Ann's proven her ability if she never sings another note. In any other profession besides music (& politics apparently) most her age are enjoying their senior years either retired or working a less strenuous schedule. She still is amazing.
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...and they don't even have heaters on stage???
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I've heard tell Dave Swarbrick had something to do with the mandolins as well, but I'm not sure. I'm really enjoying going down the "Heart covering Zeppelin" rabbit hole! I've not heard of them for I don't know how long. Great stuff. Cheers.
It's no big deal to Canadians, eh. A lovey day for a concert. Or perhaps a hike across the tundra.
or rather more like almost any singer would outside..... in seattle..... in JANUARY.
My knees feel different on the ski slopes compared to when I was 30.
She on the right side of the grass.
Rock on!
I'm reading the original post and scrambling to see if someone posted John and George in their fur coats and you sons of guns beat me to it.
Maggie Bell, who had an entirely different voice(much like Janis Joplin), was from the Scottish band Stone The Crows and sang on Rid Stewart's "Every Picture Tells A Story".
Ann sounds cold to me - either cold in the literal sense or in the sense that she didn't get her vocal warm up in. I've seen her sing that song several times in the last few years and she generally still hits all the notes. Mostly though I notice she's not sustaining where she usually would. That's a cold thing.
She is 73 though, and from what I can tell they are still playing that song in the original key. Let's just call that good.
She is 73 though, and from what I can tell they are still playing that song in the original key. Let's just call that good.
Once again…this is what it sounds like inside:
Not much different. Plus, with all those guitars, the one that's out of tune can't drop out?
20 years ago, my band was asked to kick off the winter holiday season by playing for an hour at a local park where they decorated the entire park with Christmas lights and such. We were going to play in the gazebo they had in the park at the end of November. A cold front came through that day and plunged the temps down to the 20s. They brought out some of the portable propane heaters for us, but they didn't help at all and by the end of the first few songs, we were stiff and having trouble playing.
It was a miserable hour of play...that we didn't even get paid for. I have sworn I will never do an outside gig in those temps ever again.
It was a miserable hour of play...that we didn't even get paid for. I have sworn I will never do an outside gig in those temps ever again.
I'd be like: Hey, pyrotechnic guy...can you just turn those flames on full blast and leave them on? 
Honourary Canadians! Pretty impressive they made their way in our small, extremely spread out market.Hmm…right you are. Well Seattle is pretty darn cold, too
Agree and this is the same thing that happens to every vocalist that sings in the upper range. They all lose it over time. Just the way the body ages and the cleanest living and best technique can't stop it from happening. On the other hand, I saw Peter Gabriel the other day and he sounded pretty much like he did 40 years ago. But he doesn't sing in the upper register without going falsetto.
All that said, I give singers a lot of latitude when they perform live and don't expect it to be pitch perfect in a rock setting. Just give me a good show.
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