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28-10-2009, 00:06
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When did JDB.....
When did he start smoking? A completely useless and pointless question but i was wondering. I mean he says he started smoking because it was the most 'rock n roll thing to do' so did he start when they formed the band or when he was younger?
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28-10-2009, 00:19
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A more interesting question is how the fuck has smoking not affected his pipes? Even Freddie Mercury's voice was starting to go thin towards the end of his life and this was apparantly not to do with the HIV but to do with his smoking. And I've noticed my own voice getting gruffer with each album as I've been smoking 8 years now. How does JDB manage to keep his voice so swell?
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28-10-2009, 00:28
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No idea when he started smoking but my guess is, he started quite young and it probably had nothing to do with being in a rock and roll band. Saying something like that just made for a good sound bite.
As for his voice not being affected by smoking, I'm not sure either how it's managed to hold up, but I would disagree that his voice hasn't changed over the years. He still has an incredible voice but I'm not sure he can hit the same screeching to notes he could hit in his 20s. Mind you, that probably has more to do with getting older than it does smoking, but you never know. Anyway, even though he's still a smoker, I don't think he smokes as much as he did years ago. I might be wrong about that, but I suspect that's the case these days.
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28-10-2009, 01:12
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He must have been smoking for at least twenty years now probably...
You would have thought that watching his mother die of cancer would have turned him off cigarettes but apparently not 
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28-10-2009, 01:27
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I think the bigger question is what exactly did James smoke...
Just throwing that out there.
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28-10-2009, 03:15
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Started when he was in his teens as did all decent rock star guitarists.
Between 2002 and 2006 he got back into shape by running (he used to be the quintessential long distance runner/loner) - this man can run, sing like a fucking angel and dance around on stage like a one man band, smoking does not seem to impede his activities! Not sure how it's affected his voice negatively but the man sings like a church choir of vestel virgins. He may or may not have smoked some blow.
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28-10-2009, 07:49
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28-10-2009, 08:18
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Tut James! Time to pack it in.
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28-10-2009, 09:30
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Yeah i seriosuly dont see how he does it, i mean i started smoking last year but stopped as I thought it would completely screw up my singing voice, but listening to JDB has made me think otherwise....
 If his voice is this good now, imagine what it must of been like in the 80's or when he didnt smoke......
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28-10-2009, 09:32
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 The boy couldnt sing back then!
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28-10-2009, 11:21
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28-10-2009, 11:29
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Or even how did he improve his singing by so so so so so much?.
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28-10-2009, 11:30
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 Now that the subject has been brought up, I was wondering when Richey started on the ciggies, In his biography, Rob Jovanovic suggests it was only in 1993, which I was a bit surprised at. I had always assumed he had started as a teen, I suppose mainly because of the line in Spectators of Suicide and because he always seems to have been so physically slight...
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28-10-2009, 11:32
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James smokes Marlboro Light 100's.
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28-10-2009, 11:38
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And i actualy like Buzz baby go, but how did his singing improve so so much?
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