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The Guess Who: Running Back To Canada? Puuleeze!

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Duilawyer

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In Reply to: Best DVD picks of the year: posted by Audiophilander on December 26, 2004 at 10:12:38:

Burton cannot sing anymore. BTW; at one time I was the biggest GH fan, and was there for the live album. Very big fan, saw them twice in LA (with some opener band with a guy named Donald with canine teeth fangs, who sang some weird song about "Do It Again").

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Have you seen this DVD? It really rocks and Burton's voice isn't at all bad. - Audiophilander 16:30:31 12/27/04 (2)
There's only a few places where he can't quite hit the notes without tackling them in a lower octave range. Overall, he still has what it takes or at least he did the night of this performance (i.e., these guys were really ON, playing their hearts out before a hometown crowd of 50,000 or more and in a lightening storm to boot!). Randy Bachman's axe really smoked on several numbers too, BTW, but that could've been attribuatable to the nearby lightening strikes, I guess. ;^)
AuPh
- I heard the audio, and yes, BC's voice is that bad. - Duilawyer 21:20:28 12/27/04 (1)
  It is just an empty shell of what it used to be. Listen to "These Eyes" or "No TIme" and compare to the timbre of his voice from the "Seattle" CD. All the resonance is gone. Its now just flat and whiny. Listen to him scat on "Truckin off Across the Sky" THAT was a voice. Time Waits for No One.
  - I still think that you're being waaaaay too critical. - Audiophilander 22:15:42 12/27/04 (0)
    Part of the problem may be the mic'ing (i.e., at least for the first few numbers), which seems more apparent on the video, IMHO. Never-the-less, I've compared the earlier Guess Who performance you've referenced to this one and don't find that this release suffers by comparison nearly as much as you seem to believe.
    Quite honestly, I've seen much weaker contemporary vocal performances from aging rock icons like Roger Daltry, Greg Lake, Eric Burdon and Steve Walsh (i.e., when compared with their earlier vocal abilities) than that demonstrated by Burton Cummings on this recent release, but these are just my impressions.
    FWIW, I've always considered myself a pretty harsh critic of declining musical chops, but if you're seriously THAT disappointed in the quality of the Guess Who's performance on Running Back to Canada, I'll gladly put your name up for consideration in the Nit-Picker of the Year Award competitions! :o)
    Cheers,
    AuPh

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