Wasn't the way he was using the tool the reason why the tool isn't the same anymore ?
That's what I said. He is more experienced now but the sheer awesomeness with the exception of the vocal delivery of that one note in UV is a little less.
Wasn't the way he was using the tool the reason why the tool isn't the same anymore ?
We'll have to agree to disagree...
My ideal Bono voice would be the falsetto of the early 90's along with the full voice of today...
I still think it is too shreeky (if that is a word)
Your blue room, THAT is the voice...depth, falsetto, swagger, sexyness everything. He never was or got better
Exactly- it was the range and depth that made his ZOO TV/Passengers voice so special. Now it is sometimes too screechy or shreeky as you put it. For instance, when I hear Bono wailing during NLOTH I just think "be quiet, it sounds so forced, like sandpaper being dragged across wood" There's much less of that on AB and Zooropa.
Depth - yes. Range - no. His technical range was pretty awful by his standards throughout the 90s. Excluding falsetto, of course.