New Talents

[Tyr66]

I often wonder about the future of our favorite music, especially about young singers. The ones I have had the opportunity to listen to are good and sometimes it's a great satisfaction. Although the sounds and influences are still not quite assimilated, the result is already promising.
I start with Nathan James, who previously worked with Uli Jon Roth, and sang on stage with Glenn Hughes and Bernie Marsden.

[Tyr66]

Another who already has his notoriety because of his tone of voice so close to Ronnie James Dio. I don't always appreciate him because of too much exposure for my taste, but his talent must be recognized.
On this cover of Rainbow Eyes, he's perfect.

[Tyr66]

And the latest that everyone is tearing to work with him and we understand it as soon as we listen to him. What a voice !! Coming from one of the many cover-videos made and produced remotely since the start of the health crisis, we discover the young Dino Jelusic singing Stormbringer. The Croatian young guy is just starting his career including one album with George Lynch and participations with Trans-Siberian Orchestra.

Enjoy !

[Jack the Stripper]

No doubt those guys can sing and do great covers, but the thing I find with a lot of newer talented singers is that they lack character and their own sense of style of greats and icons past that they may look up to or are trying to replicate. You listen to their original stuff and there is something lacking that previous greats have had. The vocal melodies, phrasing, the actual lyrics they’re singing and being able to bring a character to the song or telling a story with the lyrics. The Rainbow Eyes cover is brilliant but it only makes you appreciate Dio even more for coming up with the original. Even singers like Jagger, Waters and Ozzy that weren’t blessed with amazing technical abilities but more than made up for it with the character and charm they brought to the songs and having their own unique style which just never sounds right when someone else sings them. And then you get some like Freddie Mercury that were blessed with both attributes.

I hope you’re understanding what I’m trying to say, not dissing, I just think some of them are at their best and more suited to singing other singers songs.

[Tyr66]

No doubt those guys can sing and do great covers, but the thing I find with a lot of newer talented singers is that they lack character and their own sense of style of greats and icons past that they may look up to or are trying to replicate. You listen to their original stuff and there is something lacking that previous greats have had. The vocal melodies, phrasing, the actual lyrics they’re singing and being able to bring a character to the song or telling a story with the lyrics. The Rainbow Eyes cover is brilliant but it only makes you appreciate Dio even more for coming up with the original. Even singers like Jagger, Waters and Ozzy that weren’t blessed with amazing technical abilities but more than made up for it with the character and charm they brought to the songs and having their own unique style which just never sounds right when someone else sings them. And then you get some like Freddie Mercury that were blessed with both attributes.

I hope you’re understanding what I’m trying to say, not dissing, I just think some of them are at their best and more suited to singing other singers songs.

Exactly my point of view.
They can sing, very good technique but relate to one or more big famous names. We all know that the great singers of the 60s, 70s and 80s hadn't only exceptional voices but also personalities as such associated with very strong stage presence. But that was another era now definitely gone.
I think more generally that we have the result of what is gradually becoming today's society compared to what happened 40 or 50 years ago. The general culture, the efforts to be made to achieve recognition at its fair value, the technical equipments available and especially the audience were not the same.
Nevertheless we can say that this new guard does the job and resists this endless Pop / Rn'B / Rap supremacy.

[Zzzptm]

Come with me to the desert, you'll see the kids are all right:

They can still make heavy songs that the crowd sings the chorus to, and they don't have to have gramps with amps in their midst to do it.

[Zzzptm]

1000mods gives us a similar point of hope for the rising generation taking their music with a heavy dose of heavy:

It's got a slow tempo, but the groove is there and the kids are eatin' it up!

[Zzzptm]

And I do NOT want to forget Sky Valley Mistress!

These bands may do a cover tune here and there, but that's not what their main thrust is about. They're doing heavy music in their own way and putting butts in seats with their rock and roll, for sure.

[Zzzptm]

And on the matter of doing covers, I think this is the best cover version of Paranoid I've heard, and I'm including Dio, Gillan, and Martin doing vocals for Black Sabbath doing this song:

That singer is able to make that song her own. The band isn't afraid to rearrange it and give it a different flavour from the original that I find just as satisfying. This isn't an obligatory tribute album cover version - this is a re-imagining of the song and it works great. Completely different heart and soul to it with this version.