I like screamy/shouty vocals as much as the next man (well, nearly) but there are some things I have always wondered, and I thought perhaps there might be a screamy/shouty vocalist who could end my...wondering.

Wonders:

1. Doesn't it hurt your throat?

2. Did you scream/shout (at home) before you did it in the context of a band?

3. Did it surprise your band-mates when you started screaming for the first time (in rehearsal or wherever)?

4. Do you have a favourite screamer/shouter to whom you owe your screaming/shouting style?

is good, this thread.

did bandmates think, i wonder if he will scream/shout the next song we write?

why is this vocalist so angry? what has someone done to him?

hopefully whomever has wronged him will come to his concert and they will be made aware of their wrongdoings when the singer is hollering about it from stage. then they can put all this behind them and move on!

Rick Froberg is my favourite

yes indeed. he's the one makes me wish i could scream/shout. he's the reason so many others are currently screamers. so many that should not be.

ive always screamed/shouted in my bands and its never done any damage apart from give me a good headache. i do know of people who have got nodes on their vocal chords, which has ment they have had to stop screaming.

the singer in my latest band biff suprised me loads when i heard him on tape for the first time. at practice we sort of drown him out but when we recorded i was suprised at how snotty and british his shouting/screaming managed to be.

ive never practiced screaming although after doing it in a band situation for a while your voice does "break in".

Wonders: My answers in red

1. Doesn't it hurt your throat? No, I took tons of theatre/speech/voice classes as a kid, I warm-up and generally take care of my voice

2. Did you scream/shout (at home) before you did it in the context of a band?
Yes
3. Did it surprise your band-mates when you started screaming for the first time (in rehearsal or wherever)? I don't think so, they're amps are still much louder then our PA, so I don't think they really knew exactly what I was doing, but I don't think they were surprised. I have surprised myself twice while recording vocals and screamed or shouted or whatever and it being much more unhinged then I had planned.

4. Do you have a favourite screamer/shouter to whom you owe your screaming/shouting style? I like yellers/preacher-types...Mark E Smith Albini, Jack Brewer from Saccharine Trust, Yow, Beefheart, James Brown, Birthday Party-era Nick Cave,Shannon Selberg of the Cows and Al Johnson (though he's more of a whisperer)

cue zom-zom "singing" joke

I was in a band once with a screamer/whimperer. The first practise I went to, before I hardly knew the guys in the band and I had just joined, he went fucking apeshit genuinely and scared the hell out of me. He did it at every practise too. Regardless of opinion of vocal style he was absolutely a screamer 24/7.

then he became a Dad and a fan of country & western.

trompuss wrote:
did bandmates think, i wonder if he will scream/shout the next song we write?

Exactly!

"Um, Dave, I was thinking maybe some singing for this track? Oh no, that's right...you don't do 'singing'...ok then, shouting it is!"

Adam CR wrote:I like screamy/shouty vocals as much as the next man (well, nearly) but there are some things I have always wondered, and I thought perhaps there might be a screamy/shouty vocalist who could end my...wondering.

Wonders:

1. Doesn't it hurt your throat?

2. Did you scream/shout (at home) before you did it in the context of a band?

3. Did it surprise your band-mates when you started screaming for the first time (in rehearsal or wherever)?

4. Do you have a favourite screamer/shouter to whom you owe your screaming/shouting style?

1. not until i started smoking.
2. yes. in a big house all by yourself you get real bored.
3. no, not really.
4. i liked dez cadena.

Awesome...I've asked wondered about the same stuff! I did some Google searching one time, and I found a bunch of articles by ex-hair band type guys who talk about the "art of 4 octave screaming" and shit like that...but I'd love to hear from some "real" people about this.