Noel Gallagher
Joe Walsh
Yeah, Floyd was another one of these multi-singers band, like Styx, Beatles .... and The Who (OK, Daltrey sang 90%, but both The Ox and Pete san on hits of the band) ... and to a slightly lesser extent (IMHO) Queen
Well, that's not saying much either, since outside Eminence Front, it all sucks
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
Tom Brislin is the best singer Yes has ever had.
Chris Squire while Benoit was in the band
*runs away and hides*
I know, I know, it's a dead horse already...
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+1.
in all fairness, let’s give a shout out to billy sherwood. there are lots of fine vocal arrangements on OyE and “the ladder” and that’s virtually all him. it will never be the most revered of all YES-configurations, but he made his mark, especially as a backing vocalist.
I will throw Gil Moore drummer for Triumph in since theoretically he is not the lead singer of he band.
Some interesting names here. Some of which I find a bit puzzling. For example, as much as I love Randy California, the guy was tone-deaf when it came to singing. I understand the Townshend comments, but always felt Entwistle had the best voice of the band. (I always considered Daltry the most-overrated singer ever, so there's not much competition in that band).
My first choice would be Ray White.
Tim Davis ~ Steve Miller Band
Hell, they ain't even old-timey ! - Homer Stokes
- Someone sings second parts for Judus Priest, which I am guessing is Glenn Tipton
- Likewise Ronnie Thomas for Heavy Metal Kids
- I hate to say it, but Collins on Selling England by the Pound
- Bill Ward, Ronnie Lane, Chris Squire and Roger Taylor are all better than many lead singers
- Definitely Glenn Hughes with Purple
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They no doubt experienced great success with Perry, who's widely considered one of the best voices in rock, but I always thought they wasted opportunities with two good singers in the band. They were on to something with songs like "Feelin' that Way."
He's come a long way. "Fool in My Heart," from Flying Colors, is pretty good. He'll never be a great singer, but you can tell that he's worked on it.
Yeah, they really sounded good together. Squire really should have had more lead vocals over the years. He blended well with Anderson, too.
Music isn't about chops, or even about talent - it's about sound and the way that sound communicates to people. Mike Keneally
Marc Bonilla (with Toy Matinee)
They had three good singers, Neal could sing really well too. On the Departure album, there's a song called Someday Soon which Gregg sings lead on, and a song called People And Places on which Neal sang lead. And like I said, Neal sang lead on the Schon & Hammer records too.
Face Dances has plenty of fine songs. It would probably be a match for Who Are You if only it had that album's punchy production. It's Hard is weaker, but still has a few great songs. (I've never quite understood why "Eminence Front" is so highly rated; I think "Cry If You Want" is the best Townshend song on there.) Both albums suffer from being front-loaded with crappy first singles/opening songs, which leave a bad first impression.
The album suffers from opening with Pete's ode to Theresa Russell (the real life Athena, apparently the demo was actually called Theresa, but Pete had to rewrite the lyrics because I guess it would have been too obvious to his associates at the time who the song was originally about). I just don't think it's a very good song, and most especially not a good song to open any album with. I think most of the rest of the record ranges from pretty good to great.
As for Eminence Front, it's probably so highly rated because it was chosen as a single. I don't think the single was actually released, but they did a video for it which got heavy MTV airplay, and it got a lot of radio airplay at the time, and was played nightly on the 82 tour and has bobbed to the surface intermittently on various tours since then.
For me, the problem with Eminence Front, at least as it appears on the album, is that anemic guitar tone that Pete has. It sounds so much better in the version used for the video (which was recorded during the band's rehearsals for the 82 tour), and all the live versions I've heard from that tour.
But as a song, I like it a lot. I dig the funkier sound they have on the track (something they'd never have been able to do with Keith), and I like the Fender Rhodes and Entwistle's bass work. And onstage, Pete delivered some tour de force guitar playing, and it was just cool to see Roger strap on a guitar (something he hadn't done onstage since the Detours days).
I think he does fine in the sort of Rod Stewart/Joe Cocker/Gregg Allman kind of vocal style. He actually sang at least one song on every Kiss album up through Dynasty, and I always thought he sounded good in that capacity. I think he's also singing some of the high harmonies on some of the early records too. Not that he's singing that high, but there's at least one bootleg where it sounds like his vocal mic is turned up a bit louder than the others, and you can hear him singing these higher vocal parts than the other guys.
Indeed. Actually, some who saw Triumph in their early years thought Moore was the lead vocalist. Few apparently knew much about Rik Emmett's voice, assuming he was only an incredible guitarist.
Moore did provide vocals on many songs even after Emmett's rise to prominence. "Spellbound" and "Just One Night" are two well-known songs he sang lead on.
Another name I would throw into the mix would be Randy Bachman, but as much as I'm a fan, I'm not sure he has a great voice. He was a member of The Guess Who; of course, Burton Cummings was the lead vocalist. Bachman didn't sing at all for the band. Don McDougall joined in 1972 and remained in the band for only two years, singing lead on two songs. This one, "Samantha's Living Room," is on the latest compilation CD.
He would, however, rejoin the band as its lead singer after both Bachman and Cummings had departed. Many don't really consider that the real band, though, since it seems several members subsequently formed their own versions of The Guess Who.
I do have to wonder, though, if this thread is merely about vocalists who didn't sing lead, or if we're actually trying to compile a "best of" list. I think it'd be fun just to list vocalists for the sake of our own learning experience.
Last edited by WeatherWiseCDC; 06-02-2013 at 11:26 PM.
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