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Originally Posted by musiccritic101
Yeah I've also thought the same, the whole atmosphere changed musically onstage when Shanks joined the live band,I've noticed when watching videos from the 2015 tour that the band still maintained a very raw rock sound the classics still musically sounded very hard rock. Shanks guitar playing during the classics comes off as sounding generic and 'pop' sounding, it's too clean sounding instead of the heavy guitar distortion tone which most of the hits and classics require.
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Clearly Shanks is one of Jon's closest friends. After losing Richie, he felt that he needed someone to look after him.
I'm not a big fan of his overly compressed sound production either but this guy is actually helping the band the stick together.