Hey guys welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is
in the singing. I wanted to go ahead and do a vocal
reaction to Bon Jovi and the song is "Livin on a Prayer". Now I've sung a
version of this and one of my students Alyona has sung a version of this. I'll
put those in the description. I don't know if I've released my version yet so
I'm not sure if I'm gonna release it before the reaction video or what for me
singing it so we'll see you know, how that plays out but I got a chance to
meet Jon on a Monsters of Rock tour that I was on way back in the early 80s.
We got to go backstage and you know hang out with everybody. In fact the tour was
pretty interesting it was Jon Bon Jovi, it was Ozzy Osbourne, it was the
Scorpions, it was def leppard, there was MSG Michael
Schenker Group, actually at the time was called McAuley Schenker and just a
amazing group of guys and Jon was like the nicest guy, Joe Elliot was really cool
Ozzy was a little trippy you know the guys in the Scorpions were awesome but
anyway so I want to go ahead and do a reaction to this and without much further ado,
let's rock. Here we go.
That's a big crowd too man.
Now one of the things about Bon Jovi a lot like Def Leppard, is they did use a
lot of tracks and Jon did sing most of stuff live which is cool. Sambora sang a
lot of really great background vocals but they also did incorporate tracks too
it so you can sometimes you can't tell on the background vocals who's doing
what and I know at one point when Jon was having some vocal trouble he did
use some tracks for some of his vocals here and there but I believe most of
this, that's the reason I picked it, that most of this is just actually live stuff even
though I think there are some additional background vocals okay.
Okay now I'd love to hear a little more strength from his abdomen, of course it's
Bon Jovi man, they ruled the world for how many years, right a couple decades.
But (sings) I'd love to get more (sings) instead of
(sings) he's got this real kind of I don't know if it's New
Jersey-ish, little boy sort of sound to it and I personally like a bigger
manlier kind of sound but when it gets to the chorus and stuff and that's kind
of just the way he is anyways, his songwriting. Killer songs, killer band,
you know Richie's a great, great addition to the band, shame he's not with them
anymore but anyway let's continue to rock.
but I'm nowhere as near as cute as
he is so it doesn't matter.
and notice it (sings). He sings that but (sings)
he's not singing any of that, Ritchie's doing that, there's definitely some other
tracks or something going on, the audience is helping out but he ducks out
of that every time, that gives him a little bit of relief too in the choruses.
Sometimes man if you know, if you've got a band that can sing the main chorus
vocals and you're not having to sing every single line, it really helps you
pace the set and make it through the set and that's precisely what he's doing, so
that's a smart move, not dissing him for that at al,l in fact if I could I would
do that, I could just I never got the the background singers that were as good as
his are and some of the tape and tracks and stuff that he used, to be able to
compensate for that, to give me that kind of relief when I was on the road. So
anyway let's continue.
I'm gonna give you guys the mic for the next one right.
(sings)
Hey you guys, gotta get ready man, you ready, chorus is coming up, I need your
help on this one. Alright here we go.
(sings)
You ready? Ok.
Here we go. On your mark get set.
Here we go
Cool and you know one of the things I've liked a lot about Ritchie's playing and
his backup to Jon in Bon Jovi, is he always played for the song. He always was
a great support to everything and in some cases man, I've heard him sing some
live stuff - if I was Jon I'd be like kind of feeling a little scared that
maybe he could take his spot sometimes and with some of his vocals because he's
throwing down on some pretty great vocals and he's a guitar player too - really
strong guitar player and a really great asset not just to the songwriting part,
but also to the parts, putting you know different souls and things together then
you know the voice box, all the different things. Hey I got a funny story about the
voice box thing, I always have these stories but, I believe this is a true
story because I heard it from a really good friend who is close friends with
who I'm about to talk.. to talk about. So I guess like way back in the early 70s
Jeff Beck was throwing a party, and he broke out this, you know the the magnet
of or you know the tweeter so to speak of a speaker and he put a hose around
the top of this this thing and he brought it up into his mouth and then he
started going in the microphone and he started you know doing doing the
original voice box so apparently it was Jeff Beck that invented it, but I guess
Peter Frampton was at the party and they used to be like best friends and so
Peter actually stole it and used it for Frampton Comes Alive, for the big one of
the biggest-selling live albums of all time or at least way back when and so I
guess they became archenemies and they never spoke again over the voice box
but anyways so Richie's coming in, doing a tasteful job of incorporating
that into some of the Bon Jovi tracks. Here we go.
Here we go, ready? (sings) Here we go.
(sings)
Here we go.
nice.
So anyway guys, yeah good stuff. Jon actually has pretty decent placement,
like I said I've seen them several times live and every time they were spot on
great. I haven't seen any of the more recent stuff, I heard his having some
vocal trouble but for the most part, man every time I saw them, they were great.
You know I've seen him on TV live a couple times, I've seen him live live a
couple times, been backstage watching him live and great stuff. He's you know
obviously his voice was in good tone, he even hit some higher notes than the
album version. So he paced himself and he saved himself through this through the
set and like I said, it's hard to run around and move around a lot and you
know be able to still, you know sing those nice high notes like that so
anyway two thumbs, straight up for Jon Bon Jovi and "Livin' on a Prayer". Check
out our version in the description tag and until next time, peace out.
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