6.28.14 Q+AL CONCERT THREAD - Vancouver, Canada
Jun 28, 2014 6:53:47 GMT -5
Post by HoppersSkippersMiners on Jun 28, 2014 6:53:47 GMT -5
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Note: This thread is only for the 6.28.14 Queen + Adam Lambert : Vancouver, BC Canada Concert. Post general Adam and Tour news in the daily news thread.
Dr. Brian May @drbrianmay
Hey #Vancouver Folks !!! Are you ready !?
Good to finally be back in this beautiful city.
We're here ! QUEEN & Adam ride TONITE !!! Bri
Tonight: Queen + Adam Lambert in Vancouver!!
City: Vancouver, BC Canada
Venue: Pepsi Live at Rogers Arena
Concert capacity: 15,100 - 19,000 based on configuration and stage placement.
Eileen @trespassmyass Panorama pic.twitter.com/szQu0AwzoV
The tour is back to a string of big arenas. The acoustics should be better with the larger, newer buildings. I am hopeful that we have some great videos and recordings tonight.
Concert begins: 8:00PM Pacific Time Zone (UTC-08:00)
Worldclock: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Queen+%2B+Adam+Lambert+concert+-+Vancouver%2C+Canada&iso=20140628T20&p1=256
Doors open 6:30pm, Show 8pm - no intermission (subject to change)
Note: There are traffic issues in the area due to construction and a football game, so this concert is likely to start late.
Twitter list: twitter.com/adam_events/lists/june-28-vancouver-bc-2
Livestream: ustre.am/eSDi
@mlg621: Poster 06.28.14 Vancouver, BC Canada @queenwillrock + @adamlambert concert. Unofficial. twitpic.com/e74vga
Setlist
The setlist was changed at some point to remove "Don't Stop Me Now".
BrianMaycom @brianmaycom
.@queenwillrock + @adamlambert VANCOUVER SET LIST 28 June 2014 bit.ly/1qG9M7f
***
Recorded: Procession + Flash (concert version)
1. Now I'm Here
2. Stone Cold Crazy
3. Another One Bites The Dust
4. Fat Bottomed Girls
5. In The Lap Of The Gods...Revisited
6. Seven Seas Of Rhye
7. Killer Queen
8. Somebody To Love
9. I Want It All
10. Love Of My Life (Brian lead vocals, Freddie recorded at end)
11. '39 (acoustic, Brian solo)
12. These Are The Days Of Our Lives
13. Bass Solo (Neil, incorporating "Don't Try Suicide," "Body Language" & "Staying Power")
14. Drum Duel (instrumental, Roger and Rufus)
15. Under Pressure (Adam and Roger duet)
16. Love Kills
17. Who Wants To Live Forever
18. Guitar Solo (instrumental, Brian) improvisation incorporating "Last Horizon", "Brighton Rock" and "Welcome To The Jungle".
19. Tie Your Mother Down
20. Radio Ga Ga
21. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
22. The Show Must Go On
23. Bohemian Rhapsody
-encore-
24. We Will Rock You
25. We Are The Champions
Recorded: God Save The Queen (Queen)
Videos
1. Now I'm Here
Long shot
youtu.be/fHL_Fms_2aw
2. Stone Cold Crazy
Long shot
youtu.be/yjfd25e2Xrw
3. Another One Bites The Dust
Long shot
youtu.be/KHFVrhIw6J0
4. Fat Bottomed Girls
Clip "Get on your bikes and ride"
youtu.be/p_xwdc7sF5M
5. In The Lap Of The Gods...Revisited
6. Seven Seas Of Rhye
7. Killer Queen
8. Somebody To Love
9. I Want It All
10. Love Of My Life (Brian lead vocals, Freddie recorded at end)
11. '39 (acoustic, Brian solo)
12. These Are The Days Of Our Lives
13. Bass Solo (Neil, incorporating "Don't Try Suicide," "Body Language" & "Staying Power")
14. Drum Duel (instrumental, Roger and Rufus)
15. Under Pressure (Adam and Roger duet, includes the hand kiss)
youtu.be/PtYX8v8PrFw
youtu.be/AnWtynTxaiw
16. Love Kills
youtu.be/dZ0er30o5n0
17. Who Wants To Live Forever
youtu.be/k6BqUt9WoJo
Long shot
youtu.be/mDLCDu5S9x4
The Guitar Solo was 12 minutes long in this concert.
18. Guitar Solo (instrumental, Brian) improvisation incorporating "Last Horizon", "Brighton Rock" and "Welcome To The Jungle".
youtu.be/daXFhaj8u5s
19. Tie Your Mother Down
20. Radio Ga Ga
21. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Long shot, captures the crowd singing along.
youtu.be/ye56WFD3O1Q
22. The Show Must Go On
23. Bohemian Rhapsody
-encore-
24. We Will Rock You
25. We Are The Champions
Photos
Go4ItAnyway @go4itanywy
Filled to the rafters for an amazing Queen +Adam Lambert show. Wow wow wow
Retweeted by Dr. Brian May
Monica もふ公爵 @duke_Cosmos 1h
Great pic!! Oh Guitar God @drbrianmay !! RT @alikat_56:
Costume Notes
- Adam did not wear his fringe sleeves for some songs during this concert Although he wore them for some parts of the concert.
Notable Events
- Brian and Adam played a game of peek-a-boo at the end of TYMD!
- At the end of "Under Pressure", Roger quickly kissed Adam's hand.
- During "Killer Queen" when Adam was sitting on the couch, his mic pack fell out of his pocket. He fiddled with it a lot, finally got in back in place and never missed a note. (I would have just held it in my hand.)
Reviews
Review: Queen’s Brian May showcases doctorate of riffology in Vancouver
Guitarist backs Adam Lambert to the hilt with a 20-plus song set didn’t miss a moment in the band’s history
BY STUART DERDEYN, POSTMEDIA NEWS JUNE 28, 2014 11:29 PM
Queen and Adam Lambert
Saturday night | Rogers Arena
For all the operatic flourishes, U.K. dance hall ditties and disco funk offs, Queen was always about epic arena rockers. The English quartet’s canon is loaded with the crunchy goodness every hard rock act wants.
Add in the unparalleled vocal chops of the late Farrokh “Freddie” Bulsara, a.k.a. Mercury, and it’s no surprise why Queen ranks with the Beatles in all-time sales.
Mercury’s passing from AIDS-related complications in 1991 put the remaining active members in quite a fix. Who were guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor going to hire to fill the spot?
Legendary Free and Bad Company shouter Paul Rodgers was a marquee name but lacked any of the required range and both the tour and studio albums were weak. Enter American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert, 32, a guy with serious range and the requisite glam sense to do the flamboyant material justice.
From the opening quartet of Now I’m Here, Sheer Heart Attack and Fat Bottomed Girls, the singer was on. But May’s guitar-tistry overshadowed all.
The PhD in Astrophysics was showcasing his doctorate of riffology at Rogers Arena and the lecture was brilliant.
Lambert hit his stride with Lap Of the Gods/Seven Seas of Rhye, bringing his own soaring range to hit notes almost as high as his platform boots. Somebody To Love was huge, right down to his bluesy take on the final chorus.
The singalong to May’s solo rendition of Love Of My Life proved this was an audience of faithful fans. A good thing as the guitarist honestly noted he isn’t a singer. Guess that explains why footage of Mercury played for the final chorus.
May followed with a folky ‘39 and Taylor rasped out These Are The Days Of Our Lives as more vintage footage played across the screens. Even on this somewhat twee number, May dropped some killer licks.
The Taylors — Roger and son Rufus — provided the short drum solo before Lambert returned to wail through Under Pressure and it was back to the races.
But not before the singer urged around of applause for Mercury and introduced a new song, Love Kills, to be featured on the coming new Queen album. Assembled with old recordings of Mercury, the idea seems a tad weird. But if the roar for the late entertainer was any indication, the market is there.
The 20-plus song set didn’t miss a moment in the band’s history and certainly delivered the hits. While I would have relished Seaside Rendevous, you don’t complain when the version of Don’t Stop Me now bounces that hard.
That song and the Show Must Go On might be apropos to Queen version 2014 on the whole. Their show was a far sight better than the perfunctory cash grabs many of their peers are presenting.
Link: www.edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/music/Review+Queen+Brian+showcases+doctorate+riffology/9985893/story.html?utm_source=Kazi+Media+Group&utm_medium=Kazi+Media+Group
Music / Reviews
Queen guitarist Brian May is godlike in Vancouver
by Steve Newton on Jun 29, 2014 at 2:03 am
Rebecca Blissett
At Rogers Arena on Saturday, June 28
Freddie Mercury is a hard act to follow, there's no doubt about that. The Queen frontman possessed one of the greatest voices in rock, and anyone who's seen him live at his peak in the seventies can testify that he was a truly riveting performer.
Mercury's death from AIDS in 1991, at the age of 45, didn't stop Queen from touring, but it took them a while to get back on track. It wasn't until 2005 that the band ventured out again as Queen + Paul Rodgers, with the former singer from Free, Bad Company, and the Firm joining Queen guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor on stage (Queen bassist John Deacon opted out of the gig).
Now May and Taylor have recruited a frontman exactly half Rodgers' age--32-year-old American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert--to carry on the Queen flame, and judging by his showing at Rogers Arena last night, it wasn't a bad call.
The concert opened with the multitracked guitar instrumental "Procession" from 1974's Queen II before a huge curtain bearing the majestic Queen logo was pulled away to coincide with May's delivery of the monster guitar riff from "Now I'm Here", a heavy rocker from the 1974 Sheer Heart Attack album.
The raucous vibe continued with another Sheer Heart Attack number, the frenzied "Stone Cold Crazy", before the familiar bass line from the band's best-selling single, the Deacon-penned "Another One Bites the Dust", made its presence known. May took the opportunity to inject some wild fuzz sounds into the tune via his "Red Special", the reddish-brown guitar custom-built by him and his dad.
By the time Queen was halfway through its fourth number, "Fat Bottomed Girls", it was obvious that Lambert's vocals lack that special something that made Mercury's--or even Rodgers'--stand out. But the openly gay singer's flamboyant performing style, charming audience interaction, and heavily accessorized glam-rock look went a long way toward making up for the relative blandness of his voice.
Rebecca Blissett
"Whaddya think of the new boy?" asked May after a performance of the 1981 Queen/David Bowie collaboration "Under Pressure", and the resounding applause made it clear that Lambert had impressed the vast majority of the crowd. Still, whenever Queen brought Mercury's vocals back via video, as it did briefly on "Love of My Life" and "Bohemian Rhapsody", you could tell their original crooner was in another league altogether.
And no matter how many fans Lambert won over during the night, he couldn't really wrest the spotlight away from the mighty May. The sheer joy that the 66-year-old rocker emanates--whether in straightforward boogie mode ("Tie Your Mother Down"), while dabbling in sci-fi skiffle ('39), or during pseudo-operatic excursions ("Bohemian Rhapsody")--is a wonder to behold.
God bless Brian May.
Rebecca Blissett
SETLIST:
1. "Now I'm Here"
2. "Stone Cold Crazy"
3. "Another One Bites the Dust"
4. "Fat Bottomed Girls"
5. "In the Lap of the Gods...Revisited"
6. "Seven Seas of Rhye"
7. "Killer Queen"
8. "Somebody to Love"
9. "I Want It All"
10. "Love of My Life"
11. "'39"
12: "These Are the Days of Our Lives"
13. "Under Pressure"
14. "Love Kills"
15. "Who Wants to Live Forever"
16. Guitar Solo
17. "Tie Your Mother Down"
18. "Radio Ga Ga"
19. "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
20. "The Show Must Go On"
21. "Bohemian Rhapsody"
ENCORE
22. "We Will Rock You"
23. "We Are the Champions"
Link: www.straight.com/music/675471/queen-guitarist-brian-may-godlike-vancouver
Best Tweet
Cathrine @cathrinemann
Now that's a disco ball!!
Bonus tweet
Alexis ♎️ @featheredraven
The lovely aroma of pot is wafting in the air. *sigh* lol
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Vancouver June 28, 2014 kryptoman68 Recap!
By kryptoman68
Ok, here it goes.
First, I have to admit that I was an Adam Lambert Live virgin until today. I have seen nearly every video and recording in the last 5+ years, but as anyone who has been to a live event with AFL will tell you, you are UNPREPARED and you have no idea what the Real Thing is.
I have to say that WWTLF alone was worth the price of admission. I have heard every recording of Adam with Queen singing it, and the live version was something else entirely. In was more than 3D. It bent space and time (possibly giving those '39 chaps a chance to get back home ON TIME!). This might also explain why Adam has trouble with time - his gravitas and voice are affecting the space-time continuum.
Let me start from the beginning. Having a mild case of AFL addiction (my wife thinks I got too much water in my brain, I've got no common sense etc. etc), I knew about "The Adam Clock Paradox" and knew 8 pm was NOT gonna happen. I went to a sushi restaurant at 6:45 and we came out at 7:30, waited for the bus, went in (the line was already gone), bought some water and churros and exactly at 8pm we got to our seats. I told my wife we probably have another half an hour of waiting, so we set up our Etymotic plugs (whoever suggested them a few months ago, lots of thanks, they worked great and were a great investment), prepared our awesome theater binoculars and relaxed. The guy who sold me the binoculars in a telescopes shop - another connection to astronomy and astrophysics - told me: "Nikon made this little one simply because... they can". It makes things appear hyper-real, my wife said "when Adam looked our way, it felt like he was looking at me due to the extreme magnification".
As mentioned previously, I had a very short chat with the mother of "Freddie" sitting next to me. I took very few pictures and recorded no videos because I wanted to experience my first live Adam concert without any distractions. My wife took some though. Have not checked them out, but she is quite petite and there were too many tall people in front of her, so I don't expect much on that front.
Then the concert started. In my daily life, I have a VERY strong sense of time. I am the Anti-Adam that way. I can look at my watch at 9 am and tell you it is 10:30 an hour and a half later without checking again. But tonight, I did not look at my watch so I cannot tell you when the concert started, and I got lost in the above mentioned space-time disturbance for a few hours. The next exact time I am aware of was 22:55pm, waiting for a bus after the concert. Time lost its meaning during the period between the dimming of the lights and the playing of God Save The Queen...
My first impression of the audience though was they were very reserved in the first minutes. Of course, wearing the plugs for the first time, it is possible that they just filtered some of the energy that was actually there. For a while, I had the feeling that Adam wasn't feeling the energy flow either. He did not do the low-down-side-to-side move in SCC as intensely as usual, and he skipped the call-and-reply part in OOBTD which I think was a good idea, as it is a bit early to engage the audience during the third song. So it might have been planned in advance. But it could have been very well him feeling they were not ready yet.
Thankfully, the energy level appeared to rise as the show progressed, and as usual by the time of KQ and esp. STL, everybody was totally into it. I think STL was also much better live than on any recording I have heard to date. It is probably just the live effect - nearly everything sounded better.
The audience loved the Brian and Roger part of the show very much, of course. Brian's solo is wonderful, and no video recording technology can capture the beauty of the laser show, or the live sound of his instrument. Under Pressure worked great too.
For the few weeks since I first heard Love Kills, I had the feeling it was becoming my favorite "Queen" song with Adam, and it was really great as usual, but as I mentioned in the beginning, WWTLF came along and kicked it from the throne again. It was a nearly out-of-body experience, and the hairs on my arms stood up at the end of it. Then we all stood up too and applauded the Best Thing I Have Ever Heard in my freaking life!
After TYMD, Adam went to the VIP section and asked a nice Asian lady to sing with him. She sang pretty great and people loved it. It looked like Adam intended to continue this with the whole audience, but the band switched gears to the next song and I felt he looked a bit disappointed... I was ready to participate, so I was a little disappointed too.
Radio Gaga clapping got everybody up and doing what they should. I could not keep an eye at the whole arena, but it felt like the majority were following the correct routine
CLTCL was very similar to Calgary, including all three (Spike, Adam and Brian) banging on the keys. Plus the fantastic lower register Elvis-like passages. I had heard the advances Adam had made in his lower register - starting at the iHeart Radio Festival and the latest live recordings - but was still blown away by how good he actually sounds live when he goes really low. I guess the recording tech is once again not up to capturing it all.
During the slower middle section, I had pulled out the Etymotics a bit to listen to the unfiltered awesomeness, but when TSMGO came, I was suddenly on the "chipmunk" train and had to plug them back in to get the right sound. That being said, the last line of the song Adam went from a very low note to the highest note for an amazing result I have not heard in another show yet. Can't wait to find a YT and check it out to see how well it translated into bits and bytes. Probably just a pale shadow of the Real Deal, but I MUST hear that again.
BoRhap was of course majestic and touching and everything. The audience clapped like mad for the encore, and I must say this tour WWRY is a totally different beast compared to all previous incarnations. First of all, QAL performed the song twice each show in 2012 (6 shows, 12 WWRYs), and Adam got the lyrics right just twice or so. He messed them up at iHeart Radio Festival, even before the 2012 tour at the Montreal studio when asked to sing a bit. So imagine my surprise to find him singing the correct lines every freaking night on this tour without ever mixing up the "young man" with the "old man", the "shouting in the streets" with "pleading with your eyes" etc. It appears a lot of training has been involved, and the vocals are significantly "rockier" than ever before.
Of course, being a bit of a Simon Cowell when it comes to lyrics (I expect no lyric fails from a profession singer), I noticed a few errors here and there. In fact, given my extensive knowledge of QAL YT material, I nearly predicted where he might get it wrong. E.g. in I Want It All, he sang "if you want the truth" in the first bridge instead of "I heard him say" just as I felt in my guts seconds before he did it, but this time I did not care.
WATC was glorious. In a hockey arena with the whole audience singing, Adam pretty much left them take over and just "conducted" in some parts of the song. So in the end, everybody was totally on board and happy.
After the concert, I was waiting around the merchandise stand and having my GNL cover image (Lambert in feathers) T-shirt on, a few people gave me thumbs up (including a girl wearing the EXACT same T-shirt), and her (I assume) mother who came by later. Then I saw a lady with the green ribbon of ATop and then got to meet her companions. Then outside on the street, I met even more ladies thank to my T-shirt (not too many men wearing Adam merchandise that I could see around) - please show yourself if you are reading this!
In conclusion, if you are going to your first concert in the coming days, nothing can prepare you for what it really is. If you are going to YET ANOTHER concert on this tour, I so envy you, I might be turning green...
Postscript: Another small detail, but I am really nit-picking now: Somebody forgot to turn on the fan under the front stage during Brian's BoRhap solo, so his golden cape did not wave enough... Damn you YouTube, without you I wouldn't have known what to expect!
