Did Paul's Voice Really Change?
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Well, he has made a few masterpieces with a scruffy voice, "Early Days" for example, I love that, his on going musical creativity with whatever tools he has and the ability to make gold of it. But let's hope he does not lose the voice to an extent where he must stop. Singing and playing is obviously something that he loves to do, and hey, I love to listen to it.
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I think he change in voice is very noticable on the Kisses on the Bottom album
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I have a great recording of Paul's 1993 concert in Las Cruces and have been listening to it, and yes, there is a marked difference in his voice today. Isn't that to be expected? I think he sounds pretty damn good for a 72 year old. But he can't sing with the clarity and strength he did 22 years ago. Even his speaking voice is deeper and rougher. Hey, he's a rock singer! It shows.
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Youtube is a great resource for all kinds of live performances, but the quality of the videos - and sound - is hit and miss. Sometimes listening to the guy in the 500th row singing at the top of his lungs on a video that looks like it was taken during an earthquake isn't the best way to watch a concert.
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In the 60s he had to stuggle to find the rough voice. Now it's permanent and he have to struggle to find a clear voice. It's just life. It is somewhat ironic I think that it seems easier for him to sing the screaming rock songs, rock that has always been associated with youthfulness, while ballads and songs like "Hey Jude" can be more hit and miss. A song that suits a breaking voice just fine I think is "Here Today".
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The movie Almost Famous was on the other day. In it, Jimmy Fallon - who wasn't famous yet - said that you have to sing rock and roll while you can because it never lasts. There's a line rhetorically asking if Mick Jagger will still be on stage when he's 50. The obvious answer being of course not. Rock is a young man's game.
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It WAS. The young man's game now is more like the stuff he did on "McCartney II", back when he was middle-aged man. I still hope that rock & roll will survive. it's such a great beat. And it can't be all computer. You need guitar bands, also in a hundred years from now...
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Guitar bands? Aren't they already gone? When was the last time a guitar solo played on the radio? Today's bands have more dancers than musicians on stage.
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Yeah, I read Keith Richards' autobiography and he said that the young v.s old thing was actually marketing. The business aiming at an audience, to sell something. As a musician, you're happy with whoever listen. It's got nothing to do with age. You just want to reach listeners, whoever they are. Wasn't "Sgt. Pepper" made as an attempt to escape the youth image, they wanted to be taken seriously, by all, as musicians.
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Hendrix Ibsen:
Yeah, I read Keith Richards' autobiography and he said that the young v.s old thing was actually marketing. The business aiming at an audience, to sell something. As a musician, you're happy with whoever listen. It's got nothing to do with age. You just want to reach listeners, whoever they are. Wasn't "Sgt. Pepper" made as an attempt to escape the youth image, they wanted to be taken seriously, by all, as musicians.
It's always been a business to the record companies. But there used to be a time when radio stations played more than the 5 songs that are hits this week.
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Yes, diversity is narrower. The sound on hits nowadays is also very similar. It's very commercially, all together. Without the Indie scene I'd died of musical anemia. Blues, jazz, raga, rockabilly... It's still there but you have to look for it, you won't hear it anywhere.
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There's plenty of great music. There always will be. You just won't hear it on the radio. It's the same with any art form that's been commercialized. People are making great movies all the time, but my local multiplex only plays the same comic book and mass murder movies over and over.
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Yes, music is human culture. What is accepted by the masses can however vary. I also love poems and there have been periods backwards in time where it has even been banned and considered immoral. This could happen with the music as well, up and down hot and cold periods of importance and periods of irrelevance. The good thing is: The idealist can't be stopped... They find their ways...
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What do you guys think of this business idea? An internet/air radio-station that plays only newer product by classic artists. I'd say that it's an idea whose time has come.
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I don't like the word product, it's so sterile. Music is art.
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And songs are just intangible things that are born magically in the air and cannot be owned... ...or, so, an ex-Beatle once thought.
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Hendrix Ibsen:
I don't like the word product, it's so sterile. Music is art.
But your point stands.
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audi:
What do you guys think of this business idea? An internet/air radio-station that plays only newer product by classic artists. I'd say that it's an idea whose time has come.
I think it's a worthy idea but a niche market, meaning business types wouldn't be likely to jump on it.
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A niche market, for sure. But I think it would comprise a variety of ages. Myself, I would've loved a station like this when I was in high-school. I've never listened to just one station or one genre, and there are probably more like-minded people than what demographic-research purports. I think there's a loophole somewhere in those numbers.
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audi:
A niche market, for sure. But I think it would comprise a variety of ages. Myself, I would've loved a station like this when I was in high-school. I've never listened to just one station or one genre, and there are probably more like-minded people than what demographic-research purports. I think there's a loophole somewhere in those numbers.
Baby you're a niche man, baby you're a niche man, baby you're a niche man too! ops: