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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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| Ian Anderson (before he lost his voice)
Roger Daltrey
The guy from Procol Harum
Johnny Winter (on a good day ie 32-20 blues acoustic)
Sandy Denny
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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.
(one of my all-time favorite singers.) |
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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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Location: San Ramon/Canandaigua | Mike Ness-- Social Distortion
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Hank Williams III |
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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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| If it ain't one thing it's your mother... |
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Location: NJ | :D |
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Location: NJ | sandy denny is one of my favs |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | She died young. Anyone know the story behind that? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I believe she suffered a traumatic head/ brain injury a result of falling down a flight of stairs. |
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Location: Round Rock, TX | +1 Annie Lennox
Ambrosia Parsley |
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Lead Singer... Who would you choose?
