Aloha !

For those of you doubting how many studio effects went into Richie's voice to make him sound more decent on the record, just listen to the bridge at 3:08.


He has absolutely no range anymore in the higher parts and where he's found a way of dealing with it on Prayer by just shouting the words, during Every Road it's quite obvious how the clearity on the record is not how it's actually been sung in the studio.

It's going to be interesting to hear him sing older solo songs, Stranger In This Town was a shoutfest the last few times and I reckon pretty much everything from Stranger is out of his reach now. I'm sure it'll improve once he goes on tour in October when his voice has warmed up a bit but his hoarse tone is even in the lower regions of his voice. A real shame, and these are all the direct causes from too many cigarettes and too many beers.

R.I.P. Richie's golden voice 1983-2002 (done to be controversial but true nonetheless).

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan