Anthrax’s vocalist Joey Belladonna shares his thoughts on lead singers lip-syncing during the live performances.
In a new interview with the Syncin’ Stanley, Belladonna said the following:
“I know that some people have no alternatives to enhance the quality and the likelihood of being a really great band night after night after night… But lip-syncing the vocals? Eh. If I can’t do it, I don’t wanna be there. That’s the fun part about being a musician, is to try to achieve that expectation of what you’ve been really working hard to get in the first place, is to be a great, great band and a great musician and just fight on each night to do a great job.
“If people go [to the shows] knowing that [the lead vocals are being lip-synced], and they’re okay with it, then what are we talking about? We’re just trying to get through and be good. That’s my take on it. I don’t know what people really wanna do if that’s the case… I think one of the hardest things, too, it seems like there’s a little bit of unfairness there. If two people are competing to do something, say, the same, or whatever genre of music, and one doesn’t do it and one does it, then you already have the answers there.”
“There’s nothing like people just getting together and jamming in a room and it sounds great and everybody’s doing it and it sounds great and everybody’s doing it and there’s nothing there but them. That’s the bottom line with our stuff. I worked a hell of a lot of years trying to get to that point, to mail it all in… What is that, really? All the bands that I’ve loved, it was all real. It was all genuine.”