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Post by pi on Jul 27, 2017 5:05:34 GMT -5
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Post by wildarose on Jul 27, 2017 5:11:34 GMT -5
Great pix from the St. Paul, MN concert at Xcel Energy Ctr 7/14/17!! Don't know who took it.
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Post by betty on Jul 27, 2017 5:17:15 GMT -5
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Post by betty on Jul 27, 2017 5:19:14 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Jul 27, 2017 7:20:07 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Jul 27, 2017 7:24:02 GMT -5
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Post by pi on Jul 27, 2017 7:50:30 GMT -5
NASHVILLE SCENE A Die-Hard Queen Fan Considers Queen + Adam Lambert Ahead of the group’s stop at Bridgestone, a look at what it means to carry on the legacy of a rock icon
As a lifelong Queen megafan and a charter member of Nashville’s Queen Breakfast Club (which is just what it sounds like), when I first heard that the legendary rock act was touring with former American Idol contestant Adam Lambert, my initial reaction was, Why?
Queen, as a band, has been dead since 1991, the year that frontman Farrokh Bulsara, better known as Freddie Mercury, died. The star-studded Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness in 1992 featured the reunion of his three bandmates — guitarist Brian May, bassist John Deacon and drummer Roger Taylor — plus killer performances from George Michael, Annie Lennox and David Bowie, Elton John and Axl Rose, among others. It’s also probably the only time Liza Minnelli shared a stage with Spinal Tap. That would have been a fitting end to the glorious 20-year reign of a band as regal as its name.
But it wasn’t. In 2004, May and Taylor launched a collaboration with Bad Company’s Paul Rodgers, an act that toured as Queen + Paul Rodgers and recorded the album The Cosmos Rocks. Deacon, who penned some of Queen’s biggest hits — including “Another One Bites the Dust,” “Under Pressure” and “You’re My Best Friend” — had not appeared with the band since a one-off performance in 1997, and continues to choose to remain out of the picture. The bar was set quite low by the 2002 musical We Will Rock You (Brian Logan of The Guardian wasn’t exaggerating when he called the play “traumatising” and “ruthlessly manufactured”), but while the act Queen + Paul Rodgers wasn’t exactly dynamite and laser beams, it wasn’t bad.
Naturally, when I heard about May and Taylor working with Lambert, I was suspicious. Mercury took the idea of being a frontman to an otherworldly level from the very beginning. He paced the stage like a lion surveying his domain, brandishing his microphone like a weapon, and he’d rile up the crowd by toasting them with Champagne or riding around on Darth Vader’s shoulders. His sartorial choices through the years — the Zandra Rhodes-designed white cape of early Queen performances, that harlequin jumpsuit he donned in the late ’70s, the white tank/tight jeans combo he wore for Queen’s magnificent comeback performance at Live Aid in 1985 — remain the stuff of legend.
Lambert, who has a second-place finish on the eighth season of American Idol, a Grammy nomination and two chart-topping albums under his belt, has made it clear that he isn’t trying to emulate Mercury. While he shares Mercury’s undeniable vocal prowess and his love for adventurous clothing, nail polish and eyeliner, he commands the stage in his own way. I found myself drawn to his voice in the way you’re drawn to a piece of modern art that you don’t quite understand, which might have been part of how Mercury appealed to his first audiences back in the early ’70s. But Lambert is no second coming of Freddie Mercury.
Read more... www.nashvillescene.com/music/features/article/20970380/a-diehard-queen-fan-considers-queen-adam-lambert
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Post by pi on Jul 27, 2017 7:56:16 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2017 8:06:06 GMT -5
#29 Queen + Adam Lambert T-Mobile Arena Las Vegas, Nev. June 24, 2017 $1,292,650 11,716 /
15,346 1 / 0 $175, $49.50 Live Nation
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Post by pi on Jul 27, 2017 8:06:16 GMT -5
digbostonFOTOBOM: QUEEN + ADAM LAMBERT @ TD GARDENNo one ever said that playing rock music was rocket science, but Brian May has proven that the two aren’t necessarily diametrically opposed. (For those intrepid-minded readers, feel free to dig into his thesis entitled A Survey Of Radial Velocities In The Zodiacal Dust Cloud.) The good news is that he’s not gone all pointy-headed nerd in the process, and still knows how to wield the Red Special on stage in a most impressive manner. Hell, he loves that guitar so much he convinced the rest of the band to fashion a stage in its iconic shape for the new Queen + Adam Lambert tour that hit town last night.
It’s pretty clear that the Freddie Mercury was among the best singers of his or any generation, and he matched that prodigious vocal talent with a flair for style and some serious musical chops. That combination led to staggering popularity, and with good reason. Fun fact: only three bands have sold more records worldwide than Queen. (If you guessed The Beatles, Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin, well done.) I’m not sure that Paul Rodgers was the best choice for the first singer in the post-Mercury era, his brand of gruff blues rock not exactly meshing with the dizzying heights of glam/pop/prog/?-rock that Mercury, May, Rogers and Deacon brought to life. Adam Lambert? Yeah, now that’s inspired casting. Anyway way you look at it, it’s a great story. In 2009, he’s a no-name that decided to audition for American Idol, choosing the opening of “Bohemian Rhapsody” as his song. Two years later, he’s singing with Brian May and Roger Taylor at the MTV Europe Awards. Lambert’s body must have been a mass of purple caused by all the self-pinching.
Making the rounds for a new tour, the ensemble shook up the set list a bit from the 2014 stop but still played a ton of hits. Right out of the gates with a teaser of “We Will Rock You” that segued into “Hammer To Fall,” they proceeded to do just that. “Killer Queen,” “Somebody To Love,” “Fat Bottomed Girls,” “Another One Bites The Dust.” Blam! Though bassist John Deacon called it a retirement two decades ago, May and Taylor are still breathing life into the storied songbook. Lambert has the vocal chops and personal style to fit right into this lineup, but he’s still in a bit of a bind. He’s under the obligation to serve the song but still be himself at the same time, and that’s not an easy tightrope to maneuver. Mercury’s vocal lines are burned into the minds of so many fans that it’s a bit disconcerting to hear some veering from the blueprint, a bit of vocal melisma here or a few ad libbed notes there.
More... digboston.com/fotobom-queen-adam-lambert-td-garden/
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