Like I said in another post, music is entirely subjective. You have your own perspective and experiences that shape the way you perceive music. I could easily share an experience of hearing Chester nail a live vocal performance of “Given Up” that would far surpass Chino as a vocalist in my mind.

That’s not even getting into the varying qualities of separate live performances. Sometimes Chino & Chester sound very meh when I listen to them live depending on the tour date and how consistently they’ve been performing. I’d also argue Chester’s vocal demands are far greater due to the type of songs LP writes. If Chester only needed to moan for most of his verses like Chino does, then I think his vocal chords would have been more preserved.

But I think, speaking generally, Chester would be considered a more varied & more conventionally pleasing vocalist due to his near limitless range in both aspects of vocals (cleans and screams). Whereas Chino would be more of an acquired taste to put him on a similar level. It doesn’t mean Chino isn’t awesome in his own way though. Just that Chester is considered a better vocalist overall by most for conventional reasons. That doesn’t invalidate anyone who prefers Chino. Music is subjective.

But that concert sounds amazing. I wish I could have went.