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Originally Posted by Rdkopper
A lot of people fault Jon for the way he sings now but the vocal cords are very delicate... If you add up all the shows, all the promos, and all the abuse, there are a lot of miles on those cords... Adele just cancelled her tour because of vocal cord damage and she also just had surgery a few years prior... The girl is only 29 with 3 albums and 3 tours under her belt to date... If this was the 80's, they would have shot steroids in her throat and told her to go back out there... When you look back, it's amazing that words can still come out of Jon's mouth... Blame Doc Mcghee for Jon's current vocal state, not Jon...
Sure there is a small 5% pool who can still do it but there is a larger 95% pool who can not...
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I think it's a little too easy to just blame Doc for it. Yes, there was an enormous amount of strain on him during those eras and they have their share of his vocals being in the state they're currently in. But Jon still has contributed enough to this by himself: his chain-smoking period radically thinned out his voice and reduced his range drastically within two years. And the most important factor is that he had never acquired a proper singing technique at any point in his career.