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MajesterX

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Posted: April 14 2007 at 10:12

Matt Dickens wrote:

James Labrie live is absolutely dreadful.

Did you see him last tour? Wink

He was spot on.

He did have damaged vocal chords due to food poisoning in '94 and didn't recover fully until about 2003.

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Posted: April 14 2007 at 10:20

darksideof wrote:

I just posted an comment on the topic: Favorite band, song you hate and commented about some of the wost vocals in prog and I thought humm........ this sounds like a good subject. So here we go from the worst to the worst.

Steve Howe( Yes)

who told him he could sing.!!! stick to your guitar man.

Latimer (camel)

He puts me to sleep. thanks God camel is a mostly instrumental band.

Greg Lake (ELP) he used to sings like an angel, (Yeah used to), but now he is sooo terrible. I can't stand his voice anymore........

Richard Sinclair ( Hatfield And the north, caravan, Camel Live))

An excellent bass player, but an awful vocalist GOD!!. Please edits all those vocals parts. Por favor!!!

Ian Anderson ( Jethro Tull)

He need to retired as vocalist. can somebody let him know Please. Another one I can't stand his voice now.!!!

James LABRIE( Dream Theater)

this is funny with guy is the opposite I couldn't stand his voice now I really Like it .

so I guess his Early vocals with the Dream got to gooooo.

Kevin Moore ( ex Dream Theater Keys player)

I would Like to know who the hell tells some of the top musicians in the prog -world that they could sing. Please Let me know so I would shoot them.

David GILMOUR( live Pink floyd) He is one of my favorite vocalist, but only on studios recordings,. Live he is sooo bad and unrecognizable what a shame.

Robert WYATT (Soft Machine) again great musician, composer,but such a waist on vocals please where is the delete button for the vocals part.

those early Soft machine songs with vocals are extremely awful.

BUT Thanks GOD, Again Thank GOD, Again Thanks GOD after Robert left Soft Machine they became a jazz/fusion band a simply brilliant band.!!!

Not Prog?

SANTANA( SANTANA) the Mexican pro can play some awesome guitar,but please hold the vocals.

Robert Plant( Led Zeppelin) just like Greg Lake I love his voice on the zep albums

but in the 80 he lost his voice.he can't sing for anymore. My cat sounds better that him. Maybe he should do a duet with Yoko Ono.

Elton John. the same goes to this great pianist He need to retired. he sounds like me when I am taking a shower., not nice.....

Who else?, Let See? Hummmm

Amazing! Your list is almost identical to mine! Especially the top three. They would be my top three as well!

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Posted: April 14 2007 at 11:47

Was that guy Fxxxing kidding? Richard Sinclair is an INCREDIBLE vocalist! For shame! As for the Wyatt diss, I can't even bring myself to comment on that.

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Posted: April 14 2007 at 12:03

This qualifies as the lamest thread since I joined more than half a year ago...

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Posted: April 14 2007 at 12:06

it should say 'vocalist i don't like or such rather than worst vocalist...' good or bad it's all subjective you know... and the comments are quite nasty either...

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Posted: April 14 2007 at 12:10

I cannot stand Bixler Zavala vocals... i know you all love him and his band... i simply dont...

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Posted: April 14 2007 at 12:36

I do feel bad that so many prog greats are losing their once stellar voices. Case in point, Ian Anderson. His vocals with Tull were unbelievable, but now every song he performs just

. He can't do it anymore, and no matter how much I love him, it just needs to stop.

Edited by lightbulb_son - April 14 2007 at 16:23

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Posted: April 14 2007 at 15:23

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pantacruelgruel wrote:

Geoff Tate & everyone who sounds like him. Really !

Amen! Thank you! Don't get me wrong, I used to really like Tate. But, If anybody sounds even remotely like him(and there's thousands) it makes me wan't to vomit. Any of the operatic type stuff is really a turn off. I'd take Akerfeldt from Opeth without the cookie monster vocals any day over all of these singers. Truly good singers are very rare.

You hit it on the nail. Great to have singer with a great vocal range, but opera is not a Rock genre, & that over the top vocal style is not my preference. I love Bruce Dickinson, I liked Rob Halford once he quit with the highpitched yelps, and I can take some over emoting, but , & this is not to denigrate the music, but the operatic vocals just distract me enough that I can't even take the music. For those who remember Mercyful Fate, I always thought it a shame about their vocalist/frontman/star. They had decent riffs, if only they had someone to sing the songs in a more straightforward manner, & without the Satanistic B.S. .

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Posted: April 14 2007 at 15:37

andu wrote:

This qualifies as the lamest thread since I joined more than half a year ago...

hahahha.. where where you before the symphonic horsemen dared to stand up to to threads and polls such as these...only after we were bribed to respectablitly with positions of power and privilage LOL

did threads like this come back....

Dream Theater "Images and Words" magic formula

Tool n Dream Theater burger factory

Phil Collins vs Dream Theater...

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Spock vs Dream Theater

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Posted: April 14 2007 at 17:00

This one is easy

James LABRIE

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Posted: April 14 2007 at 17:02

Lee Jackson on Refugee album. Especially in contrast to Moraz's brilliant work. And Steve Howe of course...

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Posted: April 14 2007 at 17:02

Ugh, I hate negative threads like this, they only bring out the worst in people and they aren't constructive most of the time.

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Posted: April 14 2007 at 17:04

lightbulb_son wrote:

Ian Anderson. His vocals with Tull were unbelievable, but now every song he performs just

. He can't do it anymore, and no matter how much I love him, it just needs to stop.

Ian Anderson never was a great vocalist (like Plant, Gillan etc). In on of the interviews Ian explained that he started to sing only because others in the band sang even worse than he. But Ian's voice was always instantly recognizable - both in early Tull and now. In case of Ian "individuality" is a key word, so I don't see the reason for him to stop.

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Posted: April 14 2007 at 17:11

micky wrote:

andu wrote:

This qualifies as the lamest thread since I joined more than half a year ago...

hahahha.. where where you before the symphonic horsemen dared to stand up to to threads and polls such as these...only after we were bribed to respectablitly with positions of power and privilage LOL

I read it myself on another thread that true forum ultras got promoted to Honorary Collaborators & such. The higher in current rank ==> the greater the conversion ==> the greater hooligan in past, eh? Wink

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Posted: April 14 2007 at 17:17

this thread reminded me how much of a target DT tends to be around here LOL

as for vocalists I dislike....erm....I give everyone their fair chance and no one's really thrown me off a ton. However, some vocalists whom I think aren't on their best are

Ray Adler: it pains me to say this but when he first joined Fates Warning, on the album No Exit the vocals were like Geoff Tate kicked in the balls Pinch

however he has improved vastly with time, his vocals were one of the highlights for me on FWX (and there wasn't much going for that album in the first place)

Aaron Ross: as much as I love "There's No 666 in Outer Space", every time I listen I keep thinking that the vocals could be doing a lot more than they are. It's like the vocal melodies kind of lag behind the breakneck speed of the rest of the band. As for his singing, it doesn't bother me I guess, its more the melodies that he comes up with.

that's all for now Embarrassed

keep in mind I still like both of these vocalists, but everyone has their weak points

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Posted: April 14 2007 at 17:31

Zitro wrote:

Steve Howe/hackett

As bad as GTR was, imagine how bad it had been if the two Steve's had decided to sing ?

Since people have mentioned non-prog vocalists, why not bring up Stevie Nicks ? She sounds like a frggin' goat.

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Posted: April 14 2007 at 17:48

Thyme Traveler wrote:

As bad as GTR was, imagine how bad it had been if the two Steve's had decided to sing ?

Since people have mentioned non-prog vocalists, why not bring up Stevie Nicks ? She sounds like a frggin' goat.

IMO Stevie Nicks doesn't have a superb vocal range, but SHE CAN REALLY SING,

Has a nice voics and puts a lot of her in every song, Fleetwood Mac wouldn't exist since three decades ago without her.

Now, who mentoioned Chris Squire?

For God's sake, his backing vocals are better than Jon Anderson's main ones, he's probably among the 5 or 6 best backing vocalists in Prog with Phil Collins (Just don't call the shorty as frontman and forbid him to write music).

Iván

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Posted: April 14 2007 at 18:08

Good point, Iván... amongst so many "worst" or "terrible" polls I cannot remember a single one about "good backing vocals".

Edited by Atkingani - April 14 2007 at 18:09

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Posted: April 14 2007 at 20:05

Peter Gabriel

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Posted: April 14 2007 at 22:06

Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:

Thyme Traveler wrote:

As bad as GTR was, imagine how bad it had been if the two Steve's had decided to sing ?

Since people have mentioned non-prog vocalists, why not bring up Stevie Nicks ? She sounds like a frggin' goat.

IMO Stevie Nicks doesn't have a superb vocal range, but SHE CAN REALLY SING,

Has a nice voics and puts a lot of her in every song, Fleetwood Mac wouldn't exist since three decades ago without her.

Now, who mentoioned Chris Squire?

Iván

OMG !!! Who is this impersonator of Ivan Melgar complimenting Phil Collins ? Pretty soon he'll be throwing compliments at Trevor Rabin !

Seriously, I'm with you on this one Ivan- Squire and Collins are among the best backing vocalists in prog. They both had a knack for complimenting Anderson and Gabriel's lead.

Fire up the flux capacitor ! We're taking this Delorean through all four dimensions.

What is the future of prog ? Genesis reunion ? I'm not telling!That could upset the thyme/space continuum.