Random thoughts about old singers losing their voices

[Ale]

I was just thinking, it's 2025, you can take hair from your ass and put it in your head and it grows just fine and nobody's bald anymore. Of course fake boobs are perfect from looking at them, Adele takes ozempic and goes from being a fat ass to having curves, Salma Hayek and Brad Pitt are going to be 20 again soon and there's no fucking wrinkle in sight. The guy who plays the new Superman was ripped in three months time.
Quadriplejic men and women are walking again with the help of robotics, you can choose the color of your next son's eyes. Etc etc, basically if you have a lot of money, you are not ugly, fat, skinny, bald or hungry.
It's amazing that these billionaries like Bon Jovi, Paul Stanley, Ozzy, Coverdale etc etc can get the "miracle" cure for the vocal cords. That hard to fix those two muscles?

[Jason Jennifer Leigh]

Bon Jovi won’t even buy a hair color.

[pieceofme]

I was just thinking, it's 2025, you can take hair from your ass and put it in your head and it grows just fine and nobody's bald anymore. Of course fake boobs are perfect from looking at them, Adele takes ozempic and goes from being a fat ass to having curves, Salma Hayek and Brad Pitt are going to be 20 again soon and there's no fucking wrinkle in sight. The guy who plays the new Superman was ripped in three months time.
Quadriplejic men and women are walking again with the help of robotics, you can choose the color of your next son's eyes. Etc etc, basically if you have a lot of money, you are not ugly, fat, skinny, bald or hungry.
It's amazing that these billionaries like Bon Jovi, Paul Stanley, Ozzy, Coverdale etc etc can get the "miracle" cure for the vocal cords. That hard to fix those two muscles?

None of these artists are billionaires. Not in US dollars. Maybe they are in pesos considering the rampant inflation happening in your country.

[Gibsonite]

Neil Young was obviously never the greatest singer, but he always managed to do justice to his recorded material through the years. I tried watching a vid of one of his recent shows the other day and had to turn it off because it was too depressing. Band sounded great but he was really struggling with the vocals on the old stuff.

[SterileEyes1]

That’s not to say these people aren’t doing everything humanly possible to preserve their voices or get it back.

The giveaway is look at all of their necks. Almost any older hard rock singer. Dave Grohl is the ultimate example. That thing goes almost all the way out to his edge of his chin these days. But you can also notice it with Paul and many of the others. Just really weird looking necks.

From what I’ve read it used to be a B12 shot in the ass. I don’t know what it is now (cortisone?) but it seems to be going directly to the throat, with varying degrees of success.

[Ale]

That’s not to say these people aren’t doing everything humanly possible to preserve their voices or get it back.

The giveaway is look at all of their necks. Almost any older hard rock singer. Dave Grohl is the ultimate example. That thing goes almost all the way out to his edge of his chin these days. But you can also notice it with Paul and many of the others. Just really weird looking necks.

From what I’ve read it used to be a B12 shot in the ass. I don’t know what it is now (cortisone?) but it seems to be going directly to the throat, with varying degrees of success.

Of course, but the thing is NO singer that had sever problems with their voice has gotten it back, not even a little better. I guess when the two little muscles are damaged, that's it for ever.
Joe Elliot was one of the few that had one very rough year and then he kinda bounce back.

Axl didn't lose his voice, he just can't sound okay at all and that's it. Paul Stanley and Bon Jovi can't even talk right two years after their last show.

[SterileEyes1]

All very true. I can only think of examples of singers who recovered from injuries/damage fairly early on. Chris Cornell in his 40s and M. Shadows from Avenged Sevenfold in his 20s. Both went to the same vocal coach and had to radically change how they sang.

But to your points, it does seem that when you get old once it’s gone it’s gone. And unless you’re a very rare freak like Steven Tyler you’re not gonna be able to sing high and with rasp into old age. And yeah it is weird that there hasn’t been a fix invented for this yet given how much money would be on the table if some of these folks could still do it!

[DonJuanDeMarco]

Where does Vince Neil fit in here? He’s aging and technically still has his range at least.

The best example of this I think of is Tony Bennet. He just stripped down the arrangements to a 3 piece. Still put on a great performance.

I think a lot of hard rock guys could pull it off in a quieter setting. But do they want to?

[GoodJudge]

I was just thinking, it's 2025, you can take hair from your ass and put it in your head and it grows just fine and nobody's bald anymore. Of course fake boobs are perfect from looking at them, Adele takes ozempic and goes from being a fat ass to having curves, Salma Hayek and Brad Pitt are going to be 20 again soon and there's no fucking wrinkle in sight. The guy who plays the new Superman was ripped in three months time.
Quadriplejic men and women are walking again with the help of robotics, you can choose the color of your next son's eyes. Etc etc, basically if you have a lot of money, you are not ugly, fat, skinny, bald or hungry.
It's amazing that these billionaries like Bon Jovi, Paul Stanley, Ozzy, Coverdale etc etc can get the "miracle" cure for the vocal cords. That hard to fix those two muscles?

I wonder if their hearing being fucked has anything to do with it. Grohl has admitted he's got a lot of hearing loss. Huey Lewis had to retire due to it. Brian Johnson retired then apparently had pioneering surgery or treatment that may reach the mass market sometime. A few people have perfect pitch and maybe keep it. But if you sing (as opposed to yell or grunt like the thrash and extreme metal guys), if you can't hear what's going on around you well enough you're going to struggle to hit the notes.

[MetalSludgeCEO]

Neil Young was obviously never the greatest singer, but he always managed to do justice to his recorded material through the years. I tried watching a vid of one of his recent shows the other day and had to turn it off because it was too depressing. Band sounded great but he was really struggling with the vocals on the old stuff.

Neil Young's music sucks worse than his hygiene!

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