6.8.18 Adam News and Info
Jun 8, 2018 13:32:21 GMT -5
Post by pi on Jun 8, 2018 13:32:21 GMT -5
OBSERVADOR - Translated by Google
Queen without Freddie Mercury? Yes, it is possible. And they gave a fucking show
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Skepticism gave way to astonishment and euphoria. Brian May and Roger Taylor keep the Queen alive. Adam Lambert gives the account of replacing Mercury. But Freddie is always there. And the show is unique.
(PHOTOS HERE)
"Queen without Freddie Mercury?" Yes, I also asked that question. Yes, I was skeptical too. Very skeptical.
When you have Mercury on Olympus of voices, think of seeing the band that was 90% it - or 99%, better seen things -, it seems blasphemous. That's why, in 2015, I left Rock in Rio without hearing them in this new life associated with Adam Lambert, the second-place runner-up on the 2009 American Idol show. But the truth is, the first two songs I listened to I left the park at Bela Vista, plus half a dozen I continued to hear in the car on the way home, forcing me to sit on the couch and watch the rest of the concert on television. And calling me stupid a thousand times. Irra, it seemed to be good and I had turned my back. The malt from home agreed with me (which is even rare).
When the Queen, the Queen without Freddie Mercury, were announced for this Thursday at Altice Arena, we decided not to make the same mistake. We would. We went. In good time we did it.
I had not seen such a spectacle for a long, long time. Incidentally, it was probably one of the best five concerts I've ever seen. That's long enough, I'll admit. And that has allowed me, fortunately, to hear live many bands, many musicians.
Adam Lambert does not have Freddie's voice, no. But you have a great voice. It is better, even, when he does not try to imitate Mercury and makes his own the songs that Farrokh Bulsara immortalized from 1970 to 1991.
www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=Q3gfUbeSeaM
Lambert also has something else. That madness, in the clothes he wears and in the gestures he makes, no matter how much we compare with that of Freddie Mercury, we realize that it's really his own. Just remember it in Youtube videos, before being co-opted by Brian May and Roger Taylor, Mercury's longtime companions, to accompany them on their return to the stage.
That said, let's go to the rest and we'll get back to the songs. And the rest was the show . The lights. The staging. Everything focused on the robotfrom the cover of the band's 77th album News of The World, which includes the hits "We Will Rock You", "We Are The Champions" and "Spread Your Wings". It was with the 'tin doll' that the stage opened, or rather with a fist of his closed fist, that would later elevate Brian May to a memorable guitar solo. And it was finally that way that we saw the whole space. Taylor at the top of five steps, ahead of her drums. A treadmill behind him. The front zone with the standing microphone that Mercury so much loved to use as a prop. And a long, long treadmill, almost to the midst of a full, but filled Altice Arena at its seams, all under a shiny black floor with purple lights.
But this was just the beginning. Because only later, throughout the concert, would all the potentialities of that stage be perceived, of the show that had been prepared for this tour that began in Lisbon. Like when the robot's head emerged from the stage, with Adam Lambert already in his third change of vision, stripped on top of her. Or when suddenly a bicycle appeared at the end of the treadmill, completely ornamented and full of horns, while Lambert sang Bicycle Race. Or as, as has already been said, Brian May appeared in the robot's hand up there, playing his guitar. But then there was more, much more, between sound, lights, images and a number of magnificent details that can not be counted in words, just seeing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUzyP9g6Zuk
As for the songs, they are the songs of always, that made the Queen one of the best bands in the world. And Adam Lambert announced at the end of the fourth to which he came. He's not Freddie Mercury. He's just a fan, like everyone else at the Altice Arena. He was just there to honor him. He also misses the Mercury who died 27 years ago. That's why he gave prominence to Freddie's ex-teammates in the two great moments of the night, the most acclaimed by the public.
First Brian May. Alone on the edge of the stage, in the midst of thousands of raised arms, sitting on a high bench with an acoustic guitar, the 71-year-old guitarist and astrophysicist sang "Love of My Life" with thousands of voices at accompany you. Technology did the rest and Freddie Mercury appeared at his side, almost putting his hand on his shoulder, singing both part of the verse. May could not stand it. Cried The bruá of the audience was crazy. And Brian broke the rest. He sent a selfie stick , thanked Lisbon, said he never had such a public, and took a photograph of almost 360º to later remember. To be featured on your memory album. Always with tears in the eyes. Always under applause.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0ZSvSp7h20
Later it would be Roger Taylor's turn. His drum was also at the end of the treadmill, almost in the middle of the audience, for what would prove to be an improbable duet. He there, in his 69 years, as if he was 30 (ready, 40, I grant), and the second drummer, Tyler Warren, back there in an improbable and unbelievable duel.
Mercury would still re-enter the show, comic book sweater and yellow jacket, as hologram, first in "We Will Rock You", then in Encore with "We Are the Champions."
Yes, Freddie was always there. Yes he will always be the soul of the Queen. But the Queen survives without it. Adam Lambert gives the message and the 'old' May and Taylor are to last. It was impossible not to like it. Mercury would have liked it. I would have sung "The Show Must Go On".
observador.pt/2018/06/08/queen-sem-freddie-mercury-sim-e-possivel-e-deram-um-espectaculo-do-caracas/
Queen without Freddie Mercury? Yes, it is possible. And they gave a fucking show
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Skepticism gave way to astonishment and euphoria. Brian May and Roger Taylor keep the Queen alive. Adam Lambert gives the account of replacing Mercury. But Freddie is always there. And the show is unique.
(PHOTOS HERE)
"Queen without Freddie Mercury?" Yes, I also asked that question. Yes, I was skeptical too. Very skeptical.
When you have Mercury on Olympus of voices, think of seeing the band that was 90% it - or 99%, better seen things -, it seems blasphemous. That's why, in 2015, I left Rock in Rio without hearing them in this new life associated with Adam Lambert, the second-place runner-up on the 2009 American Idol show. But the truth is, the first two songs I listened to I left the park at Bela Vista, plus half a dozen I continued to hear in the car on the way home, forcing me to sit on the couch and watch the rest of the concert on television. And calling me stupid a thousand times. Irra, it seemed to be good and I had turned my back. The malt from home agreed with me (which is even rare).
When the Queen, the Queen without Freddie Mercury, were announced for this Thursday at Altice Arena, we decided not to make the same mistake. We would. We went. In good time we did it.
I had not seen such a spectacle for a long, long time. Incidentally, it was probably one of the best five concerts I've ever seen. That's long enough, I'll admit. And that has allowed me, fortunately, to hear live many bands, many musicians.
Adam Lambert does not have Freddie's voice, no. But you have a great voice. It is better, even, when he does not try to imitate Mercury and makes his own the songs that Farrokh Bulsara immortalized from 1970 to 1991.
www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=Q3gfUbeSeaM
Lambert also has something else. That madness, in the clothes he wears and in the gestures he makes, no matter how much we compare with that of Freddie Mercury, we realize that it's really his own. Just remember it in Youtube videos, before being co-opted by Brian May and Roger Taylor, Mercury's longtime companions, to accompany them on their return to the stage.
That said, let's go to the rest and we'll get back to the songs. And the rest was the show . The lights. The staging. Everything focused on the robotfrom the cover of the band's 77th album News of The World, which includes the hits "We Will Rock You", "We Are The Champions" and "Spread Your Wings". It was with the 'tin doll' that the stage opened, or rather with a fist of his closed fist, that would later elevate Brian May to a memorable guitar solo. And it was finally that way that we saw the whole space. Taylor at the top of five steps, ahead of her drums. A treadmill behind him. The front zone with the standing microphone that Mercury so much loved to use as a prop. And a long, long treadmill, almost to the midst of a full, but filled Altice Arena at its seams, all under a shiny black floor with purple lights.
But this was just the beginning. Because only later, throughout the concert, would all the potentialities of that stage be perceived, of the show that had been prepared for this tour that began in Lisbon. Like when the robot's head emerged from the stage, with Adam Lambert already in his third change of vision, stripped on top of her. Or when suddenly a bicycle appeared at the end of the treadmill, completely ornamented and full of horns, while Lambert sang Bicycle Race. Or as, as has already been said, Brian May appeared in the robot's hand up there, playing his guitar. But then there was more, much more, between sound, lights, images and a number of magnificent details that can not be counted in words, just seeing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUzyP9g6Zuk
As for the songs, they are the songs of always, that made the Queen one of the best bands in the world. And Adam Lambert announced at the end of the fourth to which he came. He's not Freddie Mercury. He's just a fan, like everyone else at the Altice Arena. He was just there to honor him. He also misses the Mercury who died 27 years ago. That's why he gave prominence to Freddie's ex-teammates in the two great moments of the night, the most acclaimed by the public.
First Brian May. Alone on the edge of the stage, in the midst of thousands of raised arms, sitting on a high bench with an acoustic guitar, the 71-year-old guitarist and astrophysicist sang "Love of My Life" with thousands of voices at accompany you. Technology did the rest and Freddie Mercury appeared at his side, almost putting his hand on his shoulder, singing both part of the verse. May could not stand it. Cried The bruá of the audience was crazy. And Brian broke the rest. He sent a selfie stick , thanked Lisbon, said he never had such a public, and took a photograph of almost 360º to later remember. To be featured on your memory album. Always with tears in the eyes. Always under applause.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0ZSvSp7h20
Later it would be Roger Taylor's turn. His drum was also at the end of the treadmill, almost in the middle of the audience, for what would prove to be an improbable duet. He there, in his 69 years, as if he was 30 (ready, 40, I grant), and the second drummer, Tyler Warren, back there in an improbable and unbelievable duel.
Mercury would still re-enter the show, comic book sweater and yellow jacket, as hologram, first in "We Will Rock You", then in Encore with "We Are the Champions."
Yes, Freddie was always there. Yes he will always be the soul of the Queen. But the Queen survives without it. Adam Lambert gives the message and the 'old' May and Taylor are to last. It was impossible not to like it. Mercury would have liked it. I would have sung "The Show Must Go On".
observador.pt/2018/06/08/queen-sem-freddie-mercury-sim-e-possivel-e-deram-um-espectaculo-do-caracas/