7.14.14 Adam News & Info -- North to Montreal

 They're both so funny: Brian totally into his solo and Adam ... oh, Adam! ... HAHAHAHA

Oh yeah. Here's the latest - I've been writing things down as I read the threads.  It could use some ummm brightening up as it's pretty dry. (you want to try?)  Wal's been posting her pic version in the pretty pics thread too.


Know the Score – Crazy Little Things QAL Tour 2014



Chicago

Curtain Up

Glitter

Adam crowned by Brian

1st time Brian asked "What do you think of our new boy?"

Keli ‏@keligreeneyes • 1h Brian says, "What do you think of OUR Adam?" **heart eyes** ♡♡♡

Champagne bottle was corked

Mic didn’t work first song, Adam used other

Sound check issues made for late start

It's a gold car wash!!!! Fringes

Brian broke a string

Says couch is really butch

Zebra shirt/white pants



Our UK friend Daz Gale ‏@dazgale 2m Just when I thought Adam Lambert couldn't get any sexier on stage he gets a couch. A FUCKING COUCH! Sweet Jesus. He just broke my penis.







Winnipeg

Q comes down

No glitter

Adam crowned by Brian

Champagne bottle was also corked and he said something about it

1st time Played Don’t Stop Me Now

Adam says “Let’s meet my band”

Zebra shirt/black pants

Vest over copper shirt







Saskatoon

Pink bra during Fat Bottom Girls (1st bra for Queen ever)

Q comes down

Curtain Up

event twitter list has only one person on it

1st time champagne bottle open and fountain sprayed it

1st red shirt/black pants

Black shoes w/leopard suit





Edmonton

Brian broke a string – Adam “seamless” between DSMN & CLTCL

first "All you need is love" call and response before Radio Gaga

Crowd did “wave” before show QueenOfficial calls it a “Mexican” wave

Crowd claps to we will rock you beat before show

Q comes down

"Do you ever feel like dousing yourself in champagne, diamonds, and...bullshit?"

Neil did a bass solo?! And included Staying Power

red shirt/black pants

Played don’t stop me now

theBurlyChef ‏@theburlychef 1m Crazy little thing called love into show must go on. Freddie isn't rolling in his grave he is dancing in it @adamlambert @queenwillrock

rolled off couch onto his knees







Calgary

"have some soul" comment during call and response

Boob flasher ADAM JUST TOLD A GIRL SHE HAS NICE TITS AND HE CAN SAY THAT CAUSE HES A FAG

Dr. Bri head on Adam shoulder during bow

Brian May quote “Ladies and Gentlemen….seriously…one of the best rock and roll singers in the world!”

White Cowboy hats on band during intros on B stage (Rufus in black)

Crowd entry problems kept everyone waiting

1st floorbert? During SCC

mmadamimadamm @mmadamimadamm To recap: we've gone from unopened champagne bottle, to #squirtbert, to #bra, to #floorbert in the space of 5 concerts! God help us all! LOL

rode the mic stand

red shirt/black pants

1st comments that leopard suit pants may have been tailored







Vancouver

Curtain Up

No fringe on couch

red shirt

No DSMN

Roger hand kiss after UP

Red carnation

Mic pack disconnected/reconnected on couch

Pot smoking in the audience





San Jose

1st time Brian next to couch

Bell Bottoms

Bri and Adam hug at the end of WWTLF - not sure but I think was San Jose.

Called out the couple playing tonsil hockey during UP

Leopard print bra

Leopard print men’s underwear





LA

Glitter

red and the gold gloves

Brian sits on couch

gold necklace came off during floor bert of stone cold crazy

CLTCL intro in LA Bri: "Love sucks", Adam: "I love it when it sucks (licking microphone)"..

Roger “There’s no dancers. Just real singing.”

Stood on couch

flared embossed black pants and newly bedazzled "heels"

new gold and red gloves







LV 1

Curtain down

Zebra shirt

Somebody to Love audience calls

Short peen walkway, no Q

Segue chat before CLTCL

Glitter

Brian sits in middle of couch

1st time Brian asked "What do you think of our new guy?"

"have some soul" comment during call and response

Pink roses during bow

3 twirls in STL



LV2

Curtain down

Brian May “The imitable Adam Lambert.”

“We want more” chant from audience before encore

Red shirt

"We're lucky enough to have a singer who makes us feel young as well "'

Lol! He has a new huge gold necklace with the leopard suit. Big enough for a rap star!!

5 twirls in STL

Brian continued with his couch invasion - this time he sat right in the middle and leaned into BB

Trucks get wrapped



Houston

Curtain up

NASA caps on band during intros on b stage

Gold necklace with leopard suit

Some sound issues, Adam in discussion with tech

Brian was wearing an Astros's shirt with 14 on the back

didn't do the call and response on AOBTD

Guitar issues before FBG with Adam scat

Did not touch the light on WWTLF

Takes a selfie with onstage fans before CLCLTCL plus back lean w/Brian at end

Zebra shirt

Phone lights before encore



Dallas

Curtain up

Q came down during SSOR

A guy flashed and Adam said "yay titties" during call/response Give me that love tonight

Adam flat on his back, Brian on his knees, Neil crouching CLTCL?

Crowd did camera lights before encore

Brian continues couch invasion

Gold necklace with leopard suit

Tripped going up stairs

Red shirt

No confetti

Gimmi that love scat

Linen Cowboy hats on band intros

Selfie with kid onstage during CLTCL

Kneeled on couch





Detroit

Zebra/black

Stomped and lit phones for encore (queen fandom had sent email with app link)

Adam said "you're getting pretty good at that clapping shit" during radio gaga

Took off fringe and held it while singing at mike stand

More gimme your love sing along

More pot smoking in the audience

CLTCL 'yeah gurl' to a VIP girl in outfit dancing

Roger gold pants to match gold jacket

Offers Brian a drink “Champagne darling? None for you? More for me, fine.

Snuggle

Dozen red roses

Dr Bri, made in Detroit tshirt





Toronto 1

Q comes down

Roger gold pants

Gold confetti

Medallion necklace

Red shirt/black pants, lace up boots

Gimme that love

One of Brian May's guitar strings broke. Naturally @adamlambert put the string in his mouth.

Curtain up

No video to start off NIH

15 second note in STL

"Church of Glam Rock, are you ready for this shit?"

HI!  I tried to peek in as much as I could yesterday but my precious granddaughter of 2 months of age had my undivided attention!  

I knew that I could come here today and catch up on everything from the concert!  Thanks everyone for all the Adam treasures!!  Chapf's you just keep on amazing me with your great Adam/Queen smilies!!

The vids from people here are so good!!  Can't stop watching the L-O-N-G holding note Adam graced us with...DAY-UM!

Momtomany...thank you...thank you...for sharing your experience on stage and behind the scenes last night!!  I felt like I was taking the tour with you!!

And we have another concert tonight!

Not sure if this has been posted.

www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/music/three-reasons-freddie-mercury-might-approve-of-queen-adam-lambert-and-one-reason-he-might-not/article19584292/

Three reasons Freddie Mercury might approve of Queen + Adam Lambert (and one reason he might not)

A forthcoming album from the bombastic English rockers is apparently to be titled Queen Forever. After 40 years in the business and after improbably surviving the loss of iconic singer Freddie Mercury in 1992 due to complications caused by AIDS, “forever” seems like a more approachable goal than ever. With the former American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert playing queen for the day as the band's featured touring vocalist these days, the flashy troupe gave an extravagant, high-energy, old-fashioned arena rock show to a sold-out, whipped-up Air Canada Centre audience on Sunday. Would Freddie Mercury, who wrote and sang Who Wants to Live Forever, The Show Must Go On and “goodbye everybody, I've got to go,” endorse the 2014 edition of Queen and its glam-rock reviving pomposity? Here are three reasons why Freddie Mercury might approve of Adam Lambert and the dowager Queen, and one reason why he might not.


1. On the night after “supermoon,” Adam Lambert didn’t try to produce Mercury rising. Instead, for his first costume situation, he reached into the closet and pulled out a retro George Michael look, complete with shades, a dark shadow of facial scruff and studded black leather garb. Vocally, Lambert doesn’t possess the richness of Mercury, but his swagger comes naturally and the agile tenor didn’t miss a note all night, swooping easily up to high places when required. The first four songs – Now I’m Here, Stone Cold Crazy, Another One Bites the Dust and Fat Bottomed Girls – hit hard and relentlessly. Tushy ladies may make the “rockin’ world go around,” as Lambert asserted, but a bluesy backbeat doesn’t hurt either.

2. Mercury might not recognize what passes for rock ’n’ roll today. Oh, bands still rock convincingly enough, but somewhere along the way the roll was lost. As well, squealing guitar solos – a staple in the day – are long passé. Nobody told original guitarist Brian May, a virtuoso with a taste for stomps, chugs and solo flights, and nobody told a bluesy rhythm section that included bassist Neil Fairclough and original drummer Roger Taylor (with his son Rufus Taylor on drums and percussion). Also, all manner of solos happened – an old-school indulgence that Mercury would recognize. At one point, on the B-stage, the astrophysicist May spoke about how travelling at the speed of light would produce a trip that might seem like it took no time at all to an astronaut, but would actually eat up a hundred years of earth time. Later, during an interminable solo by May (who played various over-driven melodies against a starry backdrop on the giant, circular screen behind him), I knew just what he meant.

3. Though the sexual inclinations of Mercury were a source of intrigue, the openly gay Lambert lives and works in a much more liberated age. A showman who we can euphemistically describe as flamboyant, for Killer Queen, Lambert reclined on a regal half couch, with a bottle of champagne in one hand and a hand-fan in the other. He cheekily played with the line “guaranteed to blow your mind,” but turned more serious about all of us of looking for ways to fill our emptiness as we searched for “somebody to love,” which is also the title for a gospelish hit track off Queen’s A Day at the Races from 1976. Later, for the triumphant, anthemic encore set of We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions he appeared with an effeminate crown and a leopard skin get-up, just in case anyone still hadn’t connected the dots.

4. Let him go. (We will not him go!). One wouldn’t imagine the stylish Mercury condoning the gold-lamé blouse May wore for the opera buffa shenanigans of Bohemian Rhapsody, but, more seriously, would he abide parts of the original 1975 recording being used in a 2014 concert? A tape of Mercury’s studio vocals and live concert footage were also used for the unplugged Love of My Life, though May and the audience sang most of it. Nice touches, but how much Mercury is required? On the wistful These Are The Days of Our Lives, Roger Taylor sang “you can't turn back the clock,” and yet the home movies of the band in its youth were screened to sappy effect. It’s a rock and roll show, not a Mercury tribute. It’s also 2014, and about time the band moves on and calls itself simply “Queen” again, dropping the plus-Lambert tag. Mercury’s legacy is assured; there’s no need to continue the memorial. As the man sang himself: “If I'm not back again this time tomorrow, carry on, carry on, as if nothing really matters.”

plays Montreal’s Bell Centre, July 14; and returns to Toronto’s Air Canada Centre, July 28.