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Originally Posted by surferguy
Seeing them live on this tour was interesting as Gord really poured out his emotion singing these songs. You can really hear how much passion he is laying out on the album and it was about ten fold in concert. A lot of people didn’t like it as they felt he was just screaming too much through that era. That screaming didn’t stop until they toured fully completely again.
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Personally I thought his singing was great on the World Container tour, as well as the '09 tour for We Are the Same. He was also very good on his 2010 solo tour in support of The Grand Bounce. The screaming/vocal problems started around 2011 and continued up until the Fully anniversary tour as you mentioned. The fans thought it was weird since he still sounded terrific on the studio albums.
The recent biography "the Never-Ending Present" touches on this time period a bit, but doesn't really go into too much detail on the screaming thing. I do know that there was some friction within the band around that time regarding Gord's solo career and his desire to branch out from the Hip creatively.
When they did the final tour in 2016, his voice was much better and like you said, he really seemed to concentrate hard on the music and his singing in particular. When I saw them in Vancouver I thought it was the best he'd sounded in years.
On a related note, what do you guys think about Gord's new solo record that just came out? I like it, but I prefer the acoustic version of the album (disc 2). I think those songs work much better stripped down with just Gord and Josh Finlayson's guitar. Cool trivia: that's Gord's son playing drums on the electric versions.
Word is he still has at least a couple more solo albums in the can, as well as bunch of unreleased Hip material that could see the light of day in the near future.