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MrBreeze
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Greg Allman
Freddie Mercury
Brad Delp
Janis Joplin
Don Henley
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photogdave
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Evil Clown
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| Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2025 5:10 pm Post subject: Re: Who is the greatest/your favorite rock singer? |
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He wasn't Rock but his moves did!
Godfather of SOUL...
I'm privileged to have seen him within 2 years of his passing
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Abscate
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| Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2025 12:31 am Post subject: Re: Who is the greatest/your favorite rock singer? |
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I got you!! (I knew that i would)
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Evil Clown
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| Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2025 7:46 am Post subject: Re: Who is the greatest/your favorite rock singer? |
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Yes the original slow version to me was the best ..then they sped up the mix which I never liked...
No my Rockers were ACDC...now it's
AARP...stolen partially from LTCG 
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Xevin 
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| Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2025 7:41 am Post subject: Re: Who is the greatest/your favorite rock singer? |
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Don Glen Vilet
Thom Yorke
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Dusty1
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| Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2025 1:37 pm Post subject: Re: who is the greatest/your favorite rock singer? |
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| Not one mention of Neil Young. |
HAH!
Couple years ago we saw a Neil Young cover band in a barn in Maine.
This time last year we saw the actual Neil Young at Farm Aid / SPAC. Mind you, SPAC is a Live Nation venue and they were pimping Farm Aid hard. $21 Bud Light, anyone? I call that gettin' swindled and pimped, I call that gettin' tricked by business...
Mr. Young made it clear he's been doing this for over 50 years, that he's the GOAT and we should all applaud him for merely tuning his guitar.
It's better to burn out than fade away. 
Point is the cover band we saw was demonstrably better than the real thing. You can't go wrong when you play with conviction, as if you actually give a shit about what you're playing.
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Xevin
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| Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2025 5:35 pm Post subject: Re: who is the greatest/your favorite rock singer? |
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| Dusty1 wrote: |
| 67rustavenger wrote: |
| Not one mention of Neil Young. |
HAH!
Couple years ago we saw a Neil Young cover band in a barn in Maine.
This time last year we saw the actual Neil Young at Farm Aid / SPAC. Mind you, SPAC is a Live Nation venue and they were pimping Farm Aid hard. $21 Bud Light, anyone? I call that gettin' swindled and pimped, I call that gettin' tricked by business...
Mr. Young made it clear he's been doing this for over 50 years, that he's the GOAT and we should all applaud him for merely tuning his guitar.
It's better to burn out than fade away.
Point is the cover band we saw was demonstrably better than the real thing. You can't go wrong when you play with conviction, as if you actually give a shit about what you're playing.
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Back to the original question. Topic.
โwho is the greatest/your favorite rock singer?โ
I believe Scotty was asking who one considers to be the greatest rock singer or favorite rock singer. Many many forms of rock over the years. Oprea, funk, soul, R & B, hip hop, bluegrass, and many other great genre singers are not considered rock singers.
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| GFY's Xevin and VW_Jimbo! |
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| Damn that Xevin... |
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| I respect Xevin and he's a turd |
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Abscate
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| Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2025 6:22 pm Post subject: Re: Who is the greatest/your favorite rock singer? |
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I donโt know.
Hot punk, cool funk, even if itโs old junkโฆ
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Xevin
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| Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2025 6:27 pm Post subject: Re: Who is the greatest/your favorite rock singer? |
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I donโt know.
Hot punk, cool funk, even if itโs old junkโฆ |
We know you donโt 
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dodger tom
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| Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2025 6:39 pm Post subject: Re: Who is the greatest/your favorite rock singer? |
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I donโt know.
Hot punk, cool funk, even if itโs old junkโฆ |
We know you donโt |
ah, but billy joel knows.
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scottyrocks
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| Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2025 10:48 pm Post subject: Re: who is the greatest/your favorite rock singer? |
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| Xevin wrote: |
Back to the original question. Topic.
โwho is the greatest/your favorite rock singer?โ
I believe Scotty was asking who one considers to be the greatest rock singer or favorite rock singer. Many many forms of rock over the years. Oprea, funk, soul, R & B, hip hop, bluegrass, and many other great genre singers are not considered rock singers. |
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Dusty1
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| Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2025 4:43 am Post subject: Re: who is the greatest/your favorite rock singer? |
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| Xevin wrote: |
Back to the original question. Topic.
โwho is the greatest/your favorite rock singer?โ |
I have come to understand the way most people perceive music is different from the way I perceive music. I'm in the minority who usually knows what all the instruments are, who the musicians are, what they're using for amps... even what speakers are in their stacks.
Most people hear the vocal(s) and the beat. They can't tell you why one "guitar" is bigger than the others.
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| I believe Scotty was asking who one considers to be the greatest rock singer or favorite rock singer. Many many forms of rock over the years. Oprea, funk, soul, R & B, hip hop, bluegrass, and many other great genre singers are not considered rock singers. |
By original rockabilly standards anything with more than a tiny bit of overdrive is just noise. But then many of the old blues recordings are by no means high fidelity.
As far as genre goes, the lines are very very blurry. Classic Rock radio plays a lot of music I don't categorize as rock. I don't even consider rap to be music. Except for Rage Against the Machine that is.
I'll play your game. Rock and roll GOAT, played Stones, Zeppelin and Foghat before those guys were in diapers?
Robert Johnson.
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Jon Schmid
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| Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2025 8:35 am Post subject: Re: who is the greatest/your favorite rock singer? |
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| Not one mention of Neil Young. |
HAH!
Couple years ago we saw a Neil Young cover band in a barn in Maine.
This time last year we saw the actual Neil Young at Farm Aid / SPAC. Mind you, SPAC is a Live Nation venue and they were pimping Farm Aid hard. $21 Bud Light, anyone? I call that gettin' swindled and pimped, I call that gettin' tricked by business...
Mr. Young made it clear he's been doing this for over 50 years, that he's the GOAT and we should all applaud him for merely tuning his guitar.
It's better to burn out than fade away.
Point is the cover band we saw was demonstrably better than the real thing. You can't go wrong when you play with conviction, as if you actually give a shit about what you're playing.
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Funny you should say that. My wife and I saw CSN&Y in Vegas at the MGM years ago. The other 3 guys (yes, David Crosby was still alive ) looked like they were just going through the motions. Neil was actually rocking and was putting on a show. It was a great concert, in no small part due to Mr. Young's efforts.  |
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scottyrocks
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| Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2025 7:41 pm Post subject: Re: Who is the greatest/your favorite rock singer? |
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Foghat is a band.
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Abscate
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| Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2025 2:53 am Post subject: Re: Who is the greatest/your favorite rock singer? |
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Tina Turner
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Xevin
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| Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2025 6:30 am Post subject: Re: Who is the greatest/your favorite rock singer? |
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Nice!! I was wondering who enjoyed her greatness. They donโt call her the โQueen of Rock and Rollโ for no reason. Some credit her for breaking the racial barrier in rock music. Legendary.
I enjoy reading all the favorite rock singers of the samba members. No wrong answers here.
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