7.2.12 Adam News & Info, "The Amazing Adventures"

Holst, you’re a marvel of information that I’m finding particularly fascinating in light of the developing phenom of Adam & Brian that I think I see. I remember a Japanese study from a ways back about how grade school kids learned math better when they listened to music while doing their work. The study tried to determine what music produced the best results for the students. IIRC, they determined it to be Bach.

You’ve given me even more fuel for my fantasy of Brian writing new music for Adam’s voice! I like to think of Brian, hanging out in his backyard observatory, gazing up at the night sky and hearing music in his head. So much music! When he wrote a song like “Who Wants to Live Forever” that he himself couldn’t possibly have vocalized while he was writing it, Brian must have been able to literally hear Freddie in his head singing that melody. That song (and others) are so obviously written for Freddie’s voice and style alone. It took Freddie’s voice to give sound to what was in Brian’s head, and that Brian himself could not do. Now, when Freddie died, what happened to those songs in Brian’s head? Freddie’s gone, but the music in Brian’s mind didn’t die. It would be like having all this glorious sound trapped in your head with no ability to give it voice. When Beethoven became deaf, but he continued to hear every note of the music he wrote in his head, what if he hadn’t been able to play an instrument to produce that music he heard? Now, here Brian finds himself sharing a stage with a young man with a nearly inhuman voice, a man who could once again give wings to Brian’s songs, set them free from his mind, and send them soaring again, back out into space just like his guitar solos.

At first I was puzzled when I hear that Brian said Adam had a voice like nothing he’d ever heard before. The longer I thought about it, the less puzzling it seemed. Yes, of course, Adam’s voice has many similarities to Freddie’s voice, and obviously Brian hears that. But he, like maybe no one else, is finely attuned to hear every minute difference and nuance that makes Adam’s voice different than Freddie’s. I imagine Brian might have a rather substantial songbook in his head, written over these many years since he lost Freddie, but written for Freddie’s voice nonetheless. I bet he’d like to hear those songs in Adam’s voice. I believe this will happen, because it seems nearly inevitable.