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Holy shit, what a setlist! I never thought I'd see Carve played live, esp with Andrew, and although that's the one song off of Acceptance Speech I don't care for, I do love that Andrew alternated the unclean vocals with Jon on that one. Spooks was a great opener too. I see a lot of similarities appearance and music-wise between Andrew and Jonny, probably mostly the mullet, lol. He really has the potential to reprise a lot of Jonny-era songs and do them justice, whereas Tillian just didn't have the voice for. Wells definitely is like the ultimate conglomerate of all the past vocalists, and he can do screams the best too of all the clean vocalists, which is INSANE. One thing I didn't like and am confused about that, Jon seems to have changed the lyrics for the closing verse on Lemon Meringue Tie on recent live performances, as he did with NASA for the Tree City Sessions 2 version. I guess maybe Jon is trying to step away from sexually explicit lyrics?
Haha, was looking to see how Andrew has been going so searched DGD live and it's you Alex! We met playing some mobile AFK game , I think it was AFK Arena? Good to see you're still out there jamming it up homie. < : - )
I had more respect for Andrew when he played guitar and sang rather than just being a front man. They’re basically turning this man into the next jonny Craig clone. Plus in my opinion his other band is very underrated.
Seriously it says something about them as a band to still be relevant and still be good when they’ve had 4 vocalists in 20 years. Not every band could do that.
I love DGD they're my favorite post-hardcore band, thank you for uploading this 🫶 For some reason, I don't like Andrew's singing style at 10:00 on the song "Straight from the Heart," it sounds totally off.
Revisiting this after seeing the latest live footage from you! Personally, while I absolutely love Andrew's vocals, I think at least for the Tilian stuff live, I think they should go back to transposing the songs like what they did here. Not only does it give Andrew an easier time, but I feel transposing down gives such a different vibe that I actually quite enjoy.
As a DGD fan of over 15 years, I couldn’t be happier with Andrew on lead vocals. He’s absolutely crushing it and the band is getting to perform songs they haven’t played in SO long cause he absolutely nails jonnys original parts
As sad as I am about no MS on this run....the sheer variety of songs, getting some older shit in there again is so fucking refreshing. Always so happy to see Andrew crushing it, as always <3
@@aaaaveron Andrew doing Jonny parts is really good just not crazy about what he’s doing with the tilian parts here but I do love the current direction of the band
Yeah you can tell how committed he is to his craft...strategically deciding what vocal melodies were comfortably in range while making the right call to down pitch some stuff. Can't imagine too many other singers would put that much thought into performance.
I think this whole show and set really highlights how capable Andrew is at doing the whole DGD catalogue of songs justice! His voice suits the Jonny Craig era tracks so well and he manages to kill it for the most part on the Tilian tunes (with maybe We Own The Night being the only track that I don’t think he fully has a grasp on how to pull yet, but I’m sure he’ll improve with time). Really want to what he does with some of the songs off of self titled and Happiness! This new era of DGD is probably the most hyped I’ve been about the band in a hot minute!!!
I wish Andrew would tackle "Perfect" and "The Robot With Human Hair pt 2 1/2". I think he handles Jonny Craig's songs even better than Tilian (who still killed it). As for songs off of Happiness, some songs are just not meant to be sung by other than Kurt Travis.
