8.3.14 Adam News, Sunday Star TImes, 2015 Calendar Photos

Lots of nice reviews posted today!

I'll add my THANKS to Reihmer too for the lovely birthday cakes! We will miss you but hope you'll check in every now & then. Don't forget about us!  And Congrats to Betty for her promotion to CakeMaster - looking forward to many yummy creations!

And momtomany - your concert post earlier today was just beautiful & so heartfelt.....I was living every sentence with you!  What an incredible experience!  It was so nice to meet you in LA & Vegas & I'm so happy you now have your own Twirly Smiley to commemorate holding Adam's hand & looking into his eyes.  (I would've been dead at the first eye contact - don't know how you kept it together!)

And back to the reviews.....this certainly bodes well for a tour extension....I think QAL needs to go to SOUTH AMERICA! Queen were always so huge there! And then maybe a stopover in the Southern US States to hit Miami, New Orleans, Atlanta....and then back to the UK to finish off.  ARE YOU LISTENING DR. BRI & ROGER?????

     

www.realrocknews.com/idols-adam-lambert-as-new-queen-frontman/

Interesting that Gene Simmons comes up yet again. I saw the above article yesterday while reading about Micheal Johns and considered posting it but didn't.

Seems Gene got Adam a lot better than many give him credit:

"For me, the moment of the American Idol finale was Adam Lambert singing with Brian May and Roger Taylor of Queen. I had been wanting Lambert to give “Bohemian Rhapsody” a shot all season, knowing he was much better-suited to pull it off than Michael Johns did during last season. It was a bold move by Johns and he didn’t sound too bad, although I see Lambert as a much better match for Freddie Mercury.

Lambert’s performance with Queen seemed to “click,” and it appears that May and Taylor, as well as Lambert, feel that there may be something worth exploring there.

The appearance of Lambert on Fox’s morning show Fox And Friends was the first indication I saw that there may be talks going on between Lambert and Queen. When pressed about whether he had been talking to Queen about working with them, Lambert said that he had to “plead the 5th” on that subject.

As one might expect, that statement set the rumor mill spinning at full speed. Rolling Stone magazine managed to reach Brian May via e-mail regarding the issue, and although he was not ready to confirm or deny any plans to have Lambert replace recently-departed frontman Paul Rodgers, May responding by saying: “Amongst all that furor, there wasn’t really a quiet moment to talk, but [drummer Roger Taylor] and I are definitely hoping to have a meaningful conversation with him at some point. It’s not like we, as Queen, would rush into coalescing with another singer just like that. It isn’t that easy. But I’d certainly like to work with Adam. That is one amazing instrument he has there.”

Will Adam Lambert end up as the new Queen frontman? In a conference call with reporters, Lambert readily admits that Queen was one of his all-time favorite bands and said he would love to work with them. There surely are a lot of hoops to jump through before we hear any definitive word on whether Lambert joins up with Queen, so it is likely to be a while. He is, however, probably the best candidate for the job that American Idol has yet produced.

In addition to his performance with Queen, Lambert also put on quite the glam-rock show with KISS, which all participants seemed to enjoy as well, but now there is some talk that Gene Simmons has said that Lambert is not well-suited to be a rock singer.

Rolling Stone is reporting that Simmons has posted comments on his personal website that read as follows: “Respectfully, I don’t think Adam is a rock singer. He sounds much more convincing singing ballads and Broadway shows. His voice doesn’t seem to have a ‘rock quality.’ But, I’m sure he’s going to do just fine.”

What’s a little odd is that the link from the Rolling Stone article to Gene Simmons’ personal website is broken, but that could just be a webmaster typo. I visited Simmons’ personal website myself and was able to find that exact quote from Simmons in response to a question about Lambert from a fan.

When questioned later by another reader and asked for a clarification, Simmons responded by saying: “Adam is a great singer. He would be great in Queen. Like Freddie Mercury. But Mercury wouldn’t work in the Stones or KISS. Nor would Mick Jagger work in Queen. Got it?”

I guess what we can take away from that is that Simmons thinks Lambert would be a good rock singer for Queen, but not for KISS or the Rolling Stones. I think Adam Lambert would be OK with that."

Glam ma'am ‏@xhollyglambertx 5m
I LOVE HIM SO MUCH! LOOK HOW CUTE HE IS! I JUST WANT TO HUG HIM! pic.twitter.com/q87BV1WS0F

"an unbelievable six of those concerts in a marathon undertaking from June 22 to July 6."

Seriously that is NOT the marathon!! Or unbelievable!

Marathon would be >10 I think. Perhaps 13.

I met a fan who did the entire, yes, the entire tour! And is headed to Asia! And several who were in the 16-20 concert range.

One thing about Adam fans, they are passionate and dedicated.