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Post by toramenor on Jul 14, 2014 16:35:34 GMT -5
OTT but I know there are many many of us who would give significant amounts of what little cash we have left over after buying Queen tickets to hear Adam just once sing "Sweet Child O Mine"... So of course that Frank dude on The Voice Oz gets to sing it last night (damn you Joel Madden for one by one crucifying every single classic rock favorite at the altar of The Voice). What the actual fuck. He was ok, certainly did a better job of it than he did of WATC, but was still a decent karaoke version rather than any kind of ownership of the song. #lesigh #onedaypigswillfly poor bridgeymah  I've been reading your posts about Australian singing competitions and they are so f-ing hilarious - I had to let you know that I appreciate them even though I'd never actually watch any of it and, yeah, "Sweet Child O Mine" + Adam = rock heaven |
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Post by happycat14 on Jul 14, 2014 16:38:11 GMT -5
OTT but I know there are many many of us who would give significant amounts of what little cash we have left over after buying Queen tickets to hear Adam just once sing "Sweet Child O Mine"... So of course that Frank dude on The Voice Oz gets to sing it last night (damn you Joel Madden for one by one crucifying every single classic rock favorite at the altar of The Voice). What the actual fuck. He was ok, certainly did a better job of it than he did of WATC, but was still a decent karaoke version rather than any kind of ownership of the song. #lesigh #onedaypigswillfly Hi bridgey. Well now that is a lil fantasy of mine, esp since Fergie sang it w Slash live and Adam knows both of them. Come on, surely Slash and Brian must known each other. And Axl did the Mercury tribute. So now that Frank dude did it? Oy. Will check it out. No disrespect but he kind of seems like he'll sing his guts out then keel over. |
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Post by crazyoldgal on Jul 14, 2014 16:40:51 GMT -5
IMPORTANT the PHILLY Concert goers for meet up pls go the members thread…discussing the meet up at Avenue of the Arts this is insane - to meet up in Center CIty (CC) rather than a location within walking distance of the venue
so pls see what you all think
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Post by Q3 on Jul 14, 2014 16:43:32 GMT -5
Uh, Q3, weren't the Queen vids for I'm Going Slightly Mad and I Want to Break Free totally campy and comic? I mean I wqs surprised by how silly all the band members were. But maybe you mean live onstage. I was referring to Freddie live versus the music videos. Their videos were sometimes theatrical -- Yes, these two Queen music videos were certainly theatrical. But live in concert, I never saw anything that I would describe as similar to the definitely gay, campy character Adam is playing during KQ -- and to a lesser extent in LOTGR. "I Want to Break Free" -- was Roger's idea, not Freddie's, and it was supposed to be satirical, not cross dressing. It was inspired by the the Rolling Stones record cover, and I would not call it "campy". Certainly not anything to do with Freddie being gay. (I am not sure what they were thinking when they did this video but it was a mistake from a commercial standpoint.) "I'm Going Slightly Mad" -- Freddie is playing an insane person but not particularly gay. And he wore all the makeup and the wig to try to hide how sick he was. youtu.be/Od6hY_50Dh0** Here is Freddie doing ITBF Live (1986). Just another rock song. (This is the weird official release from 1986 Wembley concert where they edited the audience into it from other songs hence why the British fans look like 1. They have no sense of rhythm and 2. The are listen to Radio Ga Ga.) youtu.be/U9m2cGbMa2Q#aid=P54A1le3U4AThere is, of course, no live performance of "I'm Going Slightly Mad" since it was released in 1991. |
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Post by bridgeymah on Jul 14, 2014 16:52:59 GMT -5
OTT but I know there are many many of us who would give significant amounts of what little cash we have left over after buying Queen tickets to hear Adam just once sing "Sweet Child O Mine"... So of course that Frank dude on The Voice Oz gets to sing it last night (damn you Joel Madden for one by one crucifying every single classic rock favorite at the altar of The Voice). What the actual fuck. He was ok, certainly did a better job of it than he did of WATC, but was still a decent karaoke version rather than any kind of ownership of the song. #lesigh #onedaypigswillfly Hi bridgey. Well now that is a lil fantasy of mine, esp since Fergie sang it w Slash live and Adam knows both of them. Come on, surely Slash and Brian must known each other. And Axl did the Mercury tribute. So now that Frank dude did it? Oy. Will check it out. No disrespect but he kind of seems like he'll sing his guts out then keel over. By all means check it out - should be up on you tube later today or tomorrow. And yes your description is pretty much perfect. He has no technique just belts, no support or control when he's not belting... but by comments on twitter that's what passes for rock singing in the "grand tradition" of scream it while you're young because you'll be doing bluegrass with Alison Krauss when you're in your 60s! Although he's into the final 5 I doubt he will win then it will be "Frank - coming to a local pub near you" soon enough. Yep that was a bit mean but this season has been so screwed up it brings out my snark  (Off to listen to Toronto STL again - is sure to improve my outlook) |
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Post by bridgeymah on Jul 14, 2014 16:58:31 GMT -5
My pet peeve is the reporting : Adam went from Idol to Queen with nothing inbetween. This type of reporting drives me crazy. He's a star .. He's on his third album,He's toured the world with sold out concerts,he was up for a Grammy... and so forth... no mentiion of who he is since IDOL.. I know some think It's kind of an amazing journey from Idol to Queen and it is. BUT to quote someone " Adam is an overnight success but it took 20 years." I wish the press would give him his due.. Oh yes indeed. Peeve 2 after #FLD is the whole "he disappeared into a deep dark cave of nothingness after he didn't win only to emerge dusted off and sprinkled with gold to front Queen as Brian and Roger pillage the masses for one last paycheck" thing. |
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Post by LindaG23 on Jul 14, 2014 17:00:07 GMT -5
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Post by adamrocks on Jul 14, 2014 17:01:18 GMT -5
UKGlambert @ukglambert 24m Adam Lambert Takes His Perfectly Marvelous Self To Montreal, Happy 'OITNB' Isn't Cancelled - Socialite Life - www.socialitelife.com/adam-lambert-takes-his-perfectly-marvelous-self-to-montreal-happy-oitnb-isnt-cancelled-07-2014 …
Sorry, I just couldn’t be bothered to write Orange is the New Black in the title. It’s just so long.
You know what else is long? The time since we last saw Adam Lambert! I realize that sentence doesn’t really make sense, but you know where I’m going with it.
The singer, and new Queen frontman, was spotted in Montreal today, looking cute and chatting with fans before hopping into a taxi. Hopefully he enjoys the day before he has to go rock out tonight.
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Post by cassie on Jul 14, 2014 17:02:46 GMT -5
Ooooo. I love those! I have them both bookmarked. Welcome and many thanks, marknow. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2014 17:14:05 GMT -5
Kinda OT, but related to the question of how did Adam become as good a singer as he is ... I thought it was an interesting read. I provided some excerpts, but I suggest you read the whole article (it's not very long). An article in the NY Times about a new study examining the contribution of innate talent vs practice in determining high performance: www.nytimes.com/2014/07/15/science/which-matters-more-talent-or-practice.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpSum&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-newswww.nytimes.com/2014/07/15/science/which-matters-more-talent-or-practice.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpSum&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-newsSome excerpts: The value-of-practice debate has reached a stalemate. In a landmark 1993 study of musicians, a research team led by K. Anders Ericsson, a psychologist now at Florida State University, found that practice time explained almost all the difference (about 80 percent) between elite performers and committed amateurs. <snip> The new paper, the most comprehensive review of relevant research to date, comes to a different conclusion. Compiling results from 88 studies across a wide range of skills, it estimates that practice time explains about 20 percent to 25 percent of the difference in performance in music, sports and games like chess. In academics, the number is much lower — 4 percent — in part because it’s hard to assess the effect of previous knowledge, the authors wrote. “We found that, yes, practice is important, and of course it’s absolutely necessary to achieve expertise,” said Zach Hambrick, a psychologist at Michigan State University and a co-author of the paper, with Brooke Macnamara, now at Case Western Reserve University, and Frederick Oswald of Rice University. “But it’s not as important as many people have been saying” compared to inborn gifts. <snip> Yet the range of findings and level of disagreement are themselves hints that there are likely to be factors involved in building expertise that are neither genetic nor related to the amount of practice time. One is the age at which a person picks up a violin, or a basketball, or a language. People who grow up in bilingual households fully integrate both languages at the same time that language-specialized areas in their brains are developing. The same may be true of many other skills — there may exist a critical window of learning in childhood that primes the brain to pick up skills quickly later on. <snip> Practice time is critical indeed, and its contribution to accumulated expertise is likely to vary from one field to the next as the new paper found, experts said. Personality is an enormous variable, too, (although partly genetic). “Things like grit, motivation, and inspiration — that ability to imagine achieving this high level, to fantasize about it,” Dr. Kaufman said. “These are things we don’t know much about yet, and need to study more directly.” But in the end, the most important factor over which people have control — whether juggling, jogging or memorizing a script — may be not how much they practice, but how effectively they use that time. |
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I've been reading your posts about Australian singing competitions and they are so f-ing hilarious - I had to let you know that I appreciate them even though I'd never actually watch any of it
