Ageing rockers and their voices...

[madformac]

After being at the Live 8 gig in London and having watched the shows back on TV I thought about the state of the voices of the more elderly rockers...

David Gilmour and Sting sounded perfect, their voices really have stood up to the ageing process. Paul McCartney had a spell around the turn of the millenium where his voice was dreadful but he has it back now and sounded very good. Bono too, still got it. Roger Daltrey has never had a "classic" voice but even he sounded pretty good so the question has to be asked...

What about Lindsey?

His voice has deteriorated significantly and was noticably bad during the Say You Will tour. So why is it so? It's not like he toured endlessly after he left Fleetwood Mac in 1987. I hope it was just a lack of a vocal coach or something. I would hate to think it was so bad they couldn't tour again without becoming an embarassment. Lindsey's voice was at it's best in my opinion around the time of "Out Of The Cradle" and the subsequent tour so it's a complete mystery what happened between then and now.

I was also a little intrigued by the lack of any member of Fleetwood Mac in the Live 8 concerts, Mick especially considering his affections for Africa and it's people......