quit playing the cello a few years ago (she's 87). (Yes, we are all musicians in my family.) However, my guitarist brother has somehow gotten her to take her cello to nursing homes where he enjoys playing for the old folks. She has been improvising along with him, even on songs she barely knows. She's never done improv before. What a great creative outlet and mental exercise for her--and an example of how to keep on truckin' in old age. While I was visiting one of these nursing home gigs, another lady got up front and did a soft-shoe dance routine. I love the arts! |
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Post by seoulmate on Jul 10, 2014 13:15:46 GMT -5
(Tiny humanoid wearing oversized plumed hat and carrying tiny ukulele materializes, looks around surreptitiously, then writes on Q3's blackboard) Adam can sing but he is no... Tiny Tim(Giggles and strolls away playing a cover of Jake Shimabukuro's cover of "Bohemian Rhapsody" -- link ) I found you a teeny tiny humanoid fairy chair. Now, get back here and sit your fine tiny ass down and stay awhile.  |
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Post by melliemom on Jul 10, 2014 13:17:37 GMT -5
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......I know exactly what you're saying! Hubby: "Got the blade on the lawn mower, blah, blah, blah....." Me: "Thighs, baby thighs!"
