looking for nominations for best rock voice, NOT best vocal performance.......looking for the rock-quality of the voice itself........my first obvious choice is the ORIGINAL Rod Stewart
Robert Plant Freddie Mercury Van Morrison (Van the Man...maybe not really rock, though) David Lee Roth (the REAL mouth of Van Halen) Roger Daltrey the lead singer for Boston (can't recall his name) the dude that sang for Starship in their later commercial incarnations (he could hit the stratosphere... neither my wife or I can remember his name either). Mick Jagger - I add him not so much because of vocal talent in a conventional sense but more due to a distinctive sound and style McCartney (Hey Jude...how could I forget that voice)
No doubt others... I haven't read the other posts. Apologies for duplications or coming across like I was the only one to think of these.
What a neat thread...so many great singers. I also messed up my previous post and wanted to list as my #1, Paul Rogers (especially, as someone else mentioned, singing All Right Now with Free).
Names posted by others that I forgot but completely agree with Steven Tyler Rod Stewart Steve Winwood Jack Bruce
I've seen it's been noted before. What could ever come close to Ian Gillan, Deep Purple. First I heard his voice in 1974. And even today, I play rock rarely now, every time I hear Child In Time, it's just so good.
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