Singers that CAN still cut it

[AR]

[Pelata]

Tommy Shaw

[Greg]

Let's see. Here are the frontmen (and women) who still have the pipes:

Dennis DeYoung
Paul Rodgers
Bruce Dickinson
Ronnie James Dio
Tommy Shaw
Ann Wilson
Paul Stanley
Bryan Adams
Jimi Jamison
Pat Benatar
Geddy Lee
Tony Harnell (ex. TNT, Starbreaker)
Tony Mills (ex. Shy)
Rob Halford

Here are the ones who still sound ok but are starting to wear thin:

Kevin Cronin
Joe Elliott
Jon Bon Jovi (well he just sounds whiney now...)

Total burned out voice?

Steve Perry (Of course we wouldn't know since he never records or tours anymore.)

[X factor]

Robin Zander
Bono
Tommy Shaw
Paul Stanley
Hagar
Dio
and...
Springsteen! (You haters can say he doesn't "sing" all you want...he ain't a crooner, but the man has one hell of a rock and roll voice)

Those who have (unfortunately) lost it:
Daltry
Meatloaf
Plant
Perry (?)

[ArnelRox]

Meatloaf

He can still sound great sometimes. Like shit at others. I can't figure out why & don't know enough about him to speculate. They say he has a lot of stage fright at times that almost renders him ill. At a private gathering, he was out of this world sounding like he had 20+ years ago. I don't quite understand why he can do that but then not be so good on other occasions. I'm sure there's more to it.

[NealIsGod]

Steve Tyler

[RedWingFan]

Meatloaf

He can still sound great sometimes. Like shit at others. I can't figure out why & don't know enough about him to speculate. They say he has a lot of stage fright at times that almost renders him ill. At a private gathering, he was out of this world sounding like he had 20+ years ago. I don't quite understand why he can do that but then not be so good on other occasions. I'm sure there's more to it.

My wife and I are going to see him in Cleveland on Thursday 8/9. We've seen him twice before and he sounded good. My only complaint is that in concert he turns a 12 min. song into an 18 min. song. Just belt it out and get on to the next one for goodness sakes!!!! He's got too deep a catalogue to be wasting time.

[larryfromnextdoor]

someone get naked..

[AR]

Meatloaf

He can still sound great sometimes. Like shit at others. I can't figure out why & don't know enough about him to speculate. They say he has a lot of stage fright at times that almost renders him ill. At a private gathering, he was out of this world sounding like he had 20+ years ago. I don't quite understand why he can do that but then not be so good on other occasions. I'm sure there's more to it.

Longtime Meat Loaf backing vocalist Patti Russo is an amazing singer. She steals the show on the Melbourne DVD.

[squirt1]

Mickey Thomas

[larryfromnextdoor]

chubby checker.. for real................

[ArnelRox]

Longtime Meat Loaf backing vocalist Patti Russo is an amazing singer. She steals the show on the Melbourne DVD.

Yeah! She's awesome.

[ArnelRox]

Mickey Thomas

Totally true. Forgot about him. He's a bit too much "going thru the motions" in his performance but the voice is great.

[Marc S]

Glenn Hughes. Can sing anyone, including a matchfit Perry into oblivion, anytime. He's lost nothing and is nearly 55. Not known as 'The Voice of Rock' for nothing.

[ArnelRox]

Glenn Hughes. Can sing anyone, including a matchfit Perry into oblivion, anytime. He's lost nothing and is nearly 55. Not known as 'The Voice of Rock' for nothing.

Wow. I'll have to do a YouTube search on him after that glowing rave.

[Marc S]

JR (Susie)

Wow. I'll have to do a YouTube search on him after that glowing rave.

If you ever, ever, get the chance to see him do it 'live' you will be blown into orbit. Don't get me wrong, I've seen loads of singers and bands over the years and there are a great deal, as this thread bears testament to, who can still do it 100% but sometimes when you get a moment of epiphany, your life is irrevoccably(?) changed for ever. I saw Hughes a few years ago and bingo!

[larryfromnextdoor]

If you ever, ever, get the chance to see him do it 'live' you will be blown into orbit.

i used to say that about m. schenker!! andrew put this on the front page,, terrible!!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_vmo_ePVGGI

[Marc S]

I was there on Saturday (Rock and Blues www.rockandblues.uk.com), we played 2nd on the same bill (Burn) - Schenker was on stage before the Scorpions and it was quite, quite staggering. We turned up at 2pm to soundcheck and Schenker was in the next dressing room to us. At 2pm he could barely stand and the organisers had literally had him against a wall - he looked like a tramp in a hoodie and hobo beard. Hardly the German Rock God I'd seen as an adolescent. I still can't beleive he got on to the stage. 15,000 people were visibly wincing at each fruitless attempt to solo. Awful and god knows he needs help.

[mikemarrs]

to be 65 years old i think ronnie james dio is doing a hell of a good job.his work in black sabbath is very underrated.

[ArnelRox]

I was there on Saturday (Rock and Blues www.rockandblues.uk.com), we played 2nd on the same bill (Burn) - Schenker was on stage before the Scorpions and it was quite, quite staggering. We turned up at 2pm to soundcheck and Schenker was in the next dressing room to us. At 2pm he could barely stand and the organisers had literally had him against a wall - he looked like a tramp in a hoodie and hobo beard. Hardly the German Rock God I'd seen as an adolescent. I still can't beleive he got on to the stage. 15,000 people were visibly wincing at each fruitless attempt to solo. Awful and god knows he needs help.

That's sad. Couldn't someone pull him aside & tell him to check into rehab or something?

[Marc S]

Him and his brother Rudy from the Scorpions pretty much came to blows later - I for the life of me can't understand why, in that condition he was any where near a guitar or stage. Plain dumb.

[*Laura]

Steve Tyler

After he had that state-of-the-art surgery on his vocal cords,yes,he's back on the list.

[tj]

Don Henley
Daryl Hall

[Rockindeano]

Steve Tyler

After he had that state-of-the-art surgery on his vocal cords,yes,he's back on the list.

And you have heard him? Just because someone gets "state of the art" surgery, doesn't mean they're back on the list.

Dude, you need to get out more.

[larryfromnextdoor]

I was there on Saturday (Rock and Blues www.rockandblues.uk.com), we played 2nd on the same bill (Burn).

dude,, that is so cool.. i hope you come around and post lots more,, big thumbs up to you my man!!!!

[ArnelRox]

Steve Winwood still sounds great.

[Marc S]

Thanks Man - its strange though, playing under some of these people doesn't make you any less of a fan - I still manage to walk around like a star struck kid sometimes - thats what makes the plight of someone like Schenker so tragic - he was such a guitar god to me in the 80s.

[brandonx76]

Michael McDonald.

I love it!

[Saint John]

Have it from a great source that he, on another level, is better than ever.

I had the person who played closest to SP in his entire career, tell me to my face, that he cannot do it anylonger.

Schon? Hell, he'd piss on your back and tell you it was raining.

[Rockindeano]

Have it from a great source that he, on another level, is better than ever.

I had the person who played closest to SP in his entire career, tell me to my face, that he cannot do it anylonger.

Schon? Hell, he'd piss on your back and tell you it was raining.

Did I ever say it was Schon? And if it were Schon, no one player played next to Perry for longer than Neal did.