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Who will be doing Mike's Harmonies/Call & Response vocals now?

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ishak540m

April 25, 2011, 12:07:44 PM
I hadn't seen this covered (if it was than forgive me for reposting this) but who do you think will be doing Mike's Harmonies/Call & Response vocals live (or in the studio on later releases for that matter) now?  Would it be the new drummer?  Just curious.

DarkLord_Lalinc

#1
April 25, 2011, 12:09:19 PM
I'd love to see JR try backing vocals, though I think that's very unlikely. Maybe Petrucci will take care of all backing vocal duties.

KevShmev

#2
April 25, 2011, 12:10:55 PM
A robotic voice from JR's iPhone will do them.

Zydar

#3
April 25, 2011, 12:12:34 PM
Quote from: KevShmev on April 25, 2011, 12:10:55 PM
A robotic voice from JR's iPhone will do them.

Microsoft Sam :lol

DarkLord_Lalinc

#4
April 25, 2011, 12:13:22 PM
Auto-tune the shit out of Myung's brand new backing vocals.

King Postwhore

#5
April 25, 2011, 12:15:22 PM
It will be the first ever back up singer who just headbangs throughout the show and only sings Mike cookie monster vocals. :lol
"I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'." - Bon Newhart.

Ben_Jamin

#6
April 25, 2011, 12:17:38 PM
The audience...who else.

IdoSC

#7
April 25, 2011, 01:26:03 PM
I hope no one, songs which don't require MP's backing vocals to sound well would actually work better without backing vocals at all. And I can't think of many songs besides many Constant Motion which actually require backing vocals, and if it's only CM, I'd rather have it being blacklisted.

tri.ad

#8
April 25, 2011, 01:29:59 PM
Well, my guess is "noone", but for songs where the vocal trade-offs are necessary (particularly CM and maybe TGP - in which I can see JP doing it as well), I can imagine JR triggering samples (or one long sample).

Infinite Cactus

#11
April 25, 2011, 06:12:43 PM
JR and JP and maybe the drummer.

Dr. DTVT

#12
April 25, 2011, 06:21:06 PM
Would it be kosher if they used a taped version of MP's vocals?  I'd be cool with that if none of the other members are up for it.

MemoryScenes

#13
April 25, 2011, 06:31:08 PM
Well, we did learn from PW that singing wasn't part of the audition... at least not during the songs.

Ben_Jamin

#14
April 25, 2011, 06:33:13 PM
I'd leave some parts for the audience.

Dream Team

#15
April 26, 2011, 01:03:35 PM
JLB should just sing all of the non-response stuff himself. For example, in the infamous ANTR section, he should sing the first half in his lower register and then dramatically increase the pitch for the "everyone was saved" part. No reason at all why that wouldn't work, and it'd keep the stupid trendy harsh vocals out of DT.

OsMosis2259

#16
April 26, 2011, 01:14:14 PM
Just don't play the songs that have Portnoy's vocals...

JasonScandopolous

#17
April 26, 2011, 01:52:55 PM
Quote from: OsMosis2259 on April 26, 2011, 01:14:14 PM
Just don't play the songs that have Portnoy's vocals...

Including the harmonies, that would be almost all of them...

Ben_Jamin

#18
April 26, 2011, 02:29:24 PM
I like the Idea of ANTR being sung in his lower register, then when "how can you prepare." Comes get higher and higher.

El Barto

#19
April 26, 2011, 02:44:48 PM
I'm not sure what the rules say about using sequenced versions of MP's vox.  Van Halen did it, and I'd assume their legal department checked that whole thing out pretty well.  Their problem was that Wolfgang was pretending to sing them while MA's voice came out.  That was in poor taste and they knocked it off. 

However, I doubt they'd do that.  They'll probably just work around it. 

It wouldn't surprise me if TGP made it into upcoming setlists, so hopefully we'll find out. 

robwebster

#20
April 26, 2011, 03:15:22 PM
Quote from: Ben_Jamin on April 26, 2011, 02:29:24 PM
I like the Idea of ANTR being sung in his lower register, then when "how can you prepare." Comes get higher and higher.
It'd all sound pretty good with the vocal effect from This Dying Soul.

DarkLord_Lalinc

#22
April 26, 2011, 03:57:00 PM
Quote from: Ben_Jamin on April 26, 2011, 02:29:24 PM
I like the Idea of ANTR being sung in his lower register, then when "how can you prepare." Comes get higher and higher.

This.

Have you guys heard "In too Deep?" the lowest I've ever heard JLB, and one of his most amazing moments IMO.  :metal

SnakeEyes

#23
April 26, 2011, 06:56:08 PM
Hopefully nobody.  I honestly think that they should just leave James the hell alone and let him be the singer.  On Live at Budokan, they sound miserably bad when they all try to sing "In the Name of God."  I think they bring James down because they're singing out of tune and it makes HIM sound like he's singing out of tune.  I don't see James grabbing a guitar and playing along with Petrucci. 

Ben_Jamin

#24
April 26, 2011, 09:38:21 PM
Quote from: SnakeEyes on April 26, 2011, 06:56:08 PM
Hopefully nobody.  I honestly think that they should just leave James the hell alone and let him be the singer.  On Live at Budokan, they sound miserably bad when they all try to sing "In the Name of God."  I think they bring James down because they're singing out of tune and it makes HIM sound like he's singing out of tune.  I don't see James grabbing a guitar and playing along with Petrucci. 

You mean the "Liiisten, when the prophet speaks to you"

DarkLord_Lalinc

#25
April 26, 2011, 09:46:29 PM
FALSETTO  :metal

SnakeEyes

#26
April 26, 2011, 09:54:58 PM
Quote from: Ben_Jamin on April 26, 2011, 09:38:21 PM
You mean the "Liiisten, when the prophet speaks to you"

Yeah, that's exactly the part.  It's awful.  No offense to James, because I love his singing, but he has enough trouble as it is sometimes (long tours, really difficult parts) that, in my opinion, he doesn't really need two guys with terrible singing voices complicating things by singing WITH him.  That's like if another guitar player who wasn't as good as JP stood behind him and tried to play really difficult passages right along with JP.  Would that be fair?  

edit..

Disclaimer: before someone informs me of this, I know DT can do whatever they want.  I know it's their band, etc.  I just HOPE they go back to having only James sing and I simply described my reasons above. 

farsight

#27
April 26, 2011, 11:48:27 PM
I hope they redo ANTR and record someone elses voice who can sing the "Day after Day" part well, and just play the sample on live concerts, a la Voices, that sing imo is just too good to drop altogether because it has a big Portnoy part to it.
and dare I say that it sounds so much better when someone like Akerfeldt sings it, so it will be better. Two birds in one stone.

Lynxo

#28
April 27, 2011, 12:04:49 AM
Quote from: SnakeEyes on April 26, 2011, 09:54:58 PM
That's like if another guitar player who wasn't as good as JP stood behind him and tried to play really difficult passages right along with JP.  Would that be fair?  
That's actually a really good point. I know from experience it is incredibly hard to play tight if the other guitar player is messing up. I assume the same can be said about vocals, unless Labrie just don't have the backing vocals in his monitor system. But I suppose he must have those.

God bless Petrucci. But please, no more falsetto singing!

robwebster

#29
April 27, 2011, 12:38:13 AM
Quote from: SnakeEyes on April 26, 2011, 06:56:08 PM
Hopefully nobody.  I honestly think that they should just leave James the hell alone and let him be the singer.  On Live at Budokan, they sound miserably bad when they all try to sing "In the Name of God."  I think they bring James down because they're singing out of tune and it makes HIM sound like he's singing out of tune.  I don't see James grabbing a guitar and playing along with Petrucci. 
He did play a keyboard during the intro to Octavarium.

Jirpo

#30
April 27, 2011, 12:58:33 AM
Quote from: Dream Team on April 26, 2011, 01:03:35 PM
JLB should just sing all of the non-response stuff himself. For example, in the infamous ANTR section, he should sing the first half in his lower register and then dramatically increase the pitch for the "everyone was saved" part. No reason at all why that wouldn't work, and it'd keep the stupid trendy harsh vocals out of DT.
Thats a great idea!

Tomislav95

#31
April 27, 2011, 02:58:05 AM
Quote from: Jirpo on April 27, 2011, 12:58:33 AM
Quote from: Dream Team on April 26, 2011, 01:03:35 PM
JLB should just sing all of the non-response stuff himself. For example, in the infamous ANTR section, he should sing the first half in his lower register and then dramatically increase the pitch for the "everyone was saved" part. No reason at all why that wouldn't work, and it'd keep the stupid trendy harsh vocals out of DT.
Thats a great idea!
Great!
But some others(The Glass Prison, Silent Man, Blind Faith...) can sing JP

FretMuppet

#32
April 27, 2011, 04:05:08 AM
At the end of Mike's ANTR section, instead of the RRRRROAAAAAARRRRRRRRR, James should do some epic high pitched WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH like on Learning to Live or Innocence Faded or something...

Tomislav95

#33
April 27, 2011, 04:06:53 AM
Quote from: FretMuppet on April 27, 2011, 04:05:08 AM
At the end of Mike's ANTR section, instead of the RRRRROAAAAAARRRRRRRRR, James should do some epic high pitched WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH like on Learning to Live or Innocence Faded or something...
If he can :lol

KevShmev

#34
April 27, 2011, 05:29:01 AM
I agree with Snake Eyes.

But like I said the other day, if/when they play "A Nightmare to Remember" with the new guy live, they should just replace the "Day after day' section with a short drum solo (since you figure he will get a solo section, just like Rudess did on his first tour with the band, and like Sherinian did on the FII tour).
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