A Healthy Voice

[Blackthorne]

My granny isn't enjoying hers.Ã,  She wishes everyday that she hadn't ever started smoking.Ã,  It's really hard to watch, because she is the neatest lady on the planet.

Yes, I'm sorry for those people who struggle later in life - it's no fun to see people wincing through the twilight years.  Sometimes it makes me wonder if medical science keeps us alive for too long.  Sure, we can live longer, but is our quality of life at those ages worth it?  Life is about living, not length.

I'm sorry for your grandmother's struggles.  The best we can do in those situations is love them, and offer the comforts that only the heart and mind can offer.


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[BorisZ]

What's weird about me is that, I know EXACTLY how dangerous it is to smoke... and still I do it. I'm aware of the consequenses and frankly, I don't give a poop. I can sing very high, and I can go slowmotion low. but I'd still like to have a deeper voice. is there any surgery for that?

I'm afraid not. I am lucky that I have a deep voice (not like Waits, more like Cohen).

And about Cohen: Yes, he sure lost his pleasant voice, but his later albums are way better then older ones (with exception of Dear Heather), and his voice sonds much better.

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

As I said, that's his only stroke of luck, because he can't sing anymore, he can only do what he now does. If he'd cared for his voice, he'd still be able to get that sound in a HEALTHY way, and still be able to actually sing (One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong, Suzanne, Who By Fire and So long Marianne are some of my favourites, and I think it's a terrible loss that the guy who sang those can't do it anymore).

[LGM]

You mean Tom Waits used to not sound like that? Gar.

[PaulSC]

Back in the Closing Time days Waits just sounded pretty much like any slightly smokey-voiced man on the street, really. It's always fun to play a track from that album back to back with his unhinged recent stuff like Everything You Can Think Of or Hoist That Rag. But he's always been great at making his voice fit the music / the music fit his voice whatever state he's is in, so I'm not complaining.

And yeah, I wish I could sound like him.

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

[lgm], I was talking about Cohen on that last post.

[BorisZ]

As I said, that's his only stroke of luck, because he can't sing anymore, he can only do what he now does. If he'd cared for his voice, he'd still be able to get that sound in a HEALTHY way, and still be able to actually sing (One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong, Suzanne, Who By Fire and So long Marianne are some of my favourites, and I think it's a terrible loss that the guy who sang those can't do it anymore).

Yes, he can. Only now they sound better.
If you are unsure about that, check his latest concerts!

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

I have. He murdered Suzanne, and he didn't sing it. He did the only thing he can do now, he sorta "acts" the songs, gives them feeling, and waves his voice around notes which are much, much lower than they used to be, and in such a way that can only be described as "speaking", not "singing."

Accourse, as I said, in most cases it works (but I still say he murdered Suzanne and One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong, while Who By Fire, for instance, or There Is A War, became quite kewl) - which is his saving grace, and the only thing that keeps him in business. Because, and that's the whole point, he ruined his voice - and he didn't have to to get that effect.

[LGM]

no no no.. I meant Tom Waits because I listened to that MP3 of how he sounded then and now. I thought he always sounded rough.. Mainly because as Las Naranjas's sig states, I am a moron.