Though I think he's always been a great singer, I agree that Lindsey has matured A LOT vocally. No, he's not able to be technically great onstage, but he sacrifices that for passion, which is certainly fine by me. That way we get to experience both aspects of one Mr. LB vocally. It's true, a lot of artists who have chosen to continue to perform as they age have had to change keys...big deal. They've had to do it because they are human beings. We can except these as the "now" versions, as opposed to automatically deeming them "worse" or "inadequate" versions. We can enjoy them for what they are now, because the only alternative is no FM at all...they can't, afterall, reverse the aging process. I do, however, think it would work EXTREMELY WELL in the band's favor to do a complete overhaul of some of the songs instead of doing versions that can seem pale in comparison to the old ones to those of us who dissect the details. Just as Gypsy worked so much better at AHI '00 done completely acoustically. Ever since the pnemonenon that was MTV's Unplugged, the public at large digs that stuff anyway.
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