Hey everybody welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is
in the singing. I wanted to go ahead and do a vocal
coach reacts to the band Survivor. Now I didn't get a lot of requests for this,
this happens to be a personal favorite of mine. The singer was Jamie Jamison he
passed here recently unfortunately from a drug situation. You guys might know of
the band from one of their original hits which was the song Eye Of The Tiger"
though Jamie didn't sing on that song, he replaced the singer from that band. We're
gonna go ahead and do "I Can't Hold Back" but they have some incredible hits like
"he Search Is Over" just some beautiful, beautiful songs. So I really encourage
you singers especially out there, to check out Jamie and the band Survivor
but without much further ado I'm gonna go ahead and fire up this tune it's
called "I Can't Hold Back" it's a live version it says live from Japan 1989. I
need glasses these days I should start to wear them. I'm in denial I didn't want to
wear the glasses but anyway I haven't seen this yet so we're gonna watch this
together for the first time alright let's do this.
Right on key so nice.
Sounds just like the record.
Nice.
Now if you notice most 80s metal rock bands they have like much more of a
brassy almost shrill kind of sound and you know that's everybody from you know
Axl Rose to the Scorpions to you know David Coverdale whomever whatever, 80s
metal bands had...he had much more of a gentle sound to his voice. He used a
lot of really great mixed v.. you know
(sings)
you know just a really beautiful warm tone. So really check out
you know his his and then listen to his pitch it's like spot-on and he doesn't
over accentuate his vowels or consonants he's just really careful about that and
then the melodies are just so beautiful and haunting and and timeless. So with
that said we're gonna continue here we go.
Spot-on.
Okay now by the way you Journey lovers are gonna hate me for saying this but I
have to say it that is Steve Perry perfect okay. Nice high range, beautiful
tone, spot-on pitch. It's just like the record I mean it's awesome. So again
check out Survivor this band is killer. So I know there's a lot of other bands that
got a lot of acclaim and you know you've got everybody from Skid Row and whoever
that became you know more later popular bands that stayed popular and these guys
sort of fell through the cracks, kind of like John Waite from The Babys, he's
another great one. Maybe I should do something on John Waite too cause I love I
love The Vabys and I love all the other stuff he's done sense but anyway we're
gonna continue but really check some of these guys out just beautiful tone and
spot-on so like I said Journey good.
It's a shame we lost him to drugs.
That's as good as it get folks for this kind of stuff man.
Makes me wanna sing.
By the way it's so funny I did get a couple you know a little bit of hate hate mail
here they're saying why do you always sing in your videos. Well one cause I can
too cause it inspires me and I'm just sitting here rocking out having a good time
and it just it literally makes me want to sing. So as I go through this stuff it
just brings back you know I guess old memories whatever and I'm not I'm not so
melancholic I'm so nostalgic I meant to say sorry not melancholy, so nostalgic
that I have to live in the past. It's just gosh just great stuff that's really
inspired me and I'm hoping that I can introduce stuff like this that will help
inspire you and so that if you know what my influences are and like you know kind of
where I've gone with my voice, it'll help you show you where I got it so anyway
with that said t let's keep rocking.
Those harmonies are perfect man.
Album perfect guys go listen to the original and see how close this is.
Great band.
Great stuff man.
So I encourage you guys if you like Journey you'll wanna to see you know like
"The Search Is Over" in fact I'll put that in the subject um or in the description
I'll go ahead and post "The Search Is Over" by um Survivor so you can check out that
other tune but again just some phenomenal stuff. So a lot of this stuff
you know I sort of like I said slip through the cracks and if I can
reintroduce this stuff and represent it to you guys, I think you'll get a better
more rounded view of you know eighties metal and just kind of all the
different bands that happened back then. Steelheart is another band I know they
stayed popular because a lot of people really like Matijevic's voice and
whatnot. In fact I did a a song of theirs so I'll go ahead and do a reaction to
Steelheart as well too but with that said hope you guys like um like what you
heard, please like it subscribe to my channel and until next time God bless
you peace out.
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