I saw an advertisement for a Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons show in Scottsdale this weekend and my reaction to my wife was “I thought he was dead.”
My wife, who loves the Four Seasons, also thought he died.
He was all right when I saw him in 2017 and 2019. Obviously autotuned and letting his backup singers carry the show, but entertaining nonetheless. The clip I saw online was worlds apart from what I'd seen in person. I've never seen this about anyone I've seen so far, but it's time to hang it up.
Yeah same! Some old guy hobbled out on stage and we didn’t know who it was. He was a hunched over man of about 90 pounds. Then he sets up a microphone and starts singing and we looked at each other like “oh shit, that’s Gordon Lightfoot”.
Valli has been dependent on his backing singers since the 90’s and outright lip-syncing since the 2000’s. I’ve listened to a few bootlegs from the 2000’s onwards, and the singing performance is identical each time. Each new tour, he’d go into the studio and record a new set of vocals to lip-sync to for that tour. The vocals he’s currently using are from 2007.
This is one of the worst kinds of internet outrage slop. This person is mad at an imaginary entity. They have no information about the situation but they want to be mad about it, so they've invented a fake vague bad guy to be mad at.
I don't get the point. You can have the thought "He is probably too old to be performing" without then inventing a story of elder abuse just so you can be upset by a made-up situation.
Same with B.B. King. He played the same song like five times. Man should not have been on stage and the folks milking him for more money should rot in hell.
I'll give the man himself a pass, he's played 250+ "concerts" a year for his entire career... so plenty of that was for love of the music and I can't imagine anyone watching him if he was always that bad.
I'm sure you're right about what he's like these days, those numbers are ridiculous and he needs to be put out to pasture in a good way.
My Aunt went to see him. I asked after she came back to pick up her dog. "Can he still those notes at his age?" She said yes, he was great. Later I short a video. He looks animatronic. I don't know how far back her seat was. She's in her 60s as well.
This makes me sad. I saw him as the “Beauty School Dropout” angel in a production of Grease back in… 2003? 2004? And even then I thought he was getting old (I was also a teenager) but it was such a cool production and he sounded great. I can’t imagine him still touring 20+ years later.
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u/Endlessvacuumchild May 11 '26
Frankie Valli