Best and Worst Jon Vocal Performance

Thank you for confirming that for me Kathleen. I thought I was losing my mind and I was at the show, lol!! I agree, wasn't horrible just not the best.

deb

In edition to those already mentioned

!'ll be there for you + Always Yokahoma 96

Worst:

Yeh I think everythings pretty much been covered here. If im comparing tours I have to admit his voice has got worse with every tour, I just hope that trend doesnt continue for next year :s

I've heard some boots from the Slippery tour and on some of them, Jon's voice sounds incredible. Anyone ever heard one of the shows from Cincy that year? Near-perfect. His voice wasn't wrecked for the WHOLE tour keep in mind. I've heard similiar boots from the New Jersey tour as well with high notes being hit on the Prayer chorus and everything.

I'm not exactly sure when he started skipping chorus parts on this song. I'm guessing it started on the Keep The Faith tour. Both Prayer and You Give Love A Bad Name sound ten times better in terms of the vocal harmonies if you can find a good performance from the Slippery or New Jersey tour.

One of my personal favorite performances in terms of Jon's voice is the show from Japan in 1985 which took place on 4/28. I believe the performance of Runaway is on the live CD, but I have the entire show, and it truly is sad how dead accurate his voice used to be compared to now.

Dubbed in the studio...as was standard practice with live concert vids in those days. It probably wasn't even neccessary...but that was how it was done. You aren't hearing his actual performance from that night....which is a shame because watching it...it looks like he was delivering.

Best:In These Arms/Bed Of Roses/With A Little Help From My Friends Milan 1993(incredible)
Livin On A Prayer Arhem 2000
Something To Believe In Yokohama 96/Osaka 2001

Worst:Prayer Cincinnati 1987(in the chorus there's the best playback I've ever heard) and New York 2005
Always and other songs from Yokohama 2003(Ridicolous)
For that years,it's very bad Bed Of Roses Zurich 1993

Best: Always Wembley 1995
I´d Die For You (Acoustic) 1996

Worst: Borgota 2004
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I i still love Jons voice these days,,so let the european tour begin..

I just this morning saw a bootleg from Arrowhead Pond during the Bounce tour and f*ck me Jon sounded brilliant, the whole band were on top form and to be honest I really didn't expect that much but I'll be damned if I wasn't blown away. That's two full shows from the Bounce era I've seen on dvd (the other one Shepards Bush) and they are two spectacular shows where Jon's voice is terrific, and really there's no majorly significant decline in his voice in those shows to ones I've seen from the KTF tour and the These Days tour. When I saw them in Dublin in 2003, they were amazing but it is hard to really listen critically during a concert and I know know three shows dosen't tell the story of the entire tour but hell, on that evidence, so much for Jon's voice going to hell during the Bounce tour.

I'd really love to see one of these "Have A Nice Day" concerts to see how Jon's voice is sounding at the moment.


Phil

Best: Bed of Roses

Worst: Any version of songs off of This Left Feels Right - really rubbed me the wrong way - I just kept waiting for the band to let loose and they never did

best: These Days (Yokohama 96), In These Arms (Rome 93), Keep The Faith (Rome 93), Fever (Av Evening With BJ), These Days (Sweden '00 - It's a good performance for the crap Crush Tour...).

Worst: All songs from Buffalo '03, Blood On Blood (TLFR Live), These Days (Alpine Valley '03), Blaze Of Glory (Alpine Valley '03), Bed Of Roses (The Crush Tour DVD).

best sure ever: roses milano 93, in these arms milano 93, prayer giants 01, little help bremen 95, always niagara 94, be there tampa 93

worst sure ever: always yokohama 03, these days pittsburgh 03, wild streets padova 01