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re: What Meat should have done

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Markus 02:01 pm UTC 03/01/09
In reply to: re: What Meat should have done - Smeghead 01:34 pm UTC 03/01/09

I didnīt say nobody would be able to do it. But for your statement we have no proof.

> Not really. There are people who know how to sing for a
> living and could sing Jim's songs every day and not tear
> up their voice. It was the way Meat sang that ruined his
> voice. Karla Devito said that he used to turn the stage
> monitors up so loud that no one up there could hear a
> thing and they all risked going deaf. That's going to
> lead to singing off key and screaming. DeVito said that
> anytime meat couldn't get out a note he would just do his
> inhuman screaming thing and tear up his voice even worse
> just because it would set the kids screaming. I loved
> Meat's singing in the day... but it is not realistic to
> say that nobody can go out and sing Jim Steinman songs for
> an hour and 15 minutes six days a week without ruining
> their voice.
>
> > On the other side: thatīs the nature of many of Jims
> > songs. Still think there are not many others out there
> > being able to do Jims songs like Meat did over 20 years.
> >
> > > It isn't about singing 6 days a week. Plenty of
> > > professional singers do that. The problem is that Meat
> > > didn't sing properly. He screamed and screeched, and tore
> > > up his voice.
> > >
> > > > To prevent Meats voice from going out during the first Bat
> > > > out of Hell gig was to go on tour for a couple of weeks at
> > > > a time and then take time off. That way, he could have
> > > > taken about another couple of weeks to let his voice heal
> > > > as well as his body. He would have been able to keep
> > > > focused and on track way better than singing 6 days a
> > > > week-every week!! Then maybe, just maybe things could have
> > > > turned out alot differently. He could have sang on Bad for
> > > > Good, never had that weird break-down that he did,
> > > > possibly had a better relationship with Steinman, Bat 3
> > > > could have been the 'Real Deal' etc. etc.


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