Re: Loggins - nope, he didn't. When I saw him perform a week ago, virtually all of it was in the original recorded keys (save for I'm Alright, which was dropped down to what sounded like a half-step from the original recording) and sung in the original recorded melodies.
Corporate gig or not, the lack of enthusiasm from both the performers and audience alike was well-earned and reciprocated.
Granted, to roughly paraphrase what Nitro said, it'd be unfair to compare Roth to Loggins because neither are really stylistically comparable. That corporate gig is just a logical extension of the determination I made a decade ago when seeing the ADKOT show I saw, in that Dave simply is either unable or unwilling to sing the tunes either in key or follow the melody. It was one thing when he was fronting CVH and had the off-note here and there and could cover it up with some karate moves or some banshee screams. Now, Dave has nothing left in the arsenal.
Alas, the odd corporate gig gives him something to do - I'm assuming he doesn't particularly need the money - and if whoever wants to pay him whatever to show up it doesn't lighten my pockets any. I'm just way too far past the point of giving the benefit of the doubt to delude myself there are any diamonds in that dogshit far as paying my money to see it goes.
Corporate gig or not, the lack of enthusiasm from both the performers and audience alike was well-earned and reciprocated.
Granted, to roughly paraphrase what Nitro said, it'd be unfair to compare Roth to Loggins because neither are really stylistically comparable. That corporate gig is just a logical extension of the determination I made a decade ago when seeing the ADKOT show I saw, in that Dave simply is either unable or unwilling to sing the tunes either in key or follow the melody. It was one thing when he was fronting CVH and had the off-note here and there and could cover it up with some karate moves or some banshee screams. Now, Dave has nothing left in the arsenal.
Alas, the odd corporate gig gives him something to do - I'm assuming he doesn't particularly need the money - and if whoever wants to pay him whatever to show up it doesn't lighten my pockets any. I'm just way too far past the point of giving the benefit of the doubt to delude myself there are any diamonds in that dogshit far as paying my money to see it goes.
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