If you could sound like anyone...?

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BroKen_H said:
Funny, I originally posted this looking for people's inspirations, not whether or not they liked their own voice.
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For me, I'm "influenced" by so many singers and by "influenced" I mean that I like their voice and have taken note of the way they sing. The number is huge, from Diana Ross, Roberta Flack and Melanie to the Pink Floyd singers {Gilmour, Barrett, Waters and Wright}, the Wishbone Ash singers {Martin & Ted Turner and Andy Powell}, Gil Scott Heron and Lemmy. From Omar, Bon Scott and Lone Ranger to Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie and Angie Stone. Plus lots of singers I don't even know, either because I don't know who was in the band that did that odd single I like or because they were sessionists.
I've got a wide head and I'm shamelessly eclectic.
 
Do you mean how he sounds now, or 10 years ago? Okay, that's a really lame joke. But I had to.

Okay, maybe I didn't...for those who don't follow, he died 10 years ago. It'd be easy to sound like he does now...
 
Roy Orbison

Elvis

Tom Jones

The thing I absolutely hate are "cookie monster vocals", that's not even singing, I would rather hear rap vocals.
 
Woof! Woof! Bark Bark Woof! That's what I hear when they sing like that, but hey, I'm old and I always said if I didn't understand the next generation's music, I wouldn't knock it. To each his own.
 
BroKen_H said:
Woof! Woof! Bark Bark Woof! That's what I hear when they sing like that, but hey, I'm old and I always said if I didn't understand the next generation's music, I wouldn't knock it. To each his own.
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There's other music than that in this generation, so I'm not knocking the whole generation, just a small part of it, and it's just a statement of personal preference, somebody is buying that music. Aside from that I'm to the point where I really don't see much difference between today's music and music from the past, I'm more likely to see similarities. They're playing the same notes we did.
 
acidrock said:
There's other music than that in this generation, so I'm not knocking the whole generation, just a small part of it, and it's just a statement of personal preference, somebody is buying that music. Aside from that I'm to the point where I really don't see much difference between today's music and music from the past, I'm more likely to see similarities. They're playing the same notes we did.
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:laughings:
BTW I meant that I was trying to keep myself from bashing their music, not that I thought you were. :)
 
acidrock said:
I really don't see much difference between today's music and music from the past
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By and large, I find this to be a lot closer to the truth than not. Yes, there are certain differences but the differences in the various music genres from say, 1965 to now are not as marked as the differences from say, 1930 to 1964. Not to me anyway.
 
grimtraveller said:
By and large, I find this to be a lot closer to the truth than not. Yes, there are certain differences but the differences in the various music genres from say, 1965 to now are not as marked as the differences from say, 1930 to 1964. Not to me anyway.
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I think non musicians focus more on the styles and culture to define music and guys like us just look at the notes on the frets. It's not like they're inventing new notes and chords.
 
i would prefer to sound like bob dylan during the 'hard to handle' concerts, or harry nilsson on his last album demos (papas got a brown new robe) or lemmy nowadays.
 
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