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Post by coo.coo.ca.choo on Jul 10, 2014 13:21:00 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!!!!!!!!
"The more generous you are with your music, the more it comes back to you." -- Dan Lampinski
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Post by toramenor on Jul 10, 2014 13:21:06 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!   Oh, you have no idea how magical it is! The atmosphere can't be described, it can only be experienced. I do think Adam would be a perfect fit for the people who attend Exit: mostly free spirits, artists, party-goers, festival followers(=people on the festival summer circuit), music lovers, etc. BTW, that 1st picture you posted is just one corner of the Fortress. It's actually ridiculous how big that space is, and it's surrounded by these big walls--in the picture above you can see a piece of the outer wall trailing towards the upper right corner. The 2nd picture shows the Danube River. There's a beach opposite the Fortress where people go to swim, have fun, do all sorts of summer activities. Did I mention the afterparties that take place on the beach in the early morning when there are no shows at the festival? Reminds me of what it must have been like to live the hippie era! |
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Post by coo.coo.ca.choo on Jul 10, 2014 13:29:28 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! This is a beautiful story, thanks for sharing. Music threads it's way through all our lives and for those that have lost their connection to present day it helps in some mysterious way to bring them comfort -- it feels familiar and recognizable. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2014 13:52:27 GMT -5
BRIAN MAY IS TURNING 67 NEXT WEEK!! WHY IS EVRYONE TRYING TO MAKE HIM OLDER THAN HE IS?!
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Post by cassie on Jul 10, 2014 13:56:08 GMT -5
I posted a wonderful version of CLTCL in the Houston concert thread. FUN!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2014 13:58:13 GMT -5
The replies are all positive! Check those out too. Agreed. It is a fabulous post but honestly - the glambert "newbies" negate the positive responses from the board's members. (I really wish our fandom would stop doing that *sighs* *sorrynotsorry*) Agree that the newbies piling on tend to negate the gain. I feel the same way on concert reviews -good or bad - if you were not actually at that show keep those fingers off the keyboard. The man is not in kindergarten, he doesn't need a blue ribbon awarded for every song. Also, sorrynotsorry. |
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Post by thelambertluvva on Jul 10, 2014 13:59:53 GMT -5
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Post by purplepassion on Jul 10, 2014 14:04:09 GMT -5
I have an extra ticket to the IZOD show, section 9 row B, seat 5. Selling for $400.00 which is under my actual cost. I also have space to share in my hotel room for July 23 if anyone is interested. Please send me a PM for more info. Thanks! I am not a new member, just never post, but have been here since the very beginning....
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2014 14:10:02 GMT -5
So, Let’s have a bit of fun. I have a challenge for you….fill in this blank. Adam Lambert can sign but he‘s no __________________. Forgive me Q3  Adam Lambert can sign but he is no Helen Keller. |
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Post by thelambertluvva on Jul 10, 2014 14:15:46 GMT -5
Not really a review, but a little blurb in www.nytimes.comwww.nytimes.com/2014/07/13/arts/music/stepping-in-out-in-front.htmlIt used to be called the Sammy Hagar Conundrum and lately has been rebranded as the Arnel Pineda Provocation: What to do when your favorite band takes to the road, and the recording studio, with a new person out front singing? This is an especially perplexing circumstance for fans of Queen, whose frontman, Freddie Mercury, died in 1991, and left a long shadow — in voice and attitude — that few would even try to fill. But the rest of the band members are mindful of the group’s legacy, and are always on the lookout for opportunities, though they may not have expected to find one on the “American Idol” stage. It was there in 2009 that they collaborated with Adam Lambert, the most theatrical contestant in the show’s history, and one of its most gifted vocalists, too. (They also played with the eventual winner, Kris Allen, a mouse next to Lambert’s cheetah.) Five years later, Mr. Lambert is fronting Queen on tour — no Freddie Mercury, but an unexpected, worthy place holder. (Thursday, Madison Square Garden; thegarden.com.) |
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