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Post by adamrocks on Jan 10, 2021 15:50:40 GMT -5
Adam just knows how to inhabit a song and make it his own while still paying homage to the original artist when he does a cover. His glam look, his joy singing the song, and his outstanding vocals equal PERFECTION!!
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Post by bamafan on Jan 10, 2021 16:17:29 GMT -5
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Post by girldrummer on Jan 10, 2021 16:25:37 GMT -5
cleopatra, You said it perfectly. Adam doesn't just sing a song "really well," whether it's his own or a cover. He makes the song extraordinary every time. He's so gifted, it's scary. And no matter where he is slotted on a multi-act show, he always makes an impact. He makes a buzz.
lurleene, you're so right to mention that all these one-off shows, and tribute shows and charity shows are getting Adam out in front of audiences beyond his fanbase. It's all good. After the Ratatouille show, we saw tons of tweets about discovering Adam for the first time and being blown away. He's really had some wide exposure this year, despite the restrictions. Hoping like hell that the QAL will happen this summer. We miss him, he misses us.
Fun seeing Sauli out in his arctic element!
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Post by stampsgal on Jan 10, 2021 16:28:55 GMT -5
cleopatraJust to add your great post. Adam was also first on Bette Midler's the Hulaween special! Producers ---LIKE YES! Let's kick this event off in style! or Let's finish with a bang! So near first or last...great spots! Regarding Mike Garson's comment on Adam at the AMA performance: I have to chuckle because he said in some other interview, he played for Adam but the piano part was recorded for the actual performance, as he had another gig the same night. Rehearsals with Adam---would have given him a personal chance to recognize Adam's vocal abilities, along with later opportunities to hear Adam, with Queen/solo work. Just odd that he made it sound as if because of that performance he wanted Adam to sing in the tribute. That could be, but even Adam and his mom said his vocals were not great that night. The AMA night was the only "one off" vocal performance I can even think of for Adam. Adam has worked hard --- and his "star" power continues to climb in the sky! LOOK AT ADAM NOW with all these one off opportunities.
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Post by katycake on Jan 10, 2021 16:29:39 GMT -5
I thought opening the show with Duran Duran's New Wave version of Five Years was so good. The greatest surprise for me was Michael C. Hall singing Where Are We Now. He's a famous actor, but I never knew he could sing. He sang it beautifully and with a lot of emotion. I thought it was great. If the songs will be available to d/l, in addition to Adam's song I will also d/l Taylor Momsen's Quicksand. She chose a beautiful song and gave it new life, and I'd love to be able to go back and listen to it every now and then.
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Post by pi on Jan 10, 2021 17:47:16 GMT -5
Bowie Celebration Review twitter.com/guardian/status/1348381418397847565A Bowie Celebration review – a starry tribute concert for a mind-blowing talentThe closest thing to a living Ziggy ... Adam Lambert, performing with Mike Garson in A Bowie Celebration. Photograph: Rolling Live
Five years on from David Bowie’s death, bandmate Mike Garson leads an epic lineup, from Billy Corgan to Adam Lambert, in three hours of livestreamed sound and vision“He’ll be remembered like Beethoven, in a hundred years’ time,” longtime producer Tony Visconti said of David Bowie recently, and, five years on from the artist’s death, his colossal influence still resonates across all manner of art forms. The latest incarnations range from the new Harry Styles single to a children’s relaxation app that features “Ziggy’s hunky dory sleepy story”. The weekend that would have marked the singer’s 74th birthday brought a flurry of activity, not least this epic livestreamed tribute. Pianist Mike Garson, Bowie’s longest-serving musician, curated a lineup of singers and six-decades worth of Bowie alumni – almost 100 musicians – for three hours of sound and vision. The 40 songs ranged from obvious classics to lesser-known gems such as Strangers When We Meet and Conversation Piece. Despite a hiccup (blaming technical issues and Covid) meaning a 24-hour postponement, the event finally got off to a strong start with Duran Duran’s homage to Five Years, Bowie’s enormous shadow looming fondly over their coiffured hair and tailored suits. The pandemic might have precluded a traditional concert with an audience, but the upside was a technical masterclass, which reflected and revelled in Bowie’s love of performance art and theatre. Some artists were filmed live in a building, others Zoomed in to levitating screens from distant studios, their own homes or the street, with much use of computer graphics. Perry Farrell and pals brought theatrics, camp and a Phantom of the Opera mask to The Man Who Sold the World, while Billy Corgan’s disembodied head sang Space Oddity against breathtaking imagery of the Earth from space. Gary Barlow – of all people – turned in a very respectable Fame, while Lena Hall and Lzzy Hale’s Moonage Daydream cracked with the freakish electricity of the Ziggy Stardust era. More... www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jan/10/david-bowie-a-bowie-celebration-review-just-for-one-day?
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Post by pi on Jan 10, 2021 18:02:11 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Jan 10, 2021 18:22:17 GMT -5
twitter.com/Variety/status/1348398355697836039VARIETYAdam Lambert, Trent Reznor, Andra Day and Huge Cast Shine in ‘Bowie Celebration’ Tribute Livestream
While no tribute may ever go down as the one David Bowie actually deserves, Saturday’s three-hour “A Bowie Celebration” livestream came within spitting distance of giving the duke his due, with a worthy cast of dozens that included Duran Duran, Trent Reznor, Andra Day, Yungblud, Adam Lambert, Ian Hunter and Gary Oldman fronting superb arrangements put together by host Mike Garson, Bowie’s longtime pianist.
The $25 webcast will continue to be available through 6 p.m. P/9 ET Sunday via the HYFI platform (click here) or producing platform Rolling Live Studios (here), at which point it will be taken down — much to the consternation of fans who used the latter website’s live chat function to say they’d been watching it on continuous loop and hoped for a permanent record of the show. The stream was originally set to premiere Friday night, on the fifth anniversary of Bowie’s death, but was pushed back a day due to users being unable to access the show (shades of Justin Bieber’s delayed New Year’s Eve livestream).
Highlights of the three hours included both big names and singers culled from the ranks of backup singers or other lesser-known figures. Two female duets that came near the beginning and end of the webcast easily counted as standouts, although they represented completely different genres, as Bowie’s catalog did. The second song of “A Bowie Celebration” had hard rock queen Lzzy Hale joining with actor/singer Lena Hall (a Tony winner for “Hedwig and the Angry Inch”) to belt, in separately filmed tandem, the “Ziggy Stardust” classic “Moonage Daydream.” (Hale and Hall recently met up for the first time on agent Richard Weitz’s RWQuarantunes livestream series and bonded over their mutual love of Bowie there.)
The penultimate number, meanwhile, had Andra Day teaming with Judith Hill on the same soundstage for a song that was originally conceived as a duet, “Under Pressure,” starting it off on stools as a gently nuanced R&B duet backed by Garson before the appearance of a virtual full band kicked the Bowie/Queen chestnut into louder and more familiar gear.
The final all-star run of numbers in the 30-song set also included Adam Lambert lending his sense of not-so-straight theatricality to a musically straightforward reading of “Starman”; Ian Hunter reviving Mott the Hoople’s cover of Bowie’s “All the Young Dudes” as well as singing “Dandy,” his own 2016 homage to Mott’s one-time producer; and, to close the show, Rolling Stones backup singer Bernard Fowler putting a soulful spin on what has finally come to be Bowie’s best-regarded song, “Heroes.”
More.. variety.com/2021/music/news/david-bowie-livestream-tribute-celebration-mike-garson-1234882189/
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Post by pi on Jan 10, 2021 18:26:38 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Jan 10, 2021 18:28:31 GMT -5
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