Peterrrrr
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one4u2 said:It was 1 am there, I'd imagine he was tired
It just hit me also.
one4u2 said:It was 1 am there, I'd imagine he was tired
rihannsu said:I think that the biggest reason is that he has been talking his ass off leading up to the G8 meetings. What we see in the press is just a small portion of what he does. He is probably talking on the phone or in meetings for most of the day every day leading up to the G8 in June and that does affect his singing. I remember during Elevation one of the biggest concerns about all the political work he was doing was the amount of talking he was doing which he is not supposed to do when they are touring. Even without that they always had trouble getting him to shut up enough to rest his voice between shows. On the JT tour when he was having trouble a doctor told him to shut up and rest his voice and Edge joked that Bono had to pay a LOT of money for a specialist to tell him to shut up when they had been telling him that for years. So endless talking combined with probably at least some studio vocal work since he joked in Dublin about Edge chaining him in the studio makes for a very tired voice. It was also mentioned that they were supposed to talk to the press Saturday but their plane was delayed, so if they flew in right before the gig the flight itself could have messed with his voice.
Dana
Peterrrrr said:
I remember on Popmart, Bono breath in something from a mask(under the traveling). The band was happy when he had that mask on his face, because he had to quiet then .
U2lunatic said:
I Think it was during Elevation tour
U2lunatic said:
I Think it was during Elevation tour
JCOSTER said:In U2 by U2 there is quite a nice piece on that whole mask thing. Also on how he was seeing doctors and no one knew not even Ali. He was afraid he had troat cancer.
Chizip said:
so he had a throat cancer scare and yet he still smokes?
one4u2 said:It was 1 am there, I'd imagine he was tired
Blue Room said:Read through some of this thread. Alot of people have touched on Bono's vocals. One off shows, Bono rarely sings well. So it not surprising.
Here are the factors involved. They are in the studio, so he is using if vocal chords just about everyday they are there. Technical problems, which was obvious also, didnt help the situation. But this is probaby the main reason. It was an event. Other celeb's, people Bono knows, etc. Bono LOVES to talk. Guess what he was probably doing all day long. Its similiar to what happened to him for the Sarajevo show on Popmart. He did interview after interview and met with all kinds of people the day before and the day of that show. His voice just gave out from being tired and stressed all day. I dont think there is anything wrong with his voice though. The Vertigo tour was the strongest his voice has sounded since 1987 IMO.
JCOSTER said:From the POP era:
Bono:
We wanted to make a sexy, groovey song. And we nearly did. The truth is, I was in a bit of trouble. At first, I thought it might have been the smokes. Rather stupidly in my early thirties, I'd gone from smoking cigars on ZOOTV into smoking camel cigarettes. But I don't think it was just that. I think I had damaged my voice.
Bono:
You've been fighting with all kinds of fears just to get on stage sometimes. You just don't think you have it in you to hit those hight notes, to visit the places you need to for the songs to come alive.
Elevation Era:
Bono:
My voice problems hadn't gotten any better. There was swelling on my vocal cords, which was not a nodule, and wouldn't go away. I had been seeing specialists but there was some uncertainty about what it was. It was suggested that it was my lifestyle, the smokes, drinking too much, on the phone all the time, never going to bed. I was trying to make changes but it was difficult.............But my voice was not strong, and I knew it. Dr.????? a very gifted ear, nose, throat surgeon, said, "Look, we're going to have to take this seriously. I want to put you out. And when I get down and can really have a good look at this, if I am worried, I need your permission to do the biopsy. I said, biopsy? Isn't that what you give people when you think they have cancer?
I said no way, I can't do it. He said, I just want to go in and have a look with a microscope, I will know within 90 % certainty if it is a cancer. But if I see that, you have to let me operate. So I finally agreed. I didn't tell anyone, not Ali, didn't tell the band, I just went through it on my own. .......................So, I went in to the operating theatre, lay down and they put me out. Next thing I know, I'm half conscious, groggy, and the good doctor comes into view and says, I'll be back in an hurry when you wake up. I just grabbed his arm and shook it, he said your ok your fine!
LemonMelon said:
100% live
The_Edge89 said:
I'm sorry to say so, but it wasn't a 100% live performance, I couldn't judge from the quality of the youtube clip but it seemed like Larry banged on his drumkit pretty hard while Bono sang over a tape and maybe that's about it.
I don't think there's a way to replicate the "twang" of a Telecaster (the regular Vertigo guitar) on a Les Paul, the same goes for the sound of Streets, but that wasn't part of the question.
I mean, why would Edge take more than thirty different guitars on tour if they sounded (almost) the same anyway?
Compared to the TV Asashi version ( I'm sure that was playback) I'd say they used the same tape here for Vertigo.
So let's say at most 75% live (if Adam did play his bass live)
LemonMelon said:
The outro for Vertigo was completely different, Bono's vocals were completely different, and Larry's drumming was also different.
LemonMelon said:
Unless they used a tape to fill out the sound, I'm pretty sure it was live.
Plus, Adam was really high in the mix during Streets and you could hear him, good and bad, quite clearly.
Edge played some different riffs in Streets as well.
Besides, why would they rehearse for an hour if they were just going to lipsynch it?