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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
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.
iggy pop
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?
Yeah,,, Plant is amazing...
Bon Scott
joan jett....she is freakin awesome....
james hetfield......hell yeah...
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
yeah Joplin, also Grace Slick... what a nut and the chick can rock. Plant is fabulous. Hetfield... outta control... amazing.
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
Robert Plant
Jim Morrison
Chris Robinson
Shannon Hoon
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)
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.
phil anselmo, even though he's a piece of shit and the reason pantera broke up.
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
I love it when he gets really drunk and yells at people.Quote:
Originally Posted by piercedpunkonpot
Zack de la Rocha
AXL
Morrison aaaaand Plant.
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)
Morrison
Plant
Steele
MJK
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
morrison, mercury, and anslemo
Hell yesQuote:
Originally Posted by higher4hockey
My surname is Roth.Quote:
Originally Posted by fasterspider
maynard keenan
jim morrison. garrett dutton
THOM YORKE OF RADIOHEAD!
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.
Grace Slick
Janis Joplin
i'd agree if she hadn't ruined it all with that starship crapQuote:
Originally Posted by stinkyattic
her stuff with airplane and the great society were nice and psycho but.....
I think either Zack De La Rocha, Jim Morrison, Anthony Kiedis, and Brandon Boyd from Incubus
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.
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?
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?Quote:
Originally Posted by fasterspider
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
Ugh tell me about it. I'm so embarassed for her!Quote:
Originally Posted by delusionsofNORMALity
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.
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....Quote:
Originally Posted by Tomorrow Never Knows
cinderella and belle from disneys princess's on ice
damn them lil kids were moshin and smoking like crazy
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.