On 11/29/02 9:33 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > Caught the Joan on the old boob tube, too. The > BBC concert. > > And what was really > strange (with all this talk about her voice) > was that after two or three songs her voice > started to go (she even said, I'd love to stay > another hour but the pipes are going). She was > having trouble venturing up into that stratospheric > soprrano (the popular Joni yodel effect) -- > seemed more comfortable in the > lower range. Was that high voice a "false" > falsetto all along? And was singing so high, > straining so, the real culprit (of course the > cigs didn't help).? I think it was. > > By the time she did BSN, she was really > cracking -- and seemed upset at the end, > taking her bows.
In the unedited version, Joni says that she has a cold, hence the strained sounding voice. Rick
