Yeah, it’s a couple of months old, but someone just brought it to my attention. Adam Lambert held a concert in Amsterdam in November and performed a cover of “Purple Haze.”
Aside from getting the lyrics wrong (and no, I won’t pick on his “‘scuse me while I kiss this guy” switch-up it’s “Whatever it is, that girl put a spell on me,” not “Whatever it is, that girl’s got a hold on me.”
Anyway, he apparently loves the opportunity to scream and stick out his tongue whenever possible.
He also decides to smoke what could be a joint about halfway into the song, though Lambert apparently hasn’t learned to inhale and hold it, or the time-old mantra of “puff, puff, give.”
Instantly high, Lambert mixes up “Whole Lotta Love” and “Voodoo Chile,” calling for the first one before singing the rhythm of the second. Of course, the band corrects it.
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This article appears in Jan 4-10, 2011.





first of all is not Voodoo Chile , is Voodoo Child
second he has not ruined the song , he vocaly sang better then Jimi Hendrix , he smoked a half of joint in Amsterdam where is allowed , he change some lyrics just for fun and is alowed in a concert and this song it was for Monte’s birthday a killer guitar player ,
Adam is a treasure of talent , his voice is one in some decades and his skills of singing are so polished in years and years of hard work , you should be proud of him not trashing him on dirty
amelie, we don’t have to care about this kind of posts. Some editor woke up in the morning or afternoon today open internet and found that there are too many good posts about Adam. So, he wrote some “scandal post” about Adam(he thinks this is a scandal) Why not? Except, there were two or three articles about Amsterdam concert many weeks ago and nobody got it seriously:) Good luck Mr. Hahne! Try to find tomorrow news about Adam and post it today! This is what realy professional editor doing!LOL
This article was written just to see if people would read his trash. Looks like a desperate attempt to feel like a real reporter. Didn’t work though..try again.
The writer needs to find himself another
career.
WTF? you freaking loser…go get a life and get your gross mouth off of Adam. It was a cover he sang at HIS concert…he can change the words however he wants to!! You’re not required to watch the video or listen to it!! And just FYI…rich people don’t have to “hold in” their pot until they make that gross vomiting sound…they can afford to buy as much as they want so they can smoke it free and easy…just like Adam did cuz he’s a class act which is more than I can say for you!!!
amelie: The song by Jimi Hendrix is “Voodoo Chile.”
…and you said all that to say… what?? Give us old news?
Thanks for posting the vid th0 – nice to see it again 😉
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo_Child_(Slight_Return)
seems the 2 names are correct
just read this history
i just didnn’t knew , i have the song on a cd with this name Voodoo Child
is ok , no offense
but the article is a stupidity
Wow Jeff, you must have the best writing job out there. After your exhaustive internet research of 6 minutes and 58 seconds (length of video), you came up with this article!
Does Creative Loafing actually pay you for this crap?
What a stupid article. Adam is God.
I couldn’t agree with you more!
“Ruined” Purple Haze? Huh. I heard an audience of thousands losing their minds in delirious joy.
Instantly high? Come on. The man did the equivalent of taking a sip of beer onstage. He is a consummate professional and didn’t miss a beat or a step, or a lyric for that matter. Ever heard of having fun with a song?
If your goal in writing this tripe was to discredit the amazingly talented, kind, generous, sweet soul that is Adam Lambert, you have failed embarrassingly.
If your goal was to bring a bunch of pissed-off Glamberts raining fire down on your ass…
congratulations.
Jeff, Sorry that you are getting slammed by a few of Adam’s 1.2 million Facebook fans and 800,000 Twitter followers. Next time your write an article about Adam, I suggest you spend sufficient time researching your information!
Here is a link to a YouTube video which one of Adam’s fans putted together to acknowledge the amazing year he’s had in 2010 all over the world!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4zcRPuJV8s
No, I think this unknown site decided that instead of wallowing in unseen, and unpopular cyber-limbo, it would insult Adam (and his millions of worldwide fans)and drum up some more online hits. Whatever works right? Too bad that there is nothing of quality here to make anyone return.
Not sure what your point is??? Do you blog everytime a band does a cover?? Do you critique them? This was done for a birthday present to his guitar player and who knows if the J was real, but in Amerstadam it is legal – So what’s the story here???
Yet another idiot using Adam’s name to get hits!!YEEEEEEEESH
You are so far up your own backside it’s laughable, Adam and his band did the song for a bit of fun on Montes birthday, they did Enter Sandman a few shows earlier for Tommys birthday. Have you never heard of improvisation? Hendrix was pretty good at that from what I’ve heard.
Music dies when it’s put in a straitjacket of ‘Correctness’ Adam understands this better than most.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaVi-zQud0
Enter Sandman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f3lpK_Ii3I
Whole Lotta Love.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ljb_JsvUEc
Whole Lotta Love Acoustic
How about pursuing a job in the government since you obviously like to fabricate…
Congrats on using Adam Lambert to get hits for your blog. Plus this was weeks ago – where you been?
A much better complete vid of Purple Haze/Whole lotta love Amsterdam by Suz526
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY7kbII9oG8&feature=related
amelie and carlton: your both right “Voodoo Chile” The Jimi Hendrix Experience from the album Electric and “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)” appear on the same album. As to other comments from writer of this article or elsewhere: Jimi himself changed up lyrics, high on weed, tripping on acid, or just to f*** with people. He was reported to have been bi- and would sometimes point to band member or out to guy in audience when he’d say “kiss this guy”. Not sure if ever changed lyric to “this girl’s got a hold on me”? Always thought it to be spell? What does it matter though? For the most part, stayed true to the song. Damn, this trended world wide on twitter and exposed Jimi to a whole other generation that weren’t even aware what he’s done for rock today. His awesome lead guitar player Monte got the to perform it live with one of the fiercest bad-ass singer out there today. It was performed in honor of Monte’s birthday, with little or no rehearsal together. The few more times they performed it, it was better and more polished. Best version ‘imo’ was final show GNT/LA-Nokia, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lSPah18RgY
You’re right Amy, this is a stupid article. this is old news and isn’t anything out of the ordinary especially in Amsterdam, and plus Adam is not the first performer to light up a joint on stage, it’s happened in other cities around the globe. The reviews for purple haze where amazing, this is why Adam is having so much international succes. You should be feeling embarrased for writing something without doing research, hope you don’t write for a living. You must be getting coached by kitty Kelly.
haha…. What?!?! No criticism of the other incorrect lyric at the very beginning?
“Excuse me while I kiss this guy”
LOL – I love it! Adam Lambert f’ing ROCKS!!!
Really??? ‘Ruined’ PURPLE HAZE? What EXACTLY did ADAM do to ‘ruin’ the song? Change the lyrics a little? Everybody in concert does now & then!! Sing his face off? NO one’s voice even COMPARES to ADAM’s! Entertain his audience to ‘shrieks’ of joy and ‘thunderous’ applause? Am I getting warm yet? Oh! Why bother … you can’t help it if your MUSICALLY CHALLENGED!!!
Hey, dude. Why don’t you just change your blog to “Rip Van Wrinkle’s Music blog” Music news 1 and a half months old for those who are slow or have amnesia.
Since Purple Haze is much more of a guitar player’s song than a singer’s, I don’t see how a singer could possibly ruin it. It’s not like the words are genius to begin with and I don’t think this is a song that Lambert regularly covers. Smoke a spliff and lighten up.
Obviously, this write-up was done for hits. Thanks for posting the video again. Love it!
Obviously a lot of people didn’t actually read the post. It says in the first line that it is a few months old, but it was just brought to my attention. Some of this was also just poking fun – don’t be so serious. Your comments make it seem like everyone HAS to think Adam Lambert is amazing and you all know that’s not the case. Everyone has an opinion.
I’m a huge fan of Hendrix, and not a fan of Lambert. That is why I felt his shrieking ruined the song.
Jeff no need to fret, it’s just a bunch of teenie boppers who in 5 years will ask themselves why the ever listened to this crap. That’s the one thing time gives you, perspective! Music history is littered with ” acts” like this, they come and go, recycled pop trash and no real talent.
The boy/girl/thing (whatever he would like to be called) has some talent, no doubt.
I watched him on Idol and some of his stuff was good.
However, he’s brought these kind of reviews upon his self.
It’s obvious he tries way too hard to be appauling and gross. And instead of focusing on the music, he focuses on how extreme he can be and what level to take it too next. Sort of like GaGa and her meat dress.
Ozzy did it back in the day…but that was Ozzy. He could do that.
These newcomers need to leave the “shock factor” alone.
What a circus.
OH MY F’n GOD!!! Did I read right!!! A couple of months ago Adam Lambert MIGHT have smoked a joint but didn’t inhale properly, and then got instantly high on almost nothing and …. and then… while he was waiting for his band to get ready to perform WLL he RANDOMLY AND WITHOUT ANY SIGN OF GUILT made the sound of the Voodoo Child guitar riff with his vocals!!!!! SHOCK!!!! HORROR!!!! AND if that’s not enough to have you screaming for his blood – he got all uppity and changed one or two words in Purple Haze!!!!!! Hell and BRIMSTONES!!!! He is just one big IMPROVISOR and is clearly the spawn of the devil!!!! He should be soundly flogged and locked up for being so original, theatrical and fun on stage. *sheesh* Find a new hobby mate. You suck at this one.
You really don’t get it do you? It wasn’t about getting high and being all ‘down with the proper druggy etiquette’ ROFLMAO. He is on stage putting on a show, not hanging out in a back lane with his druggy pals sharing a spliff. It was a piece of theatre created specifically for the audience he was dealing with in that country, in that venue on that night. FFS! People can be so dense. Oh and BTW He nailed that song to the wall. 🙂
All right first and foremost all you haters need to zip it. If you dont like the dude what are you doing here. Oh yeah cuz he intrigues you. He is fascinating. Music performers nowadays are so boring and mundane they all do the same cookie cutter bulls**t. One person saying the newcomers should just be boring and dont do anything because some old timer use to do that. That shows no progression if thats the case. Why should new perfomers be subejected to be a robot performer; to be a clone of the other artist we here or see. Music should be potrayed in a fun, inspirational,and liberating way like it did in the past. Its not about trying too hard, its art, freedom of expression and if we cant have that in america anymore, then we are left with lack of innovation and progression.
What a trash aarticle.
Who cares if he smoked a joint, it’s not about that.
Obviously you have never seen talent like Adam has, you must be a hater.
You probably have never even heard him sing or seen him perform.
Idiot.
Jeff Haine, if you are one of the unmusical idiots who think Adam ‘screams’ maybe you should read this thread in a forum where they know what they’re talking about.
Top 100 technically skilled Rock Vocalists
digitaldreamdoor.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=185
They even gave him his own thread.
http://digitaldreamdoor.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=568&hilit=Adam+Lambert
I loved this performance. Different strokes…
I could write a post that simply said, “Adam Lambert is a singer” and people would still complain and tell me “no he’s not, he’s a performer,” or “he’s an artist,” etc.
His fans refuse to believe there is anything wrong with him – that’s why they are fans.
No, people would tell you that he is the best singer around and not just a singer. You are being criticized because you didn’t have anything positive to say at all and what you did say, didn’t make sense. You don’t have to like him but your article was basically crap. This irritates his fans.
Sorry to be late to the party, but just to set a couple of things straight, Purple Haze was sung for two reasons. One, it was Amsterdam where smoking it is legal and Purple Haze is Adam’s favorite variety of pot. Secondly, this was for the entertainment of Adam’s online Dutch boyfriend, Jeff, who was in attendance that night. He also is a huge Purple Haze fan. Check out the videos of this concert, Adam pays a lot of attention to someone in the balcony stage left. Guess where Jeff was? As for the performance, Adam can sing anything and do it well.
you do not appreciate adam’s beauty and talent because YOU’RE A HATER. go find a life!