Favorite Classic Rock Vocalist

[MindGoneHaywire]

I think a couple of your choices (Kate Bush) might stretch the definition of the 'classic rock' radio format, Smokey, but that's okay. That definition needed expanding from the moment it rose from the ashes of Lee Abrams' AOR format that ruined rock music for a lot of us.

My choices would be both Elvises, Little Richard, John Lennon, Van Morrison, Marvin Gaye, Tom Waits, Joey Ramone, Mick Jagger, James Brown, Brian & Carl Wilson along with (F*CK) Mike Love, Sam Cooke, Phil Alvin, Neil Young, Stevie Wonder, Ian Curtis, Bob Dylan, Michael Jackson, & Exene.

[bobsticks]

Now that's the list my addled mind should have come up with...and it's not worth picking nits between R&B and "Classic Rock" since even the timeline is vague. We should all probably be flogged for letting Autumn beat us to the punch with Freddie.

I guess I've always considered Ian Curtis and Tom Waits as having categories of their own.

Somehow,somewhere Bob Marley and Shane MacGowan must have a place at the table. Recent whiney Bono-esque politicisms aside, Sting got quite a back catalogue as well.

[3-LockBox]

I guess I've always considered Ian Curtis and Tom Waits as having categories of their own.

Speaking of Ian Curtis, where is that movie, Control? Did it ever get a threatrical release?

jes wondern...I wasn't a true fan of Curis' Jim Morrison on downers vocal style, but you can't escape his influence if you liked this kind of meloncollie, beat music in the '80s.