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01-06-2013 06:40 AM |
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Originally Posted by Supersonic
(Post 1099023)
Aloha !
Yeah, this. Plus that on the last few performances Jon sounds flat all the way through with the ones from South America being the exception here and there. The example Nickolai posted from London is a rather bland one, no emotion and Jon struggles a lot, even with the verses. And judging from the way he's looking he knows it too.
Frankfurt was the last time Jon sang the full chorus every time as opposed to just It's not just a matter of hitting the notes, it's a matter of how the full song is delivered. The verses in Frankfurt start a bit flat but Jon really, really tries and gets into the song like I haven't seen since 1996. His range opens up a bit and he's capable of delivering the vocals with a rich quality that hasn't been doen ever since.
It's not the best version ever, but it's certainly the best version since 1996. The 2008 tour had really good vocals and it's a shame Jon didn't try to go for the more vocally demanding songs more often as he was really capable of delivering would he have trained his voice more like on occasions like this.
Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan
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Without knowing jack shit I 100% agree with you. Especially about how great his voice was towards the end of the 2008 tour... and yet he never really took advantage of it (I know that's easy to say when, prior to that tour, Always seemed dead in the water. But still). I don't know, from what I've seen- and I didn't pay that much attention to this past tour compared to the Lost Highway gigs- he seemed to care more about demonstrating his vocals in 2008 versus just playing it safe. This performance of TD being one example, but also I have gotten the sense that Always was more consistently delivered on the LH Tour than it was in 2010-2011. Was that the case with most songs? Or am I full of shit. I don't know, It just wouldn't shock me if, after LH, Jon was like, "well shit I showed them I can still sing," and then stopped pushing himself from there. I know we got STBI last tour but we never got a version where he went all the way- and I doubt that's because he's physically incapable of it. |
