Aloha !

The thing is, when Jon is performing acoustic wise he most of the time sounds very good. I don't know if anyone of you remembers the 4 songs played at a German radio station, I really was amazed how good it sounded, and later on I heard him live again on several bootlegs from the Bounce tour, and his voice was just crap. Basically because he doesn't really rock out his voice, and acoustic songs are just sung different. Imagine him doing Bounce acoustic, all concentration would go to his voice which would just sound flat because of the screams. I haven't heard many good live versions of Bounce at all during the Bounce tour.

When Jon starts to sound crap acoustic wise you could ask yourself if it depends on the webcast itself, which just had a terrible sound the last time, or if it really depends on Jon himself. And lately it starts to sound more and more that it's Jon himself. Like Tom_K said, if his voice keeps on detoriating in this pace for any longer, he will have serious troubles in giving good live shows. Nowadays he's got his charm as a frontman, and he knows it a little too well in my opinion, but there will be a day when his audience will concentrate more at his actualy performance. I don't think he wants to keep making happy poppy songs like IML (which I think is a good song by the way) and Everyday, that attract a young audience who doesn't care less about his performance, there will be a day that he needs to get something of his chest. And young teeny boppers don't need albums like that. Serious music brings serious fans. At least, most of the time. So if Bon Jovi wants to be taken serious in the future, their albums will need a more serious undertone.

Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan