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re: Daryl Hall is the best vocalist of this era.

Posted on 11/23/18 at 12:25 pm to
Posted by dnm3305
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Posted on 11/23/18 at 12:25 pm to
Not even close, but OK. Great singer, great artist, great songwriter, mediocre musician, but best vocalist of this era? Literally ever major artist from 90's soul and R&B is considerably better. Tons of 80's rock vocalist are better, plenty of modern era artists right now are laughably better.

Amos Lee or Richie Kotzen covering the very song you linked, Sara Smile, are both better vocalist than Daryl Hall.

Kotzen
This post was edited on 11/23/18 at 12:30 pm
Posted by blueboy
Member since Apr 2006
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Posted on 11/23/18 at 1:02 pm to
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My favorite h&o song is the power of love

congrats finding the only guy with a gayer voice.

ETA: oops, sorry. I thought you were talking about Glory of Love by Peter Cetera.

But Pat Benatar is the correct answer here. If 1982 Daryl wants to challenge 1982 Pat in the octave range Olympics, I think Pat would take him on down to pound town.

And Freddie Mercury overlaps Brad Delp quite a bit, so not so fast on that Freddie proclamation. I've seen a lot of "rock legends" toss around the Queen covers, but I've never seen any of them try a Boston tune. They had to get a girl to replace him when he died.
This post was edited on 11/23/18 at 1:07 pm
Posted by Cincinnati Bowtie
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Posted on 11/23/18 at 1:05 pm to
Steve Perry
Posted by The Mick
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Posted on 11/23/18 at 1:06 pm to
Not even close, actually doesn’t sing all that well but he’s got soul.
Posted by TigerstuckinMS
Member since Nov 2005
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Posted on 11/23/18 at 1:32 pm to
quote:

Daryl Hall is the best vocalist of this era.



quote:

I've seen a lot of "rock legends" toss around the Queen covers, but I've never seen any of them try a Boston tune.

That's because Boston's a little gay.
This post was edited on 11/23/18 at 1:34 pm
Posted by tankyank13
NOLA
Member since Nov 2012
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Posted on 11/23/18 at 1:33 pm to
Not the best, but this white boy had soul

When I realized he was white


Posted by cj35
Member since Jan 2014
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Posted on 11/23/18 at 5:51 pm to
Freddie Mercury
Geoff Tate
Rob Halford
Posted by parrotdr
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Posted on 11/23/18 at 6:13 pm to
Great pop singer, but best? He thought so, as I heard him say in an interview once. But best? Nope.
Posted by AlxTgr
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Posted on 11/23/18 at 6:24 pm to
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You picked the lamest Hall & Oates song, and that's hard to do, because there's a lot of lame ones.

Out of Touch or GTFO

Good grief are you ever backwards
Posted by genuineLSUtiger
Nashville
Member since Sep 2005
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Posted on 11/23/18 at 6:51 pm to
David Lee Roth
Posted by awestruck
Member since Jan 2015
10962 posts
Posted on 11/23/18 at 7:02 pm to
... not even in his genre.

You got all those guys in Pentatonix, or some of these boys, and surely this guy
Alejandro Manzano... and we haven't near finished with guys or started with the gals.


(*eta: or gone yet to another genre)
This post was edited on 11/24/18 at 5:28 am
Posted by Zappas Stache
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Member since Apr 2009
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Posted on 11/23/18 at 7:29 pm to
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as I heard him say in an interview once.


He used to say that in every interview.
Posted by neauxlaa
Member since Oct 2018
938 posts
Posted on 11/23/18 at 8:42 pm to
Hmm...depends on the genre. This is a bold statement. For example, Alex Terrible has some fricking pipes. Dude is on another level.

Example 1
Example 2...Clean vocals.
Example 3 Cover of IA - Vocalist at the time Dickie Allen
Oh and thats not his "cleans." You wanna talk pipes?

My first thought of pipes was Phil Boseman from Whitechapel, but this dude took the fricking throne.

Also, for a female, I will include her:
Example 1 THE RANGE!
Tatiana Shmailyuk from Jinjer.

A lot of people dismiss the talent of which goes into metal vocals. I don't think people actually understand how hard it is. Try it for yourself. Have a laugh: LINK
This post was edited on 11/24/18 at 8:02 am
Posted by geauxbrown
Louisiana
Member since Oct 2006
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Posted on 11/23/18 at 8:52 pm to
Great blue eyed soul singer no doubt, but give me Bobby Kimball for the win. I also really like Paul Rogers and the guy who replaced the LRB's original singer. I can't remember his name right now but he was amazing. Also, Bobby Caldwell is incredible.
This post was edited on 11/23/18 at 8:56 pm
Posted by The Boat
Member since Oct 2008
164354 posts
Posted on 11/23/18 at 8:57 pm to
quote:

Daryl Hall is the best vocalist of this era.

I can’t go for that.
Posted by geauxbrown
Louisiana
Member since Oct 2006
19607 posts
Posted on 11/23/18 at 8:59 pm to
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Richie Kotzen


I was a little concerned when he first started. He was singing a little flat (yes, he was I have perfect pitch and it's a bitch), but he got going in the first chorus and killed it. Impressed.
Posted by Del Devereaux
West Hollywood, CA
Member since Dec 2011
850 posts
Posted on 11/23/18 at 10:51 pm to
No Can Do.....Best Voice in 70’s and 80’s Pop was John Wetton, the legendary voice of the supergroup Asia. Prior to that, he fronted King Crimson in the late 70’s.
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
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Posted on 11/23/18 at 11:23 pm to
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Geoff Tate


Mid to late 80s, the best.

I Will Remember
Posted by awestruck
Member since Jan 2015
10962 posts
Posted on 11/24/18 at 5:24 am to
hmm. . .

. . . so I nixed him too soon! (will have listen again)
Posted by Shockthamonkey
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Posted on 11/24/18 at 7:30 am to
The best Hall song isn't even on an H&O record, it's on Robert Fripp's Exposure LP.

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