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[Ana4Stapp]

Quote: (Originally Posted by Steve)

Nice videos. Good to see some new stuff. However, I hate to be the one always posting the negative, but I think these videos prove what I've been saying regarding how his voice live is not the best. In Surround Me, the first verse he sounds flat, or at least off half an octave down, and then he seems to get a bit better after the first chorus. However you can see how he forces out the notes towards the end of the song. It's like hitting some of the notes just doesn't come natural and he has to force it out. What I'm afraid of is that is what happened during the Weathered tour. He had to force a lot of the higher notes out and half way through the tour, he had throat problems...

Same impression here...

[nagpo]

Quote: (Originally Posted by Rune)

I enjoyed the songs on the whole but i have some concerns with his voice:

The thing you all are noticing is that he is straining his voice when he sings. He sings straight through his throat in all the songs and in many cases he is singing outside of his range.

Scott Stapp has been and still is a baritone voice, he's trying to sing high tenor a la myles kennedy, and he's just not singing properly to be able to hit those notes.

If you notice specifically in Surround Me when he's singing after the first chorus there are times where he has to strain so much that his right leg actually comes up towards his chest (no this is not some artistic thing, this is his body tensing up to get up to those notes).

If Scott continues to sing this way (from his throat) i can promise you we will see tour cancellations based on his voice as we did in the Weathered tour.

I would hope that since he's still pursuing this as his career he would have invested in some singing lessons to get his voice out of his throat and into his chest and diaphragm, but obviously that's not the case. My best guess is he wants to hold on to his raspy voice, but as far as longevity of career is concerned it's an extremely unwise choice.

agreed

[adparaiki]

You forget that Scott had those throat problems that recently went away.
Recorded an album really quickly so his voice would have been overworked.

He isn' doing a our till 06 so he will have time to rest and his talk about it being something u need to look after he realises this.

and you forget he sounded great on the album.

I have had a professional listen to it and he says their is very very little digital editing on the vocals if any. so scott had to have sang that himself.
he had time to sit and do this with a fresh unoverworked voice with no audience.

The mixing on the mic isn't very good on he acoustic session and scott tries to compensate for this in the performce.

+ so I know Scott will sound awesome on tour if unoverworked.
+ the acousic sessions didn't sound that bad.