UPCOMING UK Northern Soul Tour

[Boogiedown]

. . . . are you in agreement with my appraisal??
No, it was me that started this thread, so obviously not.
I really enjoyed the BBC's televised show last summer & wished I'd been at it.
In the past, I've been involved with helping out at UK soul weekenders - being both an official & unofficial unpaid member of the presentation teams. With the best will in the world, I'd have to state that SOME of the 60's acts put on at such events had totally lost their voices. OTHERS could still sing but their 'range' was much reduced [[as you would expect, a person in their 70's can't have the vocal prowess of that person in their 20's). I won't name name's but a few were downright embarrassing.
You get the likes of Bettye LaVette, Chuck Jackson & a few more who still have the chops, but the vast majority don't AND we shouldn't expect them to.
So to see decent 'younger' TRIBUTE singers performing with world class musicians playing sympathetic arrangements is THE BEST WE CAN NOW EXPECT.
There is no way we can turn back the clock to 1969, IMHO this is the BEST we can do these days.
HAVING SAID THAT, I wouldn't go see Otis's version of the Temptations or the group brought over here a while back under the Vibrations name, as they have nothing at all to do with the personnel who gave us all those classic recordings 60 years ago.

I think a nice time can be had ... for this "NS" event or for Otis's "Temptations" as well, depending on one's frame of mind about it I guess.