Steve Walsh (formerly of Kansas) comes to mind- he was amazing back in the day.
John elefante has maintained his voice very well tho.
John elefante has maintained his voice very well tho.
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That's the joy of the internet. It's kind of like 9-5 work... You can have years of "Fantastic job! Good on ya mate...", but all it takes is one "Uh oh, oh ****" moment. The masses eat it up like candy, and your reputation is down the pooper!
Frankie Beverly scares me to death, that is... How much damage has been done. THAT really caught me off guard...
Meh. Shooting fish in a barrel. I'd be way more interested in a thread about the ridiculously small handful of vocalists who can still cut the cake after many years in the business.
I think they can change with their age just fine. As long as they go with it.
That's partly why I thought the other thread about finding a singer who can do do Freddie, Robert and the Oz was such an unrealistic thing. I see cover bands where they do these artists perfectly well. I think they must be looking for tribute band recreations.
The artist themselves don't even mimic their younger soinds why would you expect a cover band to hit every note in the same way. I actually cited Plant as an example of how it is handled well.
The artists that fall down pretend they haven't aged.
That's partly why I thought the other thread about finding a singer who can do do Freddie, Robert and the Oz was such an unrealistic thing. I see cover bands where they do these artists perfectly well. I think they must be looking for tribute band recreations.
The artist themselves don't even mimic their younger soinds why would you expect a cover band to hit every note in the same way. I actually cited Plant as an example of how it is handled well.
The artists that fall down pretend they haven't aged.
Me too! & this clip always makes me feel better, the bassist really kicks it up around the 1:25 mark............
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You are exactly right. That is usually the case, but some long time singers just don't have it anymore or have health issues and can't perform as well.
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I've got one of those. Corey Glover of Living Colour--saw them live two years ago in a small club with good sound and holy cow, he still had just about all of his insane range. I'm not sure how he managed that.
well , on the flip side ... ' the voice of rock ' Glenn Hughes, still sounds great ...!
Back in 2002 I got to do an album and tour with Geoff Tate (Queensryche, Operation Mindcrime). He had just quit smoking (!) and out of 30+ dates on the tour, I can only recall one night when his voice was less than on point. Came through last year on the QR "farewell" tour and still sounded great, though I would also say he is staying out of the upper head voice part of his range.
Empire tour was one of the best shows I have been to. Full Empire set. Then entire Minemdcrime - then 8 encores.
What was wierd was his voice sounded great throughout but somehow in the encores he almost sounded like he was even more warmed up.
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Anybody except Tony Bennett - he seems to have managed the impossible as well as anyone ever - it does bring to mind the old joke about a Frank Sinatra fan finally getting to see Frank in person in his later days - saying " I always wanted to sing like Sinatra ... and now I can ....
Let's face it, Father Time is a mean, unforgiving SOB, nothing lasts forever and often with rock stars it is the voice that goes first.
Let's talk about Vocalists who can't cut the cake anymore but used to be awesome in their day.
This is Paul Stanley of Kiss shown here during the band's 1982 "Creatures of the night" tour
This shows how he honed his skill as a vocalist over the years but sadly also how much his voice has deteriorated in recent times.
Make no mistake this is a TOUGH song for any vocalist to sing.
Say "Girl Band" and people will go "Spice girls" but ask the Spice Girls themselves and they will say "Dolly Dots"
The Dolly Dots were a Dutch Girl group which existed from 1978 to 1987 and were everything that the Spice girls would become a decade later, down to the fact that they each had a different character and look. The management of the Spice Girls have since admitted that they simply took the Dolly Dots template and updated it.
But just like with the Spice girls where you can tell that Melanie C. had more vocal talent than the others, the most vocally talented of the six were the ones who sang the most of their songs.
They were: Angela Groothuizen ( The one with the poofed up hair and navy blue top in the picture) who was the Rock Chick of the band and later when the Dolly Dots called it a day went back to singing rock.
But it is the second one who is going to be the subject of this thread. Ria Brieffies (the one on the far left with the yellow jacket.) Brieffies had a voice which was VERY similar to ABBA's Agnetha Faltskog, she had that quality of "I sing it like I lived it" that authenticity which is impossible to fake.
But when the Dolly Dots did their reunion tour in 2007 it became painfully apparent that the years were NOT kind on Brieffies.
So sad, she gives it her all but it just isn't there anymore.
Ria Brieffies died in 2009 of cancer, her band mates carried her casket to the grave with her daughter taking her place as the sixth Dolly Dot.
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Sir Paul.
