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Iceman · #21 05-09-2007, 08:45 AM

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Originally Posted by bratlugs

How do you change the way you sing? In general I mean......how you mean?

Listen to Livin' On A Prayer live from the 80's and then compare it to a version from 2000 onwards. Or basically any song pre-Crush and listen to it's live version now.

Nowadays Jon sings "through his nose", that's to say he reaches every high note by pushing the vocals upwards to his nose, creating the right note but also making the vocals sound nasal. Back in the 80's he used his head voice and just screamed those notes. It can get hard on your vocal chords if you don't do it right which is why Jon was given steroids and chortisone in order to be able to sing on the tours of the late 80s.

He could still sing like he used to in the 80s, but not every day, not even in every song. And some of the higher notes seem to be gone forever. On one-off -gigs he usually sings better than on longer tours where you have to preserve your voice. Humidity also helps, which is why he sings better in wet weather.

Ice

Thierry · #22 05-09-2007, 12:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Iceman

Listen to Livin' On A Prayer live from the 80's and then compare it to a version from 2000 onwards. Or basically any song pre-Crush and listen to it's live version now.

Nowadays Jon sings "through his nose", that's to say he reaches every high note by pushing the vocals upwards to his nose, creating the right note but also making the vocals sound nasal. Back in the 80's he used his head voice and just screamed those notes. It can get hard on your vocal chords if you don't do it right which is why Jon was given steroids and chortisone in order to be able to sing on the tours of the late 80s.

He could still sing like he used to in the 80s, but not every day, not even in every song. And some of the higher notes seem to be gone forever. On one-off -gigs he usually sings better than on longer tours where you have to preserve your voice. Humidity also helps, which is why he sings better in wet weather.

Ice

Interesting point of view, Ice. In fact his voice was way more powerfull than it is now.

I don't understand why Jon wanted to change his voice for worse. I mean you should always be able to deliver quality on basically every show/performance. The fans deserve that.

Iceman · #23 05-09-2007, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Thierry

I don't understand why Jon wanted to change his voice for worse. I mean you should always be able to deliver quality on basically every show/performance. The fans deserve that.

He just can't sing like he used to, at least not for longer periods of time. It's not like he chose to change the way he sang, he had to.

Ice

Mr. Saturday Night · #24 05-09-2007, 11:29 PM

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Originally Posted by danfan

Yeah, Jon doesn't hate the song. He hated the movie it was initially written for, "Romeo Is Bleeding".

I'm surprised that they don't play it as a regular. It's one of their 3 biggest singles ever (sales wiese.)

Oh ok, my mistake. I misread that in an old interview. I guess he was talking about the movie.

#25 05-10-2007, 01:12 PM

I was listening to some Crush and Bounce era shows yesterday and even on HAND shows his voice is stronger than it was on the Early 2000s shows.

About Always, I think it was Becky who said that Jon only performs the song when the audience is not into the show and he wants to get them into the show more.

scookuk · #26 05-13-2007, 07:27 PM

Man I and my brothers are the same, we've been to 6 gigs and I've dreamed of hearing Always. 2nd night at Milton Keynes jon started talking about doing it and i almost exploded, then he said it was gonna be the TLFR version ) : gutted. but it was still amazing. Fingers X'd since its a one off gig they might do the full version!

enjoy the gig man

SuperCoolAl · #27 05-14-2007, 11:10 AM

Wembley '95 version is on the Live From London DVD/VHS

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