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Northbound said:
What bar? I lived a half a block away from the Phoenix and there was a great place in midtown in the second floor of a building that hammered it i just cant remember the name. KC is a great town.
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Not sure. Probably 1995-95. The band didn’t include him, but they announced him and had him sing 2-3 songs. He had played with so many jazz legends. Voice was a little bit like Louis Armstrong.
 
Kolumbo said:
Natalie Merchant - UConn Spring Weekend. What a lovely young lady.
Michael Stipe
Geddy Lee
Bono
Steve Perry

Grace Slick - UConn
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When was Grace Slick at UConn?
 
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White Dwarf said:
Ga Ga
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I wouldn't go see her at one of her "regular" shows as I'm not a fan of that music genre, but having listened to her duet CD with Tony Bennett, if she did a show around here of standards, I'd be there.
 
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Fishy said:
I saw him once years and years ago.

He was in a bad mood, so he essentially sat facing the band for 90 minutes.
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He played the Palace Theater in Waterbury, heard he was in one of those moods and it was pretty terrible.
 
huskiesouth said:
Bob Seger, his lyrics, his music, he loves performing live, after that Winwood and Gaga
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Saw Winwood open for the Allmans during what turned out to be their last show ever in CT and again opening for Steely Dan at Bethel NY. Still an amazing voice....He only got 45-50 minutes each time. Which was a shame, but he did all traffic, Spencer Davis and blind faith stuff...just one solo song..higher love.
 
Geezer here. Kingston Trio, around 1959.

Best concert from that era though was Dizzy Gillespie leading a terrific jazz combo. His vocalist was Frankie Lyman, still young after a couple of mid-fifties hits with The Teenagers. Unfortunately he never got old. :(

The venue for Dizzy was an old armory with no seating. You brought a blanket, a date, and a cooler full of beer. We sat way up front. Dizzy got pizzed at us for sneaking beers to his band members. :D
 
Andrea Bocelli
Frank Sinatra
Stevie Winwood
Stevie Wonder
Dan Reynolds- lead singer of Imagine Dragons
Ryan Tedder-lead singer One Republic
 
Pat Benatar: For a gal at best 5 feet tall she had one of the most powerful voices I've ever seen live. ​
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Ann & Nancy Wilson from Heart: Saw them back in the mid 70's. Excellent vocals and looks to match.​
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Jon Anderson from Yes​
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Note: Even though I never saw her live I'd have to say Barbra Streisand must rank up in the top 5 of vocalists ever recorded. I'm sure all vocalists would agree.​
 
Mummy Case from Here Come the Mummies. Don't know who he is, but the dude is electric.

Winwood was amazing when I saw him about four or five years ago in Aspen. And I agree about Clapton. One of the most uninspired, boring shows I've ever been to.

Also, not necessarily the greatest singer in the world, but Michael Franti has a stage presence that few other vocalists can match. If you haven't seen him, do.
 
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weyuo said:
Pat Benatar: For a gal at best 5 feet tall she had one of the most powerful voices I've ever seen live. ​
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Ann & Nancy Wilson from Heart: Saw them back in the mid 70's. Excellent vocals and looks to match.​
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Jon Anderson from Yes​
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Note: Even though I never saw her live I'd have to say Barbra Streisand must rank up in the top 5 of vocalists ever recorded. I'm sure all vocalists would agree.​
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Got to interview Jon Anderson a few years back for a magazine article. Wonderful guy and still can sing pretty damn good.
 
weyuo said:
Pat Benatar: For a gal at best 5 feet tall she had one of the most powerful voices I've ever seen live. ​
​
Ann & Nancy Wilson from Heart: Saw them back in the mid 70's. Excellent vocals and looks to match.​
​
Jon Anderson from Yes​
​
Note: Even though I never saw her live I'd have to say Barbra Streisand must rank up in the top 5 of vocalists ever recorded. I'm sure all vocalists would agree.​
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We saw Pat Benatar a few weeks ago at Foxwoods. She's still got it.
An amazing Heartbreaker>Ring of Fire>Heartbreaker to end the show.
 
weyuo said:
Pat Benatar: For a gal at best 5 feet tall she had one of the most powerful voices I've ever seen live. ​
​
Ann & Nancy Wilson from Heart: Saw them back in the mid 70's. Excellent vocals and looks to match.​
​
Jon Anderson from Yes​
​
Note: Even though I never saw her live I'd have to say Barbra Streisand must rank up in the top 5 of vocalists ever recorded. I'm sure all vocalists would agree.​
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I forgot to add Peter Gabriel for male vocalists and Natalie Merchant at Spring Weekehd.

When I racked my brain for great singers I also thought of mostly female vocalists. Apart from opera singers or lounge singers like Sinatra and Frankie Valli, I don’t think there are that many amazing male vocalists, especially in the rock genre. Here are the ones I wish I had seen live or still want to:

Plant in prime
Daltrey in prime
Jim Morrison not stumbling drunk
Paul Rodgers in prime
Rod Stewart
Marley
Paul Carrack
 
This list is really strange, it's a list of the greatest vocalists people have ever seen and there has been close to 100 white singers named and about 10 or so black singers named. Something is seriously out of whack.
 
superjohn said:
This list is really strange, it's a list of the greatest vocalists people have ever seen and there has been close to 100 white singers named and about 10 or so black singers named. Something is seriously out of whack.
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I was more noticing "singers from bands I like" as opposed to great vocalists, but now that you mention it...
 
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superjohn said:
This list is really strange, it's a list of the greatest vocalists people have ever seen and there has been close to 100 white singers named and about 10 or so black singers named. Something is seriously out of whack.
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Couldn’t it simply be that it’s a board made of mostly white guys who haven’t been exposed to some of the best black vocalists? I personally would have loved to have seen Marvin Gaye, younger Stevie, Bob Marley and Peter Tosh and several others but some were either before my time or as a fan of mostly rock music, off my radar. What’s your point exactly? That we collectively didn’t see a lot of the great black vocalists or choose to diminish their talent?
 
alexd. said:
Saw Winwood open for the Allmans during what turned out to be their last show ever in CT and again opening for Steely Dan at Bethel NY. Still an amazing voice....He only got 45-50 minutes each time. Which was a shame, but he did all traffic, Spencer Davis and blind faith stuff...just one solo song..higher love.
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I saw Winwood open for The Allman Brothers Band and for Tom Petty. He was a perfect opening act for great classic rock bands like that. I really wish I saw him when he played with Eric Clapton, not only to see him play longer, but because the live album they did sounded much more inspired than the set I saw Clapton do at MSG two years ago.

As far as blues/classic rock voices, I haven’t seen many better than Gregg Allman. I saw them many times, including during their last week at the Beacon.
 
tentoes4rings said:
Couldn’t it simply be that it’s a board made of mostly white guys who haven’t been exposed to some of the best black vocalists? I personally would have loved to have seen Marvin Gaye, younger Stevie, Bob Marley and Peter Tosh and several others but some were either before my time or as a fan of mostly rock music, off my radar. What’s your point exactly? That we collectively didn’t see a lot of the great black vocalists or choose to diminish their talent?
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Absolutely that can be it, it just stuck out to me. It's just weird in a long thread of the best vocalists people have ever seen we've got names like Buffett, Adam Levine, Dylan, Billy Joel etc. and hardly any of the million or so amazing black singers.

Most people when they think of the greatest singers they don't think of a bunch of old white guys.
 
superjohn said:
Absolutely that can be it, it just stuck out to me. It's just weird in a long thread of the best vocalists people have ever seen we've got names like Buffett, Adam Levine, Dylan, Billy Joel etc. and hardly any of the million or so amazing black singers.

Most people when they think of the greatest singers they don't think of a bunch of old white guys.
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But the thread is about the "best vocalists you've seen live" (so the answers are subjective and limited to artists you've actually seen), not the greatest singers.
 
Stevie Nicks w/ Fleetwood Mac at UConn

Tarja Turunen w/ Nightwish- operatic vocals with symphonic metal band
 
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