Best frontman in music?

Kiwi in IE

Eddie Vedder and Billy Joe Armstrong.

Despite that Axl Rose lost the run of himself altogether, he cannot be ignored!

Roger Waters and David Gilmore deserve a mention too and James Hetfield, Kurt Cobain, Steven Tyler, Freddy Mercury, David Bowie, Bruce Soringsteen.

I am sure I have missed some.

1gunsnroses

AXL ROSE is the greatest frontman forget his ego

druidhill

(Early) Van Morrison performances that I have seen online are pretty cool.
Jim Morrison was a big fan and copied a move of his, I believe.

Ed Winchester

druidhill wrote: »

(Early) Van Morrison performances that I have seen online are pretty cool.
Jim Morrison was a big fan and copied a move of his, I believe.

Van Morrison had a move!??

Kiwi in IE

1gunsnroses wrote: »

AXL ROSE is the greatest frontman forget his ego

Hmm! I begrudgingly added him because he had to be added! My favourite band of all time they were! If he wasn't such a dick he'd have gone ahead of Eddie Vedder and Billy Joe Armstrong.

Ed Winchester

black_frosch wrote: »

Couldn't choose one the best, just to name a few

Peter Steele
Paul Stanley
Jim Morrison
Steve Von Till
Phil Anselmo
Josh Homme
Layne Staley
Al Jourgensen
Bobby Liebling
Frank Zappa
Ronnie James Dio
Ozzy Osbourne
Ian Astbury
Tom Waits
Nick Cave
Freddie Mercury
Michael Jackson
David Gilmour
Dax Riggs
Gregg Allman
Bob Marley
Rob Zombie
Glen Danzig
Alice Cooper
Angus Young
Joe Elliott
Mike Patton
Cedric Bixler-Zavala
John Garcia
Jimi Hendrix
Wino Weinrich
Maynard James Keenan
Les Claypool
Zack de la Rocha
Ted Nugent

And many more!

Not sure you understand the question being asked there chief

black_frosch

Ed Winchester wrote: »

Not sure you understand the question being asked there chief

Just got hooked sorry

Banjo String

Bon Scott.

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BMMachine

David Lee Roth

LordSutch

Freddie Mercury.

sparksfly

Peter Cox from Go West
Myles Kennedy
Brandon Flowers (The Killers live at Royal Albert Hall)

Ficheall

Freddie would be my vote. What good frontwomen are there? Top one I could think of was Bonnie Raitt, and she's more blues than rock 'n roll...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m82c_wSrCQM

Ficheall

Ficheall wrote: »

Freddie would be my vote. What good frontwomen are there? Top one I could think of was Bonnie Raitt, and she's more blues than rock 'n roll...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m82c_wSrCQM

No need for it to be rock and roll at all.

I suggested Karl Hyde of Underworld above.

I guess for frontwomen Siouxsie Sue would have to be up there.

Jimbob1977

Michael Stipe

Jim Morrison

Mick Jagger

Huey Morgan

marklazarcovic

zak de la rocha !!!!!!

Ed Winchester

For a woman it has to be Janis Joplin.

sadie06

Back in the day when I was going to gigs 3-4 nights a week, Glen Hansard was my favourite frontman. He should just never speak off stage….like a lot of them.

Bono can't be ignored, but I fell out of love with U2 a very long time ago.

Jim Morrison, Freddie Mecury and Dave Grohl all deserve a mention, with Freddie being a role model for many that came after him.

My personal favourites though are Phil Lynott and Thom Yorke.

Turquoise Hexagon Sun

Dave Gahan
Freddie Mercury
Jim Morrison
Robert Plant
John Lennon
Morrisey

boosabum

scott weiland of STP and velvet revolver fame....that's if he manages to show up for a gig

That_Guy

Just basing it on who I've managed to see live.

Tom Meighan (Kasabian)
Tom Smith (Editors)
James Brown
Paul Weller
Malcolm Young (AC/DC)
Dave Grohl

Gunslinger92

KungPao wrote: »

Sorry but he's a cock.

You don't mess with us gingers :pac:

Ha, well yer man threw a shoe or something at him, and he's said that he regrets that incident. He's married to Brody Dalle, if he was in any way a cock she sure as hell wouldn't have married him.

Also lads sorry to be pedantic but it's Billie joe Armstrong, not billy :pac:

boosabum

boosabum wrote: »

scott weiland of STP and velvet revolver fame....that's if he manages to show up for a gig

And figure how how to work a jacket!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HQ_eq6NXFY

Gunslinger92 wrote: »

Ya, well yer man threw a shoe or something at him, and he's said that he regrets that incident.

I bet he does, references to "fxxxxts" and "buttfxxxxxg" must have had everyone in the record company screaming "just what were you thinking" at him!

Chief87

Freddie Mercury..

MRnotlob606

Damon Albarn

fleet_admiral

Damon Albarn

Zxclnic

Damon Albarn

the evasion_kid

enfant terrible wrote: »

Poor guy opened for Madonna at Slane, no one seemed interested in listening to him.

Long but around the 16.00 mark when he talks about when Iggy opened for the cure somewhere in scandinavia :pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOjjY-Pp_og

StaticAge11

James Hetfield.


Honourable mentions to Corey Taylor, Josh Homme and Billie Joe Armstrong though!

silverfeather

Justin Hawkins is pretty good...

recylingbin

Jonny rotten been mentioned? Not just of a band, but of a whole genre.