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bands with multiple lead singers

Just.A.Fan said:
Queen's current lead singer is Adam Lambert, but I'm not sure a "replacement" would meet the original criteria?
Supertramp can be found in posts #49 & 50.
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I was speaking of Roger Taylor their drummer in they hey day of Queen. 4 octave voice and criminally underrated - he is the main voice in "I'm in love with my car" and several other Queen songs.

Didn't see Supertramp (work blocks all youtube) so thank you!

 
Lafayette said:
I was speaking of Roger Taylor their drummer in they hey day of Queen. 4 octave voice and criminally underrated - he is the main voice in "I'm in love with my car" and several other Queen songs.

Didn't see Supertramp (work blocks all youtube) so thank you!

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I wasn't disputing what you said regarding Taylor, more questioning the original criteria of this thread. Some here seem to think that when two solo lead singers get together and perform a duet it constitutes meeting that criteria. I do not.
 
Just.A.Fan said:
I wasn't disputing what you said regarding Taylor, more questioning the original criteria of this thread. Some here seem to think that when two solo lead singers get together and perform a duet it constitutes meeting that criteria. I do not.
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Neither do I.

Bands that passed the torch (think Genesis from Peter Gabriel to Phil Collins) are what it should be or bands who sometimes would have someone other than the lead singer do a song (like Queen letting Roger sing some, not just Freddy).

Overall great collection of videos here.
 
Bigboote said:
Here's a clip of Sly and family from the Ed Sullivan Show (and they're not lip synching!). This isn't Higher (I doubt Ed would let them play that, it seems to be a medley from the previous album Life.

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RIP Sly but wife and I caught him at the Grammys some years ago when they did a mashup of SATFS songs and he actually came out to jam with them.
 


Zero 7 (Cero Siete from Honduras naming) had a pretty good lineup of different lead singers. I think we all know this one.
 
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Wow, I can't believe nobody included Three Dog Night, Chuck Negron, Danny Hutton and Cory Wells. If I knew how to attach a YouTube video, I would. Along with CCR they were my favorites.
 
Although Kenny sings a lot of his songs, Noah's voice is the one that most people know. (for good reason) (besides, just let Kenny play guitar :D)

Blue On Black - Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band

 
From my wife hometown of Annapolis, Md. This also should have been on the people who are no longer living thread. Both lead singers died at 50 years old one year apart. Great wedding song. Rene Diggs is just gorgeous.

 
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Steely Dan - in the early days, David Palmer did a few songs like "Dirty Work". The vast majority of the time, it was Donald Fagan, one of which is "Bad Sneakers":




 
Depending on how firmly the rules are applied here I would submit that The Who had more than one lead.
Roger did most of the heavy lifting but Pete is credited with lead on a few Who songs.
Townsend had a pretty decent solo career as well.



 
64Zcode said:
Depending on how firmly the rules are applied here I would submit that The Who had more than one lead.
Roger did most of the heavy lifting but Pete is credited with lead on a few Who songs.
Townsend had a pretty decent solo career
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Pete sang close to half the songs on Tommy.

John Entwistle usually sang a song on each album too. My favorite of his is My Wife, from Who’s Next. Great lyrics.

 
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Both ladies from Indigo Girls sing lead, I'm not sure if one is predominant. Maybe same w/ Freakwater, the extremely twang-ified version of Indigo Girls.
 
nwhoopfan said:
Rhett Miller sings lead on a majority of the Old 97s songs, but Murry Hammond gets lead on 1 or 2 songs per album, and they are almost always among the best. Here's two from the same album--Too Far To Care. I'm not gonna say it's the best alt country album of all time...but it probably is.

Rhett first.

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Nice to know someone else who likes this band. I heard an interview on NPR years ago, looked them up abd git hooked. Great to hear them again.
 
tomcat said:
Nice to know someone else who likes this band. I heard an interview on NPR years ago, looked them up abd git hooked. Great to hear them again.
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Saw them live once. It was the 15th anniversary of the release of Too Far To Care, or something like that. They played the whole album straight thru. Then they took a little break, came back and played a second session with a bunch of their other songs. Very good performance.
 
Buffalo Springfield- Rock and Roll Woman - Steven Stills wonderfully unique voice singing the lead. Richie Furay doing the beautiful Neil Young song Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing:




 
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CaliHuskyFan said:
Walk Off the Earth - "Red Hands", Live from Germany, & the Gotye cover "Someone That I Used to Know", aka the five people playing a single guitar!



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See this is what I love about these threads on the BY. Never heard of these guys, maybe not exactly my cuppa, but that second video is da bomb!

One of the best shows I saw was Gentle Giant at Woolsey Hall in New Haven. And one of the things that made it cool was them all sitting at a huge marimba/xylophone, five guys playing it at once. (They also had 3 playing recorders at one point, four playing guitars, and all playing toy xylophones.) But five at a single guitar -- that I've never seen before.
 
Blood, Sweat, and Tears - Sometimes in Winter, sung by Steve Katz, who wrote this beautiful piece. David Clayton Thomas, their prime vocalist, doing God Bless the Child:




 
Scud49 said:
Blood, Sweat, and Tears - Sometimes in Winter, sung by Steve Katz, who wrote this beautiful piece. David Clayton Thomas, their prime vocalist, doing God Bless the Child:
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And Al Kooper on the first album (Steve Katz sang a couple on that one too). This is one of my favorite BST songs:

 
Not seeing these guys listed: Eric Woolfson, David Paton, Chris Rainbow, Lenny Zakatek (among others).
 
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