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Originally Posted by strandinthewind
When I watch those Bella Donna sessions on La Nicks' last issue - I literally get chills listening to her seemingly effortless and soaring vocals then. I think she can still do that for the most part (see Circle Dance and R&R)
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I don't think so. Here's what I hear: a woman whose throat is totally constricted, a woman who has to push unpleasantly full voice to get the sound out, & who has no remaining pliancy or dynamics (she never sings softly any more). She's a belter only, but you can practically hear the veins in her throat & the capillaries in her eyeballs rupturing.
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I think LB on the other hand is just a balls out kind of singer. And, since he was never really known for his voice, it does not matter as much that he bends keys, etc.
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Yes, he sucks now too. Hoarse & croaky & screechy to my ears. Can't sing up high at all & sounds like Frankenstein's monster when singing down low. His constricting-with-age voice does what Stevie's does, too: repeats the same pitch instead of moving up or down the scale, like in o/~ You can go your own way o/~ Instead of going DOWN on "can" & UP on "your" which is the way the song goes, he just stays on the same pitch practically all the way through. Sounds dreadful. I can't bear these guys' singing any more, which is probably why I only talk about decades ago like an old fart.
Still, I think they're nice people: they're kind & mostly considerate & they probably smell good if you sidle up beside them.