ET45177 wrote:Is it me or has anyone else noticed how many times in print interviews with the band (specifically Ed) in recent years, there will invariably be some sentence in the article along the line of "...Vedder lights up the first of many cigarettes as we continue our conversation..." or "...he settles back into the chair, lights another cigarette and continues..." etc.
It's no secret that Ed is a smoker and he is free to do as he pleases with his life but IMHO I feel Ed's voice has deteriorated in recent years. Simply put, while he still has the same tone and timbre in his voice, it is no longer as strong as what is used to be. Just listen to any recent live recordings and compare it to his performance of the same songs back around the early 90s. Another example could be the ITW soundtrack, like on "Setting Forth" where he seems to be really struggling to hit those high notes in the chorus.
I'm no voice coach or doctor and I do realise voices change as one ages, so I don't know how much this has to do with aging but I am almost certain that his smoking is not doing his voice any great favors all the same. Like I said, Ed can do what he pleases with his life but I really hope that Ed will try and take better care of his voice and his health in general by giving the cancer sticks away once and for all.
DewieCox wrote:95% of Ed's voice deterioration is due to age.
"If I wasn't suckin on a cough drop, I was puffin on a cigarette." John Lennon
Singing voices are a fickle thing. Robert Plant came down with some kinda throat infection in 1973 and his voice was changed forever.
Maybe the cigarettes Ed has smoked have caused him less stress and saved a fatal heart attack.
Like I always say sometimes...SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:smoke em if ya got em.............
I couldn't agree more! Ed we need your voice man! Drop the cancer sticks.ET45177 wrote:Is it me or has anyone else noticed how many times in print interviews with the band (specifically Ed) in recent years, there will invariably be some sentence in the article along the line of "...Vedder lights up the first of many cigarettes as we continue our conversation..." or "...he settles back into the chair, lights another cigarette and continues..." etc.
It's no secret that Ed is a smoker and he is free to do as he pleases with his life but IMHO I feel Ed's voice has deteriorated in recent years. Simply put, while he still has the same tone and timbre in his voice, it is no longer as strong as what is used to be. Just listen to any recent live recordings and compare it to his performance of the same songs back around the early 90s. Another example could be the ITW soundtrack, like on "Setting Forth" where he seems to be really struggling to hit those high notes in the chorus.
I'm no voice coach or doctor and I do realise voices change as one ages, so I don't know how much this has to do with aging but I am almost certain that his smoking is not doing his voice any great favors all the same. Like I said, Ed can do what he pleases with his life but I really hope that Ed will try and take better care of his voice and his health in general by giving the cancer sticks away once and for all.
soulsinging wrote:justam wrote:P.S. People can cop-out and say "Oh, he can do what he wants, blah, blah, blah..." but really, everyday he continues smokes he's cutting his life shorter!! :?
“I have something to tell you non-smokers that I know for a fact that you don't know, and I feel it's my duty to pass on information at all times. Ready?. . . . Non-smokers die every day . . . Enjoy your evening. See, I know that you entertain this eternal life fantasy because you've chosen not to smoke, but let me be the 1st to POP that bubble and bring you hurling back to reality . . . You're dead too.” -Bill Hicks
What's so fucking great about living to be 90 to sit in a nursing home to piss yourself, forget the existence of everyone you ever loved as your brain rots with Alzheimer's, and spend 1.5 hours moving at a pace a snail would scoff at to get downstairs and get your fucking mail? No fucking thanks. This whole wanting to live forever shit is not for me. Let me go out quickly and in my prime and dosed with mountains of painkillers and weed for my cancer. Thank you.
This thread inspired me to buy a pack of smokes today. Light up motherfuckers!
soulsinging wrote:justam wrote:Yeah. It's harder to be so blaze (imagine an accent on the E) about smoking when you've lost people you love because they smoked for 50 years and died at SEVENTY when they could have lived longer. It's painful to lose people you love because of cigarettes. Sorry for stating the obvious!!
70? Isn't average life expectancy like 72? It cost em 2 years?
One of my best friends' mother (and my own surrogate mom in hs) died in her early 50s from cancer. She barely hung on to see him graduate. She did not smoke. It sucked, yes. But not smoking is no guarantee you won't lose a loved one and smoking does not mean you will. You act like 70 is the new 20. People DIE. No one lives forever. When did everyone become so obsessed with living forever? What's an "acceptable" age to die now? Is it based on your selfish demands for their company, or should it be more about when the person is ready to go and whether or not they enjoyed their life? Maybe the smoking helped them cope with life being a pile of shit and helped make them better company when they were around. Maybe if they hadn't smoked they'd have been bitter and angry all the time and when they hit 95 you'd be sitting there wishing they'd die so they'd stop bumming you out.
Snaggletooth wrote:Uh Roger Waters completely destroyed his voice with cigs and reefer . . . this is not a new phenomenon.
Back_Pedal wrote:Quitting smoking did wonders for Cornell, so maybe Ed should do the same. He really is starting to sound like shit now, and besides that he'll be around longer for his wife and kids by quitting, which is more important than his singing voice could ever be.
Jerome230 wrote:Chris Cornell is proof positive that you can change your voice around by quitting. His voice went to shit during his solo days, and now his voice sounds almost as good as it ever has, still hitting the high notes, now that he's quit.
