Suz526 Suz526
Just about ready - will do Fever first, then probably the rest in order . . .
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algalhi Algalhi
@adamlambert Absolutely FANTASTIC and FUN show tonight - OMG it was SO good. Loved fye and Broken Open. Crowd loved U!! Thank you so much!
14 minutes ago
VivaDiva27 Vanessa ♥
Awww Adam came out after the show :) And I got an auto this time ;)
18 minutes ago
heartNNsoul Linda
He got lei'd by me! 18 minutes ago
Suz526 Suz526
next one will take longer (it's almost 3x the length of Fever. . . . )
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KritikPDX Kritik
@adamlambert @sashamallory dope show Hope 2 see u out. @tommyjoeratliff @terrancedlibra @monterrific @taylorg90 @isaccthecarp @uhhuhhermusic
8 minutes ago
SweetKirabella Kirsten Kirsch
Adam talked to me you guys....
8 minutes ago
SeattleSusieQ Susan G
he sounded so hoarse at the barricades
10 minutes ago
SweetKirabella Kirsten Kirsch
No monte tommy or neil, but I got an o yea you're welcome did you have fun? From adam. Adam you guys. He spoke to me
7 minutes ago
# Victoria Muckey vmuckey0218 Well I had eye contact, glambulge & tommy bass bulge w some thrusting involved in my face! UNF! I was careful not to get any in my eye 2 minutes ago via Twitter for Android
# Nadine citygirl36 OMFG during MA Adam took my hand during "put ur hand in mine" didn't freakin let go!! Sang look into my eyes...TO ME minutes ago via Twitter for iPhone
citygirl36 How does 1 return 2 reality? After M&G where had a real convo & the whole hand holding Adam thing, is hard 2 function normally about 1 hour ago via Twitter for iPhone
citygirl36 Lol people stroking my hand... about 13 hours ago via Twitter for iPhone
Who would have anticipated that Adam Lambert fans also like Journey?
No joke! When Sunway, mono-monickered lead vocalist of her namesake trio, announced last night that they were going to close with a Journey song the crowd went wild.
It wasn’t the mocking applause opening acts often get when they announce that they are finally going to get off the stage and make way for the headliner act that everyone paid their money to see. Not this time. In a short set consisting entirely of other artists’ hits, Sunway and her partners —guitarist Dave Toma and bassist Harry Ladera — had won the crowd over. When Toma launched into the unmistakable opening riffs of “Don’t Stop Believing,” Lambert’s fans were into it. When Sunway sang, they sang along with her. When she pointed the microphone their way the Blaisdell Concert Hall went choral. And when she indicated she wanted them to clap along, clap they did.
It wasn’t the trio’s family and friends making all that that noise. The show had been sold out for weeks, and a spokesman for the promoter had told me less than six hours before show time that they didn’t know who the opening act was going to be. No, the crowd was there for Lambert and probably didn’t care if there was an opening act or not, but Sunway earned their support.
It was an unusual night in the concert hall for other reasons. The usual rules about no photos or video were shelved for the duration. From the moment that Lambert took the stage a few minutes past nine row upon row upon row of fans were recording their own video versions of the show until their arms got tired or their batteries in their devices died.
If there is any aspect of Lambert’s “Glam Nation 2010 Tour” — the songs, Lambert’s costumes, the choreography — that has not already been thoroughly documented multiple times on YouTube, well, count on Honolulu to have rectified that by the time you’re reading this.
And as for fan support, Lambert’s fans showed him a whole lotta love. Hawaii experienced “Daughtry mania” a month ago, and two nights of “Bieber mania” a week later, but Lambert’s fans showed last night that when it comes to volume and enthusiasm they can give the Bieber-maniacs a good hard run for their money. They cheered, they screamed and they danced, and many of them stood for Lambert’s entire 70-minute show.
Lambert, the only one of the three contemporary hit-makers to talk to the local press, told the Star-Advertiser last week that he wouldn’t be as successful as he is unless there were “a ton of people in the United States and around the world who couldn’t care less what I’m doing in my bedroom,” and the crowd last night proved the point. There were a couple of guys who looked like they wanted to be his clone, but there were also elementary school kids, teens, and adults of literally all ages up to gray haired senior citizens. The show and its message included all of them.
Lambert slowed things down 20 minutes into the show to welcome everyone to “Glam Nation” and explain that the show is “all about love.”
“Sometimes love just sucks,” he continued. The fans sounded like they could relate.
Fans with seats near the rear of the concert hall, watching from a distance back under the overhang of the upper level had an experience akin to looking up at the sky from a cliff-dweller site in the American Southwest. Anyone off to the side back there who stood up couldn’t see whatever it was that was being projected on the backdrop; anyone who didn’t stand spent the night looking at the backs and butts of the everybody in front of them.
(A tip for all the members of Glam Nation who are going tonight: There’s no camera crew scuttling around down front providing a live-action feed of the show on large video screens, so fans with seats more than 15 rows back, and anyone with seats at higher altitudes, should consider taking binoculars or opera glasses to get the full impact of Lambert’s remarkable performance.)
As he told the Star-Advertiser last week, the show uses the songs from his “For Your Entertainment” album to tell the story of searching for love — the seductive thrills and dangers, the feelings of loss and heartache when things go wrong, and the joy that comes with finding love and accepting yourself for who you are. With support from four musicians and four dancers he tells the story in dazzling style.
Lambert summed it all up last night by telling the fans that the message of the show is that no matter how much money you have, how much power you have, or how much sex you have, “It doesn’t mean <expletive> unless it connects with love.”
No doubt about it, the message connected last night.
Adam Lambert
‘Glam Nation 2010 Tour’
» Where: Blaisdell Concert Hall
» When: 8 p.m. Tuesday
» Cost: $39.50, $65.50 and $75.50
» Info: 591-2211 or 800-745-3000 or www.ticketmaster.com
