Seb, you are the Simon Cowell of the BJ die hards. At times you can be harsh and possibly overly critical, but dammit you are right 95+% of the time.

There are several aspects of one's singing voice... tone, strength/power, pitch, range, clarity and articulation (and probably a couple more that I am not thinking of because they don't apply to Jon... timing for instance). Songs like Always in 2001, were rough in the pitch area because he was trying to dig up the power and throaty tone he needed to sing it like he use to. Now, often Jon forfeit's 4/5 to be able to make his range available.

To me, it's the tone and clarity/articulation that suffer most in resent years.

But all things considered, I'd still rather have Always in their live show. Up until a couple weeks ago, we still got the Sambora outro solo. That song, along with most of their 90s work is the reason I am a fan... not LH or WWBTF. So I guess I'll take it how I can get it.