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Greatest band frontman??

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  • #62
    jimbobaloobob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭jimbobaloobob


    Stevie Nicks for the female role.

    James Brown on the other side.


  • #63
    Festy
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    I'm surprised that no one mentioned Trent Reznor.


  • #64
    The Backwards Man
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    Festy wrote: »
    I'm surprised that no one mentioned Trent Reznor.
    Give this thread enough time and everyone who ever held a mic in anger will be mentioned.


  • #65
    hidinginthebush
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,679 ✭✭✭hidinginthebush


    tomtucker81 wrote: »
    Axl is/was fantastic depending on your opinion. Had a great voice, brilliant energy on stage and really got the crowd going.
    Freddie was all of the above, minus the unpredictability of will he won't he show up, can he sing tonight, and always gave his all.
    bon Scott, great voice, excellent innuendo, although the front man job was kind of shared by Angus.
    I cant put a guitar player as the best front man as they are limited in their movements    , but hetfield does a good job.
    Id have to go with Freddie. Though I would like to see axl rose with myles Kennedy s voice now!!

    I don't know how he hasn't been put forward yet. Arguably the most talented guitarist ever that just oozed raw talent and blasted chirasma. True legend in every sense of the word.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opkOJrINJIA


  • #66
    Gavlor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,202 ✭✭✭Gavlor


    Paul Weller. 6 pages and no mention


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  • #67
    tomtucker81
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 420 ✭✭tomtucker81


    hidinginthebush wrote: »
    I don't know how he hasn't been put forward yet. Arguably the most talented guitarist ever that just oozed raw talent and blasted chirasma. True legend in every sense of the word.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opkOJrINJIA

    Well then rory gallagher has to be taken into account!! As hendrix once said when asked whats it like to be the best guitar player in the world- I dont know, ask rory gallagher!!
    Although I'm thinking more for guitar ability now than front man.


  • #68
    boobar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,226 ✭✭✭boobar


    Richie Kavanagh


  • #69
    The Backwards Man
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    If Glenn Frey and Don Henley were the one person they would be the most successful. Even splitting the songs between them I think they're still a runner for the most succesful.


  • #70
    Howard Juneau
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    boobar wrote: »
    Richie Kavanagh

    I was thinking Biffo Cowen & his band of w...bankers


  • #71
    MickFleetwood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,148 ✭✭✭MickFleetwood


    R P McMurphy wrote: »
    Jim morrison would have to be up there. Came across as a bit of a dick on occasion but definitely had presence and he became the show

    Seconded, can't believe it took almost sixty posts for him to get a mention. :eek: He's the ultimate rock band front-man.


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  • #72
    Tigger
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    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Give this thread enough time and everyone who ever held a mic in anger will be mentioned.
    where did you come from
    i have to say that you post a hell of lot and most of it turns my stomach


  • #73
    Lumbo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭Lumbo


    Iggy Pop is definitely the craziest I've seen.


  • #74
    hidinginthebush
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,679 ✭✭✭hidinginthebush


    Rory was a great player and great performer, agreed!


    but jimi never said that

    http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/keaggy.asp
    tomtucker81 wrote: »
    Well then rory gallagher has to be taken into account!! As hendrix once said when asked whats it like to be the best guitar player in the world- I dont know, ask rory gallagher!!
    Although I'm thinking more for guitar ability now than front man.


  • #75
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Tigger wrote: »
    where did you come from
    i have to say that you post a hell of lot and most of it turns my stomach
    :(

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6FsnmaJrQQ


  • #76
    kfallon
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    Ian Brown.....the frontman Liam Gallagher tried to be!


  • #77
    Hannibal
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    Keith Richards. Jagger was great but your eyes are drawn to Richards
    Neil Young front Crazy Horse, 20 minutes solos and feedback pure heaven


  • #78
    Tin Foil Hat
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    Mick Jagger.
    I'm no great fan of The Stones, but Mick fits the bill as a truly legendary front man.

    Matthew Bellamy is a hugely impressive front man as well.


  • #79
    Gavlor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,202 ✭✭✭Gavlor


    kfallon wrote: »
    Ian Brown.....the frontman Liam Gallagher tried to be!

    Good call


  • #80
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    MickFleetwood wrote: »
    Seconded, can't believe it took almost sixty posts for him to get a mention. :eek: He's the ultimate rock band front-man.

    /username.

    Sure what would you know :pac:


  • #81
    Fratton Fred
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    Jake Burns.

    He's a bit of a chubby old fella these days though.


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  • #82
    kenmc
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    Adam duritz. awesome stage presence.


  • #83
    [Deleted User]
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    Dave Mustaine.


  • #84
    thebaz
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    hard to pick just one , heres a few :-

    bono, jagger, lydon, liam gallagher, john lennon, kurt cobain, bobby gillespie and many more


  • #85
    Chris Ryan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 74 ✭✭Chris Ryan


    Liam Gallagher for me


  • #86
    boredatwork82
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    Has to be between Axel or Freddie, but for me Axel shades it. And I am saying that having been at both good and bad gigs of his.


  • #87
    Insect Overlord
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    Still recording when he was dying, legend.



  • #88
    srm23
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    Ronan Keating for me


  • #89
    Tin Foil Hat
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    Chris Ryan wrote: »
    Liam Gallagher for me

    He's terrible. Overrated voice in an overrated band, a total d!ckhead and a crap performer.


  • #90
    pookiesboo
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    Jim Morrisson


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  • #91
    Stained Class
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    Roger Daltrey. The chrome throated sparkplug that communicated Pete Townshend's (sometimes outlandish) ideas & concepts to the masses.

    Saw him in action in the O2 last June & for a guy now pushing 70, he still has a real stage presence.

    Who are ya'?


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