Wednesday OT: best "voice" you've heard at a concert
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I saw Muse twice during their Resistance tour. Matt Bellamy was awesome vocally and the music was fantastic as well.
I saw REM in Chicago around 1995. Michael Stipe was great but I was also impressed with Mike Mills as well. I notice his voice now whenever I hear an REM song.
Milli vanilli, Spitting image to their CDs they had out. Sounded like we were in the recording booth.
Shania Twain not only sounded good, but looked damn good. Not much of a country music person so can't say much about others. Just worked at her concert.
Agreed on Dylan. He played the McLeod Center about 10 years ago and was just awful. Like 'are you sure you want to stay to the end of this?'-type awful.
As far as really good live: McCartney, Isbell, Manilow all sounded damn near studio quality. Josh Groban is in a whole other world vocally from anybody I've ever heard though...
I did, back when the first album came out! They were over in the Quad Cities, and were fantastic. It was great, tiny venue and they were hilarious!
Some of my favorite live stuff is from Dylan like his Live '66 album and Rolling Thunder Revue. The acoustic stuff from '66' is transcendent, and the full band is really rough and raw but that was kind of the point ('Play it ****ing loud!').
But when I saw him in '04 and '06, both were underwhelming although better in '06. That said his band was really, really good.
Ryan Adams: I saw him in 2007 with a very heavy Cold Roses/Jacksonville City Nights leaning setlist and it was really great.
Still good but boring the last time ('17?) but Emmy Lou Harris opened and we got them doing 'Carolina' together which was a nice throwback.
I think both Dylan and Adams are INCREDIBLY dependent on the day, from what I've heard with talking with others!
Yep and I think it's always kind of been that way.
I think the performance style turned me off to Dylan--I hadn't done my research the first time and didn't realize he'd stay at the keys all night.
In all fairness he sounded just fine if you compare it to his current/recent records which are definitely in the 'acquired' category like Waits, etc.
I'm lucky that every Ryan Adams show I've seen has been pretty great dating back to about 2007.
I listened to most of this concert while I was re-tapping and throwing kegs around in the back of trailers. WAY MORE beer was consumed for that concert than I anticipated.
But, yes, both performers were pretty solid. Billy had lost some of his upper register, but he still delivered.
I'm jealous of that list. I would have loved to have seen the Toadies, Femmes and the Pixies live.
Kinda bummed that Band of Horses disappointed. I would have thought they would have been radio-quality.
Rachel Price from Lake Street Dive at Hinterland a few years back.
They all have a fantastic amount of energy. It was great.
Band of Horses wasn't bad, just not exceptional? If that makes sense? I do love them.
