The DDD thread today is barely a shell of its former self and Glamberts have a major role in it being that way.
The rock frontman evaluations, one of which was the technical vocalist ones, were going on for years when Adam entered the public stage (AI). These guys were a tight-knit team who had their way of looking at the world of rock music and its vocalists, they had their own lingo, their own rules and their own way of sorting it out when their were disagreements among them.
For the longest time, I went there, read what they were discussing, and quite frankly learned from it. I did not take what they said as the gospel, I did not agree with them in everything, but I appreciated their way of looking at the world and trying to organize it. They introduced me to their way of defining what is good in rock vocals and I listened to tons of music examples along the way. It was very educational and often also entertaining.
Did I always agree with them? No, I did not. Were they always asking the right questions, looking at things in the right way? Well maybe they were not. Adam with his non-technical emotional approach to both performing his songs as well as evaluating what established quality to him, clearly showed me that these guys did not have the one and only formula on how to evaluate things, but I saw them as "one school of thought". A school of thought is never the absolute end all to all wisdom, but it trains you.
But clearly one thing this forum was defenseless against, was an overly zealous fan base like ours. By the time Adam fans detected the forum, they were already ranking Adam in the top 4 rock vocalists and willing to put him in spot 2 on one of their lists.
But that was not good enough.
The fan base had to prove something, not sure quite what it was and marched all over that fan site. Within a few months the most senior people fled the site. The threads were reorganized due to other outside reasons and what is left now is quite frankly, mostly worthless.Today, when I sometimes read quotes on youtube videos or other public sites that 'DDD has evaluated and ranked Adam's vocals'....bla..bla...bla.... to be honest, I cringe, because there is nothing anymore there to justify any expert evaluation beyond what any other music fan web site in the world could do.
But that was not always the case. 3 years ago, this was a credible site and I am sad that it got destroyed.
What the present DDD forum says now on the AL thread means nothing to me, its just an opinion.
Adam's performance at the EMA is in many ways an example for the limits of the method these guys are applying. His performance will stand the test of time, independent of technical perfection and analysis thereof. It will stand the test of time because it brought the energy and excitement to life that Freddie was known for. Freddie was never technically perfect, but he planted something into the soul of every listener that would live with that person forever, something that would change that person. Adam does the same, that is where the two are similar, not in technical specifics that they may or may not share. This performance was world class level, no matter what the DDD evaluation method says.
But having said that, I still miss both the banter as well as the technical savvy that those original members brought to the forum. They had the breadth of understanding to know when to step out of their box and they understood a lot about music. I miss their discussions.
