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caldervalium
caldervalium
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The worst vocal performance ever
Nov 17, 2017, 11:57
http://www.bigozine2.com/TRKS2/SRStokyo/SRStokyo205.mp3

Forget Florence Foster Jenkins. Rid your mind of the Linda McCartney tape. Don't even think about Alex Chilton's 'Surfer Girl'. Ladies and gents, I give you the Stone Roses performng 'She Bangs The Drums' at Tokyo Budokan earlier this year. Bless.
jb lamptoast-morsley
jb lamptoast-morsley
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Edited Nov 17, 2017, 19:18
Re: The worst vocal performance ever
Nov 17, 2017, 19:13
Ha! Had to share that with some poor unsuspecting people...
Monganaut
Monganaut
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Re: The worst vocal performance ever
Nov 18, 2017, 00:13
Ha ha, was gonna say Stone Roses, that guy sings flatter than a flat iron.
Mind you, massive Banshees fan as I am, ole' Soiuxsie could turn in a dog of a performance from time to time, esp towards the end.

I give you this piece of evidence m'lord....
Siouxsie And The Banshees: The Seven Year Itch.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBK0l-VwpdY
Fast forward to Cities in Dust (approx 36.30) for a prime example.
Popel Vooje
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Edited Nov 18, 2017, 12:52
Re: The worst vocal performance ever
Nov 18, 2017, 12:48
caldervalium wrote:
http://www.bigozine2.com/TRKS2/SRStokyo/SRStokyo205.mp3

Forget Florence Foster Jenkins. Rid your mind of the Linda McCartney tape. Don't even think about Alex Chilton's 'Surfer Girl'. Ladies and gents, I give you the Stone Roses performng 'She Bangs The Drums' at Tokyo Budokan earlier this year. Bless.



ow. He sounds like he's actually singing in a completely different key from the rest of the band.

That's the thing - in the studio all these could have been put through Autotune or Melodyne and corrected with a few mouse clicks. As far as I'm aware there's currently no way of doing that with a live vocal track though.
Kid Calamity
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Re: The worst vocal performance ever
Nov 18, 2017, 13:00
FUCKIN' HELL!
elegant chaos
elegant chaos
2390 posts

Re: The worst vocal performance ever
Nov 18, 2017, 16:43
He can't excuse this on bad monitors - this is truly terrible - more keys than it takes to open the Bank of England - and none of them the right one

i saw them at Ally Pally in 1989. Time Out rated it one of the greatest 100 gigs ever. They couldn't have been there. The sound was rubbish and Ian Brown's vocals were suspect - but not as bad as this!
elegant chaos
elegant chaos
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Re: The worst vocal performance ever
Nov 18, 2017, 17:08
Here's "I Am The Resurrection"

http://www.bigozine2.com/TRKS2/SRStokyo/SRStokyo208.mp3
caldervalium
caldervalium
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Edited Nov 18, 2017, 17:46
Re: The worst vocal performance ever
Nov 18, 2017, 17:46
http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=3453

Here's the whole gig. Comedy fans should probably start with the second disc.
Moon Cat
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Re: The worst vocal performance ever
Nov 19, 2017, 22:10
I've actually heard pissed Stone Roses fans on Deansgate do better than that.
Andfurthermoreagain
Andfurthermoreagain
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Re: The worst vocal performance ever
Nov 20, 2017, 12:47
Popel Vooje wrote:
caldervalium wrote:
http://www.bigozine2.com/TRKS2/SRStokyo/SRStokyo205.mp3

Forget Florence Foster Jenkins. Rid your mind of the Linda McCartney tape. Don't even think about Alex Chilton's 'Surfer Girl'. Ladies and gents, I give you the Stone Roses performng 'She Bangs The Drums' at Tokyo Budokan earlier this year. Bless.



ow. He sounds like he's actually singing in a completely different key from the rest of the band.

That's the thing - in the studio all these could have been put through Autotune or Melodyne and corrected with a few mouse clicks. As far as I'm aware there's currently no way of doing that with a live vocal track though.



I think the original studio recording probably pre-dates effective digital vocal tweaking. I just get the impression John Leckie was either 1. very skilled in getting the artist to perform to a reasonable standard, 2. very patient or 3. both. Even around that time, his live vocals were shaky to say the least (if the Blackpool Empress gig is anything to go by)

This is kinda proved by Second Coming's godawful Tears (a gauche Stairway to Heaven re-write which most Roses fans I've come across think is the BEST THING ON THERE [their words]) which features Ian's original guide vocal which manages to drift in and out of tune constantly. Apparently he wouldn't commit to a finished vocal because he loathed the song so much. I agree with his sentiment, thought leaving it off the album might have been the more definitive solution.

A friend of mine told me that he knew the guy who was paid on that reunion tour to play keyboard notes off-stage into Ian's ear monitor to help him stay in key. Either didn't work or he wasn't there that night..... or both!
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