My favorite male rock vocalist would without question be Layne Staley from Alice n' Chains ( mysteriously powerful range but slow and refined when you least expect it). Favorite female vocalist I'd have to give to Ann Wilson(sends chills up the spine) she frick'n rocks. Magic-Freddy Mercury had an incredible voice too, just never got as in to their music.
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Geoff Tate, Queensryche can hold his own, I agree with Layne as a contender, if someone gives props to the dude from Creed I might cyber puke projectile.
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Robert John Arthur Halford, Paul Rodgers.
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I always thought Paul Shortino was a wannabe Marc Storace h2o.
Not to mention he's a d!ck. We played with Rough Cutt 3 times. Once at the Sacramento Civic Center on bill with Accept as the headliner and twice at the Whiskey in L.A.
They were Ronnie James Dio's project band. He was backing and promoting them... kinda like Rob Halford did with Surgical Steel. You wanna talk obscure? Search YouTube for a clip of the movie "Thunder Alley" with Leif Garrett. Surgical Steel was the band that they were competing against. Their singer is a Halford clone! He could hit all the notes just like Ripper Owens... only this was 10 years earlier.
Getting back to Marc Storace...
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You're probably gonna give me some grief for this one h2o... but as cheesy as this video is... I think Steve Walsh of Kansas has one of the purest, most powerful voices ever in rock.
The bridge... where he hits the high notes still gives me chills to this day.
OK... let 'er rip!
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A lot of Brad Delp's really high register was courtesy of recording tricks performed by MIT grad and genius Tom Scholz h2o.
That's not to say he wasn't a really good singer though. When recording the first Boston Album... Scholz would use highly effected guitar notes to harmonize above Delp and create some of those mega notes... like the ones in "Long Time" and "More than a Feeling".
I saw both Boston and Kansas live back in the mid-late 70's and Delp NEVER could hit those notes. Steve Walsh on the other hand could and did.
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned Chris Cornell. Not necessarily my TOP choice but some of the Soundgarden stuff is fairly impressive. Damn, I love Otis Redding's voice/music. If you are going to mention him though, it is hard to ignore Bill Withers. I'd put him WAY up there.
If you haven't heard "The Gossip" from Portland, you should check out the lead singer. She farking rocks. Kinda like a Stevie Nicks that could kick your ass.
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Chris Cornell has a set of pipes that doesn't stop. Listen to Slaves and Bulldozers and tell me that dude doesn't belt it out.
Rob Halford and Bruce Dickinson are must-haves from the 80's.
Bon Scott doesn't have anywhere close to the best voice, but he was a master frontman and very clever with the lyrics.
4S isn't bullsh!tting about the dude from Kansas, either. I wouldn't have given him a thought, but now that he mentions it...........
Salmo and JG are so f'n old they have no clue who everyone else is talking about.
KK wanted to say Barry Manilow, but didn't want the static.
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Bon Scott doesn't have anywhere close to the best voice, but he was a master frontman and very clever with the lyrics.
I knew that, and I also knew you would respond to the post. That's why I threw him out there. Best voice, no...... Best frontman/lyricist..... F'in yes!!!
Rock on Bon, you too Dan.
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"Gettin robbed, gettin stoned, gettin beat up, broken boned....... Gettin had, gettin took, I'll tell ya folks, it's harder than it looks.......
It's a long way to the top if you wanna rock n roll."
Bon Scott, It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock n Roll)
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We've had love for Rik Emmett, so how about more love for Canadian Myles Goodwin from April Wine? He was great for the rock they did and he could play guitar as well!
As long as some got on the subject of hair band vocalists, Sebastian Bach from Skid Row could scream. I saw Pantera open up for Skid Row back in like 90 or 91. Was up front and center. Talk about survival of the fittest! Anyone who saw Sebastian Bach live would have to agree, though he was classified as a hair rocker I would'nt put him in the same category as stryper or winger. Oh yeah Pantera did rock the place down!
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