Jon's Voice
 

Do you think he sounds better than 2015??Is there a chance of improvement until the 2017 tour??

Definitely sounds better than 2015 but still not even close to sounding 'good'

On the new songs he sounds decent enough but BM and Who Says are still a challenge.

I think he is getting better slowly. A world tour could kill him vocally even more or it could get him back to some sort of decent vocal.

He is sounding better with each performance I think, though...

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Nope, sounds exactly the same.

He only sang Who Says and Bad Medicine in recent shows - one is really easy and the other one has plenty of ways of dodging the higher notes. And yet, at certain notes it was still obvious how struggling he was to go even remotely higher.

Once the 2017 tour starts and more older songs return to the setlist, people will realize that.

I think that tunning down to Eb or D will make his job easier

I can't imagine a world tour without These Days, Always, BOR, IBTFY, SIBSN performed on every single show...

I guess we can also say goodbye to rarities like Hey God, Something To Believe In, TIALS etc.

Might help with the high notes, but what concerns me is his shortness of breath.

Ever since I watched the Target show video I've wondered if there isn't a pulmonary or respiratory issue. From all accounts, Jon works out regularly, so it's not that he's simply out of shape; but in that show he couldn't finish a single line of Bad Medicine without skipping words to grab for air.

Maybe that's why he stands behind the mic so much. He doesn't have the wind to move around a lot AND sing, so he has to choose.

It might also explain his remark at the BB King Runaway show when he first started talking about the new album and said the band might go out again in February... "depending on everyone's health and well-being".

Slightly better than 2015 but still a long way off even 2013.

However, it's not an issue on the new songs, as literally every one sounded fine vocally. Who says sounded OK, sadly, but bad medicine was horrible. It'll be interesting to see what songs he can still do and which ones he can't. Might need to share more vocals like on THINFS

We already did, halfway through the 2013 tour.

2017 rarities will be 2010-2011 regular songs and 2013 audibles.

Does he has a vocal coach?

I don't think the reason rarities were dropped in 2013 was because of vocal stuff. He DID do rarities that tour btw (Undivided, some album cuts from These Days). Pulling a song out of nowhere is more complicated when it becomes "Has Phil learned this one"

Also someone mentioned tuning to Eb, they've been doing that for decades. Going even lower, I think would just sound wrong.