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Originally Posted by Thinny
The whole YouTube argument makes me laugh. It's people really clutching at straws.
Back in the 80s and 90s the best recording equiptment was nowhere near as good as what is on most mobile phones these days. Yet the band and Jon's voice still sound great or the most part, even in the really worst quality footage.
Nowadays high quality video and audio is easily recorded by anyone at a show. Yet it's the quality of the recording that's to blame for Jon sounding awful. It make absolutely no sense....If that was the case wouldn't all bands sound awful on the live YouTube videos. Because they don't. At all.....
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Yeah I smile at that argument each time again as well. You can hear it live in person as well, some simply have more trained ears than others do. Some hear when a person sings off key live, others don't. If people who don't hear it live still enjoy it, great for them, but the whole "Youtube makes it sound bad" argument is stupid. The band sounds excellent on mobile phone videos on YT from 2008 to 2011 (well, mostly) and the techical standards were far worse by that time.
It seems these days that Jon has to rely on a great audience to cover up the flaws. If people are loud and in a party mood from the start, they can carry the show for him (like in Munich, Warsaw, Madrid, Wembley), but if they're facing a tough audience, they don't have it in them to win them over because the flaws are too noticeable for a quiet audience (like in Denmark for example).