Best frontmen!

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Who are your favourites!

Mine are:

- David Lee Roth
- Alice Cooper
- Paul Stanley
- Bret Michaels
- Jon Bon Jovi

Also gotta give credit to Jani Lane back in the day. He was AWESOME on stage in their classic era, and his voice was also always in top form live as well. Sounded just like the records.
 
Without really thinking about it two come to mind...

Steve Whiteman from Kix was one of the funnest guys ever to watch live! He could get a crowd going.

The other would be Hetfield circa 1986 or 87. He's just another bonehead singer now but around the time of Masters here was the ultimate metal front man to me.
 
You know who actually surprised me when I saw them live... Tobias Sammett from Edguy. He was a great frontman. He was like a young Bruce Dickinson with twice the energy (he looked like he was doing a fitness workout on stage with the number of jumps & the amount of running he was doing!) and he was also very funny, bad jokes galore haha! They really put on a fun show to watch.

Bruce Dickinson is another great frontman and still does a great job today.
 
Sabastian Bach (Skid Row)
Ronnie James Dio (Dio)
Tom Keifer (Cinderella)
Dirk Thurich (Angel Dust)
Andy Kuntz (Vanden Plas)
Damon Johnson (Brother Cane)
Phil Anselmo (Pantera)

P.S. I have heard amazing things about Tobias and the whole band (Edguy) being a top notch live band but haven't sen them yet.

Bryany
 
a) Frontmen is politically uncorrect :lol:

b)
  • Rob Halford
  • Ian Gillan
  • Bruce Dickinson
  • Phil Lynnot
  • Ronnie James Dio
  • Alice Cooper
  • Andre Matos
  • Tarja Turunnen
  • Messiah Marcolin
  • Klaus Meine
c) not metal, but rock indeed

  • Mike Jagger
  • Steven Tyler
 
Some great points there Bryant :) Sebastian is an awesome frontman, forgot him. And yep Edguy are awesome, if ya get a chance to see them then do so. I'm certainly not a power metal fan but man these guys ROCKED. And tight as hell too! I saw 2 shows, one of them was an intimate show with dinner at a medieval castle outside of a country town!

And gotta give props to Elvis I agree, great showman! Mick Jagger & Steven Tyler too!

I've only heard bad things about Phil Anselmo though. Apparently he totally ruined Pantera's last show here in Melbourne because he was way too drunk, couldn't sing, insulted the crowd and wouldn't stop talking shit on stage and even the band got pissed off at him and were looking really angry and embarassed.
 
Rob Halford

I have seen him many times. And he alway's deliverd.

At the time Johnny Rotten made a huge impression on me. I saw the Sex Pistols live in Dec 1977 one of my first gigs. I was 19 at the time.

Paul Dianno

He was great!! Talking with the crowd as if he was standing in a pub adressing a few friends. He was a natural I don't know how to describe it.
I have met him twice and he was the same of stage. BTW one of the most friendly bandmembers I *ever* met was Steve Harris.

Eric Rosvold

When on stage he is just *into the music*. In a world of his own. But it strangely fits the music. Of course he is one of the best singers in the metal scene if not *the* best.

I would *love* to see John Arch. I never seen him. If I knew that he would be performing in the US I would travel there to see him. Hell, I would quit my job to see him. And that's not an unlikely scenario because when you are a teacher you can not take a day of [execpt a few hours for a doctor visit].
 
At the time Johnny Rotten made a huge impression on me. I saw the Sex Pistols live in Dec 1977 one of my first gigs. I was 19 at the time.

Damned Hawk you ARE oldschool. Have you ever seen Accept ? The two bands I constantly beat myself up over for not ever seeing are Accept and Howe era Metal Church. Metal Church even opened up for Metallica once in Atlanta but I was too late trying to get tickets and it sold out.


Bryant
 
Wyvern said:
a) Frontmen is politically uncorrect :lol:

:lol: You're right, lets not forget the sisters!. When I saw Lita Ford live she was a great frontperson, her vocals were right on and she had a ton of energy, plus....... well you know they other reasons. :grin:
 
Hawk said:
At the time Johnny Rotten made a huge impression on me. I saw the Sex Pistols live in Dec 1977 one of my first gigs. I was 19 at the time.

Damn!!!!!!!!!!!! Ok, everyone can stop bragging about who they've seen live back in the day...... Hawk wins hands down!!!! That is amazing, Hawk! I would guess that you are in an elite group there. How many shows did they play, maybe 100, since they we're black listed in England. Then the tour of America's deep south only to get to San Fran and break up... "you ever get the feeling you've been cheated?"

Where did you see them?
 
Greeno said:
Damn!!!!!!!!!!!! Ok, everyone can stop bragging about who they've seen live back in the day...... Hawk wins hands down!!!! That is amazing, Hawk! I would guess that you are in an elite group there. How many shows did they play, maybe 100, since they we're black listed in England. Then the tour of America's deep south only to get to San Fran and break up... "you ever get the feeling you've been cheated?"

Where did you see them?

I saw them in Eindhoven, my old home town :( here in the Netherlands. Eindhoven is also the home of the famous Dynamo Open Air festival. The place were I saw them was De Effenaar

Do you know that when they were playing in Texas Johnny Rotten told the audience that all cowboy's were a bunch of faggots? Then the Sex Pistold had to leave in a hurry...

I'll tell you something else...

It was the night of the 16th of february 1979. I was standing inline at the Effenaar to see a Scorpions concert. They just released "Lovedrive" and replaced their long time guitarplayer Uli Roth with [what I though] was an inferior replacement; Matthias Jabs. My favorite guitarplayers in those days were Michael Schenker, Alex Lifeson and Uli Roth.

Just before me in the line I heard a few guy's talking and getting very excited. "It's Schenker I tell you" one guy told his friend. "Naa I don't believe you" said the other guy. "Really, I am telling you, there are TWO flying V's on stage NOT one." My heart started racing. What the hell!!??

I knew that Micheal Schenker had left UFO a few weeks before. Could it be that..???


It was...


For this tour he had joined up with the band of his brother. That night I saw Scorpions perform with Michael Schenker on lead guitar. The crowd went wild. They chanted: Schenker, Schenker, Schenker, whenever they could get above the music. It was a magic gig, and I remember distinctly they played "Lipstick traces" from the first UFO album.

This is still my favorite concert memory. I am a bit amazed that I still remember it so well.

The night after The Effenaar in Eindhoven they played at the Paradiso in Amsterdam. After the Paradiso gig Micheal Shenker disapeared into nowhere [pulling a Schenker on them. :lol:] Scorpions had get Jabs upto date fast so that they could continue their tour.

So, now it's time for granddad to take his nap...
 
Hawk said:
At the time Johnny Rotten made a huge impression on me. I saw the Sex Pistols live in Dec 1977 one of my first gigs. I was 19 at the time.
:OMG:
YOU'RE KIDDING!!!!!!!! Oh my God, how i'd LOVE to be you, man!!!! I'd kill to see that!!!!

:worship: to you, my man.
 
The best I've seen are :

Dio, hands down :worship:
Dee Snider (most entertaining frontman ever?)
Harry Conklin (Jag Panzer)
Messiah Marcolin
Chuck Billy
Biff Byford
James Rivera (Helstar)
Mark Osegueda (Death Angel)
André Matos (Shaman)
Mille Petrozza & Schmier (they're sooooo agressive)
Bruce Dickinson
last but not least... Doro!
 
Wicked Child said:
:OMG:
YOU'RE KIDDING!!!!!!!! Oh my God, how i'd LOVE to be you, man!!!! I'd kill to see that!!!!

:worship: to you, my man.
Thanks :blush:

Like I alway's say. It is NOT alway's a disadvatage to be a bit older.
Remember that when you are 45 ;)