Ageing rockers and their voices...

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Originally Posted by trackaghost

In my earlier post I talked about how a singer's range doesn't necessarily make them a better singer in my eyes.
Look at Marianne Faithful for instance. She had a better range in her youth, with her angelic girly voice but I'd take her world-weary smokey croak of Broken English any day.

Range means nothing to me. Celine Dion has range, but I'd prefer Lou Reed's speak-sing, Roger Daltry's passion or Neil Young's slightly-out of tune sweetness any day.

As for Lindsey, I just prefer his deeper voice now. I don't care that he hasn't got the range any more.

Joni Mitchell's mature voice suits her quite well, I think. Unfotunately, I can't say the same for a lot of the older artists. Robert Plant for example. He dodged almost every high note the last time I saw him. It made for a rather uneventful show besides the living legend aspect of it. The Egyptian orchestra was nice too.