Old voices that don't sound the same

[cadaverdog]

In another thread I mention I recently heard Elton John and Rush do some live stuff. Not together, separately. Elton and Geddy both sounded odd. What other vocalists have you heard recently that don't sound like the same person?

[cadaverdog]

Geddy sounded like the singer from The Darkness on that "Time Machine" special. Elton sounded like Lou Grant might if he was a singer.

[DLR Bridge]

I'm still pondering. This is actually harder than I thought it would be.

[FORD]

Keef Richards seems like the obvious choice.....

The minute he got off the white horse, his singing voice dropped about 2 octaves.... and then the booze and cigs dropped it a couple more over the next few years.

Hell, here's an example of his voice changing on one goddamned song.....

... this was the original unreleased recording from the Some Girls sessions, with Keith fresh outta rehab. Compare it with the vocal overdub on the Tattoo You album released 3 years later.

[DLR Bridge]

Bowie's voice dropped a few octaves over the decades.

[sadaist]

James Hetfield toured on the Justice tour for like 2 years. Somewhere in the middle of that he took vocal lessons & got serious about his voice. I remember seeing a show at the beginning & end of that tour and the difference in his voice was amazing. Unfortunately he kept at it and his voice is totally different than it was for the first 4 1/2 albums.

[fraroc]

Obviously Paul Stanley. I mean, his voice is not as jaw-droppingly bad as KISS fans (or haters) say it is, but there really is no denying that his voice has aged a lot and went through a lot of abuse through the 1970s and the 1980s, especially in the Lick It Up to Carnival Of Souls when he was using his voice to the fullest extent. Since 2009, there has been dates where Paul sounds very good, and dates where his voice outright sounds bad. I don't think that it's a callus or a cyst or anything. I just think that this man needs GIVE HIS VOICE A REST. If they had really called it quits in 2001, and reunited in 2009 for Sonic Boom, Paul's voice would have sounded much better than it does now.

The vocals on Monster sound like Paul in the 70s, but drastically aged. A lot more roughness.

[Matt White]

Robert Planet................


EVERYBODIES voice "changes"...hell, even SINATRA couldn't hit the high notes in his elder years.....it gets everybody

[Mr. Vengeance]

C'mon folks...Bob Dylan.

He's still great though.

[Mr. Vengeance]

Rod Stewart's voice is a shadow of what it once was, as well.

And he's still great too.

[FORD]

C'mon folks...Bob Dylan.

He's still great though.

I love Bob, but I have to admit I really had to struggle to get through his Christmas album. And it wasn't because it was a Christmas album. Obviously, he's loved more for writing his songs than singing them, but god damn he sounded awful on that record

[DLR Bridge]

Yeah, Bob pretty much sounds like a completely different person than back in the day. Everyone else mentioned grew a deeper voice, but they all still sound like the same person.

[78/84 guy]

The guy from REO. His voice is terrible now. Roger Daltry also. Dave. His voice changed after A Lil Ain't Enough. Lots of them sound different/bad. But its what they do, so I don't think it will stop them.

[Dave's Bitch]

Biff Byford. Although he has got better with age

Young Biff

[Dave's Bitch]

Old Biff