Throwback Mike

Astat will probably correct me on this but when they do the bridge part it seems like Chester takes it an octave up and Mike goes down. Then when Mike comes in with the "It's like I'm paranoid" Chester slides back down

 

Like I said, I could very well be wrong. Just what I heard though.

 

Right, on the Papercut bridge the higher harmony part is Chester, and the lower part (which is actually the melody) is Mike.

Mike does sing higher than Chester on some other songs though.

 

Yeah, Little Things and No More Sorrow for sure. Maybe Shadow and Leave Out all the Rest too. I'm not sure on all the ones he sings higher on

 

He sings "you love the way," "you take away" etc. on Points of Authority an octave higher than Chester in falsetto, and he did the same thing on the Reanimation bridge of One Step Closer when they used to do that live, but I can't think of any other pre-MTM stuff that Mike sings higher. Leave Out All the Rest he's actually lower, but he's higher than Chester on the harmonies on Shadow of the Day, the pre-chorus of No More Sorrow, all the harmonies in the first half of TLTGYA, the 2nd verse of In Pieces, and he does the octave higher falsetto thing a lot in Valentine's Day.

I seem to remember him singing a higher harmony part on the bridge of Reading My Eyes when they played it in Japan, but he didn't do it on the version that's on the LPU6 CD. There was also one little harmony part at the end of My Own Summer that he sang higher, and that's all I can think of.

 

Does anyone have a link for My Own Summer? I've never heard it.
Should be ok cos it's just a live bootleg.

 

I was wrong then.

But it still cracks me up that Mike, who you'd expect to have a bit of a deeper singing voice than Chester, goes higher than him in some songs.

 

"No Roads Left" is a good example of his range.

 

During the end of Pushing Me Away, was somebody else doing the vocals in the background?

 

Quite possibly, I've always heard something in there, if you're talking the album version. I always thought they ran some sort of sample at the end.

 

From 2:31 and onwards in Pushing Me Away; it's either some sort of sound effect, or musical sample as you stated, but I always find myself imagining it as a vocal sample of Mike, or Phoenix.

I might as well plug this in since it's related XD.

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLGSgxRq6iQ

 

I'd imagine it's Mike, Phoenix and Chester harmonizing.

 

Wow...I thought those were Chester too.

 

There's a harmony vocal part in all 3 choruses of Pushing Me Away that goes "Why...I...now," but it's just Chester harmonizing with himself and was never done live. FYI, Mike did zero singing vocals on the studio recording of Hybrid Theory, so anything from that album that he sings live was Chester on the album. I think the same might be true for Meteora, but I'm not sure.

 

By that you mean live right? I'm sure it's Chester on the album version. Just listin to how he says "stone" in the second verse, that's like soooo Chester haha.

 

He's talking about when the band performs live, yes.

 

Chester said once, sorry no source - I can't remember where, that he figured out how to scream in a way that it doesn't hurt his voice. Or said something similar.

 

It's not necessarily the screaming that hurts your voice if you do it properly. Singing correctly and screaming correctly are pretty much the same technique, you control the pitch/volume etc. with your diaphragm rather than your throat. If you're singing/screaming properly, you'll feel it resonating in your stomach, chest cavity, and your sinus cavity, with very little vibration actually coming from your throat. Sometimes it's actually pumping the crowd up between songs that does the most damage to your voice, because most frontmen, Chester included, have a "stage voice" that they use for better effect, and typically it's very throaty and loud, which isn't good for your vocal chords. Try going a whole day talking in your normal voice, just a lot louder, and by the end you'll probably be pretty hoarse.

 

Yeah I agree completely, admittently I was in the choir about 5 and 4 years ago , so I know what you mean. It's like coming home from somewhere loud music is played, you only need a few hours for your voice to go hoarse, but of course it depends how much you use it.

I was just repeating what I heard, I know you don't neccesarily hurt your voice or at all.