4.10.15 Adam News and Info

I don't see anything to be nervous about.

Everything looks like it is on track and great.

Anyway, what is the worst that can happen? If "Ghost Train" is not a hit, they will just pick and promote another single.

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All I want is some new Adam music to listen to and some committed fans to flail with.

Adam already has a ton of money and respect. A big hit would be great but he's already a star.

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Regarding the radio personalities flailing, these are stations/people that do not just tweet stuff like this to make a label happy.

If they did not like the song, they would post -- "just heard Adam's new single, you'll get to hear it on the 20th"

Not -- "WOW just heard Adam's new single and it is massive!"

If folk haven't read these articles yet, they're very good.  Yes, they're more on the technical side than the fandom side, but provide wealth of information on the engineering requirements of pulling off a tour.  

Some of the biggest insight have been on the "MONITORS" section (page 8 of the article).  I'm reprinting some of my favorite parts below.  Please forgive any typos.  Since the pages are provided as images, I had to type out versus copy/paste.  Bolding and underlines are mine.

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...Sitting between James and Gurton, we find Gary Stokes, who handles the monitors for Lambert, which he openly admits is a challenge, albeit a rewarding one. “A lot of musicians like to have a static mix that stays the same all night so they can play off that, but that doesn’t suit Adam because he has such a wide dynamic range and a wide pitch range.” Says Stokes....”When he is up in the high register there is a ton of power with unusual types of high mid, which I have to compress a little. I’m mainly a FOH guy, so normally I’m very sensitive about adding too much compression on monitors. Adam is on the mic most of the time and for him it’s more a matter of tonal shift. When he is up in the higher register it has a lot of bite, which he wants you to soften. When he goes to the lower register, which for him is very deep and expressive, he wants you to take some low mids away. That may change from night to night and it’s definitely not something you can snap shot, which is why the mix is done totally live. We may end up having to adjust the tone for each line of a song every night.

What’s very clear about this tour is that it has a definite 70’s cound and feel to it. There are more wedges onstage than we have seen in years, despite most of the band using in-ears. For Stokes this presents another nightly challenge regarding bleed into Adam’s mix. “A lot of people think that when you use in-ears it isolates the sound, but it doesn’t. With a combination of wedges and in-ears, coupled with Adam moving all over the stage, there is a certain level of bleed that’s going to gt through. I feel as though in-ears block out about 20 dB of high frequencies,and when you go down to lower frequencies they don’t block out anything. So realistically you are dealing with a large sound onstage, and with Queen it’s a lot louder than the stuff Adam does on his own, so that amount of bleed is significant. The challenge is how to set the in-ear level so that it makes sense. A lot of rock bands will turn their in-ears up, so that dominates the stage sound and it’s not an issue, but Adam has very sensitive hearing and he doesn't like that kind of volume. …..Above all, Adam likes to hear a mix that excites him. I think it’s more of an emotional type of thing.”.

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<grins> And now we know why Adam seems to go through sound techs faster than he changes outfits.   

Glad to know he finally found Gary who "groks" him.

Try this link. www.load-ininternational.com/magazine/
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So weekend project for us is creating the definitive list/database of radio tweeters that have tweeted about hearing #GhostTown and tie them to city, station, holding company, dj hours, POP/HAC/Modern etc.  I was thinking they might have all been iHeart but the 4/20 guy was with a Hubbard station.

I'm wondering if they've set a time frame say 2-4 PM ET and are working with holding companies to put it on during that time.  PR wise they can be saving the "playing for the first time" news since it will bring another round of coverage.  Like next week announce that it will be played on the 20th and then a few days later giving the time.

A note on the guy with Adam on the green background this morning.  He was advertising a week ago on twitter and just three days ago on instagram for a Production Assistant for a 4 day shoot, I just going to assume that was for Adam because the Instagram was saying immediate.  I'm thinking two things.  That a production assistant doesn't have to know a lot and that wow, WBM has money to burn on the video in different locations.