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Male Vocalists you CAN stand

#42
Bard2dbone said:
I never intended to be the lead singer of my old band. I think of myself as 'good enough to be a backup singer' only. But I wrote the songs so I had a strong opinion of how they should have sounded.

I ended up as our lead singer because I was already there and could roughly, sort of, kind of, nearly, approximate what I wanted them to sound like. We call that the "Phil Collins Syndrome".

So it wasn't until years after the band had faded away that I found out whose voice I pictured in my head when I wrote.

We couldn't have afforded him. It was Paul Carrack.

Look him up. Ace, Squeeze, Mike+the Mechanics


For others, I'd mostly have to reiterate a few of the earlier and obvious choices. But a couple might not have been listed yet:
Marvin Gaye
Freddie Mercury
Paul Rodgers
Bill Withers (Was he mentioned before?)
David Clayton Thomas (I know he wasn't mentioned. But he should have been.)
Al Green
Marc Cohn
Tom Prasada-Rao
Meat Loaf (Despite the ridiculous name, he had great pipes back in the day.)
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Had to add Ronnie James Dio.
 
#48
That Axe said:
Levon Helm
Roger Waters
Levi Stubbs
...and more
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definitely LEVI STUBBS!.....

Joe Cocker
Alvin Lee
Ian Gillan
Jack Bruce

most decidedly, NOT Rod Stewart.....:D

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#55
Layne Staley
John McCrea (Cake)
Greg Lake
Dave Grohl
Frank Sinatra
Peter Gabriel
Brandon Boyd
Matthew Bellamy
Peter Frampton
David Gilmour
Roger Waters
Paul Simon
Art Garfunkel
Bono (despite his ego)
Roger Daltrey
Pete Townshend
Johnny Cash
Kenny Loggins
 

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