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Originally Posted by Supersonic
Aloha !
Yes.
Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan
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Welcome back, Seb!
Thank you for your polite and thoughtful answer. I appreciate it very much. I don't know you and you don't know me, but I can safely say that I also think Jon's voice sucks ass now in general, and I - for one - still haven't thrown the towel in regarding him or the band yet.
However, have you thought about all the stressing things Jon's been going through during the last 4-5 years? The recent times haven't been easy for him to take, and I'm sure that he feels really bad about sounding this poor, as we all know him being a perfectionist.
Also, his voice went downhill exceptionally (dare I say, unnaturally) fast back in 2013. How do you explain that? I mean, he was still sounding somewhat tolerable in March/April - at times even in June, like during the encore in Milan - and then horrendous in July. How do you explain that? Or were the best vocal performances in June (especially Love's The Only Rule, These Days and This Ain't A Love Song - for the most part, Always sounded rather poor back then already) "Jon putting on 120% effort in an unsustainable way", as Walleris often calls Jon's effort on the more demanding stuff?
Let's see.
These renditions of TD and TAALS don't sound that bad:
https://youtu.be/FJjFwnsFw7g
https://youtu.be/8HfPJN-ocok
These versions of I'll Be There For You and Always do. Actually, they sound horrible:
https://youtu.be/B4uWJBUoglI
https://youtu.be/9hVGvxrh3dw
Can this level of vocal deterioration be natural in such a short time? I mean, it's been more than four years since the end of the BWC tour, and Jon still doesn't sound any better. I honestly think he needs to recover from something more difficult or severe than your average technique-related vocal problems.