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14th Oct 2011 from Twitlonger
That review in twitlonger:
MUSIC-NEWS REVIEW: A controversial release of early Adam Lambert demos with his pre-Idol band gets its due date.
By Kenny Herzog
We know Adam is the master of modern glam, but what's with the Dee Snider doppleganger to his right?
Virtually evey major recording artist over the last 50 years has had early career demos or pre-fame for-hire experiments unearthed in glorified bootleg form. It's almost a rite of passage, the aural equivalent of an unauthorized celebrity biography, or finding your name atop billboards for a reissued B-movie you appeared in for seven minutes.
But Adam Lambert & Steve Cooke: Paramount Sessions, which now has an official release date of December 6, alleges to be legit and totally scandal-free. Just don't tell that to Glambert nation, who've already disavowed its credibility and taken the aforementioned Steve Cooke to task on the Interwebs.
Who is Cooke, you ask? He is the blonde-locked gentleman pictured above with a young Lambert. He's also a session vocalist who completed a studio project called the Citizen Vein left unfinished by Lambert when the superstar fled to Hollywood after successfully auditioning for American Idol. And now it seems that Cooke has agreed to seize the opportunity of being packaged alongside Lambert on a CD of those collective recordings, as if it were more of a genuine collaboration, or even something Lambert was at peace with.
What's even stranger about the Citizen Vein/Paramount Sessions is they were helmed in part by Monte Pittman, an oddball journeyman musician whose worked concurrently as guitarist for both Madonna and, of all bands, New York industrial-thrash icons Prong (whose frontman, Tommy Victor, can be seen performing with Vein and Lambert below). WTF?! Lambert, and then Cooke, were brought in to supply the voice for new tracks Pittman and other members of Madonna's backing band had been toying with under the Citizen Vein moniker.
This explanation not satisfactory? Maybe Cooke's blindingly illiterate statement about Paramount and its resulting controversy will help clarify, unless you focus too hard on the moments when he refers to its release as "bitter sweat" and recalls hearing Lambert before "Simon Cowles" ever did. Then it will just be gibberish.
If you thought Lambert would never perform with members of NYC thrash legends Prong, this video will "Prove You Wrong."
IN OTHER WORDS: It doesn't really seem worth getting in a tizzy over. After all, it is previously unreleased tracks with Adam singing.
PARAMOUNT SESSIONS COMING SOON RATING: 6/10
ADAM HAVING NO CONTROL OVER HOW HIS VOICE AND LIKENESS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THE RELEASE RATING: 2/10
YES! NEW ADAM SONGS! RATING: Yay/10