Vocal Coach Reacts! Devin Townsend! Why! Live!

[@blazejecar]

devin is my favorite disney princess

[@fatsuperfly]

He’s amazing! And I do wish to be a voice on, Disney stuff, and he would destroy it. But that’s not him. Would love that in my time. Loved everything he did, and just go hey kids he played this Disney character, but when they get older, check out this stuff(his music n stuff) 😮. lol. Sorry just live Dev and he makes good albums.

[@purpleir]

Sam: " I am confused! What's going on?" Me: "Why?" 😉🤣🤣🤣

[@Liz-cmc313]

No musician can make me smile and touch my Soul. Absolutely adore this wonderful, talented, humble, funny man 💯🔥❤️

[@ainomatin]

YES! This made me so happy :D Devin is such a delight and you watching him is another delight! We need more more MORE! Edit: You should also watch his quarantine concert version of Why? that is just him singing with a backing track. The album version is very disney-esque with an orchestra and a choir. This tour he wanted to keep everything as organic as possible without backing tracks etc. This was super fun version and I haven't seen anyone react to this before. I saw Devin on his Empath tour in Turku (Finland) and he was amazing. He descriped this tutu as "I have two skirts. The other one covers the balls and then there's this." :D I love him, he's an endless source of every emotion imaginable.

[@wtglb]

It was so good!

[@paulbateman8412]

There is so much more to discover from Devin, he has a 30year back catalogue, why not do a few more.

[@JakobStrand]

Is that Morgan Ågren on the drums?! Holy crap!

[@damon665]

Yup! He did a lot of the drumming on the Empath album.

[@erikmaronde2244]

I have attended this show in Hamburg 2019. It was the best concert of my life so far. 🤘🎶🖖

[@BuzzaB77]

his diction is SOOOOO good across all forms of his voice

[@magusmelanie828]

For someone who just wanted to hang in back and play bass, he sure makes a hell of a front man 🤣

[@madjock-hy7th]

The man is a genius! He is also playing Glasgow Thursday 14 April at the O2 Academy. I will be on the floor (ticket already purchased)... probably literally on the damned floor by the end of the show. Loved your reaction as always. All the best for 2022 to you and yours.

[@SSTVocalCoach]

Ah I’m so jealous!

[@madjock-hy7th]

@@SSTVocalCoach You must know someone in the Weedge who could blag you a ticket😁. Maybe try for an interview... That way you could get to chat and see him live. He is very worth it. I have seen him around 12 times now and he is always great!

[@wtglb]

@@madjock-hy7th I havrr we not seen him live yet it’s on my bucket list 👍🏻

[@madjock-hy7th]

@@wtglb Hopefully play your way soon. Never disappoints. Even seen him when he played a festival and his and the band's gear didn't so he had to improvise with borrowed stuff. About 10 or 15 minutes of stand up before he played a song😂. He really is unique!

[@wtglb]

@@madjock-hy7th he sure is!

[@solarwinds9363]

When I saw the title of this video I knew you'd enjoy it, regardless of which version you picked. You didn't disappoint, I had tears rolling down my cheeks together with you on the beep part. If he ever has a concert in Glasgow, I highly recommend checking him out live. Thanks so much for checking it out and the interesting vocal info!

[@mincentprice1041]

Thanks Sam - What a wonderful surprise! This whole concert was one of the greatest experiences that all of these hand picked musicians and vocalists ever had before. You are the best at explaining and helping us to understand more in technical terms without dumbing things down. For decades Devin's stance at the microphone with guitar is always one foot forward and his other planted behind him - when he digs in, that's how he controls his diaphragm and can hold his notes for a ridiculous amount of time. I saw a whole vlog of his Transendence tour where he broke his ankle and he had to wear a big walking cast. He was having some difficulty because he couldn't push the way he always had. Cheers

[@Justin_Anvil]

This is the first I’ve seen of this iteration of this song. Great reaction!

[@Rosannasfriend]

Oh you finally did the song! This is my favorite song by him, and probably my favorite song by heavy-metal singer of all time, lol.

[@Rosannasfriend]

I would’ve preferred the quarantine version that he did in his basement… But I guess I’ll grudgingly accept this. It is the contrast between his epic a vocals and just being in his house, plus him playing around with his toy octopus in the climax of the song that made that so much more special, LMAO.

[@randalljones4370]

I agree... the Quarantine-version is why we now have an identical-yet-slightly larger Octopus, high on top of the clinical cabinets, looking down on the patients.

[@SecondSince]

That "Goodbye" outro you did though! Damn, you ain't too shabby yourself my dude! :D

[@TwoandaHater]

We need more Leprous reactions here. Castaway Angels (ballad) or Nighttime Disguise (bit of everything).

[@tomgrant29]

This was the last gig I went to before Covid, December 2019, and it was majestic :)

[@BrievaryZowan]

I saw this set back in 2020 in the Corona Theatre in Montreal. It was his third night of playing, having done one show in that theatre two days prior, then one in Toronto, then back to Montreal for the third. He had a meet and greet before the show, and must have been exhausted. When it came to Why, he didn't even bother leaving the stage. Stage hand just ran up with the tutu, he pulled his jeans off, stuck the tutu on, and ran around on stage in his boxers. The encore was Disco Inferno. It was an incredible show, and I wish he would believe in himself a little more and player larger NA venues. He never does big shows outside Europe as he doesn't think they'd sell.

[@Iscariot-sq1mm]

Lucky enough to see him live. Except he changed into the skirt onstage. Black boxer briefs, if you're wondering.

[@northof4912]

The quarantine version of this is priceless!

[@ToweringToska]

Your goodbye surprised me! Thanks for another excuse to watch this performance again.

[@Gene_e19]

Exactly! What I love about the whole phenomenon of Devy is that he’s a goddamn genius, and he laughs at himself and belittles his own work right before our eyes so not to make it pretentious and too munch serious.

[@ryanmtbbrown6749]

Devin is heavy metal musical theater

[@SwedeSpeeder]

You didn't know it was gonna be this fun, did ya? 😄

[@2kanchoo]

Why? The time when devy decided he wanted to make a disney princess song lol.

[@aldoblar]

oasis champaign supernova "why why why"!!!! was driving me crazy figuring out where this was influenced from

[@wendellnelson1118]

First let me say how much I love the ratio of your videos. Usually the reactor is full screen and the performer is related to something where you need a magnifying glass to see what their reacting to. On your videos , you can see both you and the performer without moving your eyes. Most of the other reaction videos are just ego, nothing else. I would love to see your reaction and comments about a voice, and that would be David Phelps. The video is Bill & Gloria Gaither - Oh Holy Night (live) featuring David Phelps. Your comments are always so spot on. I would love to hear yours about this artist.

[@Cogniciones]

Why Devin sounds the same as in the studio version? That is just mind blowing

[@corruptedfiles1989]

Classic song

[@wtglb]

Your ending-not bad!!! 😁

[@Rosannasfriend]

Sam, you need to do a video specifically talking about oral versus nasal Twang because you lose me every single time, LMAO.

[@markgnarz5399]

I believe Devin wore the tutu because the female vocalist said they would only wear it if he did. Also he's don rediculous clothing things before--when performing with Steve Vai.

[@SSTVocalCoach]

MORE men in tutus I say! 💪💪

[@roxylindholm5179]

@@SSTVocalCoach Real men wear tutus 😁

[@hammerfallenator]

Ah, us Canadians eh. Barrels 0f laughs and groans!

[@_jm0n3y8oo_]

Devin doesn’t play music… Music gets played by Devin

[@KhordLizardMage]

I defy anyone to not join in singing along with glee when they hear this song!

[@MrBielok]

Hey Sam! How have you been? I see the plants are still well 😎 This really made me laugh. I mean, taking yourself too serious is never a good thing. This was great. Have you done Grace already by our Devon?

[@stefanbranden4898]

Epjc!!!!

[@Crabfather]

Sam, a quick question - your description of fry scream - if the vical chords ate just kinda hanging slack, how is it possible to create a pitch ?

[@SSTVocalCoach]

That’s a very hard question to answer quickly 😂 Basically, we can assign terms to the way vocal folds behave (chest voice, head voice, fry etc) and many assume these are kind of locked in registers with no wiggle room, but the whole process is one big spectrum, so you can thin out thicker folds (mix) or add a touch of fry onto thick to make subharmonics. With fry as well, we also have larynx height to influence the sound, sub glottal pressure and many other wee tools to apply to make some of these more extreme sounds we hear in metal. It’s a combination of many factors that makes a fry scream, and they can be employed in different values/ ways, which is why a lot of these screaming gods sound so different from one another. I hope any of that made sense 😅😅😅 it’s a VERY big topic.

[@Crabfather]

@@SSTVocalCoach yeah that does make sense, thank you :-) so basically pitch can be created many different ways, by tightness or volume.. Among others.. Man it's the hardest instrument to get your head around. I'm stuck with a crappy larynx that clicks into higher registers 🙄

[@jonneneva4372]

Mike Keneally on keyboards?

[@SasukeHart23]

Please please please reaction to Morissette singing “My Immortal” by Evanescence🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@lacaz212]

I’m sorry, are you asking “Why?”

[@malawigw]

Why?

[@glaubercandidopita]

React Gabriel Henrique O Holy Night React Gabriel Henique Stand Up React Easy on Me - Gabriel Henrique (Cover Adele) .....

[@WolfHeathen]

Um... Did he just go from fry to clean back to fry again in the same breath and note? I idn't think Devin could impress me any more than he already has and then that happened.

[@MrUpphew]

You want to see something impressive from him? Check this out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m3mXaoiqh7-KgdE

[@That_Handle]

Hm. Why'dya delete my post?

[@SSTVocalCoach]

I'm not sure what's happened as I can see you've posted something, but it links to nowhere... Sometime KZbin auto deletes comments that it thinks are spam (has links in it) or is abusive (can be strangely sensetive sometimes) so maybe try again? Either way, rest assured I didn't delete anything :)

[@matthewrosenstein7327]

First!

[@SSTVocalCoach]

So you are! You need to take that song to your coach Matt! Lots of spinning 😁

[@rhinno1969]

The quarantine version is great also 👍 Also you should check out his first singing venture with Steve Vai on the album Sex and Religion. The single/video "Down Deep Into the Pain" would be a good place to start.

[@gabrielp9646]

Ok... 10 seconds in, and you´re already reacting to the wrong video...