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pidunk 08:03 am UTC 05/13/07 |
I've made every possible effort with my limited resources this evening to hear again, the songs on Bad For Good that we have been discussing with some varied levels of drama. Someone even managed to throw in a he hates me. Well, I don't have any really good quality mp3's, or the CD anymore. Buying the tunes online is not in my ability right now. But there is the Rhapsody player, and there is Amazon sampler. I spent a good portion of the past hour figuring out what I was hearing. Anyone who really knows me, knows that I don't ever try to yank anyone's chain. Anyone who has seen me post here has become familiar that, right or wrong to their thinking, I come to this forum with a big bunch of emotional baggage. Some of that baggage would be neutral to people who are not Steinmaniacs. But, you have your share of emotional baggage too. Some of you have your lives' experiences wrapped up in the memory of some songs, or some musical pieces that Jim wrote. Your emotional investment in your love for that work is great, and you expend a lot of energy to being aware of what went into all of that. You sometimes want to understand how it was that you were blessed with the phenomenon you found in Jim's music and the way it intercepted with your life. I respect that kind of emotional investment highly. My emotional investment is different, and it has a lot to do with what I can believe, what of Jim's tellings, what of Jim's assurances, that I can believe, because believe it or not, built into his works is his offer and my seeking of a special kind of trust in him. When he tells me, promises me, that he did something, I must either find that to be true, or understand why I didn't find it to be true. I know that nobody else here has such a heavy personal weight on your experiences here. Rhapsody's quality is awful, and it made Jim's voice sound like tin, which confused me when I revisited the songs. The first one I listened to was the much controversial "Lost Boys And Golden Girls", and I have listened to it several times, laced around othre songs. Compared to the recent vocals of the demos, there is no real likeness. It was surprising. Rhapsody also broadcasts half of the track, meaning that half of the production is lost. In "Stark Raving Love" I was not able to hear the hands clapping, which we all know is there. In the other songs, the quality was as awful as all else. After I became familiar with how bad that Rhapsody is, I realized, that I was not hearing a second version of "Lost Boys And Golden Girls" at all. Just a really poorly distributed one. I've recently refreshed my memory of what Rory Dodd sounded like on a backing track, when I heard and watched on the Bat Out Of Hell DVD. I saw him being interviewed, and I listened therefore both to his speaking, and his singing voice. One of the ways I am able to identify Jim's voice when I do is because I have spoken with him on the telephone zillions of times at all hours of the day and night, in all moods, with all kinds of feelings, mental states and expressions of his. His speaking voice, I know quite well, and when he applies it to the spoken dramatic pieces he does lower the timbre of the voice for it in the dramatic effect. In speaking, however, his voice is less deep, than even the voice he portrays in his various interviews. I asked myself, if I was to place Rory's voice into a song, his voice being what it appears to be while speaking, what would it sound like? It would be a very high tone, at its lowest, hence I have made the summation that he is a male soprano, and his backing vocals do match this because it lended itself to the assessment. I do have vocal training in my education, and I have heard what voices can and cannot do. Rory's voice in a full main vocal, would be a high tone and would not emanate like a normal tenor, then going to a high note. Rory's voice isn't about the notes, it is about the pitch. It is the pitch which separates the vocal classifications. I entertained your assessments of Rory being the vocals of the songs you think, and even wondered, what if Jim did not tell me the truth, where he insisted he sang every song, and listened. You all have such strong beliefs in the information you have derived before I came along. You also have reasons to stay with your beliefs. And that is why I asked you where those beliefs came from. I'd still like to learn where those beliefs came from. I also still don't see that Rory sang those songs. With respect to you all, even if you hate me. | |
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