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Originally Posted by crashed
See I'd counter with the fact that Richie being incapable of doing anything coherent for a few years created things like the Lost Highway album in the first place, where Jon pretty much was going it alone. It's not just one factor, it's a combination of factors.
Richie's solo tour seems to have got him back in the groove though, and at long last.
Jon currently is having some sort of issues - whether vocally, confidence, sickness, I don't know. I've no doubt they'll work them out.
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I'm talking about the bigger picture here, Jon has control over everything they do, and Richie being incapable? Have you listened to Richie's new record that came out last year? He's capable, things are the way Jon wants them to be. Anyway, I digress, I'm talking about the band and the songs, the post 2000 ones, the performances, everything. The man himself said that he still had the problem that he wrote the songs in a high key and he couldn't sing them, that leads me to believe the man writes the anthems, he loves the big vocal epic songs, but he can't deliver, that's why when you down-tune an epic anthem it sounds like shit. They never where Radiohead or any other band with brilliant lyrics, yeah they shone here and there but that wasn't their strength.
Anyway, live, as a performer, I imagine you don't wanna strain your voice in each freaking song you play. His fault could be that he isn't choosing the best post 2000 easy-to-sing material.
But if he was confident on his voice or if he didn't give a shit about the vocal delivery, he would sing Santa Fe every night.
I honestly believe he has 0 confidence in his voice anymore. That's why most of the passionate performances we link here each day are on a good-voice day for Jon, he feels confident and he gets in the zone. Examples would be I believe from lisbon, Roses from frankfurt, etc.