The official jon's voice thread
What do you think about the guy's voice nowadays? For me, it's still VERY rough, but - surprisingly - more on the low/mid-register parts than the high ones. But what do you think JBJ will sound like next year? And how would you rate him as a SINGER nowadays? Is there anything left of him for you?
Here's Jon delivering what's probably his best vocal - and actually all-round as well - performance of any song in years: https://youtu.be/BIl-Kl85Q5w (Saturday Night, Sao Paulo 23/09/2017) Even the "night at a time" and "I know I'll get by" parts are sung frequently in tune for the first time in a long, long time. PS. Let's try to keep all the deeper discussion about Jon's voice on this thread, as I think it would probably be the easiest way to go. |
Very simple. I'll go see them in concert because it's still fun to sing along to the songs and in person, it's not as noticeable. Other than that, it's so bad I won't listen to anything live recorded in 2016-2017. I bought THINFS from London. I put into my Live mix and the title track played after a song recorded in 1995 in London. It's awful. He sounds so weak and whiny compared to 1995.
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He's completely awful nowadays.
He has no singing technique whatsoever. He's nasal (which is bad singing technique), has very little breath support, strains to hit notes in the lower 4th octave, goes flat constantly trying to sing above G4, has no control over his passaggio points, constantly sings out of tune (regardless of what notes he's trying to hit), has a feeble and weak/thin tone (no technique, damage, etc), skips words and lines, has trouble articulating/pronouncing words and vowels, and has trouble singing in time at points. He will sound just as bad (if not worse) next year, rates a 0 right now, and I have no hopes for him to be even passable. |
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It's a disaster that is only matched by a portion of fans who claim after every other show how he's supposedly "improving", when in fact, he's not. The only bright spots (e.g. a few songs on the South American leg) are him pushing his chords at 120% which is (A) not sustainable; and (B) leads to even more decline.
Next year he will be slightly worse than now, because that's the curve when you have no technique. |
At one point, he was one of the handful of greatest vocalists on the planet. Today, he's not even a shell of himself. It's truly a goddamn shame. The man had an otherworldly talent and he just pissed it away with cigarettes and general negligence to vocal maintenance.
Excuse me while I listen to Keep the Faith tour bootlegs and remember the good times... |
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Early and mid-90's he was one of the best around and I'd say that even in 2010 he was good considering his age and how high some of the tunes are. Since then, it's been nothing but a trainwreck and it'll most likely only get worse as time goes by. |
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What happened in over the course of 2013 is incomprehensible. Reason no. 314 why that tour should not have happened or should have been cancelled. |
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I do think that he improved as the tour went on the other month. I thought Rock In Rio and Sao Paulo show were good and I've actually enjoyed watching them. Is it as good as 2013? Probably not. Even then he was poor but not as bad as people make out. He did decline massively though. Will he ever gets 2011 standard again? Doubtful. Massive shame but he can only blame himself in my opinion. Sent from my EVA-L09 using Tapatalk |
JBJ knows it ("To stand on stage for two hours with a halfway working voice"). I had a GREAT time in the South American shows. The song that I enjoyed most was Keep The Faith and of course Spanish Cama de Rosas -_- and many more like Saturday Night (electric), etc. Believe me, KTF still sounds AWESOME!!! I love this song and to close the concerts with this song like the old days was PERFECT!!! There was an improvement...
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I do enjoy his voice more now than I did on the 2015 tour, but I do not exactly know why. I think the reason why the BB tour from 2015 sounded like a disaster for me is because when i thought of Bon Jovi I thought of Jon with his 2008-2011 vocals but when actually seeing the shows he sounded nothing like that anymore...so yea.
If they come to Europe I will definitely go and see them and have the greatest fkin time of my life, no doubt. Talking about Jon's raspy voice, this is one of my favorite moments from the 2010s. That "Take those old records off the shelf" sounds great. |
He's 2/10 for me. Jon doesn't only have issues with his voice but also with his confidence and passion. But after the last leg, he's rejuvenated. The confidence was suprisingly high and same goes to the passion too. This is something that I haven't seen since RS left so my praises to Jon. But as I replay the performances during that SA leg, it's very clear that he's driving himself further. Yeah it's the last 2 shows anyway but it could lead to a very rapid decline if done more often. He's still struggling to sustain high and long notes without cracking his voice. But I really hope that Jon will prove us wrong again nexy year because this is something that he's good at.
https://youtu.be/9CZ6vd7AqjI This one is like a cheer up performance. Hearing him getting the crowd alive with the classic "Oh yeeeeaaaahhh" was damn painful. But Jon makes up for it by a lively and raspy second verse. AND THIS WAS BACK IN 2015. |
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Speaking of that, I'd like to show you something that's - at least as far as I'm aware of - probably Jon's last consistent (+ good) vocal performance of any song in concert. It's not the Greenville '17 version of Always (which was definitely above expectations, but still not nearly as good as I would've hoped for based on the amount of positive reviews here), it's not the Sao Paulo '17 version of Bed Of Roses, it's not even the Milan '13 version of This Ain't A Love Song (which I once claimed it to be)... instead of those, it's this version of These Days: https://youtu.be/VNtLjw1DKsM I mean, this was in July 2013. How the hell Jon was able to hit shitloads of high B's perfectly on that song and then struggle his way through something like Captain Crash (a very easy song that he had quite a bit of trouble with back in mid-'13 already) is beyond me. It's really, really, really confusing. |
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