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Post by happycat14 on Jul 18, 2014 11:49:58 GMT -5
"Mr. Lambert — singing to replace Queen’s leader, Freddie Mercury, who died in 1991 — is a modest accessory, on and off the stage as he changes into various costumes of leather, lace, studs, animal-skin patterns and shiny fringe." This NY Times reviewer must have been somewhere else that night. Modest accessory? Really? I think this is my biggest problem with all he said. AFL OWNED that stage, a full 2/3 of all the big O screen time was on him, and come on, there is NOTHING MODEST about Adam Fucking Lambert. Adam was front and center the whole time, well most of it, and this guy is just ridiculous! I actually read that as a critique of Queen using him as a "modest" addition instead of more front and center throughout. Furthering on the "deferential" thing he said. The thing I can't fathom, aside from the weird and wrong canned backing vocals thing, is saying Queen is a studio band. Um, no. They were known weren't they for being kickass live? Or am I wrong and people thought they sucked live. Head scratcher. As for the end, he wanted Adam to take more authority but praised his BR vocal. I do wish they had Caramanica review instead. |
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Post by talon on Jul 18, 2014 11:56:05 GMT -5
They were both studio AND live....just different animals. They did things in the studio which couldn't be translated into live performance. BUT They were kickass live too. Ridiculous to claim canned vocals (unless he means Bo Rhap and the opera section - which is always how it was done...) If that's NOT what he meant, he just found out that Roger Taylor is so good you think you're hearing canned backing vocals  This reviewer was a clown. (OK small excuse to play this newly discovered rarity of Freddie playing Send In The Clowns on the piano - no vocals but nice anyways) - Not 100% verified, but I trust the original source as not one to fool around  Not a studio take either. This was a home recording by boyfriend Jim Hutton of Freddie just doodling on the piano... |
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Post by irish1139 on Jul 18, 2014 11:56:24 GMT -5
savvy92, you are so smart. Your observation was so right on.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2014 11:58:32 GMT -5
Curious, because I can't open the NYT site - is there any attendee feedback to the review? Not knee-jerk stuff, but reasonable responses?
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Post by wal on Jul 18, 2014 12:03:08 GMT -5
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Post by savvy92 on Jul 18, 2014 12:11:57 GMT -5
It must be surreal to be Leila and be surrounded by fans screaming for and singing with your son. I don't imagine you ever get used to it, especially at this level. |
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Post by geezlouise on Jul 18, 2014 12:17:24 GMT -5
Another you don't want to click on........................... LAMBERT LIVES OUT CHILDHOOD DREAM WITH QUEEN TOUR By Hardeep Phull nypost.com/2014/07/18/lambert-lives-out-childhood-dream-with-queen-tour/Talk about living out your rock star fantasies. Adam Lambert grew up adoring Queen, sang their songs at his American Idol audition and now, he’s doing it for real. But his dream felt more like a nightmare on Thursday night when the Queen + Adam Lambert tour hit Madison Square Garden. By trying to fill in for Freddie Mercury, he has drunk from a poisoned chalice and it was painful watching him slowly succumb. Lambert’s vocals have never been in question but compared to Mercury’s booming, full-bodied range that could fill stadiums on its own, the 32-year-old’s squeaky warbling on songs such as “Somebody To Love” and “Another One Bites The Dust” sounded like farts in the wind. When footage of Mercury singing was shown on the giant screen behind the stage, it only served to put Lambert in even more shade. His showmanship was also a pale imitation of the original Queen singer, especially during “Killer Queen” when he draped himself over a chaise lounge like a camp cartoon character. Even Lambert’s costumes were off-point, not least the studded leather jacket he wore as he arrived on stage, which looked like a fashion intern’s idea of rock star clobber. But it would be unfair to lay the blame for all of this completely at Lambert’s door. He’s just a jobbing performer who is smart enough to know that he’ll never even come close to Mercury’s level of charisma or talent. The real villains are guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor for letting this happen. Again. The duo first reanimated the band with Free and Bad Company singer Paul Rodgers during the 2000s (original Queen bassist John Deacon smartly retired years ago). Now, they’re continuing to desecrate their own wonderful legacies by limping through this pantomime. May is a guitar hero but hearing him going through a five minute solo was enough to bore you to tears and the sound of Taylor taking up the microphone and croaking through a version of “These Are The Days Of Our Lives” verged on the pitiful. Given that Queen’s career album sales are in the hundreds of millions, neither May nor Taylor can possibly need the money that this tour is bringing in. So why bother? The answer was hinted at during a mid-set acoustic segment when a genuinely moved May addressed Queen’s ever loyal subjects. “After all these years, you gave us the chance to come here and be rock gods again,” he said with more than a hint of relief. They worked hard to earn the rock star life, but it sounds like May and Taylor don’t quite have it in them to leave it behind. For them, the show must go on if only because it’s all they know. |
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Post by red panda on Jul 18, 2014 12:18:33 GMT -5
 Hahahaha, by any interpretation, this is definitely NOT modest. Showmanship at it's finest, imo. |
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Post by irish1139 on Jul 18, 2014 12:25:09 GMT -5
Is Adam wearing a Greek cross in his ear? Does anyone know?
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Post by cassie on Jul 18, 2014 12:26:46 GMT -5
Just ran across an interesting article about how our brains process experiences based on the marketing we see/hear. How we perceive the quality and taste of wine may seem unrelated to how folks perceive Adam singing with Queen, but, I wonder if it points to the same phenomenon. Economists believe that the “experienced pleasantness” (EP) from consuming a product depends only on its intrinsic properties and the person’s state — their level of hunger or thirst, for example. But marketers know us better. They believe external stuff like branding and price can change our minds. And while that might seem obvious, here’s some neurological proof: When study participants were told that a given wine was expensive, they showed higher activity levels in the part of the brain that experiences pleasure — the medial orbitofrontal cortex, or mOFC — before they had even tasted the wine. Simple expectations can affect our experience … down to a neurological level.www.ozy.com/acumen/how-our-brains-process-marketing-cost/32669.article?utm_source=C1&utm_medium=pp&utm_campaign=pp&hpt=hp_bn17 |
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Not a studio take either. This was a home recording by boyfriend Jim Hutton of Freddie just doodling on the piano...
