Exactly! When Walsh’s voice started to deteriorate he seemed to be trying to compensate by throwing in all that ad lib vocal stuff that just did not work at all. I found it to be really annoying and he did it for a lot of years. He also didn’t enunciate very well either during this time period which I also found annoying. Both the “Live At The Whiskey” and “Device Voice Drum” DVD’s suffered from this, and I saw the band live many times during this time period. By the time they did the last DVD though, he had really toned it down and I agree it is probably his best vocal performance captured on DVD. The whole thing is really well done. If it ends up being Walsh’s last filmed statement with the band it was a pretty good way to go out.
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