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.
Registered: 04/02/01
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Loc: University Place Washington
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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Registered: 03/07/00
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Loc: Lynnwood, WA
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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Registered: 03/07/00
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Loc: Lynnwood, WA
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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