SN - interestingly, while she has certainly lost range, I think she definitely still has a great voice - it's just very different than it used to be.. while, still sounding like her. I can't explain it. There's a quality to her voice that has always stayed in tact but she's gone through many different vocal shifts as I'm sure anyone who listens to her is aware, and notably in the past 15+ years she's sang in a lower register and with a much more forceful sort of delivery.
LB - Guitar playing is great as it has ever been, however I do think his voice has lost some of it's vigor (aside from range which comes with age).. I'm not sure if it's of his own accord, like him purposefully doing the weird hissy vocals or whatever, or if it's truly degenerated.. because he does sound great live for the most part, yet on studio recordings he sounds somewhat weak. Which is completely bizarre.
CM - no opinion, as she hasn't put out anything for me to judge her by
As for John and Mick, I'd say they definitely still have it. But I'm also not a drummer nor a bassist by any means so those things are harder for me to discern.
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