6.26.17 QAL Hollywood Bowl #1
Jun 26, 2017 17:40:32 GMT -5
Post by AnnAdoresAdam on Jun 26, 2017 17:40:32 GMT -5
Of course, Adam isn't the showman that Freddie was
This line of the review set me to thinking that in my case that's a positive thing.
Now that I love the music of Queen so much because of Adam I've realised that if someone like Adam had been with them from the start, Queen would have been "my" band and I'd have been a huge fan. I'm the right age, I remember them back from the early 70s and I WAS a rock fan.
I always liked Brian and Roger but despite liking the songs, I never really warmed to them because there was something about Freddie that turned me off: his looks, (which I know he couldn't help) the rawness of his voice and his stage presence, which I found a little cold (i.e. lacking warmth) and quite overbearing. Not to mention his outfits - funnily enough I thought David Bowie's zany style was wonderful but Freddie's just turned me off.
One man's meat is another's poison and all that but because I only got to know Adam via Queen (BBC NYE 2014) and not through his solo work I feel entitled to say that thank goodness Adam ISN'T the showman Freddie was or I wouldn't be here now, adoring the best singer and showman I've ever seen in my life!
This line of the review set me to thinking that in my case that's a positive thing.
Now that I love the music of Queen so much because of Adam I've realised that if someone like Adam had been with them from the start, Queen would have been "my" band and I'd have been a huge fan. I'm the right age, I remember them back from the early 70s and I WAS a rock fan.
I always liked Brian and Roger but despite liking the songs, I never really warmed to them because there was something about Freddie that turned me off: his looks, (which I know he couldn't help) the rawness of his voice and his stage presence, which I found a little cold (i.e. lacking warmth) and quite overbearing. Not to mention his outfits - funnily enough I thought David Bowie's zany style was wonderful but Freddie's just turned me off.
One man's meat is another's poison and all that but because I only got to know Adam via Queen (BBC NYE 2014) and not through his solo work I feel entitled to say that thank goodness Adam ISN'T the showman Freddie was or I wouldn't be here now, adoring the best singer and showman I've ever seen in my life!
