noodles wrote:
Adveser wrote:
I'll go read it, but I really don't give a shit what any other singer thinks because none of them know anything about what they are doing.
and singers wonder why nobody likes them
Well, I've always said I would only take lessons from three people: Michele Luppi, Fabio Lione or Rob Tyrant. Luppi graduated from VIT and says he has his own vocal technique that he created, which I believe utilizes the "beyond scientific" things I have learned because that is the only way to produce his tone. Roberto has admitted he only understands about 25% of what he's doing. Fabio is one of the best ever and our voices are very similar when I choose to sing with his tone. Other than that, nah, nobody else has the power, range and clarity of tone or are so "trained" that they have misconceived what is going on from years of studying things that aren't scientific. My voice is quite different than anyone elses because my larynx cartilage is shaped differently, I have almost no adam's apple, extremely long vocal folds and I can actually invert the two pieces of cartilage and move them independently of each other. I'm quite the unique specimen vocally, but that doesn't change the fact that the body that produces the actual force has been totally misunderstood and left unquantified. For example, they say use the diaphragm, and I'll say "which one?" because you have two of them actually and they are interchangeably referenced for some reason. Not only that, but there's so much more to it than anyone is really aware.
You have to sing from the heart, and by that I mean your heart is the main source of the electrical energy in your body and the part of the nervous system that is mostly electrical. You can not sing using muscles alone. You have to coordinate bone conduction, muscle contraction and facilitate current flow in this way. You have to align the magnetic fields the body produces too before you can even get started, that is what "warming up" actually does, by the way.
Anyway, unless Bruce sounds like Lemmy when he talks, his voice is a choice to sound that gruff and muddy. Most singers are actually only singing with a small part of thier vocal system, that's why they have two octave ranges, or have several tones that sound far different. Nothing wrong with that, but anyone claiming a singer that uses and coordinates 20% of his voice is anywhere near the level of someone that uses a lot more is ridiculous and we are talking about personal aesthetics of tone and not singing by that point.
That's my Dio was so great, he was a true sorcerer who could use close to all of his voice, even if his range was not as incredible as the italians. But no one is as good as Fabio, period. His range and ability to fluidly transition among different registers is god-like, suggesting he's pieced together almost everything. I'm starting to believe that only I alone can change the tone to do whatever the hell I want, mediocre results aside.
I watched a video of Fabio and Michele Luppi singing duets at the VD 10th anniversary show and they are just on another level because the microphones, PA, and the energy in the room simply couldn't handle the amount of power they were generating and putting through the equipment. It was absolutely insane. I have a similar problem that I overload the shit out of mics when I sing with full power. Someone needs to invent a mic that has a membrane that's thicker so good singers actually sound good without the recordings being doctored to death.