Phil Anselmo (32,804 views)

[Batfleck]

David Lee Roth impression. That high note though :surprised:

[Kreuger]

He sounded awesome during the live stream. Definitely recommend anyone who liked the cd, pay the $10 for it.

Edit: And that note was awesome. It appears at 04:25 for anyone that's wondering.

[Kreuger]

Alright I've gotta share this. The last song of the night came after the show, it's a new song. Phil just singing along with a piano and the band just hanging out but it's got some really awesome lows.


The Older We Get

[Henny Macc]

A2s, G2s, B1s, and even sings down to G♯1/G1 on the last few lines! Nice to finally hear him singing that low in non-backing vocals for a change lol

[Kreuger]

I agree very awesome!

[Kreuger]

For anyone that missed the En Minor live stream, they have put it up for purchase again here.

[Rodney Blazershorts]

Um

[Kreuger]

Dec 13, 2020 22:34:59 GMT Rodney Blazershorts said:

Um

Whats wrong?

[Rodney Blazershorts]

What do you get when you click that link?

[Kreuger]

Oh. Im not sure how that happened. Links are hard on mobile. Haha. enminor.nocapshows.com

[Zedd Squared]

Dec 2, 2020 9:00:31 GMT Kreuger said:

Alright I've gotta share this. The last song of the night came after the show, it's a new song. Phil just singing along with a piano and the band just hanging out but it's got some really awesome lows.


The Older We Get

The bit at 2:30-2:32 sounds like it gets to E1 to me actually dayum.

[Henny Macc]

You're right, I hadn't caught that actually!

[Kreuger]

Is that worth adding?

[Henny Macc]

I'd say so! New lowest melodic note for him  :surprised:

[Zedd Squared]

I will say that as much as I'm glad to hear Anselmo putting his low register to proper use finally, I'm kinda bummed he didn't do it in the 1992-1996 era or so because he sounds really weathered now. The melodic ability of his singing is so compromised now from years of abuse that it doesn't really have the level of emphatic "and now I am singing low" vibes that Suicide Note Pt. 1 had. There's a mumbly/grumbly feel that he seems stuck with but it's still cool to hear the amount of boom he can get.

[Kreuger]

Its interesting though because your voice is supposed to lower with age, right? I wonder how much lower he'd be able to go if he took better care of his voice. Im not sure how beloved the band would be without his screams either seeing as most people point to that era as their faves. To me this is the best since Cowboys, although I do love a lot of the singing on Nola.

[Henny Macc]

I'm not sure if he necessarily would've been able to go lower if he had taken better care of his voice (I mean let's be real here - there's not a lot of need for notes below E1 in his style of music anyway), but I think what Zedd was saying was that he would've been able to get down into the mid first octave with clearer and more pronounced tone. His voice wasn't quite as low back then, but he still had a pretty extensive low range that sounded more emphatic when he used it; whereas nowadays his voice is so low that he basically just has to grumble his way through what pretty much is already his natural speaking range, but doesn't really have as much tone while doing so because his voice is so worn and abused.

[Captain Planet]

What always confused me about Phil is what the hell happened to his speaking voice between '88 and '92.

This is him in 1988 (complete with long hair!): www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVqABhcd-rg#t=1m4s

But by 1992 he was already well down the path of the gruff macho man speaking voice.

[Zedd Squared]

My guess is the drug abuse had a major impact on his voice lowering but maybe some of it was also general aging. I've heard people say that men's voices don't fully settle until around 25 and he was only 20 in 1988 so maybe it's a mix of those two things.

[Kreuger]

I dont know how much he was into drugs early into their career. I dont think that started until the mid 90s. Id say its more likely from booze and cigarettes.

[kewis]

Dec 22, 2020 8:41:47 GMT Kreuger said:

I dont know how much he was into drugs early into their career. I dont think that started until the mid 90s. Id say its more likely from booze and cigarettes.

Pretty sure he didn't have a drug problem until around the Far Beyond Driven era

[Zedd Squared]

I was lumping booze and cigarettes into "drugs." It's true that he didn't get into the real hard stuff until later though.

[Kreuger]

Fair enough. Theyre technically drugs.

[Kreuger]

youtu.be/u0Wt6rxBFlY Just found this video. Not sure if youve seen it but he does a pretty good job at the end although I doubt he gets the G#5.

[Henny Macc]

For anyone interested, the full concert that "The Older We Get" was featured in is now on YouTube, including video :smiley: