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Originally Posted by Thinny
It's taken from the soundcheck not the actual gig I believe, so he won't be singing it as he would on stage, hence the parts missed etc.
He has always sang the melodies to any BJ song he does in his own style, I really don't hear that much difference in the way he sings this to the version on the B-Side of the In It For Love single back in 98. He's never going to sing things the way Jon sings them.
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This being a soundcheck is a fair point, but “His own style” is not. I’m not comparing him to Jon. Richie in 2012 sang these songs in his own style, but he was still keeping up with the melody and the tempo, not slurring (or completely missing) lines, like he’s been doing in many performances since 2014; to which most people speculatively blamed substance abuse. He sounds better here, but there’s still a lot of that erratic singing that he only started doing post-Jovi.
Here’s an example of Prayer from 2012 where he sang in his own style, but he sounds “sharp” (for the lack of better word), unlike in this new performance.
https://youtu.be/4EjQhqEfuQY