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Old 03-06-2018, 11:36 PM
BJFan99 BJFan99 is offline
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Default When did you first notice Jon's voice had started to decline?

When was the first time during your fan period thus far that you noticed Jon's vocal decline from previous occasions while listening to something sung by him, either live or on record (where it obviously has pretty much always been easy to hide).

The first time I noticed something about his voice wasn't there anymore was back in September 2007, when the Nokia Theatre '05 gig was aired on Finnish TV. I, as an eight-year-old, remember having cringed during the key change part of Prayer. Jon was just sounding "weird", not particularly bad, but very forced and unnatural.

Then in 2010 I bought the MSG DVD and was shocked to notice how much Jon was struggling on songs like Keep The Faith, Living In Sin and especially Dry County. And even though he sounded pretty damn good on Always and Bed Of Roses back on the LH tour, while watching the DVD for the first time I immediately noticed how much of his past vocal power and natural strength he had lost already in 2008.

The first time I noticed Jon's entire high register was gone was back in September 2015, when I decided to watch some clips from the Jakarta concert... and more recently, there was the horrendous Nashville '17 show, which was the first time I noticed Jon basically couldn't sing at all anymore.

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