7.4.12 Fireworks in Moscow!!
Jul 4, 2012 20:42:12 GMT -5
Post by mehitabel on Jul 4, 2012 20:42:12 GMT -5
Jul 4, 2012 19:42:03 GMT -5 @mehitabel said:
I so, so agree - Killer Queen all the way - maybe London?
Yes! That would be fantastic! I think Adam would sing that fantastically. The only question would be if he made it TOO camp, which for some reason, was fine for Freddie, but AL gets savaged for (not by us, of course ;D)
Sheer Heart Attack was one of the first albums I bought with my own money--I'm sure I still have it, along with thousands of other LPs boxed up that have somehow survived four moves.
As for metal vs. hard vs. pop convo, hard rock has been consistently my fave genre over the decades (along with many others, punk, ska), etc., but it really hasn't been a salable genre since grunge days. I can totally appreciate the songcraft in great pop music, but haven't been able to get into it as much as others.
So, for me, the Beatles can be viewed as a kind of transition between pop and hard rock. I like their poppier songs (again, great songcraft), but I really love their late-60s stuff when they starting hitting much harder (and anyone who dismisses Beatles as "mere pop and not hard rock" have never listened to Helter Skelter or She's So Heavy.
My feelings is the transition goes something like this, from pop to hard rock to heavy metal:
Beatles (pop until White Album, which mixes pop songs with hard rock)
Queen (pop and hard rock fusion, but less poppy overall)
Led Zep (the perfect example of hard rock, which isn't quite metal but is transitioning into it)
Metallica (heavy metal but prolly considered more melodic; a Metallica fanboy would have my head for saying that, no doubt!)
Black Sabbath (progenitor of heavy metal--and the first Black Sabbath album really WAS the first album I bought, when I was just a little kid! I think my parents shoulda been freaked out a little, if they had been paying attention in the 60s, lol)
Judas Priest (pure heavy metal)
(This is just my gut feeling; YMMV, of course!)
And as far as Adam doing musical theater again, please God, no. That would be like a butterfly going back into a cocoon. I love Broadway shows, but it seems like it would be a sure indication that he has failed in his desire to be an artist. (Interestingly enough, I listened to the gaydar interview right after reading the post abt Adam and theater, and he clearly states that he's enjoying not playing a character but being himself and own artist).
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I like your progression - my son grew up during the Black Sabbath, judas priest, led zep, def leppard era - we heard it all day and all night. I still like Ronnie James Dio - that is what I consider a rock voice, actually. And Metallica. But this (metal rock) is not a direction I would ever see Adam going. And please, for me too, not back to musicals, no matter how much I love them.
) that'd sounded familiar... And now, two years, several gigabytes of computer memory, tons of pictures, files, discs and packages later I was, I am here - feeling it all, with all the new amazing friends by my side and this gorgeous creature in front of me... 
talon.
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