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Post by steelmonkey on Jan 9, 2009 16:02:14 GMT
I thought i should pull this thread out of the greatest song poll......anyway, i agree that minstrel is an amazing vocal performance...maybe the peak in terms of beauty and passion, blessed by the high quality of the material...but i think Ian's voice continued to get stronger and improve...right up to the moment it crashed. I have, in a few other places, offered my theory that "Black Sunday' was a sort of vocal peak...and singing it for two years actually brought on the vocal disaster. Under Wraps has some very strong vocals...Apogee, for example..and the well recorded tour of 1984 has ian absolutely kicking ass and taking no names as he sung, strongly, straight through, about 6 songs in a row in the hard rocking second set ( brick, skating, sunday feeling, minstrel, breath was it?). I don't remember a long, slow fade of his voice..i think it simply crashed like a stone in October or November of 1984 and never fully recovered. When i saw the Wraps tour, everything was fine for most of the concert but when he got to TOTRTYTD, late in the set or maybe in the encore, he strained and strained and nothing came out of his mouth...Locomotive breath was almost instrumental as he mouthed the words and reached for his flute to extend the instrumental.
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Post by TM on Jan 9, 2009 17:15:18 GMT
I didn't noticed that Ian lost his voice during the concerts I saw in 84. It wasn't until I watched the MTV broadcast that I realized just how poorly he sounded.
I've always thought A Passion Play was Ian's finest hour vocally.
But one rather obscure song that I love listening to him sing is Lights Out. Something about that one I dig.
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rebecca
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Post by rebecca on Jan 9, 2009 17:55:39 GMT
I think you can certainly hear the Roy Harper influence on songs like "Requiem."
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Post by thehationcehad on Jan 16, 2009 15:53:52 GMT
I thought his best stuff was in Passion Play--Warchild--Minstrel. He uses his voice like a musical instrument & what he does is very unusual and interesting. Must have required a lot of control and skill. There's some great stuff before and after, but it strikes me as more conventional.
Some of those Heavy Horses tracks must have been incredibly punishing on his voice.
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tunertaylor
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Post by tunertaylor on Jan 16, 2009 23:41:03 GMT
I thought his best stuff was in Passion Play--Warchild--Minstrel. He uses his voice like a musical instrument & what he does is very unusual and interesting. Must have required a lot of control and skill. There's some great stuff before and after, but it strikes me as more conventional. Some of those Heavy Horses tracks must have been incredibly punishing on his voice. I couldn't agree more, you've summed it up nicely
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Post by admin on Jan 20, 2009 20:41:18 GMT
I don't think I could pick a particular era as a vocal peak for Ian but what I maybe hadn't noticed too much before and does surprise me is how diffrent Ian's voice has been in terms of singing style over the years. One song that really grabs me off the top of my head is A Small Cigar, how that got left off of Too Old To Rock N Roll is beyond me! IMO Ian's just brilliant on that one.
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