American Idols Live – Salt Lake City, UT – 7/14/09

I totally forgot about the time change. I was thinking another hour.

Oh goody. I’m ready for some fun. Wish there were some streaming videos.

Oh wow. It really does start in 5 minutes. I guess I temporarily forgot about that too even though I knew they switched time zones. lol

I’m on the east coast and am stupid enough to stay up late enjoying all the concert news. You see there’s a problem……….I have no life. Actually I can’t stay away from Adam….pretty pathetic huh?

I wonder if they get sick of having to do that same old thing every time they walk on stage. Seems like it would get pretty old fast. How many more concerts do they have? I don’t know how they keep up the pace.

I’ll bet they will get tired of their songs by the end of the tour, which kind of concerns me since I won’t be seeing them until Aug 26. I hope all their voices hold out until then, especially Adams. He’s the only reason I’m going anyway:):):)

I take it there aren’t any protest going on in Utah … some weird irony there with protests in “liberal” California and nothing in “conservative” Utah

jill16 Jul 14th, 2009 at 9:10 pm

I’ll bet they will get tired of their songs by the end of the tour, which kind of concerns me since I won’t be seeing them until Aug 26. I hope all their voices hold out until then, especially Adams. He’s the only reason I’m going anyway:):):)

That is why Adam changes things up at every show. Also, Adam knows how to keep his voice in good condition. This is nothing compared to 8 shows per week for “Hair,” “Ten Commandments,” and “Wicked.”

Sarver is on stage now. If you choose to “attempt” to hear the cellcast (heh) then you can listen at Rickey’s HERE.

New interview from FOX Utah with Megan, Adam and Michael

http://www.fox13now.com/news/kstu-american-idol-tour-show-comes-to-slc,0,379825.story

In the stars: I don’t know either. But Adam is used to doing 8 shows a week, and he traveled with Hair in Europe, so I reckon’ he is used to the pace. They are being paid a nice sum, but it does seem like hard hard work. I think I am most happy about Lil earning the money-she and her husband have had a hard time of it, and with three kids to support? I would imagine this tour is a Godsend.

That is why Adam changes things up at every show. Also, Adam knows how to keep his voice in good condition. This is nothing compared to 8 shows per week for ‘Hair,’  ‘Ten Commandments,’  and ‘Wicked.’ 

I hadn’t thought about that. There’s another advantage for Adam. He’s already used to grueling schedules.

They must get sick of their songs. I mean, even now, it’s their 7th show– the same ol grind. Plus you know, Anoop even has choreographed moves for parts of his songs… I don’t think I’d be able to do it. So monotonous! It would be cool if they had like… twice as many songs, and like, rotated them and switched them up. Like, Anoop could have 6 and mix and match. That’s not asking too much, is it?

New interview from FOX Utah with Megan, Adam and Michael

http://www.fox13now.com/news/kstu-american-idol-tour-show-comes-to-slc,0,379825.story

The lady in the studio sounded pretty giddy, “Did you talk to Adam?”

So even in Utah.

http://www.fox13now.com/news/kstu-american-idol-tour-show-comes-to-slc,0,379825.story

Lambert said his father helped him out with rent and also bailed him out in numerous financial situations throughout his music career. For Father’s Day, he bought his father to return part of the favor.

He bought his father? I wonder how much the father of an alien from the planet fierce goes for these days! :lol_tb:

For some reason I can never get the quotes to work in my posts. I want the quote used for the person’s statement that I’m responding to, but not with my response. I know I’m dumb but how do you turn off the quotes before you type your response?

This has nothing to do with anything but my computer SUCKS. It’s 10 years old and it keeps freezing etc. I’ve got a new Dell ordered. I hope it gets here this week because I’m ready to throw this one out in the front yard and jump up and down on it!!! GRRRRRRRRRRRRR I’ve been envious of you guys because you can jump from site to site easily. If I try that my computer kicks me off the internet completely.

There were some comments in earlier threads about whether or not Adam would be very well received in Utah. I noticed that in both of the Fox TV Utah news clips, the female newscasters both mentioned Adam. In one of them, she blurted out “Did you talk to Adam!!??” (lol) before the onsite reporter barely said anything. The one from earlier today, the newscaster said something like “Have you seen Adam, you know the one who won?” Then she sort of corrected herself. Both female fans I guess!

i look forward to being here every nite they have a concert…i cant get enough of adam…i am definitely obsessed.

i am glad i am not alone!!!

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The one from earlier today, the newscaster said something like ‘Have you seen Adam, you know the one who won?’  Then she sort of corrected herself. Both female fans I guess!

Do you have a link to that one?

Contrary to early postings by some fans being worried that Adam may not get a good reception in Utah, someone tweeted that crowd screams when Adam’s picture is shown. Also, that lady TV newscaster in foxnews utah seems to be an Adam fan since her first question to the field interviewer was did you talk to Adam. Well, I hope he does get a decent reception.

@Glambert1364 is twittering. She has front row seats and already has a picture of Michael up. She and her sister met them at the airport and has some cool pictures.

Here is a link to someone who is twittering.

http://twitter.com/Glambert1364

http://twitter.com/sanhaleyfan A Matt fan I think.

I hope Megan shines tonight being it’s her home town.

Utah press interview:

http://www.fox13now.com/news/kstu-american-idol-tour-show-comes-to-slc,0,379825.story

ETA: I guess I should say, I hope she gets good reviews being that she already performed.

I hope Megan shines tonight being it’s her home town.

Utah press interview:

http://www.fox13now.com/news/kstu-american-idol-tour-show-comes-to-slc,0,379825.story

Yes! I am so rooting for Megan. You go girl!!!!!

Something to note while waiting for concert updates:

Have some friends here in Asia who are in the movie biz and also teaching in film schools. Asked them to view the concert vidz . The good ones I got from MJ’s blog and asked for their comments on the singers. Got their emails back with comments, some pretty funny and some pretty insightful.

1. Sarver, Scott, Matt and Lil : collective comment : Too many out there better than this four . One asked ‘“ why did you ask us to watch their videos ?

2. Megan : Voice tone interesting. If she can act , will make a better movie personality than singer. Bad way to make her appear like Barbie. Should be dressed like Michelle Pfeiffer in Fabulous Baker Boys . She should sing Makin Whoopee. My friend sent link below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TULYBRHBAs

3. Anoop : Young Will Smith. Smooth moves. Definitely charismatic.

4. Allison : Is she singing or mumbling ? One guy offered that she take acting classes to improve her diction.

5. Danny : Great vocal potential but rather low on charisma. Should be better to listen to than to watch.

6. Adam : Collective comments : This is our guy. If there is a charisma meter he would bust it . Even on just home made videos he is sizzling. Vocals – one of the guys developing an Indie film in Asia said ‘“ he should have Adam sing the movie theme. Now he is wondering if he can afford Adam.

7. Kris – they call him the Radio guy. No cinematic appeal though . One guy said that Kris needs to perform before a mirror so he can see how he comes across. He said Kris will benefit enrolling in acting classes.

Guys ‘“ above are collated comments from those here in HK/Asia involved in film schools, film production and indie cinema development and also language school development.

Thought this would be interesting as none of them really follow American Idol. I just wanted to see how non fans perceive Season 8.

He bought his father? I wonder how much the father of an alien from the planet fierce goes for these days!

LOL! Nice catch!!

noakesc

That’s someone in the 6th row. Taking pics too. Sorry if you’ll have to cut and paste in browser if linky doesn’t work.

noakesc is the Twitter.com name

Also posting with more pics:

Glambert1364

Ok. I’ve never attempt the cellcast on Ricky before. I’m wondering… does he have his own routine choreographed for all the singers? Right now he’s dancing to Lil’s ASL and I seem to recall someone saying he did it before. Maybe he refines it based on comments too? Will it get better as the tour progresses?

Two tweets from Sarver, who CANNOT SEEM TO PUT THE PHONE DOWN:

Finished my set then watched Meg from the side of the stage. She was amazing and the crowd is wild tonight. Woohoo! Party in Salt Lake.

And my foot is feeling much better tonight. The pain on a scale from 1-10 is down from a 10 to like a 4 or 5. Thanks for all the prayers.

Wow. I love this guy more every day! Did I say that?

That was interesting reading, Antimated, thank you for posting it. I know Adam has a lot of Asian fans. On the AI forums there was a whole thread for them.

The Fox News in Utah from earlier today. I didn’t post the link because I figured it had probably been posted already.

http://www.fox13now.com/news/kstu-budah-previews-the-american-idols-live-tour,0,6608160.story

The guy on the floor didn’t really seem to know Adam’s name….. but the lady newscaster sure did! LOL

That was interesting reading, Antimated, thank you for posting it. I know Adam has a lot of Asian fans. On the AI forums there was a whole thread for them.

In NYMichael’s thread there were some pretty intellectual discussions why Adam would be really popular in Asia. This was in the beginning of the season, and he has since built up huge fanbases there.

I want to thank MJ and all of you that post on this site. I live in Montana and I will never be able to go to a concert. Also people at work think I am crazy so coming on to this site each night and seeing how people are reacting to the performances allows me to pretend I am there. Thank you

I’m happy that Megan is getting a lot of cheers because I feel sad that the bottom 2 is not getting much love, esp since they seem so nice.

Yup, I agree that people in HK would like Adam because a lot of the male artists are very flamboyant in concert. A lot also likes Kris because they also like the nice guys.

Ok. I’ve never attempt the cellcast on Ricky before. I’m wondering’ ¦ does he have his own routine choreographed for all the singers? Right now he’s dancing to Lil’s ASL and I seem to recall someone saying he did it before. Maybe he refines it based on comments too? Will it get better as the tour progresses?

LOL!!!! Oh, we can only hope!

Is it me or does the venue look kinda empty?

http://twitpic.com/ae3g8

Where did the name “glittery alien from planet fierce” come from? I thought I read that in one of Neil’s posts. Is that where it originates from? Or did he read it somewhere and incorporated it in his blog?

Can anyone tell me what someone means by Kris is a radio guy?

Yes, the venue does look empty. One of the newscasters was saying that there were still many seats available.

‘glittery alien from planet fierce’  came from

Adam’s brother Neil

Can anyone tell me what someone means by Kris is a radio guy?

Has a mainstream voice that will be great on the radio.

Hopefully no crazies will be picketing tonight….

Something to note while waiting for concert updates:

Interesting comments about the idols. Not surprised by their comments…but Allison doesn’t need acting classes to improve her diction. She needs voice lessons. Diction when speaking and when singing are totally different things. You shouldn’t sing the way you speak and if you are singing correctly. Vowels are different when you sing them as opposed to speak them. It’s just interesting how acting folk view the show as opposed to singers. There is a connection somewhere, but it isn’t the same thing.

“Can anyone tell me what someone means by Kris is a radio guy?”

Means that he isn’t meant for movies or “to be seen” so to speak. He’s just saying that Kris isn’t someone who he could see in movies which personally, I’m glad for. I’m tired of singers trying to act and vice versa.

Animated:

Great comments from your friends! This one I really thought was interesting:

Bad way to make her appear like Barbie. Should be dressed like Michelle Pfeiffer in Fabulous Baker Boys . She should sing Makin Whoopee. My friend sent link below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TULYBRHBAs

I can totally see Megan singing this. Thanks for the post!

Allison wears those invisible braces, and when they come off, she will sound much better.

That Budah reporter didn’t sound very professional.

I can believe the Utah news co-anchor — did you talk to Adam? LOL!

Animated, thank you for the info about Asia. I am in route for my first trip to Asia since I became an Adam “fangirl”. And I loaded up my laptop with the best Adam footage to make the long trip less boring. Your comment inspires me to do a little “market research” while I’m traveling. (That will give me more reasons to watch!)

Unfortunately I totally blew the schedule because I am in LA tonight and tomorrow and fly out before the Staples show.

But it’s nice to be back in Malibou for 1 night anyway!

jlurksacto
Jul 14th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
‘glittery alien from planet fierce’  came from Adam’s brother Neil

Oh well it’s no surprise to Adam then. Great description though.

That Budah reporter didn’t sound very professional.

He was too clown-ish

Radio guy they refer to those with voice quality that comes across as silky over audio only listening. But would not translate strongly when coupled with visuals. This is what my friends think, when they say Kris is a Radio Guy.

Where did the name ‘glittery alien from planet fierce’  come from? I thought I read that in one of Neil’s posts. Is that where it originates from? Or did he read it somewhere and incorporated it in his blog?

I first saw it on Neil’s blog http://www.negativeneil.com. It was always my impression that Neil was the originator.

Thanx KenzTK

Hmmmm. Something interesting. Sarver posted a bunch of idol pics on his Twitter page. He said this: “Sorry for no Scott he wasn’t up to taking pics.” Is Scott a little antisocial?

Intermission time

So can anyone name a “star” that is just a radio guy or girl..Sounds like a kiss of death label to me for an artist?

Hmmmm. Something interesting. Sarver posted a bunch of idol pics on his Twitter page. He said this: ‘Sorry for no Scott he wasn’t up to taking pics.’  Is Scott a little antisocial?

Perhaps Scott has more health problems then we know. To me, he seems like the type of guy who likes attention and wouldn’t normally miss a chance to get some press. Or, maybe something is going around. Adam wasn’t well, then Allison was sick and perhaps it is Scott’s turn?

Megan, Adam, and Michael were interviewed in Utah before the concert by the FOX affiliate channel. Here is the link: http://www.fox13now.com/news/kstu-american-idol-tour-show-comes-to-slc,0,379825.story

Neil is the first one to use the statement according to Google. So it looks like Neil gets the credit! Very cool family.

Almost none is tweeting anything about this concert. Is there anyone there? It looks like the upper deck is empty and that’s a small venue.

Maybe Scott is uncomfortable with photos because the result (the photo) is not something he can see. I can totally get that (but then I hate getting my photo taken anyway, but if I never got to see what it looked like… Well, I would be really uncomfortable by the unknown…. just my thoughts).

Two more Twitterers at concert:

http://twitter.com/tinydolly

This one very Anoop oriented:

http://twitter.com/steviyoung

Rickey is very proud of his first bra, $2.99. A red, bedazzled 46D. Is he always like this?

Two more people tewwting the concert:

tinydolly
melissadawnya

Animated
Jul 14th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
Radio guy they refer to those with voice quality that comes across as silky over audio only listening. But would not translate strongly when coupled with visuals. This is what my friends think, when they say Kris is a Radio Guy.

Yeah, because Kris did so poorly in ‘visuals’ in front of 28 million people. LOL.

Kris has a voice for radio, and a face for video. He will do just fine. He may not be a movie star, but he has never mentioned any aspirations in that area.

I hadn’t heard that Allison was sick. How bad is it? Does anyone know?

Rickey is very proud of his first bra, $2.99. A red, bedazzled 46D. Is he always like this?

I only listened and watched about 10 minutes of one cellcast, but at that time Rickey was wearing a pink wig and dancing next to a pole. Eh, I guess if it amuses him, but I would rather just wait for the vids.

ETA= if the sound quality was like that IPHONE stream, I wouldn’t mind watching Rickey dance around. It’s the static that kills me.

I think Radio guy just refers to someone whose voice comes out really good on radio

I hadn’t heard that Allison was sick. How bad is it? Does anyone know?

I think it was just a cold. Michael tweeted something about her going the hospital after the show and then she tweeted that she was feeling much better. I assume hospital in the sense of the emergency room so she could get whatever was bothering her checked out.

maybe Scott’s brother hovers to much

Google had listings for half price tickets for tonights concert. Some of the tickets were in good sections. I wonder why this concert did not have the ticket sales of earler venues? It is mid week and but Salk Lake City is a large market.

In the news article shown in this thread one of the news anchors said that a new block of tickets were released today.

Google had listings for half price tickets for tonights concert. Some of the tickets were in good sections. I wonder why this concert did not have the ticket sales of earler venues? It is mid week and but Salk Lake City is a large market.

I don’t know, what is the major industry in Salt Lake? I think it is tourism, and primarily snow skiing? If people are feeling the pinch, they may not have vacationed this winter. Money is tight for alot of people. I wouldn’t be surprised to find many AI concerts not sold out in this economy.

I can’t remember if it was Tacoma or Vancouver, but they said their arena was about capacity, and more than last year. The only venue that was sold out very early is Arkansas.

Mtlfan
Jul 14th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
I think Radio guy just refers to someone whose voice comes out really good on radio

Exactly. Kris has a very smooth voice and a beautiful tone, and that really comes through on radio.

Re concerts not selling out in this economy: oh why, oh why, don’t I live near such a concert? I would JUMP at the chance Here I am feeling left out being an 18 hour car ride from the nearest one… feeling sorry for myself. Thank God for all the great videos

Allison is up.

San Jose was almost full last night…

Also, if you are talking about visuals as in concerts for the Hong Kong crowd, then no, Kris would not fit in. Adam would have to step it up because what he’s currently wearing on tour would be considered tame. haha. One guy wore pants that would hang down low to reveal the male thong from the back, no lie. (this is concerning the few concerts that they have in the colliseum there)

I wonder why they added a few extra shows considering how bad the economy is.

I don’t think being described as a Radio guy is bad for a singer. Barbara Streisand is very successful yet did not have as many concerts as Madonna nor is she on TV . Her voice and her choice of songs made her career.

The beautiful thing today is that singers have multiple choices / platforms to create successful careers – there is radio/ audio CD , there is Music Videos, there is TV, there is cinema and now there is the pesky Internet. According to Discovery Mag, 23% of the world’s population uses the internet at any given time. Including us guys !

David Cook and David Archuleta drew 50k people in the Philippines. I wouldn’t consider either of them to be glam or outrageous.

I suspect there are different types of audiences in Asia, just as there are here.

Animated: Allison : Is she singing or mumbling ?

Singing.

I wonder why they added a few extra shows considering how bad the economy is.

Most of those extra shows are of course two night shows at the same venue. It could be that those venues in particular had pretty decent sales. Just a guess.

Mtlfan
Jul 14th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
I think Radio guy just refers to someone whose voice comes out really good on radio

Exactly. Kris has a very smooth voice and a beautiful tone, and that really comes through on radio.

But that’s exactly what the person was saying – some people are better in one area than another, noone is perfect in every area !

It’s been mentioned that often you can get good tickets close to or on the day of the show – even those supposedly “sold out”. Any advice about the best way to do that?

The E center is huge….for concerts the maximum number they sit is about 12,000 and this doesn’t include the upper tier of seats since they sit on the hockey rink area. The E Center is also out in the burbs, not downtown so it is a drive to venue only….no mass transit.

Salt Lake is mainly a white collar town….Not a large industrial sector. Salt Lake is also a sportsman’s paradise with plenty of golfing, skiing, water sports, fishing, hunting, great hiking and camping. The mountain venues are only 15 or 30 minutes outside of town.

This is the hottest time of year in Salt Lake and everything kind of slows down during the hot dry summer months.

Idols sold out 2 concerts last year when David Archuleta was involved. I think that a lot of the hometown folks may be a little idoled out. Also David has come home for a concert already this year.

Just looked at last year’s schedule. They had two nights in Utah last year. Archie sure must have been popular. They probably could have done two nights in Arkansas too.

Exactly. Kris has a very smooth voice and a beautiful tone, and that really comes through on radio.

..and should I say sexy?!

I just noticed this tweet from sanhaleyfan. He isn’t actually there. Sorry about linking him.

@alliholicskank I’m not there I’m listening to Rickey’s cellcast. My concert is Sept.5th. =]

Don’t know if this was mentioned yet (sorry if so), but Anoop tweeted that he hac his vocal chords checked today. They put something down his throat, but that he is okay. So either something is going around, or the Idols are not taking care of themselves (travel, late nights, time zone issues, lack of sleep, etc.). I assume this is typical?

the tweets are not very entertaining tonight. I want more group bubble tweets.

Tess, all good points.

Plus: Harry Potter Movie

Midnight Show tonight. Parties started at 9:00 at some theatres.

It will be interesting to see how the harder hit recession areas do in Idol ticket sales.

Yeah I know right? loved the bubble tweets!

How’s the cellcast tonight?

omg, Anoop has a bubble tweet.. backstage from the concert!

Adam’s set has started!

Cellcast seems ok to me. Some annoying speaker effects but you can definitely hear them singing.

Danny’s speech didn’t seem so long tonight – although you can’t hear very well when they talk.

ETA: It seems to be cutting out more for Adam though…

I’m listening to the cellcast on rickey’s website, and he sang woman instead of baby for WLL. It seems like he alternates between shows. haha

Interesting about the economy – if you want to buy or go to a concert, many people find the money, slow economy or not. Went to the Il Divo concert in Atlanta on 7/1. Paid $600 for 2 tickets up close and personal in the Fox Theater. It was sold out. Hubby and I looked at each other and thought, economy doesn’t seem worse for wear down here. Too bad Idols don’t go to Atlanta. Diluth, GA of all places. Seeing Idols in Charlotte, NC on 8/1. Daughter and I going for Adam. Can’t wait !!! Friend also flying in from Wales to see Adam. I’m sure this will be Anoop territory.

omg, Anoop has a bubble tweet.. backstage from the concert!

How Mr. Rogers was that?! Hiilllarious.

In the Stars: Go to some of Adam’s fansites, including his offical website. I’ve heard some met in NYC for his after idol press. Some actually met at his hometown visit too.

That bubble tweet from Anoop was…… :lol_tb:

Very Mr. Rogers indeed. Hee

LisaE I was about to say the same thing – to funny

I’m sorry, but Danny looks like a serious goofball in those black boots (from a twitter pic). The rest of his outfit is fine, but those boots just do not work for him.

When did Danny start wearing boots and some rocker’s chain. It the first time I’ve noticed.

http://twitpic.com/aebwp

Does anyone know where Rickey found that crazy cute/cool set of Adam in a photo booth photos that he put on the screen tonight a little while ago? (The cellcast is surprisingly good tonight, I think.)
Thanks!

I am glad that Anoop put up a new bubbletweet backstage from the concert. I was missing him today, in the group bubbletweets, glad to see that he put one up.

When did Danny start wearing boots and some rocker’s chain. It the first time I’ve noticed.

Since the beginning of the tour.

thoyt

Look out MiMi, new diva in town. Her name, Adam Lambert. Must say I loved his performance of Starlight by Muse.. Killer!!

Nice red bra Rickey. Now he’s dancing with the bra on his head. LOL!

I am glad that Anoop put up a new bubbletweet backstage from the concert. I was missing him today, in the group bubbletweets, glad to see that he put one up.

I know. And they all went out to eat. But no Noopy. But there he is. And his new bubbletweet made me LOL.

What is Kris playing in Anoop bubble tweet?

how’s the reception for Adam sound…crowd loud?? Doesn’t look like many there. Not listening to the cellcast, I only have 6 days left for my concert.

BTW, we have another bubble tweet, this time with Anoop, Matt and Kris

http://www.bubbletweet.com/showBT.php?id=i9u5t

BestAI
Jul 14th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
In the Stars: Go to some of Adam’s fansites, including his offical website. I’ve heard some met in NYC for his after idol press. Some actually met at his hometown visit too.

Thanks BestAI….I’ll check those out.

Kris is playing Blackbird by the Beatles.

that bubble tweet on Anoop’s account is a riot. It’s like a self-help video or something. And they were really good about talking very slow/smoothly.

What is Kris playing in Anoop bubble tweet?

Blackbird by the Beatles

that bubble tweet on Anoop’s account is a riot. It’s like a self-help video or something.

I would say that’s a pretty accurate description. LOL

Kris is playing Blackbird by the Beatles.

ah yes!! thanks

So either something is going around, or the Idols are not taking care of themselves (travel, late nights, time zone issues, lack of sleep, etc.). I assume this is typical?

Very typical. I think it’s probably the tight quarters, on the bus. It just breeds and spreads the germs.

I already went to San Jose concert. Why am I still hanging out waiting for live commentary? Don’t need to answer that.

So how did Adam do?

In the Stars: I totally understand! I don’t know a soul who would go with me – except my son, and he frankly does not need to go to concerts with his mom! (He is almost 17.)
I will probably go alone – working on the assumption that I will meet a few thousand like-minded people at the concert!

What is Kris playing in Anoop bubble tweet?

Blackbird by the Beatles

That song depresses me now after it was used in a play with the same title – the play was very depressing.

Heartless!! on the cellcast now

I already went to San Jose concert. Why am I still hanging out waiting for live commentary? Don’t need to answer that.

So how did Adam do?

Yes! The fans want some info! lol

Tacoma and Oakland were close to sold out. Vancouver was not. A number of other cities are very close. Staples Center is just the top deck near the stage unless they are sandbagging tickets. Memphis only had aweful seat and then today I went on ticketmaster and bought 2 pretty good ones.

In the Stars & Kradamour- I am in the same situation – none of my friends are AI watchers. Had my son talked into to going until he heard the screams on the videos….so thats out. lol

All These Things That I’ve Done. Sounds gooooood!

I think Glambert1364 must have died.

Actually Oakland was not that close at all. a lot of empty seats in the top section. or maybe my definition of close to sold out is just different =)

Kris is playing Blackbird by the Beatles.

ah yes!! thanks

Awesome! I wonder if this is in place of the Killer’s song?

Glambert1364http://twitpic.com/aebwp – for danny fans
29 minutes ago from TwitPic

This is all I see so far about Adam and nothing on Kris yet

steviyoung

1.
Adam is AMAZING live!!29 minutes ago from txt

ETA:
tinydolly

1.
I CAN’T BREATHE! THERE ARE NO WORDS TO CAPURE THIS FEELING! ADAM AHHHH!7 minutes ago from txt

LisaMShepherd About to see American Idol Adam Lambert live on stage. Oh, yeah! Serious talent.
12 minutes ago from txt

tinydollyI CAN’T BREATHE! THERE ARE NO WORDS TO CAPURE THIS FEELING! ADAM AHHHH!

This one just mand me LOL!

So how did Adam do?

I had to go help get my daughter to bed so I missed quite a bit of Adam’s cellcast. It was choppy for him anyways… but he got his usual response I guess.

Kris is doing really well. Crowd seems to love him a lot.

Kris is playing Blackbird by the Beatles.

ah yes!! thanks

Awesome! I wonder if this is in place of the Killer’s song?

I think that’s what he’s playing in Anoops bubble tweet, not on stage.

Usually an arena show will not sell the top tier of seats….the sound up there is terrible since you are always getting feedback sound and you’d swear the singers aren’t singing what you are hearing since its may be a second or so off. If an arena seats 18,000 for hockey or basketball I would gather with the seats taken away from behind the stage and the upper tiers not sold that a good crowd would be 12,000 including the chair seats.

I sat at a Rolling Stones Concert where I was in the first tier up but basically to the side and almost behind the stage. Never again…no matter how much I want to see the group or individual performer.

Q3
Jul 14th, 2009 at 11:35 pm
Tacoma and Oakland were close to sold out.

San Jose looked pretty packed too although I didn’t check sales stats or anything. Only scattered seats free here and there. I don’t know about Sacramento, but from Oakland Oracle Arena to San Jose HP Pavilion is about 1hour drive and the concerts were back to back. That’s not bad.

Kris is doing really well. Crowd seems to love him a lot.

Yep. The crowd does seem to really love Kris tonight. He’s doing an awesome job.

I really hope we get some good recaps tomorrow and some vids/pics. This has been super boring(not the posts, just the lack of fan input from the Utah concert). Where do the idols go next???

wrobertdAdam Lambert is AMAZING live.
half a minute ago from TwitterrificwrobertdAdam Lambert is AMAZING live.
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Pam Jul 14th, 2009 at 11:43 pm

Kris is doing really well. Crowd seems to love him a lot.

Yep. The crowd does seem to really love Kris tonight. He’s doing an awesome job.

Awesome, I hoped he got a great response tonight.

Kris is playing Blackbird by the Beatles.

ah yes!! thanks

Awesome! I wonder if this is in place of the Killer’s song?

I think that’s what he’s playing in Anoops bubble tweet, not on stage.

awww, and here I was getting all excited!

Glambert1364 Got awesome vids of all his performances!!!!!

Glambert1364 EPIC EPIC EPIC EPIC EPIC AMAAAAAAZING

They come back out here to California — L.A. on Thursday, Ontario on Friday, San Diego on Saturday

Oooh, I hear Kris rocking his guitar solo on Bright Lights!

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# 164 iluvai Jul 14th, 2009 at 11:45 pm

I really hope we get some good recaps tomorrow and some vids/pics. This has been super boring(not the posts, just the lack of fan input from the Utah concert). Where do the idols go next???

Utah need to step it up.

I’m glad Kris seems to be doing so well given his family situation. Did he make any mentions of his grandmother?

Anyway, Sacramento seemed really packed, but I don’t think it was sold out. I remember seeing a ton of seats available the day of the concert on TicketMaster.

I think Kris extended the guitar solo tonight. It was the best yet.

Lot’s of screams on Rickey’s cellcast. The crowd really showed him the love.

and PHOENIX ON MONDAY!!!!!!!!!!!

Oooh, I hear Kris rocking his guitar solo on Bright Lights!

Did he take it up a notch tonight or has the quality of the audio on the videos not been that great? I don’t recall hearing it like this before. Awesome!

To answer the question up thread about the next show, it will be at the Staples Center on Thursday.

Yep. The crowd does seem to really love Kris tonight. He’s doing an awesome job

Kris is just so easy to love…like sunshine.

tuke18 Adam Lambert Rocks Hard! He was incredible! The crowd went wild his whole set!

LisaMShepherdCan’t imagine how hard it is for winner Kris Allen to go after superstar Adam Lambert. Most of floor and arena sitting during his perfor …
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Glambert1364WWORDS CANNOT DESCRIBE WHAT I WITNESSEDWITH ADAM
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Did I mention that I saw a sign for Kris last night that said Kris is sunshine? hehe

Glambert1364 tweets:

#Kris is up and doing amazing…LOVE his new song!!! But this was an adam crowd. lots of kris fan love too though!!#6 minutes ago from txt

#kris just said best crowd so far!!!#3 minutes ago from txt

Here comes DSB…show’s almost over

Yes! Los Angeles…..WE ARE NEXT!!!!!!

I’m kinda surprised nobody brought attention to his small scream in Hey Jude. Danny Gokey really should take notes on it. When I heard it in the concert I was like “WTF that wasn’t bad”.

Did I mention that I saw a sign for Kris last night that said Kris is sunshine?

awwwww how sweet.

Elise_Smith@Adamlambert was my favorite of the night! He was AMAZING!
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tinydollyAdam looked amazing. Hair down. Said WOMAN!
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AC
Jul 14th, 2009 at 11:52 pm
Did I mention that I saw a sign for Kris last night that said Kris is sunshine? hehe

I love that. ANS is my favorite Kris song. Downloaded it and TMYFML. I love Kris’s slow ballads, his voice is full of win on those songs.

glambertgalore: love Kris’ new song!
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I’m sorry, but Danny looks like a serious goofball in those black boots (from a twitter pic). The rest of his outfit is fine, but those boots just do not work for him.

Danny fan here…don’t like those boots on him either. I blame the stylist, Miles Siggens, as he had him wearing those on the show. Danny should just wear his regular boots, imo.

I was at San Jose show. The place was packed. One of my friends tried to find some tickets on Sunday morning, the only tickets available were single seats at real bad sections…

tinydolly: Adam looked amazing. Hair down. Said WOMAN!

I love this woman. She tweets the important things. lol.

LA…Ontario…San Diego
me…me…me

I started with tickets to just one… sigh.

I wish the Kris fans at these concerts would tweet more. I’m just finding Adam and Matt fans tonight on Twitter who are actually at the concert.

Did I mention that I saw a sign for Kris last night that said Kris is sunshine?

this is sooo sweet

Seems like Adam is alternating Baby and Woman in WLL — just to keep everyone happy or guessing! Also new hair again tonight. Same as for the Utah TV interview.

I really like this blog. Comments are overall thoughtful and cover a lot of ground. Participants are helpful and warm. Not a bad place to spend an evening. My concert is August 5, it seems so distant!
Re seats – stubhub has third row center floor seats for only $250, Manchester NH. Before anyone rolls their eyes, Manchester has a great little airport and it is cheap to fly into. And the final date for the tour might have the idols lingering longer after the show, since it is the last one. Just a thought.

“Also new hair again tonight. Same as for the Utah TV interview.”

-Q3, you got me waiting again for the videos.

looking at the tweet, it’s nice to see that they are hella chill backstage. =)

LOL, that BubbleTweet was so special. Ahhh, now I can go to bed with the sweet soothing sound of Anoop’s voice lulling me into dreamland, accompanied by Kris on guitar. Nice! :wub_tb:

My concert is August 5, it seems so distant!
Re seats – stubhub has third row center floor seats for only $250, Manchester NH. Before anyone rolls their eyes, Manchester has a great little airport and it is cheap to fly into. And the final date for the tour might have the idols lingering longer after the show, since it is the last one. Just a thought.

I could drive to Manchester from Boston – but $250 is to pricey for me – I wonder if the box office have good seats.

any utah salt lake photos available? im dying to see Adam’s hair!

Craigslist also has sellers who bought tickets but can’t go. You might try closer to the date of the show.

I’ve always thought that Adam’s fans were more the internet type than Kris fans. Us Kris fans can be just as rabid, we just don’t seem to post much. I would’ve tweeted the concert if I were able to, but I didn’t have an iPhone until yesterday and my old phone was…. old.

Good to hear Kris had an excellent show still. Kris is really admirable and inspirational to me. And fun.

But it’s time for someone exotic to tweet the concert like a Lil fan.

Reminder:

This thread is about the tour, not “my idol has more visitors at his website than yours does”. Lets get back on topic.

Squirrely:

“I could drive to Manchester from Boston – but $250 is to pricey for me – I wonder if the box office have good seats.”

I think so – the resale sites have lots of seats for Manchester, too, many of them much less than $250, I just was surprised to see such good seats for that price – Manchester is often overlooked – I fly into their airport to go to Boston, for ex and also for Maine.

I was going to try tweeting last night except my phone died after 1 tweet. haha. it honestly takes skill to do both at the same time. =)

hi In The Stars
Im from SC too! i would def go to an Adam Concert w/ you! oh and i totally agree, we southerns will most certainly treat Adam right! We love ADAM!!!

Smokeyvera: I too will be at the Charlotte concert. Its gonna be awesome!!!

Re seats – stubhub has third row center floor seats for only $250, Manchester NH. Before anyone rolls their eyes, Manchester has a great little airport and it is cheap to fly into. And the final date for the tour might have the idols lingering longer after the show, since it is the last one. Just a thought.

I think the best ticket deal out there is Tulsa, Front Row center, $300. Of course you have to go to Tulsa, but Southwest flies there. The worst is Indianapolis, IN with the silly $9,000. I’m not even that crazy!!

Of course, no one is even selling any front section tickets for Memphis!

any utah salt lake photos available? im dying to see Adam’s hair!

It supposed to be the same as the Utah TV report. Link to video on page 1 or 2 of this tread. IMO nicer than the Elvis hair.

Short clips from tonight’s show , all the Idols sounded great

Heartless

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmfBRvyRUA0

Whole Lotta Love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1jbjiM8u0w

Danny

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFU15S52OAs

Matt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tryBWMwQctg

After all the talk about the concert not seeming full…

IdolScott: You guys were awesome tonight!

Glambert1364: kris just said best crowd so far!!!

Anoop: the crowd in salt lake is incredible

Sarver: … the crowd is wild tonight. Woohoo! Party in Salt Lake.

It didn’t seem to matter

Well, not sold out but really loud and enthusiastic would still likely be better than sold out but not as loud or enthusiastic.

It was a little hard to tell cause the cell cast kept cutting in and out, but it seemed like Kris talked more to the crowd in between his songs than he has done in the previous stops.

Hope Anoop’s voice is ok. Good to hear the doctor cleared him. I bet that why he wasn’t in the first 2 bubble tweets — he was probably getting his throat checked out

I too would have loved to have heard Blackbird. Such a poignant, beautiful song. Oh well, I’ll enjoy what I can through Bubbletweet.

Kris is just so easy to love’ ¦like sunshine.

But I hate sunshine (so glad when SHE leaves and there isn’t any left). Can we make it Kris is easy to love like kittehs?

But more importantly Adam is back to his Emo hair. Phew! Next hurdle…not getting it cut when he’s in LA. Don’t do it Adam! It’s a trap! Add the blue instead! (I don’t think he heard me, probably just thought it was the wind).

Review from the Salt Lake Tribune
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_12839055

I agree I would love to hear Kris sing Blackbird!

I also want to see Adam do RoF!

Maybe they could add 1 more song each!

It sounds like the crowd in Salt Lake is cheering on all the performers.
That’s really nice.

I hope the crowd in future venues would throw flowers instead of underwear to the stage. I would love to see what Adam would do if he gets roses on the stage.

Have been to a lot of theater plays where it rains roses at curtain call. Even during Andrea Bocelli ‘s concert. I always love seeing that.

There are reports on Twitter and IDF that Adam took off his jacket before slow ride. Has anyone seen any video or photos?

If you are looking for good tickets now, wait until a few days before the show. Go to Ticketmaster and keep trying. Good seats always pop up.

Review from the Salt Lake Tribune
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_12839055

Wow, that was quick. I’m digging the time change. While it’s always entertaining to see how a reviewer describes Adam’s look (at least Bjork wasn’t randomly thrown in there this time!) and stage presence, I feel really bad for Megan. Ouch!! She was so excited to be performing at home.

Review from the Salt Lake Tribune
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_12839055

Great googily moogily, that is one biased review. I mean I’m an Adam fantard and that just was lame to me. But than I feel that review had less to do with Adam per se, and more to do with some lingering bitterness about last season and David A losing. Whoa, Utah paper, let it go.

It sounds like Megan did ok from that review. Interesting that the reviewer preferred Archie last year over Cook, but prefers Adam this year over Kris. I wouldn’t have expected that.

Even though I don’t like reviews where they try and rehash who should have won, I am most upset that they gave Megan a bad review! She’s the home-town girl! Give her a break! =(

ok i told myself over and over again not to raise to the bait….but aaarrrggghhh the review from the Salt Lake Tribune got on my nerves :wallbash_tb:

the show turned out to be a battle between second-place finisher Adam Lambert and winner Kris Allen, and Lambert demonstrated, for the second year in a row, that the second-place finisher should have won more of America’s votes.

And despite the widespread acknowledgment of Allen’s “cuteness” and easygoing charm on songs such as “Heartless,” it was the crowd’s appreciation for Lambert’s talent on songs such as “Whole Lotta Love,” “Mad World,” and a David Bowie medley that easily made him the winner of the night.

its soooo damn annoying to read about reviews comparing the two….i get so riled up everytime someone says Adam should’ve won blah blah blah.enough already! but i guess i have to develop a thicker skin and expect more of this to come and not let it under my skin

yippee! Thanks y’all who answered about next AI shows. LA is next. Whoo hoo LA! Staples Center. I bet that will be great!

From the Salt Lake review:

But it was Lambert who the crowd came for, evidenced by the loudest squeals and shrieks of the nearly three-hour night, (Apparently, some women and girls didn’t read, or didn’t care about, the cover story in Rolling Stone where Lambert revealed that he was gay.) It was actually refreshing to see such crowd support for a gay man in Utah.

:clap_tb:

Even though I don’t like reviews where they try and rehash who should have won, I am most upset that they gave Megan a bad review! She’s the home-town girl! Give her a break!

THIS.

adam toned down WLL but he did sing “woman”
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-I guess Adam knows when to tone down his WLL. Glad he is receptive that some areas will not go for his daring movements.(I am assuming that the tweeter is referring to his dance movements.)

on songs such as ‘Whole Lotta Love,’  ‘Mad World,’  and a David Bowie medley that easily made him the winner of the night.

its soooo damn annoying to read about reviews comparing the two’ ¦

ITA Sarah, the competition is over- this is a concert tour with no need to declare winners or losers. Just sit back ( or get on your feet!) and enjoy the show!

All of Adam’s friends (Ferras, Lisa D’amato, Sparro, etc. maybe even redone?) and family will more than likely be at the staples center.

I would bet money that the Salt Lake reviewer left right after Adam’s set. There is absolutely nothing in that review to suggest that he saw either Kris’ set or the finale.

yippee! Thanks y’all who answered about next AI shows. LA is next. Whoo hoo LA! Staples Center. I bet that will be great!

I cannot believe I fly out tomorrow and miss it by 1 day!!

I do not want to wait until the 25th!!

If you are looking for good tickets now, wait until a few days before the show. Go to Ticketmaster and keep trying. Good seats always pop up.

I do not know if it means anything about what they’re doing in other cities, but Ticketmaster just put a couple of really good blocks of Memphis tickets on sale today (concert is 7/26) — and there was nothing good 3 weeks ago.

haha! everybody’s entitled to his/her own opinions and favorites! oh im dying to see photos!!

adam toned down WLL but he did sing ‘woman’ 
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Here’s been alternating. So LA should be “baby”.

I agree that the Salt Lake Tribune review was pretty lame, but it did contain a great sentence that I applaud (just on a social level, if nothing else).

It was actually refreshing to see such crowd support for a gay man in Utah.

Wow. That was unexpected.

its soooo damn annoying to read about reviews comparing the two’ ¦.i get so riled up everytime someone says Adam should’ve won blah blah blah.enough already!

I agree. I also dislike the word “battle” to quote the reviewer. That’s simply ridiculous.

It was actually refreshing to see such crowd support for a gay man in Utah.

:clap_tb:

Sarah P, don’t bother yourself. Don’t you see how fast the article came out? Whoever wrote it had scripted it in his mind before coming to the concert. To me, comparing Adam and Kris at this time is stupid, because the are no more in competition. AI is trying to promote each of them on the tour by showcasing the kind of artists that they are. tThis person who wrot the article is just bitter from last year. I don’t blame him, but the Judges especially Simon who calls the show for contestants before America votes. Forget about these reviews and have your peace because it’s not a competition anymore.

In The Stars, and anyone else who would like to meet concert buddies for Adam or any other artist that you love, I have to agree with and repeat the advice given by BestAI. Go to their official sites, or search for fan sites, and join the forums or mailing lists that are set up for fans to talk to one another.

Stick around, observe, join in on conversations, etc. You’d be amazed at the friendships that can develop through love of an artist and music. You already have something in common to start with! I’ve met several close friends (friendships which have now spanned years) and my husband all because I loved someone’s music and wanted to chat with others who felt the same. Good luck finding concert buddies!

It was actually refreshing to see such crowd support for a gay man in Utah.

This part of the review though, I admit, did make he happy inside. Awwww. It IS nice to see, so WTG Utah!

“It was actually refreshing to see such crowd support for a gay man in Utah.

This part of the review though, I admit, did make he happy inside. Awwww. It IS nice to see, so WTG Utah!”

- ME TOO, it made me happy! Just imagine how Adam feels.

I wonder if Adam will tone down his performance of WLL in LA. lol I hope not…I hope it’s wilder than ever :jittery_tb:

I don’t worry about that reporter.The crowd really seemed to love Kris. And he sound really good on what I could heard from Rickey’s cellcast.

another review with the already too talked of comparison… the vocal olympics stuff where Adam got 10/10 and Kris a pat in the back…. LOLLL

The story was posted at 10:17 pm Mountain time (12:17 eastern)

Kris was doing the Bright Lights guitar solo at 11:50, and then Hey Jude and the 8 minute long DSB.

It is obvious the article was written before the end of the show.

In the Stars: Again, you may have to do a search on Adam Lambert fan sites, but there is a group of women called Adam Bombs and another called Lambskanks. The AI forum called themselves Glamberts. There could be others.

I wonder if Adam will tone down his performance of WLL in LA.

I guess we’ll know when we see his hair!! It seems to indicate his character for the night. In San Diego he was neo-Elvis. Tonight more emo. LA — I hoping for a lot of blue and purple!!

Even though I’m a rabid Adam fan and I do think he stole the show (I was in Oakland), it really saddens me to read reviews that are uncomplimentary to the other performers – I sure prefer the ones that mention the good points of each performer as they all have some moments in their sets. The “contest” should be over now and we should all get to enjoy all of them, including our own favorites. But I guess that is the nature of “reviews” – I learned that lesson here – I know I got very protective when I read Adam bashing but I’m learning to deal with it.

It seems unfair to compare them because Adam has had so much more stage experience (theater at least) that being on stage must come a lot easier to him – I don’t think any of them has had half the stage experience. Most of them will certainly improve with more practice, and some may end up being “born to perform on stage” once they get that experience and feel comfortable up there.

That said, I think Adam also had a pretty big agenda and to quote Simon “a point to prove” with this tour. So many critics during the show run said that he belonged on Broadway, not on the concert stage. Everyone I know that went to the Oakland show has said they would go to see him in concert solo (even a friend who preferred Danny on the TV show). I guess he’s proving this point – and I’m thrilled.

Hey how was allison tonite.Have not herd one thing on her tonite.Thats rare for not having anything mentioned.Even the salt lake tribune, not even her name mentioned nothing.Is sick,its like she not in existance.

I don’t worry about that reporter.The crowd really seemed to love Kris. And he sound really good on what I could heard from Rickey’s cellcast.

yes i listened too. you’re right

I don’t think any reviewer is making this a competition. When the Idols perform in the order they left the show then it is logical to base your opinion on it as an Adam vs Kris thing. The guys review compared Adam going out second to Kris winning, His opinion was that Adam should have ended the concert, he thought Adam was better and his opinion was the crowd did too.
If Kris gets a good review all is right with the world, but if the reviewer likes Adam better then he apparently didn’t stay to hear Kris, he wrote the review before even hearing the concert, he was biased, blah blah, blah.
Maybe there is a chance that these people who are reviewing the concerts just think Adam is better.
It’s not a conspiracy.

Just don’t read the reviews especially if it’s against your favorites. It doesn’t have anything to do with their future success anyway.

I don’t know why it’s that big of a surprise to see them support Adam because those that would not support a gay man would not even buy the ticket.

I’m just still mad at the no Megan love! =(

Adam TONED DOWN WLL?
Good Lord, noooooooo! Please feel free to go all out in Glendale, Az. We won’t mind. :jittery_tb: :devil_tb: :thumbup_tb: :cheese1_ee: And in Arizona, we like things hot!

I wish the Kris fans at these concerts would tweet more. I’m just finding Adam and Matt fans tonight on Twitter who are actually at the concert.

Maybe they’re still voting, lol. Sorry, just my weird sense of humor when I read that! Seriously, I wish everyone could just love all the Idols but that’s just a dream I guess. Can’t wait to see all of them live, esp. Adam! :wub_tb:

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It was actually refreshing to see such crowd support for a gay man in Utah.

Wow. That was unexpected.
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It seems like the song “Change is Gonna Come” was not just a random selection by AI founder Simon Fuller for Adam . They are in this business and they probably saw that a gay person with such great talent will eventually cease to be referred to as that gay guy but will become a respected performer , cheered on for his talent .

And I was kind of apprehensive about Utah. It just shows that it is no good to give importance to stereotyped comments. We just need to continue to keep open minds and hearts.

Thanks Utah for the warm reception to these kids.

I would respect the writer’s opinion more if he had stayed for Kris’ set. I think his posting time for his story, proves he did not.

The only detail from Kris’ set was the mention of Heartless. I am pretty sure he knew that song was in the set, in advance.

Excellent post Animated

well, tweets in general are at most 10 people? out of thousands? i think most people are just enjoying the show.

and yes, I think in every post on this thread, I will show my support for their hometown girl, Megan!

Short clips from tonight’s show , all the Idols sounded great

wow!!! i have to give a BIG SHOUT out to the production team. the visual and sound effects were amazingly amazing. i only saw a couple of videos of this concert so far but i loved the intro, especially adam’s which looked like a huge BOOM BOOM POW

i used to be very much into dramatics during my university days, and usually the cast got more praise than the crew but in reality we actors owe all our successes to the crew, who is our biggest backbone. i doubt adam’s set or kris’s set or anyone else’s set will have that kind of effect if not for all the work done by the production team. so i have a say a BIG THANK YOU and GOOD JOB :clap_tb:

And I was kind of apprehensive about Utah. It just shows that it is no good to give importance to stereotyped comments. We just need to continue to keep open minds and hearts.

Now maybe people can stop worrying about what will happen when he plays the South, too.

The story was posted at 10:17 pm Mountain time (12:17 eastern)

Kris was doing the Bright Lights guitar solo at 11:50, and then Hey Jude and the 8 minute long DSB.

It is obvious the article was written before the end of the show.

That makes no sense. The concert started at 7 p.m. Mountain time so it ended probably at 10 p.m. Mountain time. The reporter probably has a laptop with a wireless card with him. I”m sure he wrote a review of the first half of the show during intermission. After the concert he wrote the last couple of paragraphs and probably emailed it to the paper. The set list has been around for ages so basically he had to plug in how they performed it and the audience’s reaction.

I’m so proud of Utah. A CHANGE IS COMING!!! Thank you Adam for being who you are, and thank you Utah for accepting Adam for who he is.

Hey how was allison tonite.Have not herd one thing on her tonite.

I heard her on the cell cast. She rocked.

The reason Kris got a off review was because the “professional” critic didnt bother to wait until kris was done to write one.Am i suppose to read it seriously? The point of the concert isnt to see gay pride.Its to see people sing.

Maybe they’re still voting, lol.

Now, that’s funny! It is possible though. The kid who won might actually be the most popular at all these concerts, it’s that his peeps are too busy texting to get up and shake their booty. Who knows. It doesn’t really matter. The newspaper said he was “cute”.

ETA: Uhh, just to avoid any trouble, when I say “shake their booty” I am refering only to the fans of legal age. For the younger fans, I meant shake their glowsticks.

How do you guys figure the reviewer did not stay for Kris’ set?

Change will really come to Utah when the reviewer doesn’t even have to mention that Adam is gay. Was it a part of the concert or his performance? NO.

Undercooked, you beat me to it. This review was filed shortly after the concert ended at 10pm.

ETA: To be fair to the reviewer, this concert is set up, in many ways, to be a continuation of the competition. Instead of mixing up the line-up, the concert counts down backwards from 10 to 1, with cheers, for the most part, getting progressively louder. It nearly begs a reviewer to compare the final performances. There would be fewer comparisons between Adam and Kris if they weren’t back to back. Given the set-up, they are inevitable. This won’t be the last review like this one, and the day will come when a review absolutely bashes Adam and glorifies Kris.

Hey how was allison tonite.Have not herd one thing on her tonite.Thats rare for not having anything mentioned.Even the salt lake tribune, not even her name mentioned nothing.Is sick,its like she not in existance.

It looks like to me the reporter had an early deadline. If I were to guess, he probably only had about 15 minutes to wrap up his review after the concert. He just focused on the top two because that is all he had time for. Like I said upthread, he probably wrote his review of the first half of the show during intermission.

Shaking my head at the stupidity that is turning this concert into a battle between Kris and Adam. Good job, David Burger, at failing. Do not pass go, do not collect $200, etc.

Only good thing out of that article was how it said Utah supported a gay person. I still think Adam is getting a bit too much praise, but I’m kinda glad it’s the conservative Utah doing it.

and yes, I think in every post on this thread, I will show my support for their hometown girl, Megan!

Have you seen the one video of her that’s made it to YouTube? Trust me, with legs like that, I want to like her. I really do. Problem is that she stinks. She and Sarver don’t belong on that stage. Sorry.

Gotta tell you as a Kris fan I will not be tweeting when he’s on stage. I want to enjoy his performance. However I’d be happy to tweet during the other 9.

I want to enjoy his performance. However I’d be happy to tweet during the other 9.

Or, caw when Megan is on stage.

It looks like to me the reporter had an early deadline. If I were to guess, he probably only had about 15 minutes to wrap up his review after the concert.

for an article that is supposely hurriedly written, atleats there werent any typos :dry_tb:

The reporter is a critic and critics are HARSH. They are not supposed to “sugar coded”, cumbaya “we are the world”, etc. It was ROUGH but is what they are/will get in their music career. It is a learning lesson to all the IDOLS and the fans, welcome to SHOW BUZZINESS.

The point of the concert isnt to see gay pride.Its to see people sing.

In reality, for a lot of journalists, the main point is to get your story filed by deadline (which was probably right after the concert was over). This is why a lot of local press do interviews before the concert.

for an article that is supposely hurriedly written, atleats there werent any typos

That is what a copy editor is for. You ship over raw copy, especially when you are on a tight deadline, and the copy editor cleans it up and writes the headline.

and yes, I think in every post on this thread, I will show my support for their hometown girl, Megan!

yeah i second that. does anyone have a video up of her performance yet? i want to see the crowds reaction to her set

Comparing the performances of this year’s crew from your bitterness over the D2 fanwars? Lame. He’s still fighting THAT battle? Please.

The reporter is a critic and critics are HARSH. They are not supposed to ‘sugar coded’ , cumbaya ‘we are the world’ , etc. It was ROUGH but to all the IDOLS, welcome to SHOW BUSINESSS.

Yes but not even mentioning other involved in this concert, like scott and allison. He basicly skipped over they’re performance.

And another reason that Kris is just adorable. These 3 girls made tiaras with photos of Kradison on them (Adam, Kris and Allison). Kris put one on and took pictures with them. Awwww…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbXl9fzCQ0A&feature=player_embedded

That is what a copy editor is for. You ship over raw copy, especially when you are on a tight deadline, and the copy editor cleans it up and writes the headline.

hmmm makes sense….so how about we bash up the copy editor as well for coming up with a lame headline?

Lambert brings joy to “Idol” audience

just kidding :tongue_laugh_ee:

So, has it been confirmed that Kris sang Blackbird and if he did, what song it replaced or does Kris get a new song now? Inquiring minds want to know!

Twitter from glambert1364

michael just said we were the smallest crowd but the loudest 16 minutes ago from txt

The reporter is a critic and critics are HARSH. They are not supposed to ‘sugar coded’ , cumbaya ‘we are the world’ , etc. It was ROUGH but to all the IDOLS, welcome to SHOW BUSINESSS.

I hate the “welcome to show business” argument, it’s pretty much the stupid “everybody’s doing it” rationalization. Besides, critics can also be harsh yet constructive. Burger seemed to totally IGNORE Kris. Also, turning anything Kris and Adam into a “battle” would be beyond stupid at this point. The Idol show is over, comparing the two badly will just make people hate you.

So, has it been confirmed that Kris sang Blackbird and if he did, what song it replaced or does Kris get a new song now? Inquiring minds want to know!

Kris played a little Blackbird on his guitar backstage during Anoop’s bubble tweet. No set changes at all.

And another reason that Kris is just adorable. These 3 girls made tiaras with photos of Kradison on them (Adam, Kris and Allison). Kris put one on and took pictures with them. Awwww’ ¦

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbXl9fzCQ0A&feature=player_embedded

lizardino: that was adorable – thanks!

Oh! OK, thanks!

First video up — Kris singing “Hey Jude”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHqtOPgVTz8

In San Diego he was neo-Elvis. Tonight more emo

Funny, he hasn’t been here (San Diego) yet. I bet you meant San JOSE ! lol

David Burger is a professional music reporter/critic and a Stanford Journalism graduate. If he couldn’t write that simple review in the 25 minutes between the time the concert ended and when it was uploaded, he needs to find a new job. Also, most of it was about Megan and probably written during intermission.

Here’s a link to his concert advance piece featuring Megan and Danny. He doesn’t appear to be an Adam fan.

http://blogs.sltrib.com/burger/index.php?p=1578&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

Here a link to his pre-concert interview story — includes Adam, Megan, Michael and Scott:

http://blogs.sltrib.com/burger/index.php?p=1596&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

It includes this interesting Michael tidbit (proving Michael must be bored!):

Michael Sarver ‘” he hasn’t seen his children for two months, but anticipates seeing them in several days, when the tour will be in L.A. for a few days. He said he feels guilty about the crew doing so much work setting up and taking down the sets, and has asked to help out, which producers always forbid him to do.

Funny, he hasn’t been here (San Diego) yet. I bet you meant San JOSE ! lol

Long day — yes San Jose!!

LOL!

Here a link to his pre-concert interview story ‘” includes Adam, Megan, Michael and Scott:

Didn’t know Adam was an X-Men fan as a child. Me too, Adam… me too. You learn something new every day.

That’s quite nice of Michael to want to help, but yeah, I understand why the producers are against it.

LOL on some of the humour! You guys are making my evening!

I don’t have a problem with people liking Adam better than Kris, my problem is that he seemed to ignore Kris almost completely while writing a review of a concert and turned it into a battle between Kris and Adam.

Here’s another pre-concert article featuring Megan and Scott:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705316901/Megan-Joy-excited-for-concert.html?pg=1

Thanks for the info on David Burger Q3 – to me the reviews always seem to mean more when they are positive but not written by a fan,

Tweets from post-concert:

Glambert1364ADAM IS DROP DEAD UNBELIEVABLY GORGEOUS OHHH MY i got a great vid of him signing autographs
7 minutes ago from txt

Glambert1364ALLL the idols came out!!! Adam was so sweet and went down both lines..they all did…adam signed my sis ipod!
9 minutes ago from txt

tinydollyAdam has left the building. Good night : )
10 minutes ago from txt

tinydollyJust got my RS signed! He is beautiful! Going around to everyone sayinq thank you.
17 minutes ago from txt

tinydollyEveryone is here now
31 minutes ago from txt

Glambert1364michael just said we were the smallest crowd but the loudest
41 minutes ago from txt

Glambert1364michael is out
about 1 hour ago from txt

Glambert1364Still waiting for them to come out. Any min now.
about 1 hour ago from txt

From that link that Q3 posted, Sarver talks about making a modern country album?? I thought he said he was not country?

That, and that reviewer really loves David Archuleta- he’s mentioned in everything you linked to!

So back to Megan =), I’m glad that her son got to see her perform.

That, and that reviewer really loves David Archuleta- he’s mentioned in everything you linked to!

I hope so, this is Archie’s home town, plus this reporter has very conservative taste. From what I can tell, his AI8 favorite is Danny. But that is a guess.

I was surprised that the reviewer didn’t say more about Kris. I kept looking for the link to click to page 2 and then realized with surprise that that was it. I don’t mind when reviewers like one kid better than another but I do think that Kris deserves more attention that that.

I hope that videos will refute his opinion of Megan getting a tepid response, I’ll be sad if she wasn’t warmly embraced in her home state. I watched her set when we got those high quality videos a couple of nights ago. She has moments when she sounds really good. I was sorry to read in that interview that she vows to never take a dance lesson, I guess she sees the awkwardness as part of her quirky charm. But I think that one can be quirkily charming and still execute moves that enhance the performance. I don’t know about her, I’ve just never picked up any passion for what she’s doing as I have from the other kids. I think that’s a part why she had trouble picking up much of a fan base, it seems like she’s more “well if it happens it happens and if it doesn’t, oh well”. Of course I don’t know if that is how she really feels, but that is how she comes across to me. I think she is a nice girl but I don’t know how she is going to do if she doesn’t get some good guidance and direction from someone.

and yes, I think in every post on this thread, I will show my support for their hometown girl, Megan!

only megan video i found! good crowd response no?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TunjUFNq6Cs&feature=channel

I hope that videos will refute his opinion of Megan getting a tepid response, I’ll be sad if she wasn’t warmly embraced in her home state.

The tweets from the concert 9I could only find 3 and comments on Rickey’s cell cast (which I just can’t listen to) report the same tepid response. So it’s probably true. Perhaps there will be a video posted, but not many Megan performance videos get posted.

She did get featured in all three local newspapers and on the local Fox station !

Not everyone is gonna like Kris Allen. Obviously Kris Allen did not make a lasting impression on this reviewer, so he didn’t feature him much in his opinionated review. Should we question the ethical nature of his journalism practices now? I actually thought this Burger guy was way harsher on Megan Joy, his hometown girl, than Kris freakin’ Allen. CAW CAW

Megan is a beautiful girl (I saw her in Vancouver) but she really doesn’t stand out through her singing, I thought even Michael was more ‘upstanding then her, however, she is so easy on the eyes I can totally see her on tv or something like that…

only megan video i found! good crowd response no?

They gave her a good response before she started singing but the video does show what happened after she finished. And I think her second song is the one that is really causing her trouble.

I can totally see her on tv or something like that

Not with that godawful tattoo. It probably seemed like a good idea at the time.

I’ve always liked Megan’s voice, she just didn’t use it well in the finals. Put Your Records On and Black Horse and the Cherry Tree were great, IMO.

Sometimes I feel like people are watching a COMPLETELY different show than I saw despite them doing the same songs all the time. I thought Megan was fantastic in Sacramento (Although I’d still put her around 7th compared to everyone else, the rest of them were that good to me).

I don’t think this reviewer has any love in any AI8 idols, neither Adam nor Kris nor Megan. Through the series of his articles, he compared this year’s lack of audiences vs. last year’s two concerts and pointed out less news outlet because Archie was not in this cpncert; he showed no support to hometown girl Megan, and used Adam ‘dominating’ the stage only to side-prove that Archie should’ve won last year.

Same person posted for these idols and they are short.

Anoop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQtAyp75Gg8&feature=channel

Allison
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfop9Zv-r-o&feature=channel

Lil
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j33OZAlDRSw&feature=channel

Scott http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSInvec8bHU&feature=channel

“I can totally see her on tv or something like that

Not with that godawful tattoo. It probably seemed like a good idea at the time.”

Totally agree! How about on tv, not singing and wearing long sleeves, yes, the tattoo is in an unfortunate place and there is a LOT of it….

Why are we even arguing about some reviewer, who has finished his job and gone home? I just watched Megan’s video and to be frank, the response wasn’t encouraging. After watching Kris and Adams, I must be frank that they had just about the same applause efrom the intro and first appearance on stage. However, what I realised was that, Adam’s intro is very loud so you could mistake it for applause. Kris’ intro is opposite, very subtle so you know…….. Just read it for yourselves.

Ha. So cute. When/where were these taken?

The montage was put together as a suggested Twitter background for Adam by “crackthatwhip” on IDF. She tweeted it to Adam earlier today.

I have no idea where she got the photos but it’s recent Adam hair.

Maria22 Jul 15th, 2009 at 2:27 am

‘I can totally see her on tv or something like that

Not with that godawful tattoo. It probably seemed like a good idea at the time.’ 

Totally agree! How about on tv, not singing and wearing long sleeves, yes, the tattoo is in an unfortunate place and there is a LOT of it’ ¦.

They could do body make-up but it would take at least 2 hours in the make-up chair each day to cover it. So it’s either long sleeves or body make-up.

michaelsarver1 I went outside to see the fans tonight and I girl asked me who I was. Maybe I deserve that. I guess I didn’t make an impression.

Awww :sad_wp:

I don’t think this reviewer has any love in any AI8 idols, neither Adam nor Kris nor Megan. Through the series of his articles, he compared this year’s lack of audiences vs. last year’s two concerts and pointed out less news outlet because Archie was not in this cpncert; he showed no support to hometown girl Megan, and used Adam ‘dominating’ the stage only to side-prove that Archie should’ve won last year.

He wrote 2 very nice features about Danny during the season. He never said that Danny was his favorite but either he likes Danny OR he thought Danny was of the greatest interest to SLT readers.

He’s also writen some very nice pieces about Megan, just not about her singing. And no other music reviewer has been very positive about Megan either.

The montage was put together as a suggested Twitter background for Adam by ‘crackthatwhip’  on IDF. She tweeted it to Adam earlier today.

I have no idea where she got the photos but it’s recent Adam hair.

The photos came from Adam’s Facebook page, and the date on the bottom is June 27. They were in LA at that time.

Could it be that the reviewer thought Adam was the best of the night? Period. Many other reviewers thought the same in the previous shows, and the people who reviewed the shows said Adam got the biggest reception.

I think that makeup artists can do a good job of covering tattoos (isn’t Angelina Jolie supposedly kind of covered with them?), but that would be a pain. I’ve always that that Megan would go over really well in a small, sophisticated setting where she is dressed like a gorgeous torch singer and does jazz songs. I picture her in the elegant gown…but then there’s that awful tattoo. But there’s always Dermablend. I don’t think that would appeal much to Megan though, even though I think it would work for her (the jazz club thing). Maybe Kara will write a song for her (I’m not being sarcastic, I think Kara probably could write a song that would leverage her strengths as a vocalist).

Sometimes I feel like people are watching a COMPLETELY different show than I saw despite them doing the same songs all the time. I thought Megan was fantastic in Sacramento (Although I’d still put her around 7th compared to everyone else, the rest of them were that good to me).

I have very high standards of comparison for arena rock shows (which are really not my prefered venues). For female singers, I would compare to Shania Twain, who isn’t the best singer in the world, but who put on an arena rock show, start to finish, beyond comparison. The staging, the timing, the hooks, the incredible charisma and energy. By that standard of comparison, Megan just standing there exuding no energy, no charisma, no nothing, warrants very low marks. She’s basically a high school talent show level performer totally out of her class.

I’m not being a total snob here. I thought Kellie Pickler was fine on the Idol Tour despite being a marginal singer. She was energetic, funny, and mildly entertaining. The really cute black teenager the same year, Lisa somethingorother, was also mildly entertaining and professional, she did a nice jazzy piano ballad. I mean, nobody was coming out of their seats, but she held attention for two or three songs. Megan isn’t even close to that level.

Looking or waiting for videos of today’s performance. Frustrating of looking to find one when they are named: “Kris Allen-Hey Jude” with no date, place on the title. Is there a different way of looking for them? Those of you who found the one with Kris first.

I read the review and my problem is that he talked about Kris’ cuteness. Which has nothing to do with his music. He also said nothing about the crowd’s reaction to Kris — which, listening over the cell cast seemed to be fantastic. I fail to understand how the reviewer didn’t hear or sense that the crowd enjoyed Kris’ set very much.

I have no problem if any reviewer prefers Adam’s set or his overall performance or Adam’s style of music. But is it so hard for these reviewers to actually talk about Kris’ own set, rather than constantly talk about how he has to follow Adam? It’s getting more than a little frustrating. I would actually prefer it if the reviewer had made a real argument about what he felt was bad or boring or whatever about Kris’ set, rather than just dismissing him as cute and easy going.

To me, there’s just a weird disconnect going on between what I’m seeing on the YouTube videos, which is the crowd really enjoying Kris’ set and cheering very loudly for him, and the reviews, which basically disregard him.

Don’t get me wrong — I’m glad Adam is getting all this praise. He certainly deserves it. It would just be nice for a reviewer — ANY reviewer — to talk about Kris’ set — in either a positive or negative way, I don’t care — with as much depth and critical analysis as they do with Adam’s set. Instead, it’s starting to feel like the critic doesn’t even think he’s needs to bother reviewing Kris. Which is too bad, because Kris is working his butt off and deserves to be given SOME sort of actual criticism that is more insightful than “he’s cute”.

It’s too bad he didn’t like Megan’s set. But at least he actually went into some detail about what he thought about it. Wich is more than he bothered to do with Kris.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

Ok, end of rant (deep breath)

please post concert videos and photos please…

I just read the review “Lambert brings joy to ‘Idol’ audience” and I may be a bit bias but I loved it! I’m loving the fact that every reviewer thus far has been so supportive of Adam. Now I really don’t regret paying for 5 tickets to see him this Thursday with my friends. (All Kradison lovers)

Looking or waiting for videos of today’s performance. Frustrating of looking to find one when they are named: ‘Kris Allen-Hey Jude’  with no date, place on the title. Is there a different way of looking for them? Those of you who found the one with Kris first.

You can search for Kris Allen and then when you get result select uploaded today. But there isn’t anything yet except the ones posted on this thread. 1 minute clips and Hey Jude.

http://www.bubbletweet.com/showBT.php?id=i9u5t Anoops Bubbletweet with Kris playing Blackbird.

OK, that was too cute. LOL @ Anoop’s voice

Looking or waiting for videos of today’s performance. Frustrating of looking to find one when they are named: ‘Kris Allen-Hey Jude’  with no date, place on the title. Is there a different way of looking for them? Those of you who found the one with Kris first.

One good way to find videos quickly is by surfing around the fansites like ONTD_AI (on livejournal–they have a post for each concert); Idolforums (if you can handle it!); TWOP forums — they have forums for each performer and for general concert stuff.

You can also try a google search by putting in the location, date and person’s name. Sometimes that works as well. So far, the only whole video I have found was the one from Kris (far away but great sound).

I think that yeah that Adam will probably always get the best reviews just because his stage presence is so electifying but that doesn’t mean the others aren’t talented in their own way. Adam is just more showy.

I am so happy Matt’s been getting so many glowing reviews for the first half.
I’ve watched many tour videos of him and he is so damn talented. Love his set.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Matt ends up having a record deal after the tour ends.
I hope so! I think he would make great albums. Can’t wait! I love Matty G.

From a review on IDF – Makes me fell sad for Megan:

One thing that surprised me was (like a few people have mentioned) I thought the response for Megan would be huge since she’s the hometown girl. But I’d say about 4-5 of the Idols who came out said something like “Let’s hear it for Megan, we’re in her hometown!” and then waited for people to cheer- EVERY time, it kind of sounded like her friends and family were cheering loudly, and everyone else was like “oh, I guess I should clap to be polite.” I mean people cheered, but comparing it to how people cheered for Adam, it was like a pin drop vs. a lion’s roar. Totally nuts. The crowd was there for Adam and you could definitely tell.

I am so happy Matt’s been getting so many glowing reviews for the first half. I’ve watched many tour videos of him and he is so damn talented. Love his set.

I bought tickets to 2 concert solely because of Adam. I am also looking forward to seeing Alison and Kris.

But, having watched some of the videos, I am really looking forward to seeing Matt and Anoop live, without the glare of the judges. Matt in particular really impresses me.

A few concert photos from tonight and some of Adam signing after the concert from ONTD-AI.

http://community.livejournal.com/ontd_ai/1167944.html?thread=197329224#t197329224

i’m looking forward for a fan recap. its much more fun to read fan recaps than the reviews and i love to read all the tiny little details and behind the scenes and the experience of listening to idols live and especially the crowd response….let’s hope we get a good recap of this audition cos i’d love to hear how megan was received.

Awwwww — David Archuleta just posted a tweet to Allison:

@Allison4Realzzz Duh are you serious??? How was my home?? I was there Sunday!22 minutes ago from web in reply to Allison4Realzzz

…let’s hope we get a good recap of this audition cos i’d love to hear how megan was received.

Based on the reports on other sites, not well. Although 4 or 5 depending onthe report of the other Idols mentioned her to the crowd and gave her props.

Awwwww ‘” David Archuleta just posted a tweet to Allison:

@Allison4Realzzz Duh are you serious??? How was my home?? I was there Sunday!22 minutes ago from web in reply to Allison4Realzzz

They are too cute

Awwwww ‘” David Archuleta just posted a tweet to Allison:

@Allison4Realzzz Duh are you serious??? How was my home?? I was there Sunday!22 minutes ago from web in reply to Allison4Realzzz

They are too cute

~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I hung up
The phone tonight
Something happened
For the first time
Deep inside
It was a rush
What a rush
Cause the possibility
That you would ever
Feel the same way
About me
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

hehe couldn’t resist :tongue1_tb:

p.s. the above is the first verse of DA’s Crush LOL

okay, I’m not going to lie, this made me a little sad:

From Michael Sarver’s tweet:

I went outside to see the fans tonight and I girl asked me who I was. Maybe I deserve that. I guess I didn’t make an impression.

The haters should really like that. I didn’t do good enough on the show and I’m sorry if sold u all short. Lessons learned.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I hung up
The phone tonight
Something happened
For the first time
Deep inside
It was a rush
What a rush
Cause the possibility
That you would ever
Feel the same way
About me
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

hehe couldn’t resist :tongue1_tb:

p.s. the above is the first verse of DA’s Crush LOL

haha, that’s funny :lol_ee:

AC –

Did Michael post the bottom part, too, about not doing good enough and haters and so on? If so, and it looks like it, then that is all really, really sad. Sounds like he’s missing his wife and kids a lot, too. He needs to rest and get some perspective – after all, only these ten can say they made the Idol tour over a 100,000 others and when you look at it that way they are all winners.

“It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, its a new life,” Michael. Believe it and revel in this experience!

Q3
Jul 15th, 2009 at 3:12 am
From a review on IDF – Makes me fell sad for Megan:

One thing that surprised me was (like a few people have mentioned) I thought the response for Megan would be huge since she’s the hometown girl. But I’d say about 4-5 of the Idols who came out said something like ‘Let’s hear it for Megan, we’re in her hometown!’  and then waited for people to cheer- EVERY time, it kind of sounded like her friends and family were cheering loudly, and everyone else was like ‘oh, I guess I should clap to be polite.’ 

That’s horrible for Megan. I’m really starting to feel for the girl. It costs nothing to cheer, nothing, I don’t understand why people would hold back on their own hometown girl.
That’s just sad.

A review from desert News:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705316901/Megan-Joy-excited-for-concert.html

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705316901/Megan-Joy-excited-for-concert.html

I like that this review at least spends more time on Megan.

Picture of Kradam holding hands tonight:
Original pic:
http://www.deseretnews.com/photos/midres/1513252.jpg

Close up of the hand holding:

http://img.skitch.com/20090715-t2is32ji8bgnqsc5f9tpe2d729.jpg

I am most upset that they gave Megan a bad review! She’s the home-town girl! Give her a break! =(

I know, that really stinks.

ETA: ***I don’t know why it’s that big of a surprise to see them support Adam because those that would not support a gay man would not even buy the ticket.***

Maybe that’s why it wasn’t sold out. Oh well a lot of people missed out on a good show.

Do we know the LA sales for tomorrow night?

were people screaming and screeching during mad world as much as during whole lotta love?

I mean, I really, really don’t enjoy reading negative reviews about Adam‘“and happily there haven’t been many, though that could change’“but you just have to not get swept up in each individual comment and review.

Me neither and I really thought Utah was going to slam him just because of his performance style. TY Utah for proving me wrong.

ETA: ****However, what I realised was that, Adam’s intro is very loud so you could mistake it for applause. Kris’ intro is opposite, very subtle so you know’ ¦’ ¦.. Just read it for yourselves.****

I’m certain if you are sitting in the audience you would know the difference between the applause and the intro noise.

So I want to like that SLC review because it’s good for my guy, Adam. But it’s bad for my boy, Cook. What to do, what to do?

I could read it cold and say, that reviewer must have enjoyed Adam’s set a lot, particularly since he warranted a favorable comparison to the hometown hero of S7. Or I could conclude that the author has a secret crush on Kris, given that’s how it turned out for the last guy who said he thought Kris was cute.

So, pleeaase tell me how the crowd reacted and if there was some kinda connection with the audience. That’s not too much to ask, isn’t it?

He did, he told you that the crowed reacted better to Adam. This is a concert of 10 acts, not every reviewer has the column space, or the time before deadline, to write a mini essay on every act.

This reviewer gave a broad impression of the concert as he saw it, it’s perfectly valid for him to do so, especially since most of the non-AI centric critics, I suspect, don’t really see the point of debating the artistic merits of what is essentially a karaoke concert meant for AI fans only.

As to the comparison to last year’s AI contest, I think that was put in to add texture and possibly a little hint of controversy to his review.

Here is someone who got post-show autograph signing photos of everyone–more of some than of others (but hey, the whole gang is there!).

http://www.flickr.com/photos/40473634@N06/

Awwwww ‘” David Archuleta just posted a tweet to Allison:

@Allison4Realzzz Duh are you serious??? How was my home?? I was there Sunday!22 minutes ago from web in reply to Allison4Realzzz

I find it really cute that they are friends.

ETA: And Michael’s tweets are really starting to make me like him…sometimes. I like him when he’s not all preachy.

Why do I love this pic from Utah so much??

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2553/3722396115_cd08c771e2.jpg

courtesy of ontd_ai

Why do I love this pic from Utah so much??

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2553/3722396115_cd08c771e2.jpg

courtesy of ontd_ai

This is the perfect shot for a t- shirt with the caption. “Glittery Alien From the Planet Fierce”

Whole Lotta Love, Salt Lake City (complete). Really close.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ue6FhWONq8

Here is someone who got post-show autograph signing photos of everyone’“more of some than of others (but hey, the whole gang is there!).

http://www.flickr.com/photos/40473634@N06/

Thanks lizardino. I kinda like the below picture..kinda only but it makes me sad Adam has to put all that eye make up on and over(eye)shadow his gorgeous eyes

http://www.flickr.com/photos/40473634@N06/3723535806/

Here’s and audio vid from tonight’s concert:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBUEnRSkbEw

Close up of the hand holding:

http://img.skitch.com/20090715-t2is32ji8bgnqsc5f9tpe2d729.jpg

I had trouble deciding between :wink_ee: or :surprise_ee: or :gulp_ee: but I think I’ll just go with

:clap_tb:

Picture of Kradam holding hands tonight:
Original pic:
http://www.deseretnews.com/photos/midres/1513252.jpg

Close up of the hand holding:

http://img.skitch.com/20090715-t2is32ji8bgnqsc5f9tpe2d729.jpg

I love how we are all obsessing about this. To me I think it’s Adam’s way of giving Kris support on a tough day like the one he had and letting him know that he’s got a friend in his corner out there on that stage to help him get through it. JMHO.

To me I think it’s Adam’s way of giving Kris support on a tough day like the one he had and letting him know that he’s got a friend in his corner out there on that stage to help him get through it. JMHO.

That’s what I was thinking too – I love their friendship and how easy it is for them to show affection.

Kris and Adam arent holding hands in that pic!Kris’s hand is in front of Adam’s, that’s it!

God, I wish this KRADAM business would just go away!

Yup, it’s a reality television show that thrives on competition between artists that are in completely different genres. So the fans can get exercised and think it’s winner take all when it can be win/win or lose/lose.

Utah is a special case with Archie but it looks like the tour isn’t doing as well as S7. I see lots of empty seats in thise videos. The economy is a factor but I think it goes along with the reduced dowloads sales, etc. The Davids just provided a bigger punch. And Kris and Adam are def not holding hands.

Kris and Adam arent holding hands in that pic!Kris’s hand is in front of Adam’s, that’s it!

God, I wish this KRADAM business would just go away!

:shock_tb: what???? ohhh noooo……..pls dont put down the fabulous concept of KRADAM!!! LOL

Awww… look, Allison finally replied to Archie’s tweet…

Allison — In salt laaaaake!! Home of @meganjoysings and @davidarchie!!!! Whooo!!!!
5:27 PM Jul 13th from TwitterFon

Archie — @Allison4Realzzz Duh are you serious??? How was my home?? I was there Sunday!
about 6 hours ago from web in reply to Allison4Realzzz

Allison — @DavidArchie it was beautiful!! Didn’t get a chance to really enjoy it, but it was still awesome XD
13 minutes ago from TwitterFon in reply to DavidArchie

No love for Dallison? or Alliavid or Alliarche. I’m bad at this.

I think Anoop’s bubble twitter says a lot. Even when they are goofing off and doing guy stuff, there is Kris playing and singing in the background. There are lots of casual shots in the mansion of Kris at the keyboard or slouched on a sofa, playing and singing.

When Kris says it is about the music for him, I have no trouble believing it.

I hope that videos will refute his opinion of Megan getting a tepid response, I’ll be sad if she wasn’t warmly embraced in her home state.

Well, in the words of Simon Cowell, the show is “about finding a future superstar, not about feeling sorry for people who aren’t very good.” Same goes for concerts. If somebody isn’t very good, well, giving them a “warm embrace” isn’t giving them a very accurate message about their performances.

And Megan already sounds pretty delusional about her prospects — one of those Utah articles was quoting her as saying that she wants to record many *different* kinds of music, besides being a model and an actress. And of course she’s already noted that she also wants to write books. …. And yet — she’s apparently never seriously tried to do any of these things (aside for her AI tryout), never really practiced much, never studied any of it!

Especially given her looks and the vulnerability of her position as a single mom — both of which make her easy pickings for lying users who’ll promise to make her some kind of star — she is definitely one who badly *needs* the “welcome to show business” point made to her. If she doesn’t find out darn quick how audiences are actually valuing her current work and realizes she needs to do a lot of practice and studying and that, in her case, it’s not just a matter of being “discovered” at this point, she’s likely to fall for the line of every slimy huckster who’s attracted to her blonde legginess and promises to make her into something and then leaves her on the side of the road.

Reality check is ultra-important in a case like hers, in my opinion.

“Archaheta” — I like that!

Reminder:

I’ll be going through this thread and deleting posts that have nothing to do with the tour…

Just a heads up.

Chipmunk
Jul 15th, 2009 at 8:32 am
Kris and Adam arent holding hands in that pic!Kris’s hand is in front of Adam’s, that’s it!

God, I wish this KRADAM business would just go away!

LOL – it’s fun

Here’s “toned down” Adam on Whole Lotta Love from Sacramento. I really kinda love this video actually (close up with great facial expressions)…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ue6FhWONq8

Here’s ‘toned down’  Adam on Whole Lotta Love from Sacramento. I really kinda love this video actually (close up with great facial expressions)’ ¦

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ue6FhWONq8

That’s actually Salt Lake City, LisaE, just for the record. And thanks for posting it!

I agree…..no Kradam hand holding going on. They just got caught by a funny camera angle.

Adam’s WLL in Salt Lake City was VERY toned down! Very little gyrating, thrusting, touching. Believe me, I noticed! Kinda anticlimactic (oooh!)after what we have been seeing. Hope he was just saving it all up to go wild in LA on Thursday! C’mon Adam, you know what we all want to see! Bring it, bring it!!

Chipmunk
Jul 15th, 2009 at 8:32 am
Kris and Adam arent holding hands in that pic!Kris’s hand is in front of Adam’s, that’s it!

Chipmunk, thanks for pointing this out so reasonably. The analysis of that photo reminded me of those grainy National Enquirer cover photos with the breathless captions.

Here’s ‘toned down’  Adam on Whole Lotta Love from Sacramento. I really kinda love this video actually (close up with great facial expressions)’ ¦

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ue6FhWONq8

That’s actually Salt Lake City, LisaE, just for the record. And thanks for posting it!

First loved the Billy Idol sneer at the end. Second he’s getting to thin his pants are very loose now. Third the holes and rips are getting bigger too he may have to change that outfit soon and lastly the performance was GREAT!

Okay, so, just a question. Is it on topic to comment on the reviews of the tour or just the tour? Because I know I got off-topic with my discussions about the musicality and artistry of various contestants, but, it looks like even my posts about the reviews of the show were also deleted. I would like to try to follow the rules better.

Kris tweeted:

Salt lake you iguys were seriously amazing.

^^^I also edit discussions that become redundant or begin to beat a dead horse.

Discussions about that review that aren’t specific to the performances are also off topic.

They must get sick of their songs. I mean, even now, it’s their 7th show’“ the same ol grind. Plus you know, Anoop even has choreographed moves for parts of his songs’ ¦ I don’t think I’d be able to do it. So monotonous! It would be cool if they had like’ ¦ twice as many songs, and like, rotated them and switched them up. Like, Anoop could have 6 and mix and match. That’s not asking too much, is it?

As someone who has done a little performing, you’d be surprised – every night really is like a whole new night, and no matter how many shows, it doesn’t really feel boring or old. A lot of it comes from the fact that, as a live performance, you have both the other people on stage (band, actors, what have you), and, especially the audience, to really feed off of and make each performance unique.

Something will always be different, and I’m telling you, the energy from the audience can positively make each show better or worse than it might otherwise be.

After doing shows, we’d frequently talk more about how great an audience was than how well we were

BTW, we have another bubble tweet, this time with Anoop, Matt and Kris

http://www.bubbletweet.com/showBT.php?id=i9u5t

LOL, that’s serious funny. Loving Kris on the guitar doing ‘Blackbird’

Now all I can think of his Simon’s ‘fear of birds’ last year. I sooo want AI to have a ‘Byrds’ theme week or ‘Songs About Birds’

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I’m just making my way through the posts.

I totally don’t understand why someone would have film school people review the videos from the tour or why I should care. Are the videographers looking to break into the business? As far as I know, the only people interested in acting are Adam and Megan. Adam already is an actor, if we consider musical theatre in the realm of acting, and I do. (Note: NOT a slam. I like Adam a lot.) Kris has stated he has NO interest in going into acting – he had enough of it doing the Ford commercials.

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I’ve tried to listen to the cel casts on Rickey.org and the quality is just incredibly awful. I don’t know how anyone could do a review or form any opinion on the performances from them. I, however, find Rickey hilarious and endearing. It’s like watching a little kid. He’s so full of joy.

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That Buddah guy on the Utah Fox show was annoying. Seems I remember him from last year. I’m surprised the roadie didn’t call security in on him. He definitely wasn’t amused.

Going to read more.

Just read the Salt Lake City Review, and this line of course struck me:

It was actually refreshing to see such crowd support for a gay man in Utah.

Yeah, I’ll admit I’ve never been to Utah (except a lay-over in SLC), but I wish we could do a little better than this in terms of “progress”. What century is this?

Well I sure hope that I get to see the real WLL for my concerts. Even the Salt Lake crowd seemed to scream the loadest for the mike straddle!

My guess is that I get 1 PG13 version (Little Rock) and one full-Elvis version (Memphis).

I think Anoop’s bubble twitter says a lot. Even when they are goofing off and doing guy stuff, there is Kris playing and singing in the background. There are lots of casual shots in the mansion of Kris at the keyboard or slouched on a sofa, playing and singing.

When Kris says it is about the music for him, I have no trouble believing it.

None of them is “all about the music”, if Kris just wanted to play and sing he will still be in Arkansas doing these things in bars and small concert scenes.
Adam said it many times, Idol is a showcase for artists who want to become stars, Kris seems like a very smart guy and I think he shares the same approach to the show.

Utah Glamberts and Kristallites don’t seem to be coming through with the vids
I’m disappointed.

Yeah, I’ll admit I’ve never been to Utah (except a lay-over in SLC), but I wish we could do a little better than this in terms of ‘progress’ . What century is this?

Utah is arguably the most conservative state in the US (battling it out with Wyoming). But Salt Lake City is not a particurly anti-gay place:

The state’s gay pride parade is the second most attended yearly parade in the state. Three state legislators, Sen. Scott McCoy, Rep. Jackie Biskupski, and Rep. Christine Johnson, are openly gay[1] and Utah is one of only a handful of states where the legal recognition of same-sex couples was voted on in the state Senate in March 2005 when it considered creating a reciprocal beneficiary. The measure failed by eight votes.

Frankly, there are some very radical right-wing groups in the area (a small but loud minority), and so I was pleased that Adam being gay was such a non-issue.

It seems to me when watching the videos, the crowd is very loud when Kris is introduced, continues when he begins to play, but then quiets down to LISTEN. I want to hear Kris sing, not the screaming. The occassional shout-out or whistle or yell, I don’t mind. It lets the performer know you’re loving it, but doesn’t disrupt the music.

WLL is rockin’, the music is loud, the vocals are loud, the audience can get just as loud without interferring with the music.

It seems strange to me that what I believe is common sense, a logical conclusion drawn as to how audiences will react to different songs, somehow gets lost in the equation with some people.

Rockin’ songs, people will rock out, get crazy, get loud, dance WLL– Starlight/MW– hopefully the audience is listening, not screaming because those are well-worth taking in completely–David Bowie Medley, disco-ey, danceable. Kris’s Heartless is a bit mellower, but still enegized, Ain’t No Sunshine, definitely, sit and listen to me song, Bright Lights starts out mellow and then rocks, The Killer’s song is cool and should get people into it.

Song Vs performer’s capabilites, seems to get lost in these disuccsions and yes, in some reviews.

David Cook had to endure many a bad review on Tour. Many a bad review on his debut album. Daughtry the same. If I went by what every reviewer/critic wrote, there’d be fewer novels read, fewer movies seen, fewer shows/concerts gone to, less CDs purchased. If something appeals to you, it appeals to you.

As far as, Kris is concerned, I think he loves it when the audience goes quiet because people are LISTENING to the song. I think Jim from MTV’s IDOL in 60 Seconds mentioned how cool it was when Kris started to sing to a huge crowd at his homecoming that they had all gone silent. I believed he mentioned you could hear a pin drop and he, Jim that is, got goosebumps. I believe that is the essence of Kris Allen, he quietly captivates. It defintely appeals to me.

Someone, up thread, asked how the ticket sales were going in LA. Staples still only has tickets in the rafters for sale, sections 300. Ontario has the same except their’s are numbered in the 200s.
I consider these 2 shows Adam and Allison’s home concerts so they should be close to sold out. The only seats these two venues are not selling is the ones behind the stage. Someone, yesterday here, said that arenas don’t usually sell the upper seats but at Staples, that is not true. They have always sold the upper seats. And I’m not sure if it’s because it’s a newer arena or not, but I’ve always thought the sound at Staples is excellent.
I am thinking that there are probably many people going to the Ontario show now that they’ve seen the tour videos who were only going to go to Staples. That’s what I did. Bought tickets 2 weeks ago for Friday night too. Adam and company(sorry, I’m a fan) 2 nights in a row! Wow!

Though again, I wasn’t impressed with this guy’s decision to reference last years contest in his review of this year’s concert,

Your editor will insist that you have some kind of a hook that will connect with the readers of your paper. Talking about how last year went down, when the Utahns really wanted to see their boy Archie, is his hook. That’s all it is. And, of course, once you’ve used that hook, this year’s scenario, where the winner and runner-up have very different styles and you can gauge your and the audience’s reactions to them, just follows naturally from that. He probably made a little too much of it, but he *was* writing the thing in 25 minutes. Plus, it probably wasn’t as clear as Utahns apparently thought that Archie should have beaten Cookie last year, either! The article was written to formula, and that’s how you do articles when you’re required to churn them out quickly, as he obviously was. Not a lot of time for original thought in there.

That Utah reviewer sounds like he didn’t even see or listen to Kris’ performance. How can anyone in their right mind give any credence to his opinion? It seemed to me his assignment (or personal agenda) was only to cover Megan and Adam.

I had hoped to see Megan get more love so close to home. And no comments on Allison?

A note to future news reporters/entertainment reviewers: you’re covering a concert which is a series of mini-concerts. The TV show is over as is the competition. Leave the comparisons out of it.

(Disclaimer: that last paragraph is directed to those who are getting paid to write reviews.)

Utah Glamberts and Kristallites don’t seem to be coming through with the vids
I’m disappointed.

I know! Even through the crappy cellcast, Kris and Adam especially, sounded great! and the snippets of videos out there seem to bear that out, but no full songs. What the heck, Utah? Sure they had snippets of YouTubes out almost immediately, but since then…nothing. Utah = video Fail thus far.

Oh and mj, I’m sorry, didn’t see your note and referenced a previous review and it was too late to edit. I apologize.

Still wish Kris would do Blackbird at some point. sigh. So pretty and I could totally see him doing a great job with it.

It seems to me when watching the videos, the crowd is very loud when Kris is introduced, continues when he begins to play, but then quiets down to LISTEN. I want to hear Kris sing, not the screaming. The occassional shout-out or whistle or yell, I don’t mind. It lets the performer know you’re loving it, but doesn’t disrupt the music.

WLL is rockin’, the music is loud, the vocals are loud, the audience can get just as loud without interferring with the music.

It seems strange to me that what I believe is common sense, a logical conclusion drawn as to how audiences will react to different songs, somehow gets lost in the equation with some people.

I totally agree. Personally the best concerts I’ve ever been to are those where people sat and listened to the music – there are many HUGE artists who don’t have people screaming all the way through their shows. And it’s not because the fans don’t appreciate them, but because their style doesn’t demand loud audiences. OTOH if you’re at a rock concert, you expect screaming fans.

There will always be people who expect all concerts to be loud, and will never appreciate the more intimate sets. It would just be nice if reviewers could look at each performer separately, rather than treating this as a competition. And if they could understand the value of different types of sets, rather than going in with a preconceived notion that there is only one right way to stage a concert.

Kris and Adam sounded great last night from what I’ve seen so far – I’m dying for some better YT videos.

Adam’s Bowie Medley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzdiROFU-dY

Don’t know if this has been posted: WLL from SLC. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ue6FhWONq8

Reminder:

Let’s stick to talking about last night’s show and thie tour itself. These vague side topics that are being introduced are only going to take the thread off track again. I don’t have the time to mod this thread all day.

The SL Bowie Medley is slight more restrained the previous versions — and I think better. The end of Fame and the “like a flower” high note in Let’s Dance aren’t quite as excessive. I really think that this would be even better if Adam pulled back on these big high notes even farther.

Q3
Jul 15th, 2009 at 11:57 am
The SL Bowie Medley is slight more restrained the previous versions ‘” and I think better. The end of Fame and the ‘like a flower’  high note in Let’s Dance aren’t quite as excessive. I really think that this would be even better if Adam pulled back on these big high notes even farther.

It’s the opposite with me, I really didn’t like this performance. It seemed a little depressed and unnatural to me. I much prefer the San Jose Bowie Medley.

It really is different strokes..etc.

I think that it would be more appropriate to call the after AI concert online reports ARTICLES rather than REVIEWS. The Deseret News really only listed the contestants and the songs they sung and ended with a human interest portion about Megan. The Tribune basically just reported that the concert took place, and added some info about last year’s concert to remind people why anyone would be going to this concert.

These writers aren’t interested in the singers and really, neither are the people reading the articles. All anyone is doing is saying that the concerts happened and “here is the fan reaction”. And, of course, in a perceived conservative, anti everything State like Utah it would be a bit of “news” to inform the readership that a “gay” entertainer was warmly welcomed and liked.

There are going to be many more of the concerts that are only half-sold out. This is not the concert of the year for most music fans…far from it. This is an AI tradition that lets TV viewers finally get to meet their “Idols” in person…probably for the last time. And, for most of the Idols, this concert is a way for them to get “tour” experience and hopefully to reach an industry insider that may be able to help them in the future. If they can make an impact during the tour maybe they can impress the “right” people.

On another point the Idols chose the songs they are singing and the mood they want to get across to the audience. If the fans stand and yell because the song is fun and boisterous, that is probably what the idol was hoping for. If the audience falls back into their seat and becomes relaxed and mellow during a song that is what the Idol probably intended. And it isn’t the standing and yelling that makes one idol more impressive than another….it is that spark of emotion that becomes electric during a set and is positively tangible and that can be felt that signifies if the audience is getting it.

Sunn Jul 15th, 2009 at 12:01 pm

Q3
Jul 15th, 2009 at 11:57 am
The SL Bowie Medley is slight more restrained the previous versions ‘” and I think better. The end of Fame and the ‘like a flower’  high note in Let’s Dance aren’t quite as excessive. I really think that this would be even better if Adam pulled back on these big high notes even farther.

It’s the opposite with me, I really didn’t like this performance. It seemed a little depressed and unnatural to me. I much prefer the San Jose Bowie Medley.

It really is different strokes..etc.

I am with you Sunn. The SLC seemed to lack the pizazz that the San Jose set had. It wasn’t bad but it did not have that extra something that the San Jose one did.

Bowie Medley vid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzdiROFU-dY
Love, love, love this version. It is a little more restrained but the vocals are so good I actually understood the words better and it was from a great view. You can tell he is holding back a little for the venue but I still get a sense of his sexual energy and so did the crowd obviously. Sexaaay!

I prefer OTT Adam, myself. I hope he doesn’t tone things down in KC, which is a more liberal place than you might imagine. I may have to send him a tweet and encourage him to let his freak flag fly!

EvanJane,

Thank you so much for your lovely post. You’ve said so beautifully what I’ve been thinking and feeling in regards to not only this tour, but every concert I’ve been to and the various types of music I love.

I’m not quoting it here since it’s quite long. Excellant!

On the one video of Kris’ posted from the Salt Lake City show, the audience response to his intro was so deafening that I had to turn my sound down to the lowest level. I was very pleased that the audience quieted to listen to him. I want to hear too!!!! They do the same for Adam’s Mad World.

You can’t tell from the vids here who gets the biggest reception. You have to be in the audience to know that. It is pretty obvious that when a contestant is introduced who gets a polite reception and who gets a huge response. As many have posted (myself included), as you go from 10 – 1, the response gets louder and louder, with the exception of Adam and Kris. At every concert, the people who were there always said Adam got the loudest response during/after the introduction. If it was just about the music, then Allison would have gotten a louder response than Kris. I thought she may have in SJ, but then again I was sitting around many Allison fans. Another gauge of popularity is when they start showing the faces of the contestants on the screens. Even when Adam’s eyes (Ford commercial) were shown, people screamed.

Sounds like Adam came out again after the SLC show….UGGHHHH… WHY did he have to skip out on Sacramento?…MOMENT LOST!! *tears*

I just heard from a friend who was at last night’s concert. She confirmed it was a small crowd – they closed off the upper tier where she was and she had to move to the floor. Acoustics were horrible. She said she thought Megan did well. She certainly has improved since the show. My friend – who has always liked Megan – said she was most disappointed by Megan’s new look on the tour. She much preferred her natural “quirky” look. My friend had to get back to work but promised to tell me more later. She said she couldn’t keep her eyes off of Adam’s belt buckle (LOL). I’ve got to find out more about that. I have been trying to get her to send you a recap MJ, but I’m sure it would be after work before she could do it.

Acoustics were horrible.

This surprises me about the E center. Other than the top tier where you get feed back, usually the rest of the E center has great sound….and considering the youtubes I have been listening to I would say it sounds pretty damn fine to me. The reason most concerts have been moved from the downtown arena to the E Center is that it was built and designed with better acoustics as one of the priorities. But, I wasn’t there….so maybe it has deteriorated since I was last there.

I am with you Sunn. The SLC seemed to lack the pizazz that the San Jose set had. It wasn’t bad but it did not have that extra something that the San Jose one did.

He’s saving it all for LA ;p

Adam said he regrets not being able to talk to his fans, but he needs to give everyone an autograph who’re out there so he has to move along as quickly as he can.

Interesting to hear that Adam toned it down for the SLC show – I can imagine him as a performer, considering the level of detail and attention to the audience he typically exhibits, actually consciously deciding to tone it down if he thinks the audience will respond to it better that way.

I have to say, though, that I also hope he doesn’t try to play it safe in my venue I want all out!

She said she couldn’t keep her eyes off of Adam’s belt buckle (LOL).

I did notice he was sporting a different belt buckle last night. And once again, I prove how sad my life is with each comment I make on here.

…the day will come when a review absolutely bashes Adam and glorifies Kris.

Milwaukee!! But I hope not! :s

mj, are you expecting any recaps from Salt Lake? I’m really craving a recap.

MJ the video labled Bowie Medley is actually mad World..If u do in fact have a Utah Bowie Medley…pls post.Thanks for all u do..

Here is a Bowie medley except that it cuts off most of Mars song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzdiROFU-dY

Here’s a video press clip from Deseret News that features Megan (being all vulnerable and playing with her Sharpie), Adam (such pretty eyes!), Scott and Mike (being all gracious as usual). I hadn’t seen this posted anywhere yet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4etLwVODItA

I’ve not had a chance to read/see/listen to much yet from this show (and frankly, really hope that I won’t continue to feel the need to monitor all of them, what’s wrong with me?!?). But I’ll just say this -

- I’ve seen enough to make me feel that Adam’s act plays well in a relatively conservative area of the country, and that makes me hopeful (and confirms my suspiciouns) that he’ll have wide enough appeal down the road and, hopefully, in his real career.

- And my faith in the music loving public to distinguish between opinions about music and opinions about “lifestyle” is also upheld. Way to go, Utah!

lizardino
Jul 15th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
Here’s a video press clip from Deseret News that features Megan (being all vulnerable and playing with her Sharpie), Adam (such pretty eyes!), Scott and Mike (being all gracious as usual). I hadn’t seen this posted anywhere yet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4etLwVODItA

Scott does too, but he’s looking like a beat down Greg Brady lately. His brother needs to help him with his grooming.

Utahns are the nicest people in the world. Gosh, everyone knows that!

The E-Center crowd greeted Adam and all the others with the respect and the enthusiasm they deserve…as one would have expected them to do.

That whole East-West, North-South cultural battle vis-a-vis Idol (and Adam) is way, way overblown. IMO. Everyone is too in love with the MUSIC to care.

In any event, I don’t think Adam would ever agree that he “toned it down” last night…at least not intentionally. Adam is always true to himself; the crowd was willing. And so it’s inconceivable to me that he knowingly did anything of the sort.

“”Utah is arguably the most conservative state in the US (battling it out with Wyoming). ”

Yes, it is – people are very nice there but it is its own world, I lived in St George and one year the town made us celebrate the 4th of July on the 3rd because the 4th landed on a Sunday, New Years eve was celebrated on the 30th because the 31st was a Sunday, one liquor store in town closed on Sundays. The Chilis Bar and Grill were told to remove the word bar – so – with that said I am pleasantly surprised at the nice reception that they gave Adam. I wish Kris was given better because he is better than that though.

Apparently someone who was in the second row will be uploading some videos.

” Utah is arguably the most conservative state in the US (battling it out with Wyoming). ‘ 

Yes, it is – people are very nice there but it is its own world, I lived in St George and one year the town made us celebrate the 4th of July on the 3rd because the 4th landed on a Sunday, New Years eve was celebrated on the 30th because the 31st was a Sunday, one liquor store in town closed on Sundays. The Chilis Bar and Grill were told to remove the word bar – so – with that said I am pleasantly surprised at the nice reception that they gave Adam. I wish Kris was given better because he is better than that though.

The two newswomen from two different studios seemed smitten with Adam when asking the field reporters about him. So it appears the women in the audience were too. Didn’t Adam say sexy is universal?

Adam is one smart cookie and I think he did tone it down for Utah. I expect full out mike humping and crotch grabbing in LA and San Diego and I can’t wait. As far as the reviews go, I believe they will continue to be pretty much the same throughout the summer. Simon is a smart cookie too and he knew what they had with Adam and that’s why he was so disappointed when he didn’t win. Simon was the one who said Carrie would sell more records that any other idol had and I don’t think he will be wrong about Adam either. My glittery alien from planet fierce better give me all his love in Duluth in two weeks!!!

@Squirrely:

Scott does too, but he’s looking like a beat down Greg Brady lately. His brother needs to help him with his grooming.

My favorite quote o’ the day!! I had to bite my cheek not to LOL at work. TWO MORE DAYS!! If our Baby/Woman tally remains consistent, I’m due for a ‘WOMAN” in Ontario. That arena is brand-freakin’ new (six months or so), so the acoustics better be off-the-hook.

If I didn’t have to cross freeway hell to get to Staples tomorrow, I’d probably do it, but I’m SO GOING to SD on Saturday too. Checked tickets via MJ’s partners this morning. There is a section A, row 17 (lucky number!) for just a little over $100, but they’re still only being sold in pairs ‘“ BOO!. Still hoping something awesome opens up for a single day-of-show.

OMG, where r the rest of the videos or better ones. Utah, is slow or everyone working and will do it once they get home. PLEASSSSEEEE want to see them!!!!

Glambert1364
53 minutes remaining on WLL vid, the 1st one I’m uploading. :s I have almost a third of my pics uploaded to photobucket.

5 minutes ago.

YEAHHH, 45 minutes MORE.:)

Don’t worry, we’ll have plenty for LA. I’ve got a ton of response from readers for stuff…

Looked at the available videos from SLC and I am not sure if it can be called that Adam is toning it down.

Feels like he is a painter who has to draw the same scene and would like to experiment on the different shades of blues, yellow to best create a transforming experience for the various spectators.

This time I noticed he expressed more in his facials instead of his body. I also noticed some changes in the nuances of the way he sang each songs specially the Bowie Medley and WLL . I like it when an artist continue to explore . He knows he has a following and his performances will be viewed over and over again and I think this is a treat for us . Something different every time.

It’s like when we listen to Adam’s song or view his performance ‘“ we are allowing our imagination to explore our inner self without so much of an utterance. An inner transformation is created, something new is formed within us.
The imagination is the most mysterious aspect of our self, and this is the artist’s vehicle to transport us to the place which is our very own together with the song.

And it is beautiful that through these songs and performance Adam is able to allow us to open our senses and sensibilities further . It’s great to encounter an artist who will challenge us this way and will continue to challenge each time he performs.

More videos of Adam’s Utah performances are up! I think we have the complete set now (haven’t watched)
Check my YouTube playlist of what footage’s available so far
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=DE637BAE3941399E

You can also find playlists of footage of other concerts on my site
http://terraj.livejournal.com/

You can’t tell from the vids here who gets the biggest reception. You have to be in the audience to know that. It is pretty obvious that when a contestant is introduced who gets a polite reception and who gets a huge response. As many have posted (myself included), as you go from 10 – 1, the response gets louder and louder, with the exception of Adam and Kris. At every concert, the people who were there always said Adam got the loudest response during/after the introduction. If it was just about the music, then Allison would have gotten a louder response than Kris. I thought she may have in SJ, but then again I was sitting around many Allison fans. Another gauge of popularity is when they start showing the faces of the contestants on the screens. Even when Adam’s eyes (Ford commercial) were shown, people screamed.

When Paris Hilton shows up at a premiere, people go crazy cheering for her, and we all know what a great talent she is.

Adam is of course really talented. But how loud the audience is doesn’t prove he’s better than Kris or anybody else, just how “popular” he is. Popularity can be here today and gone tomorrow.

I’m not even sure it proves he’s more popular. It may just be that some of his fans are louder cheerers.

And the reception Kris gets sounds huge to me. Any performer would be thrilled with it.

edit: knock off the sarcasm directed at other posters

Nobody said Adam is not popular. I was responding to people implying Kris isn’t popular. Or not as popular as Adam. He won American Idol, he’s popular.

The video of Heartless mj just linked to proves Kris is getting plenty of fan love. That’s all.

Also, that’s an amazing performance! The best he’s done it on tour so far, I think. Thanks, mj.

@animated

“And it is beautiful that through these songs and performance Adam is able to allow us to open our senses and sensibilities further . It’s great to encounter an artist who will challenge us this way and will continue to challenge each time he performs.”

I agree with you on you above statement. I listen to all his music and it does that to me as well. Even the one he sang for Nick Laroche. We can only hope the other Adam fans feel the same way too. I look forward to listening to more songs of his.

I’m glad that Adam received positive reviews so far and would be greatly surprised if he gets a negative one ‘“ unless it comes from a biased reviewer. He’s both an incredible performer as well as an excellent singer. I’m annoyed when people say that he received good reviews just because he is more showy. His stage presence alone can’t impress audiences and reviewers. It’s also his wonderful voice and singing techniques that worth big applause and wild cheering from the crowd. Remember during AI when he just sat still and sang Tracks of my tears and Mad world, each performance was claimed by the judges and most audiences as the best performance of the night. I also think that Kris is an excellent singer too. He just doesn’t have the whole package needed for live concert as Adam does.

He just doesn’t have the whole package needed for live concert as Adam does.

I don’t think anybody suggested he was lacking anything, just talking about who was more popular.

Fox13 Utah Extended Interview with Adam (over 6 mins):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtAxAqeqNNw

You don’t want to miss it!

edited post you were responding to

*Sigh*

Is Season 9 here yet?

*Sigh*

Is Season 9 here yet?

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