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I have been promising to create a post on my experience seeing Adam Lambert at his mini-residency at The Venetian in Las Vegas on October 27, 2021 — life got in the way and I was only able to get to it now.  Thank you to our loyal reader Nanbert for being my cheerleader and providing the encouragement to get this accomplished!

I went to the concert with my friend Ellen — an old pal of mine from Los Angeles who now lives in Vegas.  We went together to see Queen + Adam Lambert at their mini-residency at the Park MGM back in September 2018, their Crown Jewels engagement, and we had a blast.  So, of course, had to see Adam at his own mini-residency together.

When we got to our seats, Center Orchestra, back near the audio booth, I was very happy.  This is what it looked like pre-show...

It was a packed house and everyone couldn't wait for the show to start — which did so around 8:20pm.  Lights went down, and Adam just walked out from the back of the stage down center and the crowd went wild.  And the location of the seats almost didn't matter — most everyone stood up throughout most of the show.

Adam looked great, sounded magnificent, the band was superb and, although the set design was a wee bit simplistic for a Vegas show, the video in the background added a lot of color and drama and excitement.  

 

Here are several photos I took during the two-hour set. I have to apologize, however — sadly, my smartphone camera, which usually takes spectacular photos, somehow didn't have the proper lighting, or perhaps the zoom lens degraded the quality, or maybe I needed to set a different exposure, but they didn't come out nearly as good as they should have.  And even though I used some software to try and get them as clean & clear as possible, I could only do so much.  But, you'll at least get a good semblance of what I saw.  

 

I can't recall which photos went with which songs; however, they are in the correct chronological order.

The best part of the whole thing is that Adam's voice was simply incredible, out of this world, and I was amazed how, no matter that he's gotten older, his voice has just gotten better and better.  I feel like the best is yet to come from Adam insofar as his vocals!!  And he hit some of those amazing glory notes that sent electricity throughout my entire body.  If I can recall, in both "Night" songs — "Evil In The Night" and "Marry The Night" — he really let loose with those high highs!  

He absolutely delighted me with the medley of "Runnin'" and "Chokehold," two of my favorite tracks in Adam's entire repertoire, finishing the medley with a stunning "Sleepwalker."  "Black Hole Sun" was magnificent.  And, of course, capping the show off with a wonderful performance of WWFM.

Ok, kids, so if I have to submit one massive disappointment: when I saw he performed "Can't Let You Go" in the first two shows I was so excited — it's my very, very, very favorite Adam track of all.  I couldn't believe it he was performing that live onstage.  Alas, for the 3rd, 4th (mine) and 5th shows, for whatever reason, he decided to leave it out, bringing it back only for the final show.  I was gutted.  I know, I get it, it is an extremely difficult song to sing — it really gives his vocal cords a workout.  Actually, I thought maybe he felt he just needed to give that a rest and save it for the big Friday livestream — oddly, he left it out for that, too, bringing it back only for his final show.  It's just one of those things and at least we do have video of it from those three shows.

But, overall, just a wonderful evening, and I am really glad I decided to take the plunge and go.  And, given Adam's ever-evolving vocal genius, that makes me excited for what we can expect next summer with the Q+AL tour and videos we will undoubtedly get to watch.  And, I am hoping upon hope, that maybe, just maybe, they'll extend the tour and go to other parts of the world ... like perhaps somewhere in the Western Hemisphere..?!!

—Broddybounce