Egan, I noticed on the video for a life less lived that you don't do the vocals live? why is that? you're a superb singer. Have you played at a loss or last alone live?
I do vocals at a fair number of shows, but if we don't get any kind of a sound check or in cases where the stage is so tiny that a mic stand would be a serious real estate loss I'll skip them.
The only clean vocal songs we've played live are ALLL and LTB. Never say never but I'm not really interested in stepping up vocally to that extent live.
I think you are probably reading way too much into a one camera recording of the first night of a tour.