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Originally Posted by prayer_84
When the band played for two hours in Sofia in 2013, I left pretty disappointed. My disappointment morphed into pure rage when they played for 3 hours 8 minutes in Munich just four days later. Nowadays, Jon can no longer perform for three hours anymore, it's that obvious. Sure, he tries to keep the show going beyond the two-hour mark despite his voice limitations and I wonder if that won't inflict further damage down the road. Do you think his voice would be in a better shape if he had never performed a 3-hour show at any time of his career and had just stuck to 2 hours at the most instead?
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I don't think that made much of an impact. Most of the time in their career (not counting 2013 onwards) he only went for a three hour show when his vocals were holding up well throughout the night. Like MSG 2011 where the last two songs were In These Arms and Always after close to three hours and he still nailed them. When his voice was off, the show was cut shorter on most occasions. Like Dusseldorf 2011.
This can even be traced as far back as 1996 (and probably to 1993). When they played Madrid on the TD tour, he was sick and his voice off. That show was only 110 minutes! If you compare the Frankfurt recording from the same which I posted two days ago, it not only went on for 180 minutes, but he still had so much in the tank that he went for the final chorus on This Ain't A Love Song in a higher range and that was the 30th song of the night!
Him sounding like that today is a combination of songs that were at the limit of his then-current-range for most of his career (older Bon Jovi stuff is insanely high to sing for a standard male voice) and not learning/never properly sustaining a certain technique. Plus smoking and probably a lack of constant vocal exercise for the better part of his career.