(08-13-2015, 03:18 PM)jason Wrote: Kiedis was great live back in the 80s and early 90s.  He's still pretty damn good, but age has slowed him a little.

(08-12-2015, 10:53 AM)Benton Wrote: Maynard James Keenan
Freddie Mercury

On a different note, Sebastian Bach and Rob Zombie are also two of the greatest at just working a crowd. I've seen both about a half dozen times and they have a really good sense of humor. It comes out in their shows.

The worst I've seen was Gene Simmons. He stopped a show to yell at the light guy. When the rest of the band finally started playing, he just wandered around stage for the rest of the song.

(08-14-2015, 11:26 AM)kdgjr Wrote: Have you seen Maynard with Tool the past few years, though? He hides towards the back in the shadows...The sound has been off for all three Tool shows as well. The mix was so bad you couldn't hear him.

His Puscifer show, on the other hand, was fantastic.

Agree with Freddie Mercury, for sure...

and Jim Morrison

and Rob Halford

and Dio

and Jack White!

(08-12-2015, 11:18 AM)Goalpost Wrote: Lots of choices.  Rik Emmett of Triumph is underrated.

(08-14-2015, 12:11 PM)Benton Wrote: All good ones. The last time I heard Tool live was in Evansville back around 07-08. His stage show wasn't that great, but there were no breaks, no slowing down. It was 2-3 hours and it just strung together song after song. I was impressed he could go that long without some kind of break.

(08-14-2015, 11:26 AM)kdgjr Wrote: Have you seen Maynard with Tool the past few years, though? He hides towards the back in the shadows...The sound has been off for all three Tool shows as well. The mix was so bad you couldn't hear him.

His Puscifer show, on the other hand, was fantastic.

Agree with Freddie Mercury, for sure...

and Jim Morrison

and Rob Halford

and Dio

and Jack White!

(08-14-2015, 06:10 PM)Nate (formerly eliminate08) Wrote: I have liked everything i have heard from Puscifer.

Gotta check them out now that i think about it.

Morrison was one of a kind. No dude i can remember was always THAT drunk on stage.
Said he could out drink professional drinkers and he would pass out on stage and the band
would have to wake him up by just getting louder and louder. Speaking of the Doors Ray
Manzerek is one hell of a organ dude. No bass man, no bass, blowz my mind...

(08-14-2015, 06:18 PM)kdgjr Wrote: They came to the Taft last year or the year before..Great show. the sound was perfect, you could hear every word. Unfortunately that also went for the idiots who kept screaming "Maynard" and "Tool". I think at one point he made a comment something about do people go to museums and scream at the artwork?

(08-14-2015, 06:10 PM)Nate (formerly eliminate08) Wrote: I have liked everything i have heard from Puscifer.

Gotta check them out now that i think about it.

Morrison was one of a kind. No dude i can remember was always THAT drunk on stage.
Said he could out drink professional drinkers and he would pass out on stage and the band
would have to wake him up by just getting louder and louder. Speaking of the Doors Ray
Manzerek is one hell of a organ dude. No bass man, no bass, blowz my mind...

(08-12-2015, 08:01 PM)BengalsRocker Wrote: C'mon man...  Ronnie James Dio for metal.

Great voice.  Worked the crowd and did all of theatrics.

Ozzy would be another mention of someone who may not be the greatest singer but went "all in" on theatrics.

David Lee Roth was the epitome of a rock front-man but yes he is a sad shell of his former self. 

DLR was not a good vocalist live even at his peak.