Words@brothersgibb.com message digest 08/22/2016 21:01 (#2016-133)
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Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2016 21:22:54 +0100
From: Robin Setty <robin.setty@gmail.com>
Subject: Barry's Voice
Personally, I think Barry's voice actually peaked around ESP / Hawks,
though it wasn't until TIWICI that you could actually say it was no longer
a wonderful voice. I think it's thinner - there's less of the lower
frequency in his normal voice and less power in his falsetto.
But I also think that his singing has become ever more expressive. In the
studio situation it works really well. I like the multi-tracked vocals
lines, the use of different voices, the breathy sound, the way notes tend
to fade into a whisper, the clever use of reverb. I know it's not
classically / technically brilliant but I still find it really effective.
A really good example of this was "loose talk costs lives" in TIWICI -
really expressively sung IMHO.
In a live situation it's more of a struggle. There are times where his
voice has cracked. It happened during "First of May" in London and "To Love
Somebody" at Glastonbury. It also happened at the start of "In The Now" on
Saturday. Yet the falsetto still sounds pretty good. Having said all of
that, I'm sure he was suffering a bit from a cold on Saturday. Surely I'm
not the only one who noticed all the sniffing during the interview?
Finally, he's 70 in a few days!
Kilburn Towers
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