Red Mosquito

tree_ wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:
Eddie Vedder trying too hard to be EDDIE VEDDER

He needs to work on being Edward Louis Severson III

Bi_3 wrote:

tree_ wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:
Eddie Vedder trying too hard to be EDDIE VEDDER

He needs to work on being Edward Louis Severson III

He needs to channel Kurdt Cobain Chris Cornell Layne Staley Scott Weiland Billy Corgan Mark Lanegan.

Nailed it.

Birds in Hell wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

Strat wrote:Perhaps now they will finally age gracefully.

We can only hope, but I'm not holding my breath just yet.

I was listening to one of the South American shows yesterday and Ed sounds like he's going to explode when he's trying to screech out the beginning of Can't Deny Me, even though it's tuned lower than the studio version. It's bizarre, I don't think he struggles anywhere near as much with the older material (aside from Blood, maybe). It's only the songs they've written in the last few years which are ridiculously out of his range.

My hunch is this is because the band is workshopping and tracking the songs in whatever key they see fit, and don't really have the patience to transpose it once Ed tries to sing over it and realizes it's not within his range; so then either he is able to pull it off for the studio cut, or they are -- gasp! -- just downshifting the track while he sings, then tuning it back up to its original key after he's laid his vox down.

I don't know, nothing forces Ed to come up with a vocal melody which is more appropriate for early 80s Brian Johnson. It's those sustained screechy notes in songs like Life Wasted, Can't Deny Me, World Wide Suicide, that tear his voice up and I can't think of anything equivalent in their earlier material.

Songs like Dissident have high notes which Ed would occasionally stumble on, even back in the earlier days, but they seem less demanding overall as he wasn't writing melodies which forced him to hit high note after high note in a sustained way.

It seems like he's consistently writing vocal melodies which he simply can't sing, and probably couldn't have sung even when he was younger. It's a totally different approach to his voice, and one which seems crazily inappropriate for a guy in his mid-fifties. Is it a weird mid-life crisis thing?

Hmm, this is interesting. He definitely does swing for the fences more now on a syllabic basis.

Eddie Vedder trying too hard to be EDDIE VEDDER

bodysnatcher wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

Strat wrote:Perhaps now they will finally age gracefully.

We can only hope, but I'm not holding my breath just yet.

I was listening to one of the South American shows yesterday and Ed sounds like he's going to explode when he's trying to screech out the beginning of Can't Deny Me, even though it's tuned lower than the studio version. It's bizarre, I don't think he struggles anywhere near as much with the older material (aside from Blood, maybe). It's only the songs they've written in the last few years which are ridiculously out of his range.

My hunch is this is because the band is workshopping and tracking the songs in whatever key they see fit, and don't really have the patience to transpose it once Ed tries to sing over it and realizes it's not within his range; so then either he is able to pull it off for the studio cut, or they are -- gasp! -- just downshifting the track while he sings, then tuning it back up to its original key after he's laid his vox down.

I don't know, nothing forces Ed to come up with a vocal melody which is more appropriate for early 80s Brian Johnson. It's those sustained screechy notes in songs like Life Wasted, Can't Deny Me, World Wide Suicide, that tear his voice up and I can't think of anything equivalent in their earlier material.

Songs like Dissident have high notes which Ed would occasionally stumble on, even back in the earlier days, but they seem less demanding overall as he wasn't writing melodies which forced him to hit high note after high note in a sustained way.

It seems like he's consistently writing vocal melodies which he simply can't sing, and probably couldn't have sung even when he was younger. It's a totally different approach to his voice, and one which seems crazily inappropriate for a guy in his mid-fifties. Is it a weird mid-life crisis thing?

Hmm, this is interesting. He definitely does swing for the fences more now on a syllabic basis.

Eddie Vedder trying too hard to be EDDIE VEDDER

Lol you’re still hung up on that??

tree_ wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:

tree_ wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:
Eddie Vedder trying too hard to be EDDIE VEDDER

He needs to work on being Robert Louis Stevenson

He needs to channel Kurdt Cobain Chris Cornell Layne Staley Scott Weiland Billy Corgan Mark Lanegan.

Nailed it.

tragabigzanda wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

Strat wrote:Perhaps now they will finally age gracefully.

We can only hope, but I'm not holding my breath just yet.

I was listening to one of the South American shows yesterday and Ed sounds like he's going to explode when he's trying to screech out the beginning of Can't Deny Me, even though it's tuned lower than the studio version. It's bizarre, I don't think he struggles anywhere near as much with the older material (aside from Blood, maybe). It's only the songs they've written in the last few years which are ridiculously out of his range.

My hunch is this is because the band is workshopping and tracking the songs in whatever key they see fit, and don't really have the patience to transpose it once Ed tries to sing over it and realizes it's not within his range; so then either he is able to pull it off for the studio cut, or they are -- gasp! -- just downshifting the track while he sings, then tuning it back up to its original key after he's laid his vox down.

knee tunes wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

Strat wrote:Perhaps now they will finally age gracefully.

We can only hope, but I'm not holding my breath just yet.

I was listening to one of the South American shows yesterday and Ed sounds like he's going to explode when he's trying to screech out the beginning of Can't Deny Me, even though it's tuned lower than the studio version. It's bizarre, I don't think he struggles anywhere near as much with the older material (aside from Blood, maybe). It's only the songs they've written in the last few years which are ridiculously out of his range.

My hunch is this is because the band is workshopping and tracking the songs in whatever key they see fit, and don't really have the patience to transpose it once Ed tries to sing over it and realizes it's not within his range; so then either he is able to pull it off for the studio cut, or they are -- gasp! -- just downshifting the track while he sings, then tuning it back up to its original key after he's laid his vox down.

Shut up

Bi_3 wrote:

tree_ wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:

tree_ wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:
Eddie Vedder trying too hard to be EDDIE VEDDER

He needs to work on being Robert Louis Stevenson

He needs to channel Kurdt Cobain Chris Cornell Layne Staley Scott Weiland Billy Corgan Mark Lanegan.

Nailed it.

Body Snatcher will get this.

Strat wrote:

knee tunes wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

Strat wrote:Perhaps now they will finally age gracefully.

We can only hope, but I'm not holding my breath just yet.

I was listening to one of the South American shows yesterday and Ed sounds like he's going to explode when he's trying to screech out the beginning of Can't Deny Me, even though it's tuned lower than the studio version. It's bizarre, I don't think he struggles anywhere near as much with the older material (aside from Blood, maybe). It's only the songs they've written in the last few years which are ridiculously out of his range.

My hunch is this is because the band is workshopping and tracking the songs in whatever key they see fit, and don't really have the patience to transpose it once Ed tries to sing over it and realizes it's not within his range; so then either he is able to pull it off for the studio cut, or they are -- gasp! -- just downshifting the track while he sings, then tuning it back up to its original key after he's laid his vox down.

Shut up

Birds in Hell wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

Birds in Hell wrote:

Strat wrote:Perhaps now they will finally age gracefully.

We can only hope, but I'm not holding my breath just yet.

I was listening to one of the South American shows yesterday and Ed sounds like he's going to explode when he's trying to screech out the beginning of Can't Deny Me, even though it's tuned lower than the studio version. It's bizarre, I don't think he struggles anywhere near as much with the older material (aside from Blood, maybe). It's only the songs they've written in the last few years which are ridiculously out of his range.

My hunch is this is because the band is workshopping and tracking the songs in whatever key they see fit, and don't really have the patience to transpose it once Ed tries to sing over it and realizes it's not within his range; so then either he is able to pull it off for the studio cut, or they are -- gasp! -- just downshifting the track while he sings, then tuning it back up to its original key after he's laid his vox down.

I don't know, nothing forces Ed to come up with a vocal melody which is more appropriate for early 80s Brian Johnson. It's those sustained screechy notes in songs like Life Wasted, Can't Deny Me, World Wide Suicide, that tear his voice up and I can't think of anything equivalent in their earlier material.

Songs like Dissident have high notes which Ed would occasionally stumble on, even back in the earlier days, but they seem less demanding overall as he wasn't writing melodies which forced him to hit high note after high note in a sustained way.

It seems like he's consistently writing vocal melodies which he simply can't sing, and probably couldn't have sung even when he was younger. It's a totally different approach to his voice, and one which seems crazily inappropriate for a guy in his mid-fifties. Is it a weird mid-life crisis thing?

Hmm, this is interesting. He definitely does swing for the fences more now on a syllabic basis.

Eddie Vedder trying too hard to be EDDIE VEDDER

Lol you’re still hung up on that??

I just thought it was an appropriate image to illustrate your post.

dimejinky99 wrote:What the hell happened in this thread

CopperTom wrote:

dimejinky99 wrote:What the hell happened in this thread

Multiple folks tried to be clever. Multiple folks failed.