Vox Wars

Ok, since space ace is too busy thinking up off-colour jokes, maintaining his band wars thread and attacking Christoph, I thought I would take up stratman's idea and have a battle of singers. Also, a local radio station in Toronto had a top 20 rock vocalists of all time countdown, and they picked Robert Plant as the all time greatest, with which I disagree, and they included really crappy singers, like Burton Cummings.

I thought that, as a little change to space ace's approach, everyone (within a certain period of time) can post their 3 favourite singers. This can be the pool from which we'll pick the best singer.

Here are my three (in no order):

1. Freddie Mercury (Queen)
2. Thom Yorke (Radiohead)
3. Janis Joplin

Ok, now everyone else, take it away. I'll stop after a while, when there are about twenty or so.

I hope this thread doesn't suck.

No order...

Robert plant (sorry, but i think he's good)
Geddy Lee (Rush)
Ozzy
James Hetfield
Bruce Dickinson
Ronnie James Dio (Rainbow, Elf, B. Sabbath, Dio)
Dave Gilmour (Floyd)

When we have twenty do we do the same thing as in guitar wars?

One against one, random

Thatll be fun

Yeah, after we get about twenty, I'll put them all together, and they'll battle it out to the death. That's where space ace comes in.

And, remember, top 3. If you can, it would be nice if you reposted your top 3, stratman.

Don McLean
Roger Waters
Rory Gallagher
Izzy Stardlin


Yeah.............thats 3

Ok then

Ronnie James Dio
Geddy Lee
James Hetfield

Roy Orbison: you wanna talk about range?!
David Clayton Thomas: (Blood, Sweat, and Tears) pipes! My gawd, such pipes!
Sarah Vaughn: her voice kinda curls up in your ears and makes you feel warm all over; :D you gotta hear her to believe it!

I know this makes it more than three, but i can't miss him out and i cant replace any of my others with him...

OZZY

Ok, here's the list so far...

Ronnie James Dio
Rory Gallagher
James Hetfield
Janis Joplin
Geddy Lee
Don McLean
Freddie Mercury
Roy Orbison
Izzy Stardlin
David Clayton Thomas
Sarah Vaughn
Roger Waters
Thom Yorke

That makes 13.

I'd like to see what the hosts' choices would be on this subject...

Thats Izzy Stradlin actually it was a typo

Good to see Geddy Lee mentioned quite a few times!
I also like(in no order)

Robert Plant
B.B. King
Bruce Dickinson
SRV
Frank Sinatra
Koko Taylor

aw man.....the list can go on!

I know i've had my three, but can you please if no one else mentions him put ozzy in, as i could not forgive myself for not entering him, but i cant replace any of my others with him either

The OZZman rulz too!

How 'bout that mate!

ian gillan
bon scott
brian johnson

the first guy from deep purple, dont know his name

since only 7 different people have posted on this subject, i think I'll wait and see if there's more interest in this thread, or else I'll just let it die...

Just fill the rest in yourself. Put in Jeff Buckley for me.

1 Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden)
2 Ronnie James Dio (solo/Black Sabbath)
3 Liam Gallagher (Oasis)
4 Ian Gillan (Deep Purple)
5 Brian Johnson (AC/DC)
6 Janis Joplin (solo)
7 B.B. King (solo)
8 Geddy Lee (Rush)
9 Freddie Mercury (Queen)
10 Ozzy Osbourne (Black Sabbath)
11 Robert Plant (Led Zep)
12 Bon Scott (AC/DC)
13 David Clayton Thomas (Blood, Sweat and Tears)
14 Stevie Ray Vaughan (solo)
15 Roger Waters (Pink Floyd)
16 Thom Yorke (Radiohead)

Alright, here's the final list. Note that I've removed some of the singers that you guys suggested, since I realized how long it would take if we used them all. (And Led Zeppelin - I didn't make a mistake by putting Liam Gallagher in instead of Rory - I just figured most hadn;t heard of him, and it just so happened I wanted to put in Liam).

We'll pit them against each other, two at a time, starting from the top of the list and we'll work our way down. According to my calculations, it'll take 5 rounds, with 15 separate matches.

So, let us begin:

Round #1, Match #1 -
Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden) vs. Ronnie James Dio (solo/Black Sabbath)

Since only 7 of us seem to be interested in this thread, I'll say that 4 votes for any singer means an automatic win. I might change this rule based on any change of interest on this subject.

R.J.D all the way!

Dio but you might wanna start this again in the open forum. Theres more people there.