| GB: Queen Archivist 24.06.2017 07:02 |
I just wanted to say, now that the first show of the tour has happened and the info is generally 'out there' already.... that I heard some of the London rehearsal recordings last week and was completely blown away. I mean SERIOUSLY impressed. I had no idea what to expect, but I didn't expect what I heard. It's Late, Get Down Make Love and Spread Your Wings, all from News Of The World. Plus other newies too of course. My god, these songs sound so wonderfully fresh and vibrant in the new context. The robot animated intro is breathtaking... particularly so if you've loved the old metallic fellow as much as I have this past 40 years. How amazing it is to see him up on stage with the band finally, looking as mean as ever and twice as menacing... like the show itself. Imagine what Stewie, the baby in Family Guy, is gonna make of this if he sees it... if just the album cover traumatises him THAT much!!!! Wonderful to see NOTW celebrated in this way, with more than a passing nod to its iconic artwork. Mr Freas would have been mightily and rightly proud. The band and front man are very evidently in top drawer form. The sound is phenomenal. Lights amazing. Performance, as ever, second to none. Great choice of songs too, in my opinion. Cannot wait to see this show and to hear the new material from NOTW after so long away. These are exciting times for Queen fans.... with so much more to come this year !!!! Enjoy the shows if you're attending. You're gonna love it. GB |
| brians wig 24.06.2017 07:37 |
Let's hope those songs make it to the UK this time. I was well brassed off that they dropped "Love Kills", "Procession" and "Now I'm Here" and gave us "One Vision" AGAIN. |
| SpaceGrey 24.06.2017 08:06 |
GB: Queen Archivist wrote: I just wanted to say, now that the first show of the tour has happened and the info is generally 'out there' already.... that I heard some of the London rehearsal recordings last week and was completely blown away. I mean SERIOUSLY impressed. I had no idea what to expect, but I didn't expect what I heard. It's Late, Get Down Make Love and Spread Your Wings, all from News Of The World. Plus other newies too of course. My god, these songs sound so wonderfully fresh and vibrant in the new context. The robot animated intro is breathtaking... particularly so if you've loved the old metallic fellow as much as I have this past 40 years. How amazing it is to see him up on stage with the band finally, looking as mean as ever and twice as menacing... like the show itself. Imagine what Stewie, the baby in Family Guy, is gonna make of this if he sees it... if just the album cover traumatises him THAT much!!!! Wonderful to see NOTW celebrated in this way, with more than a passing nod to its iconic artwork. Mr Freas would have been mightily and rightly proud. The band and front man are very evidently in top drawer form. The sound is phenomenal. Lights amazing. Performance, as ever, second to none. Great choice of songs too, in my opinion. Cannot wait to see this show and to hear the new material from NOTW after so long away. These are exciting times for Queen fans.... with so much more to come this year !!!! Enjoy the shows if you're attending. You're gonna love it. GBHello, Greg. How are you doing? Is there any release plans this year? Thank you |
| GonnaUseMyPrisoners 24.06.2017 10:13 |
Agreed, Greg - love this setlist, and am fighting the urge with every fiber of my being not to search youtube for recordings (I want to be shocked & awed in Chicago, as though it was the first stop on the tour, like 3 years ago). I always loved Bicycle Race, It's Late, Spread Your Wings, YTMBA is going to be interesting... A great refresh to the classic sets of the past... If only there was a teensy bit of room in there for a little ditty called Innuendo.... still holding out hope for a mid-tour substitution, perhaps. |
| cmsdrums 24.06.2017 11:34 |
Like Brian's Wig above, I just hope that the new material in the set lasts and isn't sacrificed when the show comes to Europe and the UK...I can see some stuff being shifted for I Want To Break Free, A Kind of Magic and possibly The Show Must Go On and These Are The Days of Our Lives when it hits these shores. Love Kills and I Was Born To Love You only lasted a few shows, and Save Me and Play The Game are now gone too. Would also love to have seen Roger mix up his spotlight track and swap I'm In Love With My Car for Tenement Funster. |
| Jimmy Dean 24.06.2017 12:09 |
cmsdrums wrote: Would also love to have seen Roger mix up his spotlight track and swap I'm In Love With My Car for Tenement Funster.or Fight From The Inside! that would be awesome. |
| Oscar J 24.06.2017 12:10 |
Why do they have to play every number 10 bpm slower than normal? This is the worst I have ever heard them play. |
| on my way up 24.06.2017 13:50 |
"with so much more to come this year" Any hints? |
| cmsdrums 24.06.2017 16:16 |
Oscar J wrote: Why do they have to play every number 10 bpm slower than normal? This is the worst I have ever heard them play.Hear hear....Stone Cold Crazy, Another One Bites The Dust, Spread Your Wings especially are awful at those tempos....Dragon Attack suffered the same on previous AL tours, though was ok on its rare outings with PR. |
| Killer_queenIII 24.06.2017 21:08 |
seconded! SCC felt dragged. I guess the answer to that would be age. It seems the guys upped their game with the stage setup. Enough to give Stewie a heart attack if he sees the robot! |
| tomchristie22 25.06.2017 05:56 |
There's something to be said for the fact that Brian and Roger still sing vocal harmonies - Rog especially is always very clear in the blend. Most groups wouldn't have the core members forming the basis of the vocal harmonies anymore at this stage in their career - there'd be countless backup singers dominating it. Roger especially has taken fantastic care of his voice, it'd seem. Brian too, really - he's getting nasalier and losing a lot of the warmth and resonance in his voice, but he's held up very well compared to say McCartney (errant comparison, of course, as McCartney's done much more live lead singing in his time). |
| gambri 25.06.2017 07:43 |
Yeah, I also hear it all slower. Is like an engine that costs you to start. |
| NickiP 25.06.2017 07:58 |
I wonder with Stone Cold Crazy whether the vocal enunciation is hard for Lambert to do at the original speed - I struggle to sing along to the original without falling over my words - so maybe it's not just the elderly condition of the drummer slowing things down.... |
| Killer_queenIII 25.06.2017 09:44 |
tomchristie22 wrote: Roger especially has taken fantastic care of his voice, it'd seem. Brian too, really - he's getting nasalier and losing a lot of the warmth and resonance in his voice, but he's held up very well compared to say McCartney (errant comparison, of course, as McCartney's done much more live lead singing in his time).I just saw the highlight clips of their 1st night in Phoenix from their official channel, and Roger sounded solid, both vocals and drumming in Killer Queen for example. link On the side: I'm liking Roger's new setup for this tour. The short stack he's used in the 2015 tour felt weird and sounded rather lacking to my ears. It's nice to see him use single heads again. |
| Vocal harmony 25.06.2017 10:09 |
It would be interesting to find out why he is using single headed toms on this tour. He hasn't done so since 1981 and said in an old interview that he wasn't a fan of the sound they produced, preferring the double heads with the bottom one tuned tighter than the top one. |
| Killer_queenIII 25.06.2017 10:44 |
I could only guess he's probably trying to recreate the drum sound like on record, assuming he used single heads when he recorded NOTW |
| Pim Derks 25.06.2017 12:56 |
I'm praying that the NOTW stuff stays in the setlist until Europe! |
| Vocal harmony 25.06.2017 13:09 |
It f*%king better had ;)!! |
| Cockeye 25.06.2017 14:58 |
I'm a bit gutted about this tour. After initially being VERY critical of AL I actually saw his work with Queen and ate my words. I then went with my partner to see them at O2 last tour and they were superb. My 12 year old nephew got into Queen recently and I took him to see QEX when they came to Norwich. He loved it and it was his first gig. He loved it so much he met the band afterwards and they were great with him. He's always wanted to go to a big gig and we promised it he could come and see Queen+AL if they toured again. Then they announced the prices. No way could we afford it :( Have seen the vids though. They look great. |
| Togg 26.06.2017 06:15 |
From what I've seen so far it's the most exciting Queen tour in decades... literally I haven't been this excited since 86, Adam is fitting in perfectly from my point of view, he carries the show in the spirit of Freddie and I think that is what is needed. The new tracks I really really hope they keep until the UK leg, and maybe add a couple more if possible, we've seen the other stuff many many times so come on lads keep them in there. The Robot and new stage look awesome so I can't wait till Decemeber |
| Togg 26.06.2017 06:19 |
Killer_queenIII wrote: I could only guess he's probably trying to recreate the drum sound like on record, assuming he used single heads when he recorded NOTWNo he didn't only a couple of toms at the side of the kit. It would be interesting to hear why the switch, they are generally designed for live work, but you'd usually mic them under the head rather than over, however mics and mixers have come a long way since those 70's days so you can get a great drum sound with any kit if you know what your doing. I suspect he just wanted to shake things up a little and get a more direct and punchy sound |
| MackMantilla 26.06.2017 14:25 |
GB: Queen Archivist wrote: These are exciting times for Queen fans.... with so much more to come this year !!!! GBIt's very interesting that this new tour has NOTW as theme. Maybe they're doing all this because there are plans for a 1977 live release? Remember the 2014 setlist with Procession, Now I'm here, Stone cold crazy, In the lap of the gods... and then we got Rainbow boxset released. |
| RS_Protos 26.06.2017 15:35 |
Not getting hopes up, too many disappointing examples over the years...... |
| dudeofqueen 27.06.2017 11:14 |
We'll be getting Houston then. |
| on my way up 27.06.2017 11:23 |
dudeofqueen wrote: We'll be getting Houston then.The funny thing is that It's late and Spread your wings weren't performed at Houston ?? I really hope we're getting Houston as an official release though. Getting another show from that tour (only audio) would make it so much cooler though. |
| MackMantilla 27.06.2017 16:48 |
on my way up wrote:or maybe we could get expanded Live Killers with It's Late, Fat Bottomed Girls, Somebody to love??dudeofqueen wrote: We'll be getting Houston then.The funny thing is that It's late and Spread your wings weren't performed at Houston ?? I really hope we're getting Houston as an official release though. Getting another show from that tour (only audio) would make it so much cooler though. |
| Fireplace 27.06.2017 17:31 |
The NOTW theme is in preparation for the Christmas release of the "We Will Rock You....Yet Again", featuring 9 remixes by Justin Bieber with additional vocals by Milli Vanilli. They were Freddie's favourite artists, which is why the album will get its own dedicated Monopoly board game, to be released in Q1 - 2018. Less weed and more work will probably help you clear the cobwebs in your head that keep producing ghost images of releases that will never be, but keep being announced here with much conviction every time some obscure Queen anniversary comes up. |
| Oscar J 30.06.2017 13:12 |
I haven't been overly impressed by the Q+AL stuff so far. But It's Late sounds really good! By far the best "cover" I've heard AL play. Lambert has the range to hit those top notes (except for the E6 at the end of course, heh) and Brian and Roger has obviously had a good listen and rehearsed it properly, complete with Brian's tapping bits in the solo and Roger doing all the cymbal accents and fills - even the bass drum triplets at the end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u88FTrxX25o link |
| BETA215 03.07.2017 22:18 |
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| Vocal harmony 04.07.2017 10:14 |
Just noticed the guitar behind the interviewer. It looks like it might be the old drop D Fryer, but it appears to have been fitted with a humbucker in the bridge position! It could of course be the way the light has caught it, but the pickup does appear wider than a Trisonic. |
| chewy123 06.07.2017 23:10 |
it was nuts- just nuts. i could absolutely not believe what i was hearing. spread your wings, right in front of me |
| Togg 07.07.2017 03:14 |
Vocal harmony wrote: Just noticed the guitar behind the interviewer. It looks like it might be the old drop D Fryer, but it appears to have been fitted with a humbucker in the bridge position! It could of course be the way the light has caught it, but the pickup does appear wider than a Trisonic.I think it's the light, that guitar hasn't been changed, and he's still using it as a back spare for the Green Guyton in drop D |
| chewy123 09.07.2017 02:32 |
more than any song of the set, i seriously couldn't freaking believe, that the did "Its Late", |
| tomchristie22 09.07.2017 07:13 |
It's Late sounds pretty good. My only criticisms would be that Adam can't quite seem to get the vocal rhythm right at times - he seems to sing much too rigidly on the beat and misses the syncopations in Freddie's delivery. The other thing is that the drumming on the chorus is too dynamically flat - it sort of feels like the 4/4 just carries it the whole way through, when really each 'it's late' should come with two massive hits, plus most of the phrases end with a fill of some kind on the studio version. Tonally, I think it makes more sense for the instrumentation to remain restless, rather than fall completely into a groove. |
| tomchristie22 09.07.2017 07:24 |
Spread Your Wings seems pretty flawless. Feels a bit wrong without John, but I think it's lovely that one of his compositions other than Bites the Dust and Break Free is getting a bit of spotlight. |
| Sheer Brass Neck 09.07.2017 08:49 |
tomchristie22 wrote: It's Late sounds pretty good. My only criticisms would be that Adam can't quite seem to get the vocal rhythm right at times - he seems to sing much too rigidly on the beat and misses the syncopations in Freddie's delivery.That's just not true. Adam is the best singer in the world right now, and he brings a magic to the song that Freddie never could. Please check the links in other threads for visual proof of Adam's breadth of style and talent. It's Late is another example of Adam adding to a song what Freddie couldn't and you have to accept there is no greater singer than him including Freddie. ;) |
| Oscar J 09.07.2017 09:21 |
tomchristie22 wrote: It's Late sounds pretty good. My only criticisms would be that Adam can't quite seem to get the vocal rhythm right at times - he seems to sing much too rigidly on the beat and misses the syncopations in Freddie's delivery. The other thing is that the drumming on the chorus is too dynamically flat - it sort of feels like the 4/4 just carries it the whole way through, when really each 'it's late' should come with two massive hits, plus most of the phrases end with a fill of some kind on the studio version. Tonally, I think it makes more sense for the instrumentation to remain restless, rather than fall completely into a groove.Well, IMO Adam and Roger have been the bottlenecks from the get go for this collaboration, but I think both of them actually sounded more comfortable than usual in this particular number. It's Late is one of those higher placed songs where Adam can stretch those vocal cords while staying reasonably true to the original. There's still the slightly fabricated feel to his vocals, made evident by his lack of syncopation as you say. As for Roger, he seems determined to give it a real go in this song, limited as he is in power these days (as mentioned, only just touching the crashes in those "It's Late" bits). |
| tomchristie22 10.07.2017 02:41 |
For sure. He deserves props nonetheless, especially considering he's belting the high harmony at the same time. |
| tomchristie22 10.07.2017 05:11 |
Both Spread Your Wings and It's Late were dropped for the Kansas City set, and the prior one omitted Spread Your Wings. Doesn't look promising link |
| Vocal harmony 10.07.2017 05:22 |
its going to look and sound a bit strange that a show based around NOTW visually with "Frank" now only has three songs from the album, two of which have been live staples since the original NOTW tour. Hope SYW and It's Late return soon |
| Pim Derks 10.07.2017 05:26 |
Oh boy, here we go. I didn't expect them to be dropped this soon! |
| on my way up 10.07.2017 06:57 |
Vocal harmony wrote: its going to look and sound a bit strange that a show based around NOTW visually with "Frank" now only has three songs from the album, two of which have been live staples since the original NOTW tour. Hope SYW and It's Late return soonThis is really really strange indeed. They build a show around the NOTW anniversary... Boasting they'll play songs from that album and then those songs are the first they drop??? |
| Oscar J 10.07.2017 09:11 |
How lame. |
| GonnaUseMyPrisoners 10.07.2017 10:32 |
Oh noooo! And no substitutes either! (unless I missed something) We can only hope there was another "lights out" time issue specific to KC... I will be CRUSHED if they don't play them in Chicago!!! |
| dysan 11.07.2017 02:06 |
I think they like to keep it top 10 in the red belt |
| CM 11.07.2017 07:28 |
They got tired of playing something else. Who needs something new and exciting when you can play the same setlist that you hear on tv ads and radio stations for decades? |
| tomchristie22 11.07.2017 09:43 |
dysan wrote: I think they like to keep it top 10 in the red beltFair, and this makes more sense than them dropping the songs despite already having done all the hard work in rehearsing them. Surely it's not a general audience reaction thing - sounds overwhelmingly positive from what I can hear on YT. If someone's going to see Q+AL there's a good chance they're a big enough fan to know second-tier-famous songs like SYW and It's Late. |
| RS_Protos 11.07.2017 10:37 |
I bought tickets just for those songs, why was I lied too by BM............ Good thing I'm lying too :) |
| Negative Creep 11.07.2017 11:10 |
Ha. This kind of shit shouldn't come as a surprise to any fans. |
| ggo1 11.07.2017 14:02 |
Personally, I'll be very disappointed if they aren't back in for the Toronto show. It's an expensive road trip and those two songs were my highlights in terms of anticipation. Also Canada likes Queen, There's an awful lot of long time Queen fans at that show who will know tracks off any of the first 7 albums. Honestly, for Canada there's probably way more people at the show who know It's late than have a clue about anything after Under Pressure. |
| Bluerhap 14.07.2017 12:38 |
I hope with the UK dates like a stand alone mini tour they might include some more "deep cuts". Would like to hear My Melancholy Blues , All Dead All Dead as well as It's Late and Spread Your Wings. Would also like to see them reinstating In The Lap of The Gods revisited which was a personal highlight of the last tour. Can't wait to see Frank. Roll on Sunday December 3rd at the Glasgow Hydro. Always brings back memories of the 70's concerts at the old Apollo. |
| dudeofqueen 14.07.2017 12:59 |
Re: >This is really really strange indeed. > >They build a show around the NOTW anniversary... Boasting they'll play songs from that album and then those songs are the first they drop??? ......and: >I hope with the UK dates like a stand alone mini tour they might include some more "deep cuts". If you go to the show EXPECTING to be disappointed, you'll most likely get what you expected and, should there BE any surprises, that surprise will be all the greater. Brian's doing exactly what he did on the TCM tour......exactly what he always does in reverting to type because it's easy for him. |
