Top 5 female rock vocalists

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(06-29-2020, 04:00 AM)samhain Wrote: The best era of rock is taken directly from the blues.  Most of the icons of the time will tell you as much.  Zeppelin and the Stones are massively indebted to blues artists.  Sabbath, too.  

Others are more "progressive".  Floyd and The Who for example.  

I've argued with you on this board more than once, and have held back countless times, but I agree with you about one major fact: The Who are probably the best pure rock band that ever played.  I never understood them when I was young, but now when I hear them, I hear both perfection in songwriting and risk-taking.  Pete understands what rock is better than any human ever has.  Also, John Entwistle is probably my favorite "rock star" of all time. Sometimes it seemed like, incredibly, even with Pete directing everything, The Ox was playing the lead. They are the only band I know that more or less had 4 frontmen, lol.

Anyway, that's what's called a tangent, but I wanted to get that in.

What a wonderful paragraph; the smile is beaming on me right now! lol

The bold is what I have been saying to people, the last 5-6 years; when I was younger and just getting to learn about music and my tastes/where I fit in, I always maintained that there were 2 frontmen in the Who. But yes, all 4 were absolutely frontmen and the crazy thing is, Entwistle is almost entirely on Pete's level in every major music-related element (though in writing, I don't think he is at Pete's level, while he is very good).

I picked up the Lifehouse Chronicles last month and have listened to nothing but, since. Through reading and learning, I now know how Pete wrote; he literally wrote all of the music for each musician (which I did already know), but he then went into his home studio and did take after take, 'til he got the perfect demo, of him doing EVERY instrument and singing. He did this for HUNDREDS of songs, before getting into the legit recording studios; the man was (and is, technically lol) relentless in his pursuit of putting out the best quality and best-made music he could, which is why all of the music is so well-produced and nearly perfect on a technical level.

The only other group/musician I know that was this obsessive, was Steely Dan (watch their Classic Albums for Aja; a brilliant hour of television).

If Entwistle and Pete had 4 arms each, I promise you hey would be a two-piece and handle everything themselves, lol; and many forget that Entwistle was a classically-trained musician as well, as he could play any horn or woodwind (and he did, frequently) and his piano playing is excellent as well.

The two are virtually unsurpassed