[Music] Your greatest Rock and Roll vocal ever.

[jakarta]

Still no guesses about the Tea Machine just along the corridor?

Clues: he appeared live on Top of the Pops to perform a Monkees Cover in the 1970's but probably best known to the younger NSCer collective for an Elvis Costello cover from the 1980's. Absolute Marmite vocal style, I love him, Mrs Jakarta walks out the room...

Oh, and this chap didn't normally raise his voice but he obviously could.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fllf-WMB0hY

 

[Kosh]

Dio, Coverdale and Hughes ... to be brutal anything Ritchie Blackmore touched post ‘69 pre ‘80 was vocal heaven.

Stargazer: https://youtu.be/rVXy1OhaERY


Stargazer isn’t just a piece of rock folklore it transcends its own genre and touches upon the absolute genius of Beethoven at his heavy best. The performance from Dio on that song utterly beggars belief. It’s astounding, it’s a sonic masterpiece... if there was a gallery somewhere with art rendered as an ode to all that rocks, leather clad splendour ... stargazer would be that huge monolithic gilt framed monster, where the creatures of hell dance to the pipes in of pan in an orgy of orgasmic depravity.

 

[Kosh]

For me, the best obscure vocal I’ve always loved is this absolute Hammond driven ******* from Germany’s Frumpy... it’s got it all, hints of soul, funk, blues, prog with a even subtler hint of jazz ... man! genre hopping brilliance.

https://youtu.be/BDUQN0Chl-M

 

[studio150]

'There are Dance Halls and Theatres with Acoustics worse than Here, not forgetting the extra Facilities, such as the Tea Machine, just along the corridor.
So to all our mates like Kevin*, Caravan and the old Pink Floyd, allow me to recommend Top Gear, despite its extraordinary name...'


*Kevin Ayers - ex band member which should give you a clue who they are and who is singing, final clue it was a BBC Maida Vale session from a long time ago...

Soft Machine with Robert Wyatt on vocals

 

[Kosh]

I’ve also always had a soft spot for drummers who sing, this particular effort from Birth Control still makes the old hairs stand up on my head banging neck...

https://youtu.be/LSYp9wpSxRk

 

[Kosh]

And then there was Rusty...

https://youtu.be/SCBrQQlcPLw

 

[Jam The Man]

https://youtu.be/w-iA9-D_Mbw

 

[Jam The Man]

 

[jakarta]

Soft Machine with Robert Wyatt on vocals

Well done sir, here is the Monkees cover, spot the members of the backing band!

Apparently a Suit at the BBC didn't want him to perform in a Wheelchair as it wasn't what people wanted on the BBC at 7.30. Robert told them to fvck off - good man!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5ivg0cDBgo

 

[Cheshire Cat]

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x31b40w

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Still no guesses about the Tea Machine just along the corridor?

Clues: he appeared live on Top of the Pops to perform a Monkees Cover in the 1970's but probably best known to the younger NSCer collective for an Elvis Costello cover from the 1980's. Absolute Marmite vocal style, I love him, Mrs Jakarta walks out the room...

Oh, and this chap didn't normally raise his voice but he obviously could.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fllf-WMB0hY

Robert Wyatt? He did a Monkees cover, wasn’t he in a wheelchair as well? Shipbuilding is the track by Elvis and who Suede have also covered. Strangely I was talking about this cover only recently.

 

[Boroseagull]

Nobody, me included, has mentioned the explosion of the birth of recognised rock n roll. Anyone for Bill Haley?

https://youtu.be/xbYiGR0YAAk

 

[studio150]

Shipbuilding is the track Elvis (and Suede) have covered. Strangely I was talking about this cover only recently.

Also covered by Tasmin Archer

 

[prawnsarnies]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt75y38J00s

Joe Walsh Rocky Mountain way.

 

[Nitram]

 

[prawnsarnies]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ShsVwIAOfo
Frampton comes alive fantastic album.

 

[The Clamp]

Chris Cornell in Soungarden, solo, Audioslave and Temple Of the Dog. What a voice
Black Hole Sun
Like A Stone
Spoonman
Hungerstrike

the list is endless.

Bruce Dickinson singing Run To The Hills is also a favourite as is Robert Plant in most of his Led Zeppelin heyday. Heck, theres too much to choose form. Roger Daltry, Eddie Vedder, Neil Young. I can't narrow it down

 

[Nitram]

 

[Nitram]

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

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First Heavy Metal Band - photo finish between Jimi Hendrix Experience & Cream in 1967?]

As someone who was a great Cream fan in the 60s (and still am), and who has never been a Heavy Metal fan, I strongly disagree. Cream were much more than that, as was Hendrix. Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker were as much Jazz Musicians as anything.

But for vocalists, Jack Bruce takes an awful lot of beating.
https://youtu.be/WOPDzD_P9gg

Or Gregg Allman of the Allman Brothers, here in their prime in 1971:
https://youtu.be/yJ9twEldw_M