While you know I'm a huge fan of his, and I definitely agree that he's a great singer and still pretty freakin' unique, I also was somewhat disappointed to hear some BLATANT derivations from Mike Patton when I was on a slight FNM jaunt some years ago - still awesome, just not quite as awesome when you can hear the influence so clearly IMO
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Yeah Georgie does nail the Barlow in the gritty sound and also happens to be a baritone so they have comparable lows as well. However another singer that I would say George sounds even more like and even used to look exactly like (when he was ummmn, a little thinner) would be Urban Breed which is weird cause UB and MB sound nothing alike to me
I hope you weren't insulting Eric Adams ... Those are fighting words
Dude, we just should never talk about Slayer or Manowar
no need to ever talk about either band since we both know they're too awesome for mere words
I'll have to dig out some older stuff with George singing ... I think you may be surprised
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Yeah man, would be keen to hear that!
Here's a clip of a tune from the band George and I met in back in like '97
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/594184/Old George.mp3
Maybe just my opinion but far more Urban Breed than Matt Barlow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmugVwYT7j0&feature=related
It wasn't until I called George over to the dark side with Shadowdance about 4 years later that I convinced him he was able to hit those high notes with rasp ... took some work but the 1st time he did it he had a look on his face like it was the 1st time he got laid or something
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^ did that once too ... at the Wacken fest when Blind Guardian was playing. I just belted out this high note with a shit ton of rasp and I have no idea how or where it came from but it was awesome and like 3 dudes standing next to me did the whole
I've never been able to do it again ... I think the Jever had something to do with it. I t was cool feeling like a "somebody" for a moment hahahaha
