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Nucleus

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Posted: November 06 2007 at 14:37

Jon Anderson, Greg Lake... after that it's tough

herring

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Posted: November 06 2007 at 14:19

My favorits are Peter Hammil, Peter Gabriel and Ian Anderson

sean

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Posted: November 04 2007 at 14:04

Mike Patton is my favourite, after that it gets harder, but i like Russel Allen, Greg Lake, Steven Wilson, Mikael Akerfeldt, Jon Anderson, James Labrie, Tony Kakko, syriaK and Leilindel from Unexpect, Hansi Kursch are just a few that come immediately to mind.

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Posted: November 02 2007 at 22:48

Peter Hammill stands out in my opinion. Peter Gabriel, Greg Lake and Roger Daltrey will also figure toward the top of my list.

A few names that haven't (I think) been mentioned yet and would surely be top 20 are:

Brian Ferry - Roxy Music's first 3 (maybe 4) albums are magnificent prog rock and Ferry's vocal contribution is all class.

Christian Descamps - up there with Hammill and Gabriel for theatrical expression

Sonja Kristina - Curved Air deserve far more attention than they get. Even the best Female vocalists often sound forced in a hard rock context but Kristina was perfection from first to last.

Chris Farlowe - Its a great shame than he didn't do the vocals on Colosseum's first two albums and he demonstrated this by his vocal performance on their come-back tour.

Edgar Broughton - Menacing, moody and magnificent. BTW why is the EBB not in the archive? they were one of the earliest and among the very best prog rock bands.

Edited by ten years after - November 02 2007 at 22:49

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Posted: November 02 2007 at 18:00

P.Gabriel, Fish & gildenlow are among the best i believe listen to gabriel on "Up" his voice seems to get better with time

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" Le rock progressif ? C'est quoi cette connerie? "

Jecht

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Posted: November 02 2007 at 13:55

Daniel Gildenlow (Pain Of Salvation) - nothing to say, just ideal to me
Devin Townsend (Strapping Young Lad, The Devin Townsend Band, etc.) - well he is much more than a musician anyway)
Mariusz Duda (Riverside) - vocals make at least a half of riverside atmosphere
Mikael Akerfaldt (Opeth) - emm, it's Akkerfaldt, that's alredy enough)
Warrel Dane (Nevermoe) - they are much more progressive than a a lot o bands registred on site, so go to hell))
I also like Dane's vocal twin - Oddleif Stensland from Communic, eventhough music is different
Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree) - once again nothing new could be said about such a person)
Tom S. Englund (Evergrey) - very emotional and sometimes desperate... when someone says that progressive is just about techincs i turn on Evergrey)
Stu Block (Into Eternity) - just a lot of variety

well, that is all a i could remember at the time
sorry for my terrible english))

dwill123

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Posted: November 02 2007 at 13:21

Wow not one vote for Alex Ligertwood.

Lukey45

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Posted: November 02 2007 at 12:55

Greg lake, and thom yorke if he counts. which i assume he does.

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FunnyWays

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Posted: November 01 2007 at 14:41

Freddie Mercury (has to be the best singer ever, depends if its prog if its in the list)

Peter Gabriel

David Gilmour

All of Gentle Giant (when doing harmonies together)

Raff

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Posted: November 01 2007 at 13:27

Tapfret wrote:

My least favorites:

Despite my love for progressive technical metal...I don't really enjoy any E2cookie

James LaBrie is particularly annoying too.

Gosh, that's a cookie monster? Fantastic!!! Clap

for mentioning my fellow Roman Francesco Di Giacomo, who gets mentioned all too rarely - same as the late Demetrio Stratos. I also forgot to mention Cedric B-Z, and another great Jimmy Row listed as one of his favourites... Steve Winwood, who has a special meaning for me Embarrassed

richardh

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Posted: November 01 2007 at 13:11

Greg Lake

Chris Thompson

Peter Gabriel

Peter Nicholls

John Wetton

Annie Haslam

Steve Hogarth

Christina Booth-Murphy

Dave Gilmour

Roger Waters

king_pin

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Posted: November 01 2007 at 11:18

Daniel Gildenlow, Russel Allen, James LaBrie, John Arch, Carla Kihlstedt, Devin Townsend, Jon Anderson, Peter Gabriel, Ian Gillian, Sharon den Adel etc.

nou... mag ik het niet nog een keertje overdoen?

Norbert

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Posted: October 29 2007 at 09:26

In no particular order:

Peter Hammill

Jon Anderson

Francesco Di Giacomo

Peter Gabriel

Daniel Gildenlöw

Ian Giilan

Steve Hogarth

Buddy Lackey=Devon Graves

Freddy Mercury

jimmy_row

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Posted: October 29 2007 at 09:18

looks like I forgot Annie Haslam, Steve Winwood, and Justin Hayward. Hayward would definately be in the top 5 or so.

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Tapfret

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Posted: October 29 2007 at 02:10

SolomonsMarbles wrote:

... And the assortment of black men that Frank Zappa's hired over the years.

George Duke would stand out amongst those.

Edited by Tapfret - October 29 2007 at 02:10

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Tapfret

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Posted: October 29 2007 at 02:09

Hard to rank, except number 1:

1. Francesco Di Giacomo

...the rest

Freddie Mercury (Queen was prog before News of the World, my opinion and I stand by it)

Cedric Bixler-Zavala

Ian Anderson

Mike Patton

Daniel Gildenlow

Adrian Belew

Annie Haslam

Christian Vander

Peter Gabriel (more for his presnce than his voice)

My least favorites:

Despite my love for progressive technical metal...I don't really enjoy any E2cookie

James LaBrie is particularly annoying too.

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SolomonsMarbles View Drop Down

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Posted: October 29 2007 at 01:51

Klaus Blasquiz, Jon Anderson, Adrian Belew, Greg Lake, David Gilmour and Roger Waters. And the assortment of black men that Frank Zappa's hired over the years.

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