I saw Adam Lambert perform with Queen in the opening show of their tour in June 2014. The concert was at . . .
United Center in Chicago. The acoustics really were not the greatest @ times. At one point towards the end of the concert but before the encores, there was a particularly murky area of sound-mixing. I don't even remember the song that was being performed specifically. What I do remember is the sound was horribly muddled. Adam could hear it too. When sound mixing sounds terrible when he is performing, he usually will signal whoever can fix it to do so. He signaled someone off the stage several times to fix it. Either they couldn't or wouldn't or didn't see him because it persisted. I may have been able to hear it so well because I was close to the stage. Anyway, finally he gave up trying to signal the sound techs to fix it and sang ABOVE it in tune. I am sure sound techs adjusted the sound electronically but it almost seemed like the muddled sounds of instruments and back-up singing responded to his voice of their own volition and corrected themselves. The sound clarity seemed to return magically. I still think about that @ times. His voice is so powerful and so agile that he could help tune what wasn't in tune and it worked. Maybe, sometimes in life when things aren't so great or we're getting over sad or stressful things, it helps to have someone in it who can help you put things back in tune?
United Center in Chicago. The acoustics really were not the greatest @ times. At one point towards the end of the concert but before the encores, there was a particularly murky area of sound-mixing. I don't even remember the song that was being performed specifically. What I do remember is the sound was horribly muddled. Adam could hear it too. When sound mixing sounds terrible when he is performing, he usually will signal whoever can fix it to do so. He signaled someone off the stage several times to fix it. Either they couldn't or wouldn't or didn't see him because it persisted. I may have been able to hear it so well because I was close to the stage. Anyway, finally he gave up trying to signal the sound techs to fix it and sang ABOVE it in tune. I am sure sound techs adjusted the sound electronically but it almost seemed like the muddled sounds of instruments and back-up singing responded to his voice of their own volition and corrected themselves. The sound clarity seemed to return magically. I still think about that @ times. His voice is so powerful and so agile that he could help tune what wasn't in tune and it worked. Maybe, sometimes in life when things aren't so great or we're getting over sad or stressful things, it helps to have someone in it who can help you put things back in tune?
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