2012-07-03 Moscow Adam-Queen Concert

Hi all. Quick background, I am a Queen fan. I did enjoy watching AL on Idol. I did get FYE and Trespassing and saw him in concert while on tour. I'm almost scared to admit on this board that I'm not a fanatic. I enjoyed FYE. I liked him in concert. I was NOT a big fan of Trespassing...

I AM a Queen fanatic though. I thought they might be a good mix. And after seeing both shows I do think while not a home run, it is a fun show and I would definitely go see it if it came to the US.

I realize some hardcore Queen purists feel it is vomit inducing. I also think some "glamberts" are a bit OTT the other way My honest opinion falls somewhere in the middle but definitely leaning more positive. The reason I signed up though was to share a link you might be interested in:

www.queenzone.com/forums/1316454/announce-queen-and-adam-lambert-moscow-russia-july-3rd-2012-flac.aspx

It's a link to a queenzone thread which has a link to a torrent to the audio of the whole show in FLAC format.

Cheers!

You're welcome. I probably will stick around. It does seem Adam fans are good with the videos - much better than Queen fans (at least during this particular collaboration) and I obsessively collect as many Queen bootlegs as possible. (I probably have well over 1,000 Queen/Brian/Roger/The Cross (Roger's sideband)/Queen + Paul Rodgers/Queen +/Queen Extravaganza recordings :D So you guys are helping my OCD too

And just to be clear - the link I sent is not converted from youtube videos or anything. It's an old school guy with great recording equipment who just recorded the whole show in audio and just inserted track markers. So when you listen it will be seamless and in fairly high quality

Two articles - one good one not good.

Here is the not so good review from Moscow, pics are nice though:

www.kommersant.ru/gallery/pic/753568

www.kommersant.ru/doc/1971661

The effect of the lack of
Musicians Queen were in Moscow

Rock Tour

In the sport complex "Olympic" was concert of the British band Queen - Brian May and Roger Taylor. Approximately half of the vocals performed a 30-year-old American singer Adam Lambert, one of the songs was performed by Zemfira. Narrated by Boris Barabanov
More: www.kommersant.ru/doc/1971661

The last time the Queen members Brian May (guitar) and Roger Taylor (drums), staged in the Moscow session of the collective worship of a great team, they helped Paul Rodgers - itself a respected singer and author, whose career has evolved in parallel with the Queen. In the current tour, Queen did not bet on the fans close to retirement age, and young people. Among the very young consumers of popular music is for a good layer of those for whom the Queen - an empty phrase, but the American Idol finalist Adam Lambert - the idol. Gray-haired music fans are as many distressed about this, but it is a fact. And sell the songs of Queen of the public only through this that's not obvious to the gentlemen of the character of adults, non-traditional sex orientation which does not add to his resemblance to Freddie Mercury. It is much less flexible in the vocals, but the right moment gives passages enough whining to a girl brought up on emo bands heard in these songs something completely his own.
To its credit, Adam Lambert should be noted that he still pulled all the right notes, which can not be said of drummer Taylor, who sings in this show is much larger than its companion May, and the result is worse than just a few years ago. No wonder Mr. Taylor did not perform on this tour his signature number "I` m In Love With My Car "- it still requires a very different vocal form. By the way, when Roger Taylor went to the microphone, an instrument for the drummer replaced by his son. Was envisaged in the program and drum duel - a sort of generational conflict. .
A separate line should be mentioned the producers show. And if the figure of the singer - is the message of a new generation of listeners, the staging of the world - hello to those who used to love the scenery of the Queen in 1970. Artists of reproduced antique light score, but the console with lights controlled by the latest computerized devices, and lamps, almost torn off from the old VHS-tapes were arranged in a plane capable of transforming at lightning speed. His Majesty was also a mirror ball, and very cleverly managed.

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Here now is the delightful article from Poland, with comments about the Kiev concert:

wroclaw.gazeta.pl/wroclaw/1,35771,12072262,Fani_grupy_zawyrokowali__Queen_z_Lambertem_jest_OK.html

Translation:
Fans of the group have spoken: Queen with Lambert is OK

Rafal Zielinski

On Saturday at the Wroclaw stadium, there will be Queen, which is composed of guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor. Singing with them, American Adam Lambert known from the "American Idol". How does he cope with the hits of the British legend? Pretty good.

"No one can replace Freddie Mercury," "this is no longer Queen" - such comments can be read on the internet. But we have a recording from less than a week before the concert - Queen played on 30 June in Kiev - which shows that May and Taylor knew well what they were doing, inviting the American to work together.

His experiences shared with us Thomas Wiercioch from Slupsk, 28-year-old, whom the Queen has accompanied for two-thirds of his life. - When I was nine, Dad was repairing the CD player. He played "Innuendo" to check whether it worked. And so this all for me began - says Wiercioch. - Today I collect vinyl records, interesting facts connected with the band, I examine the details of the biography of the musicians, even visited their private properties.

He is a member of the official international fan club team, co-organizing meetings of fans in the New Town Lubawskie. On one of them he met the long-time assistant of Freddie - Peter Freestone, for this year, in July there will be Jim Jenkins, the official biographer of the British. Wiercioch also designed the official jersey of last year's London concert "Tribute to Freddie Mercury" - Queen fills every day of my life.

So Thomas could not miss Kiev. The musicians played there for Ukrainian AntiAids foundation (there was also Elton John). More than 20 hours on the bus, five hours of waiting, two-hour concert of idols, and again 20 hours in a bus - the trip was with my friend Maciek Kuszlewicz, also a big fan of this formation. - Paid off, we were only a few meters away from the scene - he says.

Until recently, Thomas was a bitter opponent of the Queen with Lambert - I do not like his music, for me it is a creation of American pop culture, a few months ago in an interview he did not remember the name of Queen guitarist - he says. That was until now.

- In Kiev, he surprised me with a great preparation, style and the fact that he did not copy Mercury - he says.

According to Thomas, Lambert is like Freddie very theatrical on stage, but he also connects to the vocal and sometimes - sings differently, and really very good, he has also added cool energy to them on stage.

Wiercioch can make a comparison, because he was on several shows in 2005 and 2008, when Queen sang with Queen Paul Rogers. - It was a meeting of great legends, even the songs they played with Rogers - he recalls. - With Lambert this sounds more "team". I still will not reach for his solo discs, but I admit that I liked well as he sang, and acted on the stage.

The concert has surprised Thomas in many respects. - There were many flavors, such as songs from the first and second albums, changed arrangements, interesting vocals from May and Taylor and two percussionists on stage - he says. The second one was the son of Roger, Rufus. - When Taylor goes to center stage and sings "A Kind Of Magic," his son sits behind his kit. This sounds very cool, just like their joint solo - live in Kiev, says Thomas Wiercioch.

Of course, the screen shows Freddie, not the lack of the band's biggest hits. Important, however, is that Taylor and May are still in good shape, and Lambert has passed the test. - Of course I'll be in Wroclaw, and that right under the stage - declares Tomek - after what I saw in Kiev, I'm sure it will be a great concert.

Tickets for Saturday's concert can be purchased na www.rockinwroclaw.pl and on the concert at the stadium. The cheapest costs 199 zł (159 zł standing place), the most expensive 549 zł (Golden Prestige offers a place in the parking lot). Start at approx. 18:30, opening the gates to 16 Besides the Queen gets: IRA, Mona and the Power of Trinity


ETA: second translation added