Re: Re: Re: Bonos voice change story
Peterrrrr said:
He can get better, if he stop smoking I think he will get the voice more clear. And that means that he will reach higher notes.
On a night to night, day to day basis, but not his actual range.
His higest range possible is what he offered up in the last two years. Well, here is the easiest way I can put it:
That long bridge note of Native Son is the most impressive vocal he's done in 15+years. It's two steps higher than the big "sing" in Sometimes and the 'La'More' of Miss Sarajevo.
If he quit smoking he'd still be able to hit that note, conceivably because he was smoking when they recorded it. Granted he probably didn't smoke that day or for several days and rested his voice for a good long time.
The point is, his voice is capable of that note, today. As he smokes.
Where am I going with this?
One step above that is the note from Wild Horses and Red Hill Mining Town and he hasn't been able to sing either in years and years and years.
His true voice is what it has become, smoking or not.
He can't stop smoking altogether and reverse the effects it has taken over the years. Also noting all of the other factors besides smoking.
Yes, it could help him get back to where he was on Native Son, for example, but the days of that high 'C' are gone and he knows it, so he keeps smoking.
I'm saying his voice is what it has become, and this is where it will be for the forseeable future. He can't go back to higher notes than that one. They scrapped that song partly because he couldn't sing that night after night. So we go back down to the note in Sometimes and La'Amore from Sarajevo. THIS is where his voice is, that's why he won't quit smoking. The damage has been done. He lost his ability to go back to those other notes. In fact he has to 'save up' for the two already mentioned which are pretty well lower.
I might be arguing semantics here, I'm just saying he's not adding onto his current range much by doing so (stop smoking) so he probably doesn't. That and I think he'd add 25 pounds and become a nervous wreck. He can still sing well enough.