Who are your singing influences?
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Who are your singing influences?
I sorta got on a tangent about this with Floyd in another thread, but I'm curious as to all of your vocal influences and how much it really affects your final sound when you sing? I know and I've seen too many people really try and sound like a particular singer and absolutely suck. Even if they're on their best game, they still sound like another guy so they're pretty much only fit for a first rate cover band.
Lately, I haven't really tried to rip anyone off, but I find a kind of Halford/Cornell/Danzigish mix has been the most interesting and fun to play around with lately... One mainstay, so it seems, that never gets old messing around with are the Dave Brockie-esque bellows.. Something about his vocals exude pure fun without really compromising the intensity and quality of the songs.. He's like the David Lee Roth of metal.
Lately, I haven't really tried to rip anyone off, but I find a kind of Halford/Cornell/Danzigish mix has been the most interesting and fun to play around with lately... One mainstay, so it seems, that never gets old messing around with are the Dave Brockie-esque bellows.. Something about his vocals exude pure fun without really compromising the intensity and quality of the songs.. He's like the David Lee Roth of metal.
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when i was doing death metal, i was definitely bleeding-era chris barnes and kyle symons(sickness). to sound that deep, that powerful and still be so clear. i also like other death metal singers who sound absolutely inhuman(disgorge, clean flesh, etc)
but that kinda stuff tears the hell outa my throat. in my band i have these influences:
warrel dane
ripper owens
matt barlow
roger waters
jim morrison
michael hutchence
lg petrov
nick cave
my bands influences are thrash/deathy type stuff, but modern sounding
its seems like no one sings anymore. every singer nowadays either whines, tries to sound like queer swedish death metal, or is a phil anselmo clone.
but that kinda stuff tears the hell outa my throat. in my band i have these influences:
warrel dane
ripper owens
matt barlow
roger waters
jim morrison
michael hutchence
lg petrov
nick cave
my bands influences are thrash/deathy type stuff, but modern sounding
its seems like no one sings anymore. every singer nowadays either whines, tries to sound like queer swedish death metal, or is a phil anselmo clone.
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Really, vocals are my absolute weakest thing which is pretty much why I don't do them at all. My vocal range is pretty much in the lower Michael Hutchence/Patton/Pete Steele/Leonard Cohen range. Slow and deep ( :o ) and almost deliberate. I have a "phone sex" quality to my voice (so I'm told) but it's pretty limited and already well-done by other people already, so I'd never actually use it.
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For me as a sort of fuck about on my own/backing singer mainly jerry cantrell, nola era phil anselmo and layne stayley (his highest stuff is about the limit of my voice.)
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haha, I was considering posting an mp3 of me singing, but the only one I have is a joke song of me bellowing/growling and then singing like some silly emo-core Avenged Sevefold singer..<THe_FeAR> wrote:Post mpegs.
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i can do a killer axl rose and rob halford voice, partilularly on the high screams. but since it's not the 1980s anymore, and i'm not singing for 3 inches of blood, that style doesn't have much use to me, except when i'm drunk and just fucking around.
my favorite vocalists that i really strike to mimic the style are the ones that sound clear, deep, and powerful. these include matt barlow, john bush, tom englund, and danzig.
my favorite vocalists that i really strike to mimic the style are the ones that sound clear, deep, and powerful. these include matt barlow, john bush, tom englund, and danzig.
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Speaking of vibrato... The other day i went to see my girlfriend sing in her chourus group or whatever the name is. One girl had a solo part...She had a great voice but every fucking word out of her mouth sounded like zakk wylde style wide assed vibrato during pinch harmonics.SuicideNote wrote:Brandon wrote: ripper owens
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I don't really have any specific influences when it comes to my vocal stylings. I've just tried to see what works for me and still sounds half way decent.
Back in middle school and high school I was very much into singing and did the whole chorus thing and actually did fairly well. I went to some All-State competitions and did well, then in 9th grade I started smoking and it all went down hill. I could no longer sing in the lower end tenor range and became more of a barritone. That's about the time I joined a band as lead vocalist. I've never thought I sounded like anyone but what I wanted myself to sound like, I never sat and listened to a specific singer and tried to mimic his voice. Well, except for Eddie Vedder when I would sing "Yellow Ledbetter" in karaoke or something, and I still do a good impression of him to this day.
Time went by and a couple years later I joined up with a heavier band and did some good growling and screaming.
Now days I can't do any kind of screaming or growling because everytime I do I get choked up and start coughing all over myself. So I've had to work on my voice to mold it in a different way.
So yeah, I've had no real influences on my sound specifically.
Back in middle school and high school I was very much into singing and did the whole chorus thing and actually did fairly well. I went to some All-State competitions and did well, then in 9th grade I started smoking and it all went down hill. I could no longer sing in the lower end tenor range and became more of a barritone. That's about the time I joined a band as lead vocalist. I've never thought I sounded like anyone but what I wanted myself to sound like, I never sat and listened to a specific singer and tried to mimic his voice. Well, except for Eddie Vedder when I would sing "Yellow Ledbetter" in karaoke or something, and I still do a good impression of him to this day.
Time went by and a couple years later I joined up with a heavier band and did some good growling and screaming.
Now days I can't do any kind of screaming or growling because everytime I do I get choked up and start coughing all over myself. So I've had to work on my voice to mold it in a different way.
So yeah, I've had no real influences on my sound specifically.
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I've actually never sang the correct words for that song in karoke, I just make the same sounds that Vedder makes.axlash wrote:so when you do yellow ledbetter on karaoke, how are the lyrics spelled out on the screen? 'on a feelin, on a wishin and a wishin way, and i know and i know and i know a betta colaaaa again'?
Daughter is a cool song to do as well.
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On a freeeeda on a Wizad on a wayeeTony wrote:I've actually never sang the correct words for that song in karoke, I just make the same sounds that Vedder makes.axlash wrote:so when you do yellow ledbetter on karaoke, how are the lyrics spelled out on the screen? 'on a feelin, on a wishin and a wishin way, and i know and i know and i know a betta colaaaa again'?
Daughter is a cool song to do as well.
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