The 70's were the best decade of rock music. Challenge me on this (1 Viewer)

[Eephus]

Best Brit rock voice, Rod Stewart or Winwood?

Gavin Rossdale

Well that's a silly choice.

The correct answer is Robert Plant.

Paul Rogers?

Freddie Mercury?

 

[Ilov80s]

Best Brit rock voice, Rod Stewart or Winwood?

Gavin Rossdale

Well that's a silly choice.

The correct answer is Robert Plant.

Paul Rogers?

They are both great singers, but not my style. Especially Rodgers.

 

[Ilov80s]

Best Brit rock voice, Rod Stewart or Winwood?

Gavin Rossdale

Well that's a silly choice.

The correct answer is Robert Plant.

Paul Rogers?

Freddie Mercury?

Right, you want a big arena voice with range, Mercury is the guy.

 

[DocHolliday]

Hey did we forget about Cat Stevens?

No.

 

[NCCommish]

Best Brit rock voice, Rod Stewart or Winwood?

Gavin Rossdale

Well that's a silly choice.

The correct answer is Robert Plant.

Paul Rogers?

Freddie Mercury?

Right, you want a big arena voice with range, Mercury is the guy.

Paul Rogers has a big voice with range. Widely acknowledged as one of the, if not the, best vocalist in rock.

 

[NCCommish]

I love Cat Stevens work. But I can't put him on the top of the list. I have to admit he is next tier.

 

[Raider Nation]

KISS (not a fan, but I think they deserve some mention)

Hell yes they do.

1976

 

[Ilov80s]

Best Brit rock voice, Rod Stewart or Winwood?

Gavin Rossdale

Well that's a silly choice.

The correct answer is Robert Plant.

Paul Rogers?

Freddie Mercury?

Right, you want a big arena voice with range, Mercury is the guy.

Paul Rogers has a big voice with range. Widely acknowledged as one of the, if not the, best vocalist in rock.

Same with Freddie. I could be biased by the fact that I don't think Bad Company had very good material to work with.

 

[NCCommish]

Best Brit rock voice, Rod Stewart or Winwood?

Gavin Rossdale

Well that's a silly choice.

The correct answer is Robert Plant.

Paul Rogers?

Freddie Mercury?

Right, you want a big arena voice with range, Mercury is the guy.

Paul Rogers has a big voice with range. Widely acknowledged as one of the, if not the, best vocalist in rock.

Same with Freddie. I could be biased by the fact that I don't think Bad Company had very good material to work with.

Freddie was pretty darn good no doubt. And you can't really limit Rogers to Bad Co. Now I like Bad Co a lot but he was also in Free, The Firm, he has filled in for various folks including touring with Queen. Freddie is said to have liked his work a lot.

 

[Ilov80s]

Best Brit rock voice, Rod Stewart or Winwood?

Gavin Rossdale

Well that's a silly choice.

The correct answer is Robert Plant.

Paul Rogers?

Freddie Mercury?

Right, you want a big arena voice with range, Mercury is the guy.

Paul Rogers has a big voice with range. Widely acknowledged as one of the, if not the, best vocalist in rock.

Same with Freddie. I could be biased by the fact that I don't think Bad Company had very good material to work with.

Freddie was pretty darn good no doubt. And you can't really limit Rogers to Bad Co. Now I like Bad Co a lot but he was also in Free, The Firm, he has filled in for various folks including touring with Queen. Freddie is said to have liked his work a lot.

I will give Free another spin. I never got into their stuff. We are splitting hairs because they are all elite rock vocalists.

 

[NCCommish]

I will give Free another spin. I never got into their stuff. We are splitting hairs because they are all elite rock vocalists.

They are definitely both in the argument for best vocalist. I would give Freddie the edge as a front man though. He was a heck of a showman for sure.

 

[Otis]

The Beatles and Beach Boys may have been visionary, but Rock didn't real the full breadth and depth of its potential until the 1970s. They captured a certain beaty, but their successors plumbed the depths of its agression and pure energy. They explored different sounds, but their successors really took it to next level and more successfully merged in aspects of Jazz, Classical and funk.

This is rich.

Hi rich, this is Otis.

 

[Christo]

Freddie was pretty darn good no doubt. And you can't really limit Rogers to Bad Co. Now I like Bad Co a lot but he was also in Free, The Firm, he has filled in for various folks including touring with Queen. Freddie is said to have liked his work a lot.

I will give Free another spin. I never got into their stuff. We are splitting hairs because they are all elite rock vocalists.

Start here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g96ZaqXR8uk

 

[Ilov80s]

Freddie was pretty darn good no doubt. And you can't really limit Rogers to Bad Co. Now I like Bad Co a lot but he was also in Free, The Firm, he has filled in for various folks including touring with Queen. Freddie is said to have liked his work a lot.

I will give Free another spin. I never got into their stuff. We are splitting hairs because they are all elite rock vocalists.

Start here:

Will do, thanks.Well it's already 100x better than Bad Company, real good blues based rock.

 

[Ilov80s]

The one thing I give Winwood over all those guys is his talent as a musician. On Traffic, he played guitar, piano and organ. His solo stuff, he pretty much played everything: keyboard, guitar, bass, drums, strings, and more.

 

[Christo]

The one thing I give Winwood over all those guys is his talent as a musician. On Traffic, he played guitar, piano and organ. His solo stuff, he pretty much played everything: keyboard, guitar, bass, drums, strings, and more.

Criminally underrated.

 

[maxwelledison]

The Beatles and Beach Boys may have been visionary, but Rock didn't real the full breadth and depth of its potential until the 1970s. They captured a certain beaty, but their successors plumbed the depths of its agression and pure energy. They explored different sounds, but their successors really took it to next level and more successfully merged in aspects of Jazz, Classical and funk.

This is rich.

Hi rich, this is Otis.

Hi Otis.

 

[Ilov80s]

The one thing I give Winwood over all those guys is his talent as a musician. On Traffic, he played guitar, piano and organ. His solo stuff, he pretty much played everything: keyboard, guitar, bass, drums, strings, and more.

Criminally underrated.

His work with Spencer Davis Group as a teenager was great too. To write and record Gimme Some Lovin at 18 is amazing. Crazier is that he already had a #1 hit. The guy was a professional musician at age 14. Also, wrote, sang and played the organ on I'm A Man...love that song, Mad Men used it perfectly to open this last season.

 

[Mister CIA]

The one thing I give Winwood over all those guys is his talent as a musician. On Traffic, he played guitar, piano and organ. His solo stuff, he pretty much played everything: keyboard, guitar, bass, drums, strings, and more.

Criminally underrated.

I don't need no stinkin' Dave Mason.

 

[Ilov80s]

The one thing I give Winwood over all those guys is his talent as a musician. On Traffic, he played guitar, piano and organ. His solo stuff, he pretty much played everything: keyboard, guitar, bass, drums, strings, and more.

Criminally underrated.

Plant and Mercury were amazing singers, but if Page or May left them, none of them could have stepped in and been like, "that's cool, I'll just play your guitar parts better than you did." Not mention that he could have replaced pretty much every member of Traffic musically.Eta: I think Mason is also underrated. I really like his guitar work and a lot of his solo stuff.

 

[Fiddles]

The one thing I give Winwood over all those guys is his talent as a musician. On Traffic, he played guitar, piano and organ. His solo stuff, he pretty much played everything: keyboard, guitar, bass, drums, strings, and more.

Criminally underrated.

His work with Spencer Davis Group as a teenager was great too. To write and record Gimme Some Lovin at 18 is amazing. Crazier is that he already had a #1 hit. The guy was a professional musician at age 14. Also, wrote, sang and played the organ on I'm A Man...love that song, Mad Men used it perfectly to open this last season.

Loved how they used it on mad men

 

[Fiddles]

Best Brit rock voice, Rod Stewart or Winwood?

Gavin Rossdale

Well that's a silly choice.

The correct answer is Robert Plant.

Paul Rogers?

Freddie Mercury?

Peter Gabriel Bruce Dickinson

 

[shuke]

Freddie was pretty darn good no doubt. And you can't really limit Rogers to Bad Co. Now I like Bad Co a lot but he was also in Free, The Firm, he has filled in for various folks including touring with Queen. Freddie is said to have liked his work a lot.

I will give Free another spin. I never got into their stuff. We are splitting hairs because they are all elite rock vocalists.

Start here:

Are you seriously saying you've never heard this song?

 

[Ilov80s]

Best Brit rock voice, Rod Stewart or Winwood?

Gavin Rossdale

Well that's a silly choice.

The correct answer is Robert Plant.

Paul Rogers?

Freddie Mercury?

Peter Gabriel Bruce Dickinson

I feel like Winwood was doing Peter Gabriel before Peter Gabriel. They have always reminded me of each other.

 

[Ilov80s]

Freddie was pretty darn good no doubt. And you can't really limit Rogers to Bad Co. Now I like Bad Co a lot but he was also in Free, The Firm, he has filled in for various folks including touring with Queen. Freddie is said to have liked his work a lot.

I will give Free another spin. I never got into their stuff. We are splitting hairs because they are all elite rock vocalists.

Start here:

I've heard that song many times. Their live stuff seems much better than their studio stuff. I hadn't listened to them live before. I found a live album on Spotify after he posted that and I'm impressed.

 

[Binky The Doormat]

Freddie was pretty darn good no doubt. And you can't really limit Rogers to Bad Co. Now I like Bad Co a lot but he was also in Free, The Firm, he has filled in for various folks including touring with Queen. Freddie is said to have liked his work a lot.

I will give Free another spin. I never got into their stuff. We are splitting hairs because they are all elite rock vocalists.

Start here:

No buying it.

But ran into this after clicking the link. Was huge when I was in high school.

 

[Ilov80s]

Freddie was pretty darn good no doubt. And you can't really limit Rogers to Bad Co. Now I like Bad Co a lot but he was also in Free, The Firm, he has filled in for various folks including touring with Queen. Freddie is said to have liked his work a lot.

I will give Free another spin. I never got into their stuff. We are splitting hairs because they are all elite rock vocalists.

Start here:

Who are you rolling your eyes at?

 

[Binky The Doormat]

Freddie was pretty darn good no doubt. And you can't really limit Rogers to Bad Co. Now I like Bad Co a lot but he was also in Free, The Firm, he has filled in for various folks including touring with Queen. Freddie is said to have liked his work a lot.

I will give Free another spin. I never got into their stuff. We are splitting hairs because they are all elite rock vocalists.

Start here:

Your answer made it appear as though you had never heard the song - so yeah, it was you.

Your clarification came right before my response - didn't see it, sorry.

 

[Ilov80s]

Freddie was pretty darn good no doubt. And you can't really limit Rogers to Bad Co. Now I like Bad Co a lot but he was also in Free, The Firm, he has filled in for various folks including touring with Queen. Freddie is said to have liked his work a lot.

I will give Free another spin. I never got into their stuff. We are splitting hairs because they are all elite rock vocalists.

Start here:

It's ok. That's a hard song to miss if you listen to classic rock.

 

[cosjobs]

Just to be clear, not all of us still into older stuff have exhausted the vaults of music we didn't hear the first time around. Like most people I could not afford to buy everything that came out back then so I listened to a sampling of each artist that rarely included what is now called "deep cuts". So it's not always "the same old things" but instead "new old things".

Right, I got sick of classic rock stations a long time ago. They recycle the same songs over and over and over and over again. Okay, guys. Led Zeppelin had more than 5 songs.

the other day on our local classic rock station I heard the Ramones

I wonder why?

To me the genre classic rock shouldn't evolve to include Ramones/Clash/Costello, all favorites of mine but the past fews years appearing on Bostons classic station. Get off my lawn

Add the talking heads for the superfecta and #### you and your ####### lawn you old cot.

 

[cosjobs]

Just to be clear, not all of us still into older stuff have exhausted the vaults of music we didn't hear the first time around. Like most people I could not afford to buy everything that came out back then so I listened to a sampling of each artist that rarely included what is now called "deep cuts". So it's not always "the same old things" but instead "new old things".

Right, I got sick of classic rock stations a long time ago. They recycle the same songs over and over and over and over again. Okay, guys. Led Zeppelin had more than 5 songs.

the other day on our local classic rock station I heard the Ramones

I wonder why?

To me the genre classic rock shouldn't evolve to include Ramones/Clash/Costello, all favorites of mine but the past fews years appearing on Bostons classic station. Get off my lawn

Add the talking heads for the superfecta and #### you and your ####### lawn you old coot.

I'll give that the first half of the 70s owned Rock and roll, but the late 70s was becoming the providence of anthem rock and second rate metal bands. Costello and Byrne stood it on its head and brought back some cleverness

 

[Mr. Mojo]

Best Brit rock voice, Rod Stewart or Winwood?

Gavin Rossdale

Well that's a silly choice.

The correct answer is Robert Plant.

:X Robert Plant has the whinest, most irritating voice in rock. He just sucks.

 

[skol asylum]

Best Brit rock voice, Rod Stewart or Winwood?

Gavin Rossdale

Well that's a silly choice.

The correct answer is Robert Plant.

:X Robert Plant has the whinest, most irritating voice in rock. He just sucks.

No way. I think you are thinking of Geddy Lee.

 

[Doug B]

Paul Rodgers toured with Queen (minus John Deacon) in the mid-2000s. Saw some of their performances on VH1 Classic. Rodgers did fine, but he can't reach the level Mercury did on Queen's material.

Admittedly, a lot of Bad Company's material would've sounded odd with Mercury on vox.