Jon's shot voice

Most of that was all said after he went Grey. There is nothing wrong with getting older and keeping it real but he looks weathered.

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I'm still surprised people regard it as a given that Jon's had vocal surgery just because he has a scar on his throat. A surgery there would have had to happen in the 19th century to have left such a big trace. Unless they ripped out his entire vocal chord system and replaced it with a new one (that's irony for the very naive ones), those procedures are done minimally invasive and can barely be seen, if at all. Even Klaus Meine didn't have such a scar and he had quite an enormous operation in the early 80's, so 40 years ago.
We do have a couple of doctors or people working in related medical fields in the family and some I once studied with and each one I saw within the last 6 months, I simply asked them what they thought the scar was from.
All answers either were: surgery on the upper spine or on the thyroid. No one ever assumed something about the vocal chords and when pressed about it, all said that it was a much too big scar unless he had it done by some voodoo priest in a lost village on the Caribbean Islands.

As far as I'm concerned, I'd hope that there has been a vocal surgery simply because I wanna believe that he could be better sometime in the future. If there hasn't been a vocal surgery now, after a long touring downtime (including a pandemic), Jon probaby doesn't want to do it at all.

It's kinda hard not to. A singer with a shot voice who had to stop recent shows and revert to miming suddenly has a mysterious scar show up 6 months later. He's also refrained from singing and long interviews ever since.




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He looks as weathered to the same extent that most 60 year olds do. I don't understand what people are seeing here.

Just wishful thinking. The band have no new album out so no reason to really tour any more than the few US dates that they did this year, so no reason to sing publically. We have no idea if he may have been writing or recording. The band have always had quiet periods between albums, this is nothing new. And there's definitely no reason to do a bunch of interviews right now.

No KOS performances either? Or charity gigs? This is quietest Jon's been in 40 years

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Yeah, this. They finished the spring tour and they might’ve been up to all sorts of stuff since then. Writing, recording, preparing things for the 40th anniversary, etc. No reason to perform or do interviews. Plus, Jon might’ve even chosen this time off from touring and being in the public eye specifically to get whatever (non-voice-related) surgery he’s had done.


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He's also in his 60's when most people start slowing down and doing less in their worklife. People just want to see more in everything all the time....

It's not like singing is fun for him anymore, that much is clear. It's his job.

He also knows his voice shit the bed last tour. Why would he start doing solo and a run of corporate gigs? Though a lot of times, those aren't even advertised so for all we know, he could have done a handful since the end of last tour. I know of maybe two off the top of my head, the Nashville one for sure. I think there's a very good reason this is the quietest it's been in awhile, because it's been awhile. IMHO dude is winding down.

The hair/image stuff..."my friends are saying he looks like a grandmother" yeah, and my friends have been calling them a talentless hack band for 20 years. We can't pick and choose when we care about what our friends say about something we love. If we gave a shit what our friends thought of the band, how many of us would have stuck with them this long?