Does anyone know the story/history behind Michael's pitched down voice? It seems to have been a part of the Flips sound for years, right up to Free Radicals.

For example, is that him on Shine on Sweet Jesus? Deathporn Immortality Blues? Be My Head? Or did someone else overdub some of these voices?

What is the earliest track to use this voice? What other tracks use it and when did they add it to the live show?

Thanks!

thats his real voice

-does anyone know if thats him singing on "Thanks to you"?

thanks to you is jonathon...i think (?)

(my memory's fuzzy)

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Originally posted by FirstWaveIntact:
thats his real voice

I'm sure it is... pitched down slightly

from what I've read, neither michael or wayne pitch down there voices in the songs. i know that to be true of thousand feet of hands

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Originally posted by FirstWaveIntact:
-does anyone know if thats him singing on "Thanks to you"?

That'd be Richard English!

Quoting from Staring at Sound by Jim DeRogatis; "Shine on Sweet Jesus ...including a down-tuned vocal by Michael that sounds like Satan singing through a megaphone" also used on the doo-wop-wop backing vocals in Everyone wants to live forever.

And I assume that's him on "It Overtakes Me" as well? (Disappear down a black hole) I love the effect...it has to be pitched down, though. His speaking voice does not seem like it could make that sound.

oh, thats rite, wayne is the one who doesn't use pitch shifting.

Then who sings the high pitched melody in Everythings Exploding??

Wayne's voice gets the pitch-shift treatment in 'Put the Waterbug in the Policeman's Ear,' and "The Big Ol' Bug is the New Baby Now." Admittedly, these are stories and not melodies. These examples seem to use the real-time pitch shift effect created with a tape machine... '1000ft Hands' sounds like it uses a similar effect to me, but it would twice as cool if Wayne actually manipulated his voice like that without effects!

Listening back to The Big Ol' Bug right now, I notice the pitched down voices during the final chorus'... could be Michael?

Does Michael ever sing on a track in which his voice is NOT pitch shifted?

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Originally posted by Wake-And-Bake-Me:
Then who sings the high pitched melody in Everythings Exploding??

Also Richard English.

Michael don't talk maaaaaan he juuuuuust viiiiiiiiiiibez

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Originally posted by El Pr0n:

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Originally posted by FirstWaveIntact:
-does anyone know if thats him singing on "Thanks to you"?

That'd be Richard English!

he's an unsung hero. That song is great!

richard wuz alright but he couldn't haaaaaaang.

I wanted to bring back this thread because I'd still love to hear some other peoples thoughts, stories, or comments.

Any other tracks that use the pitched down voice besides the ones mentioned?

When did they introduce this effect live?

Is it Michel in 1000 Ft. Hands? You know, the "See, I thought I wasn't mad" part.

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Originally posted by Christ Child:

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Originally posted by FirstWaveIntact:
thats his real voice

I'm sure it is... pitched down slightly

Why do you think he plays bass?

Michael plays bass
Steven sings tenor
Wayne's on lead
&
Kliph is on drums cooks dinner

Is that why everyone is so skinny?