Does anyone like JRAD Tom Hamilton's vocals?

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I think his singing ruins the show. 

The big guy to the right in JRAD?

Yes, I think that guy knows the music & curdles with warmth of the tenor & lower MHz. registers "Ala Bob Weir" as good as possible

And Rocks!

The guy to the right, right?

The little guy to LEFT wearing the Raspberry Beret, plays the guitar, like he's holding a 4x4 piece CCA Treated Wood.

The guy to the right, is the shit & would love to shake his hand ~

Great band with hands-down-bare-none-the worst agents in the music business - PARADIGIM

Bunch of real ass holes, really messing up a bunch of artists right now. Bob Weir is now listed as making a MAJOR blunder & singing with these tools.

What makes Paradigm a bunch of “real ass holes” and “the worst agents,” Bluelight? Examples please.

Skier's right or looker's right?

>>What makes Paradigm a bunch of “real ass holes” and “the worst agents,” Bluelight? Examples please.

You could not pay me enough money in the world to answer that exact question. None what-so-ever.

>>looker's right

Right ~

I think I know the answer. Thanks.

Yeah. It would be obvious for some, thx

It is.

I find his singing rather neutral. It neither ruins nor enhances, It is just there. But, and this is a big but, it would take the worst of Donna's screeching to bring this band down to any great extent for my ears. 

Slack, i just watched a freakin horrible movie...bryan cranston flik...Time over Mind , i think it was called...just god-awful.....thought you might like it

Jambone can you confirm that your choice of attire at social engagements is known to include a belt made of rope? Thanks, champ.

>>Slack, i just watched a freakin horrible movie......just god-awful.....thought you might like it

 

lol, Jam...bone

Gravy likes T-Ham vocals? 

Is Tom the guy on the right?

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This guy.

Thanks man.

To me, he's the killer guitarist to the left side, as I face the stage?

I will get the names straight too.

Not sure what all the hype is about this band.

To each their own.

Enjoy!

It's not the singing I mind, although it's not very good - the GD really couldn't sing until 1970 or so. And it's not the teases - I don't mind 'em. The thing that turned me off to this band when I first saw them a couple of weeks ago.was their heavy-handed and industrial approach to the material.

I like my GD music with some subtlety, some nuance, some clarity. These guys don't really have any of that. 

His singing is almost as lame as his guitar work. He loves his scarfs.

They ALL wear nice hats, or hats, all, they wear.

Walstib told me it's good.like a fire hose.

I think he's a reasonably good vocalist & a sublime musician 

 

https://youtu.be/zQMOnfL0u5w

Thought about OP's question a while.

Listened to a few JRAD recordings and pondered the thought.

My creative cogitation team is developing an unobtrusive,  multi-cultural,  pan-gender response at this point.

If it was just up to me I'd say kissÐbroken heart¿

Better than Mayer by a long shot.

>>>>To me, he's the killer guitarist to the left side, as I face the stage?

that’s called “stage right” in the warm lower MHz of the music business 

I would describe Mayer's vocals as far less annoying than T-Ham's. While his style is weird, his volume is better than T-Ham's. T-Ham sings like his mic is off and he has to yell. 

T-Ham?

 

Is that the ham on the left or the ham on the right?

It’s just the ham lodged in Slacker’s dome. 

Dats an awfully bigly pigly...

Better than Mayer by a long shot.))))))))))))))))

 

I could not disagree more. Tom Hamilton freaking SHREDS but his singing sucks IMO. Mayer aint the greatest w vocals but is competent knows the material and WAY better than Hamilton w the vocals to my ears. To each their own

Will nobody be able to melt faces while singing like an angel?

If you're going to see JRAD for their vocals you're missing the point.

Thom, the point is that his volume of vocal suck manages to kill all instrumental buzz every 15 minutes. 

Not enough continuity. 

 

If you're going to see JRAD for their vocals you're missing the point.)))))))

 

I could not agree more. 

>>>If you're going to see JRAD for their vocals you're missing the point<<<

Thom, Knot doesn't go to the shows.

And to the general point, who exactly has sung GD songs very well in any of the post-GD years?

Even Jerry was awful his last five (to ten?) years.

Fortunately for me personally I've never cared much about the vocals, even when Jerry could sing.

That Jerry used to be able to sing well was just an added bonus, but was never the reason I was there.

 

"Even Jerry was awful his last five (to ten?) years."

 

I strongly disagree

 

...typical banter from a guy that grew up on the west coast...never having to lift a finger to make shows

I apologize if that seems harsh, I'm sure you have probably traveled to see shows, I don't intend to seem judgmental, from '85-'95 was pretty special.

After listening to Bob Weir's paper thin vocals last night and John Mayer's faux emotion with facial contortions, give me Tom Hamilton any day.  And has been stated earlier, when did vocals ever become an important criteria for GD music?

Tom is more emotional than John? 

Probably

I disagree.  I think vocals are/were important for the dead.   Working Man's, American beauty, Reckoning to name a few.... were solid.   They would not have been as popular if Jerry couldn't bring you into the songs with his soul. 

I agree that you go to JRAD for something beyond the singing though.    

Chris Robinson 0r Warren Haynes,

sing the GD songs the best post GD Era.

 

^ I should have struck a better tone earlier, no pun intended 

 

I think everyone has a good singing voice as long as they find their true singing voice, if you can walk you can dance, if you can talk you can sing, it's kind of like The Legend of Bagger Vance, everyone has a unique golf swing, you just need to "find your swing", everyone has a beautiful & unique singing voice, they just need to discover or perhaps rediscover it.  

>.typical banter from a guy that grew up on the west coast...never having to lift a finger to make shows<

 

because....the GD rarely made it back east?

You are correct, I apologize, that was in poor form on my part, thanks.  

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be

"Even Jerry was awful his last five (to ten?) years."

LOL, yea I just had to cover my ears every time he sang  "Visions of Johanna."

That's what I just don't get, I've never been at a show when I thought Garcia didn't sing & play beautifully, I do not understand those feelings, I just don't get it.  I should have responded to that statement much more graciously.

>when did vocals ever become an important criteria for GD music<

 

Couldn't agree more. Jerry's and Bob's vocals never did much for me. 

Jerry's Folky singing style was always primary to the Grateful Dead.. And the softness of Jerry's approach is what makes his music pleasing... It also creates a contrast for when he blows the doors out   ... This guy gets it 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH-iILAFCyM&feature=share

 

Yup.  Some songs were made GREAT by Jerry's voice. Specially the twangy/folk stuff and slow tempo songs, Im thinking bout dew, china doll, SOTM, black muddy even Black Peter.  When Jerry was singing from the heart, you could usually tell, and those musical moments were heightened emotionally because of the vocal inflection.  Now after hearing many of the tunes hundreds of times, I got to the point where I wished they would skip the verse lyrics and get to the jam, like playing, uncle johns etc. Good singing, good lyrics and great jamming, the full package (even 85-95) imho

>>Yup.  Some songs were made GREAT by Jerry's voice. 

 

Can you say the same thing about Tom Hamilton? 

Jerry didn't have good vocals?

really?

i know he wasn't van morrison, but...meh?

 

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Yep, Turtle, they were adequate. 

The reason Garcia was such a uniquely beautiful singer was his genuineness.

Jerry had as much soul as you’d expect from someone named Jerome.

Mayer would fit in this band if T-Ham split. Go play ghost story. 

How much are the Russians paying you, Slack?

Are they paying you hourly, salary, or by post count?

Rob Barraco is another voice i'm not fond of.

Maybe an outdoor show will sound better. 

I don’t think any of the guys in JRAD can sing. Aside from Dave they are all a buncha amateurs who really have no business playing dead. I guess they have some kinda hipster thing going for them and people go to their shows but they were pretty rough whe I saw them. I was surprised at the hype. Russo is a pro but his drumming style is fucking boring. He can lay one beat down and he plays it all day and fiddles around with symbols. Fortunately, they are competing with dead and co right now who has some of the worst drumming in a dead cover band ever. 

His singing is almost as lame as his guitar work. He loves his scarfs>>>

For the 2nd time, he joined the Wolves in Philly for 4 tunes, no word if he had a mic or scarfed up.

For the 2nd time, he joined the Wolves in Philly for 4 tunes, no word if he had a mic or scarfed up.

There was a mic but Bob basically ignored him the whole time that he was on stage for two songs Gonesville and the Maker.  Bob could have used some help on vocals, as his vox was a little more horse than the previous week.