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Ritchies Strat wrote:
Ya-da ya-da ya-da
Blah blah blah
 You've taken the Gillans Micstand Prize Trophy away from me for being the most predictable regurgitator of paranoia-based drivel on these boards. Congratulations!!!
I know you've said she fits the music well in the studio but fails miserably live before so I'll give you some credit for listening to the studio albums with an objective view.
 I however, have seen BN in a concert setting 4 times and an intimate setting 3 times and have never heard Candice sing poorly. I have heard her sing BN tunes without the aid of chorus and delay effects or pitch shifters and she sings the material beautifully. I also have a boot of BN from last summer and, just to try to hear what you've been ranting on about, have been giving it extensive airplay. While it's true she seems to struggle a bit with the last segment of FAM and the high note ("YOU" in Writing On The Wall, it's still on pitch. You are the one who should be begging for a number at the local clinic. You need a hearing specialist to cure your selective hearing deficiency (me thinks you're ear drum skins loosen up and you are listening off pitch after too much head banging) and also to calm your "everyone wants to make money" paranoia. A little Prozac combined with some valium is in order for you. You can pick them up at your local drug druggist.
 I know your years salary is squat (since you've been so willing to gamble it away), so it's a good thing the health care professionals get paid from the exhorbitant taxes the real working public pays.
 So just pony up to your local clinic and seek the help you need.

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JohnH wrote:

I think Candace is fine, but about the pitch problem, she definitely has it. They were using heavy choruses and delays in Fulda last year, I'm not sure if the pitch machine was in use. Most of the time she was fine, but during Writing on The Wall, after the lengthy jam in the middle, she started singing the chorus, and was on planet Mars as far as pitch. I swear to god, if the band was at 440 she was way down in 427 land she was so far off. I was about six feet from her so it was clear. Oh and if you don't believe she doesn't have a pitch problem, the first BN concert video from 97-98 is filled with her singing off key. Shadow of the Moon is completely flat, as are other songs. She can't even get on pitch during the hotel room acoustic jams, which is especially embarrassing. There's no excuse for being flat when you are singing along to acoustic guitars that are right there, with no loud band or crowd noise to distract your ears. I'm totally objective about this, and I love her and those songs, so this is not an anti Candace rant. I agree, she's going to hang herself on Broadway if they don't have the pitch correcting.

John

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