Holy Shit!

For a 'recent' performance, only 6 years ago that vocal is flawless. He is singing properly, you can hear it in his voice - its not nasely at all and still has a very rich tone to it and hes holding all the correct notes, which i honestly thought had been more or less absent from his voice post-2000. Excellent version, and if the adlibs ala Wembley 95 had been present on this version, then I would probably say that this version was better. Not bad for recent performance!

And as it is clear that Jon can clearly still this song in 2001, but it showed up very rarely in setlists I think that goes to show that maybe they just dont like the song enough to play it night after night. And its 7+ minutes long and theyv probably got lazy now.


Andi

Andi

Or maybe Jon can't sing it night in and night out?

Hence me saying its 7+minutes of demanding vocal and him being lazy. And its no excuse for dropping the song alltogether.


Andi

Unbelievable version of Always that. Check out These Days from the same show.


I have no doubt Jon could still do Always as good as that nowadays because his voice now is pretty similar to what it was in 2001.

And here's Never Say Goodbye:

World Music Awards 2005

Richie jammin with David Coverdale and a few other guys -

Richie in Allentown 1998

Made In America - Graceland - Prayer - In It For Love - Midnight Rider / Wanted - Hard Times -

My uploads of Live Earth 2007 (I think the broadcast is from German TV):

Lost Highway

YouTube

It's My Life

YouTube

Wanted Dead Or Alive

YouTube

Who Says You Can't Go Home

YouTube

(when I downloaded this footage, there was no Prayer :( )

Jons great lip synching!

Classic. That one always cracks me up!