The Official Queen Podcast: Q+AL's Neil Fairclough on the Tour and Adam
Filed Under () by broddybounce on Wednesday, August 6, 2014
Posted at : Wednesday, August 06, 2014
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| credit: Kelly A. Smith as posted on losangelesregister.com |
Skip to 8:15 for the portion about Adam — but, in order to do so, you'll have to listen via the actual iTunes player, rather than the embedded player on the website. A link that will open your iTunes player directly to the free podcast is provided on the webpage. If you don't have the iTunes player, you can still listen on the website, but won't be able to skip ahead.
The most recent podcast is a conversation with drummer/percussionist/vocalist extraordinaire, the fascinating Rufus Tiger Taylor. It's quite the interesting interview, including how Rufus became a drummer, the influence of not only his father but the Foo Fighters' Taylor Hawkins, how Brian, not Roger, was the first to offer him a professional gig, and how he eventually became a member of Q+AL. Nothing said about Adam in that one, however — although we predict Rufus gladly would have.....had Nick asked!
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| Adam and his "Wingman" Rufus |
In addition, you'll find a great two-part interview with Roger, although from an initial quick scan through the podcast there does not appear to be any mentions of Adam there — however, given it's from over a year ago (June 2013) it may have been a bit early.
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I listened to that at work yesterday :)
Thanks for posting the podcast @broddybounce!
Hoping to sit down and listen to all of them sometime!!!! It's really great that they've taken the time to do these..
I wonder if Adam will do one too???!!!
I know -- they're great (despite, as I wrote in the piece, that Nick didn't ask Rufus about Adam -- but, then again, maybe their bromance started after Vancouver! lol)
Yes, would LOVE if they do one with Adam -- hopefully they'll be doing Europe dates and Nick can visit the tour again -- and get Brian and Spike, too.
I do have to add, though -- I may be completely paranoid on this, but I get the sense that the website is trying to -- well, not to hide -- but to tone down Adam's involvement with Queen.
You may have not noticed this but the scrolling billboard at the top of the Queen home page which promotes all their main projects such as "Live At The Rainbow" and Queen Extravaganza's UK Tour, well it had the Q+AL tour up there for the majority of the tour, yes, but Nick removed it on the morning of the final stop of the tour in Toronto. I was like WTF? I immediately wrote to Nick but he didn't write back. But, I mean, it's a website, not a newspaper -- what the heck is the rush to get Q+AL off the home page?
The other problem is that even though they're promoting the Australian shows with a box banner halfway down the page, the link doesn't go, as you would expect, to a separate Q+AL page on the website -- it goes directly to the Australian equivalent to Ticketmaster (Ticketek) -- there's no Q+AL page I could find! I find this to be incredibly tacky.
So it seems, anything Q+AL is solely documented within "News" as individual stories.
So, again, I may be wrong but it almost feels like they're slightly embarrassed about Adam OR trying appease those hardcore Queen fans who simply, as far as Adam's involvement is concerned, "won't have none of it!"
I don't feel this is a Brian/Roger decision, though, it feels totally like the webmaster, Nick.
That being said, I'm going completely off of conjecture here -- I may have the wrong ideas -- but it's also going off of a sense of things, given what is and what isn't plainly on the website.
Thoughts anyone?
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