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In an interview on an American radio program, vocalist Sebastian Bach was asked about the lack of good frontmen in rock music, compared to when he started his career. Bach related the phenomenon to the evolution of recording techniques:
“I think a lot of it is related to the fact that musicians nowadays have so much technology involved in recording that it’s almost impossible to feel the true soul. Like in a Skid Row song like 18 And Life or I Remember You or Monkey Business, that was really the sound coming out of my mouth, not Pro Tools or computers or anything like that. That didn’t exist back then. And it’s the same thing with our favorite albums from the 70s and 80s, before computers came into the recording scene. I think that’s why you can’t find a good frontman. Because we can’t hear behind all that technology. Everything is too perfect. And humans aren’t perfect.”
I think that when you record an album, you go and make a kind of bad recording, and then the producer and the engineer put it on a laptop and adjust it to make it sound like a good recording, but it really wasn't. And that's the opposite of what we did back in our day. We used to sing a hundred times, or however many times it took, until we found the magic, the most incredible thing we could do. And that's kind of the opposite way of recording. So I think we know how to do it better than with the help of a computer. I think when you have to do it alone, you work on your skills better, obviously.”.
