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bucknuts1870
12-15-2006, 03:17 PM
Who is the best front man/woman ever in your opinion, no flaming please.

You have to base your assesment on some things though. Stage presence, sexuality, how good can they moan, how good can they scream, how good can they sing? Can they control a crowd, can they suck the crowd into what they are saying? And many more.

My top 5 are:

1. Robert Plant
2. Muddy Waters
3. "Diamond" David Lee Roth
4. Prince
5. Ozzy Osbourne

fasterspider
12-15-2006, 03:22 PM
Mick Jagger
Ozzy
David Lee Roth
Robert Plant
I do not know about sexuality with these guys as I am not homo but, they all had/have a great stage preasance.
There is that flaming homo Elton who from what I am told had/has a great stage preasance but since he makes me sick to my stomach, he is at the bottom of the list next to Barry Manilow and Prince. Bunch of panzies.

savagepossum
12-15-2006, 03:40 PM
iggy pop

delusionsofNORMALity
12-15-2006, 03:49 PM
i'll agree with Plant, Oz and Jagger are up there, Prince is out there.

but the lizard king is the greatest of all time, without him the doors would have been nothing. janis is way up there too.

does jimi count as front or was he really the whole band?

Skink
12-15-2006, 03:56 PM
Yeah,,, Plant is amazing...

Perp
12-15-2006, 05:00 PM
Bon Scott

surreys princess
12-15-2006, 05:08 PM
joan jett....she is freakin awesome....

james hetfield......hell yeah...

xcrispi
12-15-2006, 05:31 PM
i'm w/ surrey ,
james hettfield back in the day like before the black album lol , listening to M.O.P right now, philip enselmo , rob zombie , wendy o williams .
intense stage pressence n stage show .
yep crispi likes it hard fast n heavy !!!!
peace

stinkyattic
12-15-2006, 05:35 PM
yeah Joplin, also Grace Slick... what a nut and the chick can rock. Plant is fabulous. Hetfield... outta control... amazing.

zephyrinne
12-15-2006, 06:21 PM
I hate that it says 'ever'.. I can't choose, but there are some other good ones out there.

Jim Morrison
Freddie Mercury
Plant
Hetfield
Mick Jagger
Layne Staley
Brian Warner (aka Manson)
Trent Reznor
Gwen Stefani

ForeverZero
12-15-2006, 06:57 PM
Robert Plant
Jim Morrison
Chris Robinson
Shannon Hoon

piercedpunkonpot
12-15-2006, 07:10 PM
Iggy Pop
Joe Strummer
David Lee Roth
Angus Young (not a front man realy, but might as well be!)
Joey Ramone
Billy Joe Armstrong (green day sold out, but they still have a hell of stage performance)
Ozzy (like maybe 25 years ago)
Stza (from Leftover Crack / Choking Victim)
Tim McIlrath (rise against)

VoidLivesOn
12-15-2006, 07:24 PM
Mark Adkins from Guttermouth.

Whats better than being banned from the whole entire nation of Canada for flashing your dick on stage to hundreds of kids and their moms?

Or GG Allan. He would do shows in a jock strap and boots, guy didn't give a fuck about ANYTHING. Pissed on his crowd, threw shit every where...pretty fucking raw.

dejayou30
12-15-2006, 07:28 PM
phil anselmo, even though he's a piece of shit and the reason pantera broke up.

aekdb
12-15-2006, 09:00 PM
Probably Plant, but as nutty as he is, DLR was a great freaking frontman back in the day. I saw Van Halen 2 times with DLR and once with Hagar.

Van Halen concerts were the absoulte shit back then. Really crazy out of control. I never actually got high at a concert back then in highschool, but most everyone else was fried or shitfaced. Saw one show on EVH's birthday and Valerie B was there and they brought a huge fucking cake out on stage. it got on the stage and i remember EVH kind of sliding around on it while jamming..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjDpa8qpbRI

napolitana869
12-15-2006, 09:38 PM
Stza (from Leftover Crack / Choking Victim)

I love it when he gets really drunk and yells at people.

RedLocks
12-15-2006, 09:50 PM
Zack de la Rocha

higher4hockey
12-15-2006, 10:14 PM
AXL

. chelsey
12-16-2006, 04:08 AM
Morrison aaaaand Plant.

ValkyrieAg
12-16-2006, 07:32 AM
Philip Anslemo - Pantera
Peter Steele - Type O

I have helped Mick Jagger load a deer up.....hes weak and he doesn't know how to gut a deer either.

(after i typed this i see someone already mentioned phil)

LearnToSwim
12-16-2006, 07:44 AM
Morrison
Plant
Steele
MJK

suhl
12-16-2006, 10:33 PM
phil anselmo(he didnt break up pantera)
axl rose
shane macgowan

really it is hard to say because do you go on stage prescence or singing ability or songwriting or what. i dont know. my list is pretty basd all i can say is whoever it is it sure as hell isnt a frontwoman. i also love neil young and am sure he puts on a great show but cant see him getting the crowd as pumped as the rest. and ozzy needs to be mentioned too but the guy really has a weak voice, and i like ozzy. and bon scott. any video i have seen of him he is crazy. and this old burnout loser who i work with told me he saw them play back in the seventies with bon scott and he ran out and screamed hey hows the acid, then put on a hell of a show. too hard to choose really, but whoever it is he has a pair of testicles

smoke it
12-16-2006, 11:41 PM
morrison, mercury, and anslemo

poiuyt
12-16-2006, 11:47 PM
AXL

Hell yes

LIP
12-17-2006, 12:35 AM
Mick Jagger
Ozzy
David Lee Roth
Robert Plant
I do not know about sexuality with these guys as I am not homo but, they all had/have a great stage preasance.
There is that flaming homo Elton who from what I am told had/has a great stage preasance but since he makes me sick to my stomach, he is at the bottom of the list next to Barry Manilow and Prince. Bunch of panzies.

My surname is Roth.

Black Water Park
12-17-2006, 12:38 AM
maynard keenan

BizzleLuvin
12-17-2006, 03:25 AM
jim morrison. garrett dutton

ATrain
12-17-2006, 04:23 AM
THOM YORKE OF RADIOHEAD!

bobthenuker
12-17-2006, 08:36 PM
My favorite frontman now is randy blythe. kicks major ass. :cool: as far as best ever in my opinion id have to probably say in the old days, axl, phil anselmo, serj tankian, to name a few. jason newsted was crazy as fuck, not a frontman though, but really metal.

baisez le monde.
12-17-2006, 08:40 PM
Grace Slick
Janis Joplin

delusionsofNORMALity
12-18-2006, 01:22 AM
yeah Joplin, also Grace Slick...

i'd agree if she hadn't ruined it all with that starship crap

her stuff with airplane and the great society were nice and psycho but.....

usedchemicals
12-19-2006, 04:08 AM
I think either Zack De La Rocha, Jim Morrison, Anthony Kiedis, and Brandon Boyd from Incubus

Cooler Then Jesus
12-19-2006, 06:19 AM
would have to say...

#1 Monkey (from "The Adicts")
#2 Till Lindemann (from Rammstein, the fire suit is awesome)
#3 Les Claypool (from primus)

oh and here is my favorite DEAD frontmen
#1 Jim morrison (from the doors)
#2 Jimi Hendrix (multiple bands)
#3 kurt cobain... i know, every ones a nirvana hater, i like them, but if you listen to them so mutch, it gets old. gotta keep nirvana to moderation, lol.

bucknuts1870
12-19-2006, 02:36 PM
Nirvana is sweet, at certain times and in certain doses. I have every single one of their albums, but my favorite by far and one of my favorite albums of all time is Nirvana Unplugged.


How about Ann Wilson from Heart!?!? on the female side. Or Diana Ross?

Tomorrow Never Knows
12-19-2006, 06:04 PM
Mick Jagger
Ozzy
David Lee Roth
Robert Plant
I do not know about sexuality with these guys as I am not homo but, they all had/have a great stage preasance.
There is that flaming homo Elton who from what I am told had/has a great stage preasance but since he makes me sick to my stomach, he is at the bottom of the list next to Barry Manilow and Prince. Bunch of panzies.

Prince and Elton John are top ten muscians/songwriters/perfromers all time... You seem to have some hardcore hate issues. I know kids like you, you most likely look just like the jackass in your av, but your tough right?

By the way Mick had gay times back in the day... The British music scene was soooo gay (Elton John, David Bowie, Queen, Judas Priest, etc...), but yeah he is the best frontman ever.

And David Lee Roth, come on man... I love country rock, and respect bluegrass (look at the link), but this guy sucks at singing, how the hell was he in a band.

Check out his new music video... I really want to cop his new album, from the looks of it its mad ill.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX9qcggRo18

stinkyattic
12-19-2006, 06:46 PM
i'd agree if she hadn't ruined it all with that starship crap

Ugh tell me about it. I'm so embarassed for her!

Actually I have to add another frontwoman to the list... shit... whatshername... from the Pretenders... :jointsmile: oh carp I can't remember but she's fantastic. Oh yeah Chrissy Hynde. What a chick.

Oh and fasterspider -yikes- be nice, Elton John is a spectacular musician even if you wouldn't choose to BE him... the guy is a genius. He belongs to the history books! Burn Down the Mission is one of the greatest performances ever! And Freddy Mercury [also gay] is -was- one of the greatest rock vocalists who has ever lived. RIP Freddy.

stinkyattic
12-19-2006, 06:55 PM
And David Lee Roth, come on man... ..... but this guy sucks at singing, how the hell was he in a band.
Seriously!!!! Go ahead, flame me for this, but it's obvious that Sammy Hagar had WAY more vocal training... GREAT power, GREAT range, never had to resort to any cheesy CRAP to make a song work. Like some other VH frontmen....

friendowl
12-19-2006, 07:00 PM
cinderella and belle from disneys princess's on ice

damn them lil kids were moshin and smoking like crazy

psychocat
12-19-2006, 07:40 PM
Freddy Mercury - Worked a crowd better than any man
Alice Cooper - A face that scared a thousand kids.
Steve Tyler - More energy than any man alive
Meatloaf - Big man BIG presence
Prince - Fantastic showman.
Mick Jagger - Just so insane.
Iggy Pop - No stooge.
Lux Interior - My own personal fave simply because he's the craziest SoB I've ever seen live.