I saw Commander Cody at an outdoor concert a couple of years ago, and the man looked liked he’d slept underneath sagebrush the night before. He sounded OK, but the years have been hard on him.
Cher - I swear she Lip-Synch’s every song in every performance.
I don’t know who does her costuming and wigs/hair, but they need to be Fired. I hope she really went into retirement.
Well, I’ll just stand over here with my buddies Frankd6 and DoctorJ, with our tin ears and all, and we’ll gaze mournfully over at you and envy your clearly superior musical taste.
Pfah, I say to you again. Since you’re arguing completely from the subjective, I will do so as well, giving TWO examples, so as to grind your argument into the dust.
I heard Bob in a bullring in Asturias, Spain, in the mid-'90s, and his voice brought tears of joy to our eyes (that would be me and a bunch of other folks even older than me, who had heard him in his prime…I first heard him live in 1978). This was one of the first perfs he did with that kickass new band of his.
I heard him again at Madison Square Garden at the end of 2000, the double concert he did with Joni Mitchell. Went with my wife, a STONE Mitchell fan and hater of Dylan (see, we thought there’d be something for each of us! Ain’t we cute?). After the show she grudgingly admitted that Joni’s voice had gone way south, and that Bob had performed rings around her.
In addition, I give you the albums LOVE AND THEFT and TIME OUT OF MIND, which have garnered more delirious reviews than anything he’s done since BLOOD ON THE TRACKS.
Pfah.
Pfah.
I can see where astorian’s going with the allegation that Dylan sounds horrible. I have a tribute concert CD in which he sings one song, and sounds like a poor impersonation of himself. However, it was recorded around the same time as the Simon concerts. This was also the same general time in which he got ver sick and nearly died, IIRC.
I have Time out of Mind and Love and Theft and he sounds much better in them. I think he’s learned to work with what age has done to his voice.
As far as horrible concerts, I have to second Foreigner. They played the country fair, and it was just sad. After 10 minutes or so, I wandered off to pet the goats.
B.J. Thomas also seen at a county fair, was horrible, horrible. Part of that had to do with the acoustics, but most had to do with him.
County fairs, where once-respected musicians go to die. 
Really? I saw him last May, and after two fairly energetic performances by opening bands, I wondered how the old guy would fare. He came out and put on a hell of a show- plenty of tunes, plenty of jamming, chatting with the audience, etc. Then he hung out afterwards. His singing is as bad as it ever was, but I wasn’t there to hear him sing.