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  1. They do exist but not circulating (I don't have them either)
  2. Drowning Man from Barcelona...I heard a clean 30s recording and very promising, I still wonder why they gave that one up at the last minute
  3. Originally posted by drogba29:Drowning Man from Barcelona...I heard a clean 30s recording and very promising, I still wonder why they gave that one up at the last minute
    I think there is recording of full set rehearsal which includes Drowning Man (full song) - not sure about sound quality... haven't heard it for years
  4. Sorry to bump an old thread but are there any of the Kansas 1992 rehearsals knocking about?
  5. Originally posted by drogba29:Drowning Man from Barcelona...I heard a clean 30s recording and very promising, I still wonder why they gave that one up at the last minute
    Probably because there were presenting 7,8 new songs and with that song thrown in it might not have worked and been a buzz killer however some of the No line songs achieved that the tempo of it is odd and it has a very demanding vocal and maybe Bono felt he couldn't do it justice .
  8. Or upload it as it is and someone will convert it
  9. Personally, I think that Bono could've handled anything vocally on the 360 tour. He hadn't sounded that good in a very, very long time and probably never will again.
  10. Originally posted by aTYCLB00:Personally, I think that Bono could've handled anything vocally on the 360 tour. He hadn't sounded that good in a very, very long time and probably never will again.
    +1, I've always said it.
  11. -1. He did sound good, but not better than on previous tours. Compare Walk On with Walk On from Elevation and I don't think you can say he did a better job.
  12. Originally posted by Ricku2:[..]
    -1. He did sound good, but not better than on previous tours. Compare Walk On with Walk On from Elevation and I don't think you can say he did a better job.
    In terms of vocal power he was miles above Vertigo tour and light years above Elevation and Popmart tours. He effortlessly belted out notes he wouldn't normally reach in the 15 previous years. On the other hand, sadly he started developing some of the fixations and mannerisms that have gone worse in recent years (like singing slightly off-tempo/rhythm, singing or talking over most guitar solos, etc).

    Since we're already off topic, I'll quote my own post from the Bono's voice thread, in the middle of the JT30 tour:

    Originally posted by LikeASong:360 was his peak after the 1995-2005 abyss. He started recovering in 2006, and 2010-2011 was the best he had sung since the end of Zoo TV tour. I&E was fine but he had already lost some low range, and now he's singing his worst since mid-Vertigo Tour.

    Of course he still has his moments of greatness (A Sort Of Homecoming, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Vertigo, Exit, WOWY, Streets all have been excellent this tour - bar the terrible lyric changes) and he still has the spark sometimes, but overall he's lost a lot of low and mid range, and what's worse, a lot of timing and rhythm. Red Hill Mining Town (although understandable due to the lack of previous performances and the track's own difficulty), sadly One Tree Hill, Bad (particular performances) and particularly Running To Stand Still have suffered a lot from this in the JT30 Tour. RTSS has never sounded worse (and the 2005 performances were pretty bad already!), which makes me wanna cry since it's probably the song I was looking forward to the most

    I think he has been taking classes to adapt his singing style to his loss of throat power. He is getting older just as everyone else, he clearly can't reach these 2009-2011 tones anymore, so he has to adapt his style as he's always done. He did the same in Popmart, changing and adapting a lot of the verses and choruses to his recently-lost range.

    Another point to take into account is his everlasting bad memory for lyrics. Even though it seemed impossible, well, it is indeed getting worse with age (just as everyone's), and it makes the singing issue worse, since he forgets a lot of the verses and he has to make up for it on the go, disrupting the verse's flow and making him lose the plot (and the intonation) too often.


    So, as a singer myself, this issue of course bugs me big big time, but there's nothing to do unless Bono quits smoking and starts listening properly to the band and his own past recordings


    PS. Oh, and there's also that new habit (since 360 Tour) of singing or talking above the guitar solos. SOMEONE WHO MEETS BONO IN THE UPCOMING WEEKS: TELL HIM NOT TO DO THIS ANYMORE, THANKS.


    Also, you're comparing Walk On from 2009 where it felt tired and mostly everyone agreed it wasn't really good, with 2001 where it had all its power and was fresh to the fans and the band. Not fair