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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Of the lot of Rock&Roll singers.... who would you choose to front your band?
I'd likely go with Michael Stipe (R.E.M.) |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | After seeing Colin Hay (of Men At Work) a few months ago, I would choose him. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | (Janis was a close contender for me) |
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Location: south east Michigan | Roger Daltery in his prime.
Burton Cummings of the Guess Who.
Robert Plant... his style might be debatable but that guy had the pipes. |
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Location: SoCal | Tom Jones. I know it's an odd choice, but the man's got major pipes (even at 68) and knows how to work a crowd. Go listen to him on youtube and you'll be amazed at how good he is..... |
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Location: ms | Tom Jones is cool but i would have to go with Paul Rodgers. |
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Location: Jet City | (I like Cliff's answer too though) |
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Location: NJ | ". . Peppi Marchello . ."
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | (Van Morrison was on the list as well) |
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Location: NJ | David Pack |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | A lead singer who I'm playing behind, night after night? You guys are nuts. Shania Twain. Dan, how would you answer this? |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | hmmm...
Women: Annie Lennox or Natalie Merchant
Men: Van Morrison or .. wait for it ... Tom Waits |
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Location: Texas | John Lennon |
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Location: Hicksville, NY | Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam
Geoff Tate of Queensryche
I'm also beginning to appreciate Arnel Pineda - the new lead singer of Journey. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | (Eddie Vedder-also on my list, as was Natalie Merchant) |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | (so let's see your list!) |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I whinnied it down to Stipe, for all around talent: voice, interesting to watch, very unique style, range of ability ...
but others I considered were, Vedder, Joplin, Merchant, John Popper, Patti Rothberg, Paolo Nutini, Jeff Buckley and believe it or not... Brian Johnson |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Alan Doyle of Great Big Sea
John Mann of Spirit of the West
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Darby Mills of Headpins
Burton Cummins if he'd lose 100 pounds.....
But #1 over all
Robert Palmer! |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | David Pack is a great choice. I'd also throw in Bono, Stipe, Paul Carrack and Ann Wilson. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Palmer sings a little known tune titled "20 Million Things" that I really like (in addition to many others in his catalogue}
Peter Wolf was also in my top ten but, I didn't catch that I left him out of the post above |
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Location: Wichita, KS | Max Bacon who sang lead for Steve Howe and Steve Hackett's GTR. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Deborah Harry
Gillian Welsh
Kyoko Hanari
Joey Ramone
Muddy Waters
Louie Prima or
Dan Tyminski
Depending on the song. |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Abigail Washburn (check her out on Youtube)
Alison Kraus
Raymond Yates (Check him out on Myspace)
The late great Layne Staley |
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Location: big island | cliff doenges |
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| Female: Eva Cassidy (RIP)
Male: folksy - Gordon Lightfoot; bluesy - George Thorogood; straight-up kickazz R&R Geddy Lee; all-around master of any style: Matt Smith |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by lanaki:
cliff doenges Have you been paying ANY attention, Randy?
Cliff goes through bandmates like, a bulimic through a bag of Nestle SoftBatch Chocolate Chip... |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by Weaser P:
Judith Owen ;) |
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Location: NJ | . . can I help it if everybody ELSE is just so hard t'get along with??
(check's in the mail, Randy) |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I know you're burden.
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Jake Hooker
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Location: big island | damon, brandi is quite good. never heard of her. in her other clip, turpentine ,
she looks alot like karen carpenter and sounds like a cross between bonnie raitt and shania twain. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | After Cliff (yes, our very own cliff is who I would go to first)
In no particular order, just depends on the Music...
Geoff Tate
David Coverdale
Darby Mills
Darby Mills
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Lita Ford |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | That's Darby Nix. The Florida House sensation. |
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Location: NJ | yeh, I'll go with Darby
("practice!practice!!practice!!!)
Did he ever get around to "Guitarring the Roof"?? |
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Bob Plant
Freddy Mercury
Jon Anderson
Steve Tyler
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | OOOOOoooo!
Almost forgot
Eric Burdon
and it's Darby Mills ...let your ears bleed happy. |
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Location: NJ | . . . all I hear are effects. |
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Location: Okinawa Japan | The one and only choice......Ladies adn Gentlemen, Mr. Paul Rodgers. |
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Location: Tychy, Poland | Dio. |
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Location: big island | Originally posted by fillhixx:
and it's Darby Mills ...let your ears bleed happy. |
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Location: Orlando, FL | Paul Rodgers. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Darby may be like The Feelies....you had to be there.
But I almost forgot http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yahBtp_1jWE
and Chilliwack. If Chilliwack hadn't been caught up in the Mushroom Records fiasco (several bands careers were put on hold while they went broke. I think Heart left just in time to avoid the mess.) Brian 'Too Loud' MacLeod wouldn't have had to form The Headpins to keep busy.
Bill Henderson; In The Collectors, Chilliwack, and U.H.F. has had an extensive career. Try and get a listen to the song 'Golan Boys' by U.H.F. (Ulrich, Henderson, Forbes....the Canadian idea of a supergroup) |
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Location: Jet City | Originally posted by lanaki:
damon, brandi is quite good. never heard of her. in her other clip, turpentine ,
she looks alot like karen carpenter and sounds like a cross between bonnie raitt and shania twain.
Too bad she uses Taylors.
Her last album was produced by T Bone Burnett. I like his other big release last year too, Raising Sand (Robert Plant and Alison Krauss) |
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Location: Vernon CT | Damon, she's not that local anymore. I've heard plenty of her song and really love here Voice.
Good choice |
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Terry Reid. |
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Location: Cork, Ireland | Originally posted by ProfessorBB:
A lead singer who I'm playing behind, night after night? You guys are nuts. Shania Twain. Dan, how would you answer this? For similar reasons it would have to be Mrs Miller
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs_Miller |
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Location: Whitecourt, Ab | Tiny Tim...
(audience wouldn't pick on my crappy guitar-playing) |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Did someone say, "The Feelies" ??? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by Damon67:
sounds like a cross between bonnie raitt and shania twain. Se's pretty amazing. She does THE VERY BEST rendition of "Hallelujah" period. listen to it here (disregard the video, only thing I could find on a quick search) [/QB]
Allison Crowe does a very good cover too. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I was thinking Brandi Carlisle, too. Damon, just do the Story starting with an A and add a 7th. I think theres an E, B minor and D and that's about it. She uses a capo and jumps an octave on most every verse, but I can't do that. She just played here, but I missed her. |
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Location: big island | Originally posted by Damon67:
Too bad she uses Taylors.
she's playing gibsons in the videos i watched. |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | With much humility... Myself!
Question is, what band would I choose to back me??? :rolleyes: |
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Location: Jet City | She uses Taylors live, at least since beginning of '07. |
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Location: Jet City | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
I was thinking Brandi Carlisle, too. Damon, just do the Story starting with an A and add a 7th. I think theres an E, B minor and D and that's about it. She uses a capo and jumps an octave on most every verse, but I can't do that. She just played here, but I missed her. Hmm.. I'll have to try that one out, though I'd have a hard time trying to sing along.
Mark, I didn't realize you knew Brandi's stuff. I guess she's not such a local gal these days. Funny, just a year ago I saw her at a tiny local venue (Century Ballroom), then at the Zoo as well. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | The Story got a lot of play nationally. I could tell because several people had already posted tabs of it shortly after I heard it for the first time on the radio. Nice song and great voice. I like the emotion she puts into it.
I was listening to it on the radio and thought that it was one of those easy intros that I could pick up in a couple minutes. I was right for a change.
Back to the topic, I'd have to sing lead in any band I was in. Not that I have a great voice, but it's good enough and I can't seem to sing harmony as well as I used to. A good female lead singer adds another level to a band, but if the band gets known for that, then it goes back to one level. Bands like the Eagles did a good job of spreading the lead parts around. Then it always seems like the egos get in the way and they fight over who is "The" lead singer. |
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Location: NJ | Speaking of the Eagles, last week Don Felder came out with a book "Heaven&Hell" about his time with the Eagles and how ultimately got "fired" by Henley/Frye (at the time, he was an "equal partner" in the Eagles "empire", while Walsh/Schmidt were "employees".
He was on NPR and on Stern last week, as well.
He alluded to how much of a total c@nt Henley eventually turned into . . .
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Location: CA | Men
1. Daltrey. Even now
2. Roy Orbison
3. Jim Morrison
4. Steve Perry
5. Paul Rodgers
Women
1. Shania
2. Shania
3. Shania
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Location: Jet City | Originally posted by Oddball:
2. Roy Orbison
3. Jim Morrison
These 2 have rottin' voices
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Location: CA | Damon — question wasn't about who had great pipes, it was who you'd want as a frontman. I personally think both of those guys had great voices, and lots of stage presence. Of course, I'd be happy to back anybody up if I could make a living at it. |
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| Your right Oddball
I forgot Daultry.
What was I thinking
And yeah my first list included Jon Anderson........perhaps my favorite singer but not the front man Daultry or Plant or Tyler are. Good point.
Gabriel is too cool for school though and I still have him at the top of the list. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | O.K. . . .
Y'all can say I "caved" by listing "contenders" but, still, I chose Michael Stipe.
Others have also declared their singular choice...
The rest of you NambiePambies (my new band name?) listing multiple choices is a cop-out. |
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Location: Jet City | Originally posted by Oddball:
Damon — question wasn't about who had great pipes, it was who you'd want as a frontman. I personally think both of those guys had great voices, and lots of stage presence. Of course, I'd be happy to back anybody up if I could make a living at it. Sorry man, it was a bad joke that was obviously missed. "rottin'" as in they're dead. |
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Location: NJ | btw;
MasterJeffrey DID say "Rock&Roll" singers right up front . . .
(. . . ShaniaTwain. . . . scheesch!! :rolleyes: . . . . .) |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Lots of good mentions here, Brandi Carlile would be good for kicking on some rocky bits. But for a band to really kick some Rock&Roll I'd love to have Ian Hunter . Great coarse tone after screaming for 30 years.
Of course for an Aussie mention, how could you go past Jimmy Barnes |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I already posted my choice (Peppi Marchello) but the more and more think about this there are three other guys who I really enjoy listening to and would love to have any one of them as my frontman. Not necessarily well known (at least one by his real name) but these guys have some pipes ...
Derek Dick (Marillion)
Barry Palmer (Triumvirat)
Max Bacon (GTR, Mike Oldfield)
And if we're looking for a female lead, sure Shania is cute and Bonnie Rait would be a lot of fun, but sorry lads there is only one in my book ...
Annie Haslam (Renaissance)
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Location: NJ | Dave;
Did you know that the GoodRats are STILL playing around here?
I saw Annie quite a few years ago playing this little place in StoneHarbor . . . |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Yeah, GRs still play the bar scene. Peppi and Gino are the only originals. I'd love to know what happened to Joe diFranco, that cat could sure play the drums.
Annie lives in Philly and does a lot of stuff around there. Saw here with a small string quartet, acoustic guitarist and pianist a while back and it was really good.
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Amy Lee has a great set of pipes too, if it's not too late to throw names in. |
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Roger Daltrey
The guy from Procol Harum
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Wow, Sandy Denny. I'm probably the only other person on the list that even knows who she was. Maddy Prior has an amazing voice too. |
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| Two of my favourite singers.
I have a CD with some demo tracks which Sandy made for the band to learn the songs.
It's just her playing piano and singing. You can hear a metronome in the background. Really haunting stuff and much better than the Fairport recording.
I saw her in Toronto with Fairport. Seen Steeleye here a couple of times and once with Fairport.
Both bands were really cool and quite a few of the members were walking around talking to people in the audience before the show started and in the lobby of the theater as people were coming in. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by The Artist (FKA Richard):
Wow, Sandy Denny. I'm probably the only other person on the list that even knows who she was. Maddy Prior has an amazing voice too. I know who she is... can't be a Richard Thompson fan and not know. |
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Location: NJ | ". . The guy from Procol Harum . ."
Gary Brooker.
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Location: Scotland | Originally posted by The Artist (FKA Richard):
Wow, Sandy Denny. I'm probably the only other person on the list that even knows who she was. Really? |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Wow, I've never ever met anyone else who said anything other than "Who?" when I mentioned her. I stand corrected. |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | After putting some thought into it...
Gary Morris or Stevie Nicks |
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Location: North Carolina | Gary did the definitive "Bring Him Home". He's mostly into fly fishing now. Stevie? Maybe in her heyday, but she doesn't have the notes anymore. |
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| I played with Sandy Denny once (literally) many, many, many years ago.
the Fotheringay album is one of my all time favourites. She had a voice of such purity and yet such passion - with all due respect Janis Joplin and the rest of the screamers have/had no idea how to sing a real song that has maybe a five minute narrative.
most folks who knock folk music never actually listen to it.
She was a total babe.
If you strip away all the glitz and showbiz psychobabble that surrounds her these days, Wynonna is in exactly the same class. |
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Location: NJ | ". . If you strip away all the glitz and showbiz psychobabble . ."
You forgot the In-Breeding . . . |
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Lead Singer... Who would you choose?