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Post by happy on Nov 12, 2023 15:22:55 GMT -5
That is the chaise longue handler in the background. That was such a funny behind the scenes video. |
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Post by happy on Nov 12, 2023 15:24:29 GMT -5
Make sure you don't miss Adam dancing in this video! |
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Post by nightowl on Nov 12, 2023 15:46:18 GMT -5
That is the chaise longue handler in the background. That was such a funny behind the scenes video. Indeed. 😁 His name is Andy Bews and he has been QAL‘s stage manager for many years now. He also leads the Backstage Tour for the Onstage VIPs. The guy is cool and can answer you every question about this stage and Queen. I first met him in 2017. He’s also responsible that everyone on stage is at the right place at the right time. And the people around it as well. You can see him walking around the stage with his walkie-talkie during the shows. |
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Post by happy on Nov 12, 2023 22:55:49 GMT -5
nightowl Thanks for the info. I often wonder about people who have these kind of jobs. What do they do between tours? Does he go out on tour with somebody else and hope it's over before QAL calls again? Does he make enough money from a QAL tour that he can just wait until the next one?
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Post by nightowl on Nov 13, 2023 12:30:37 GMT -5
nightowl Thanks for the info. I often wonder about people who have these kind of jobs. What do they do between tours? Does he go out on tour with somebody else and hope it's over before QAL calls again? Does he make enough money from a QAL tour that he can just wait until the next one? It depends on. Most crew members work on different tours, just like Adam’s band members. I don’t really remember what Andy told us last year on the backstage tour. But I think he did tell us, how he came to be a member of the Queen crew an what he’s doing when he’s not touring with them. In any case he has been a lifelong Queen fan and applied for a job on the first QAL tour. They liked him and a couple of tour legs later he had become the stage manager. He told us that it still feels unreal to him, when he’s having a chat with Brian. And in the beginning he felt weird, when he had to fetch his idol and tell him to come, when Brian had been late. This is a video with Andy, that Queen published during lockdown: youtu.be/R45TbNNQrzg?si=RpnftrLLBTDXowt_ |
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Post by kryptoman68 on Nov 13, 2023 20:39:39 GMT -5
During the SF #2 concert on the 9th, I noticed something that I had not registered while watching all the previous shows' videos. In TSMGO when the "My soul is painted like the wings of butterflies" bridge starts, Spike is now playing a very delightful, ringing rolling sequence of notes (an arpeggio) which was extremely obvious live, but is somewhat lost when recorded. Thanks for sharing, but I'm afraid these nuances are lost on me. My ears are more attuned to Adam's vocals, though not necessarily the lyric accuracy 😉. I do remember though that Spike plays a bit in the beginning of a song that sounded different, but I'm not really hearing that differences in the middle of the song with everything else going on.. I decided to run that part of the audio through a Splitter AI which separates Vocals, Drums, Bass, and Music (including guitar and synth). I disabled all but the Music channel, and saved an audio file which first plays the version from the Live Around The World album, and then continues with the live audio from San Francisco #2. Take a listen and let me know if you can hear the difference: adamfullcircle.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/stuff/TSMGO_Comparison_LATW_SFO2.m4aIn the older version, you can hear mainly Brian's guitar. In the new version, you should hear both the guitar doing the exact same thing, and the keyboard enriching the soundscape with a ringing up and down sequence of notes. Unfortunately, like with Adam's voice, the recording does not compare to hearing it live - it blew my mind when I heard it. On another funny note, when I was splitting the instruments, the Vocal track which was supposed to contain only Adam's voice also included some passages of Brian's Red Special. During the concert I thought that one of the reasons Adam fits so well with Queen (beyond all other reasons we are well aware of) is that his tonal quality is very complementary to the sound of the guitar - this has always been illustrated by the riffs before IWIA, esp. back when Brian tried to keep up with Adam's improvisations. Seems the AI also thinks that the guitar is a voice!  ...Machines!... |
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