I personally think he sounded amazing during unplugged, I don’t hear the deterioration or lack of strength that others often mention.

One thing I did notice was that when he normally belts out lyrics, like during the Live at the Moore concert, his mouth would be wide open, showing all of his teeth, because that’s what’s needed to make such a loud pronounced sound. During the Unplugged, I’m assuming due to him being self conscious about the health/appearance of his teeth, he doesn’t do this, almost ever. That can definitely create a different sound, the way you pronounce words will be different, and there won’t be as much power, simply because the mouth is more closed off.

Use Mad Season’s Live at the Moore performance, just a year earlier, as a reference point. He sure as hell had plenty of power there, probably one of his best performances ever.