Best Classic Rock Singers of All Time, Ranked

Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of Past Times at 80s High. Got another great one for you today. We are going to do our top seven favorite singers. And one thing we're doing here is, you know, we're trying to do our favorite singers slash vocalists, I guess I would say. Meaning we're picking people that we actually think can sing, you know, because we go into some of our favorite bands. You know, I'll use an example here, like James Hetfield for Metallica, fitting for the part. But we uh we're not putting him in the best singers category if that makes sense. But anyway, just trying to to clarify the the categories here. But I have Donald here. Hello, Donald. Hello, Kevin? Hello, hello, brother Mark.

How's it going?

Good man, and I am AJ.

Brother Mark is hello.

Brother Mark is out of his sling today, so that's good news from his shoulder hair surgery. Nice. Double fisted. Yes. Yeah. So what we're gonna do is we are gonna kick it off right out of the gate today, and then we'll go into depth at the end here, just to uh to get the ball rolling. So I believe, Mark, you have the on hairs today.

Yes, I do. Yes, I do. Well, I like bacon on my uh actually my number seven pick, who is I thought might have been up a lot higher, but is meatloaf.

Yes.

And most of this is based on his work with my uncle Ted, Ted Nugent.

Knew you were going there immediately when you said Meatloaf.

Well, yes, I mean I I'm not a Meatloaf fan per se, as far as his his band, but I do love his voice. He's got a very powerful boy uh voice with a lot of range, and the work he did with Ted Nugent on Free for All was friggin' amazing.

Indeed, it was.

You listen to Write Writing on the Wall, Street Rats, I love I Love You So I Told You A Lie. And um, one of the songs, the song called Together, is just amazing. Shows his range. It shows Ted Nugent's guitar chops, too. I mean, as far as his versatility. Oh, yeah. So I think they could have they they would have been unstoppable if they would have stuck together. But, you know, who knew, I guess.

This is right. And it's fuck kind of funny you say that because this was one of our categories in one of the mishmashes, I think. And you went with free for all, and you were talking about meatloaf. Um, and you said, you know, if only they stuck together. And then I thought about bad out of hell going diamond, and bad out of hell too going diamond, and I'm like, yes, I think I think he wound up doing okay and better than he would have done with Ted. Exactly. Yeah.

So I have to add something as an ignorant to his work. Like, I I liked his work with you know, bad out of hell and stuff like that. Is his name did he change his name to Meat Loaf? Or does the makeup?

I think it's Meat Loaf.

Yes. I mean they he was on uh what is that show there, the the Rotaruda guys there, the ghost hunters.

I don't know though. I think the point is is no.

They called it meat.

I don't know that he actually did, but I know I'm not sure. He definitely went by it.

I cannot remember what his real name is, but the story goes that as a lineman in high school, he stepped on his coach's foot, and his coach said, Get off my foot, you big hunk of meatloaf. And the name just kind of stuck. That was that's that's the story I heard.

Nice, yeah. And uh Scott Ian of Anthrax is married to Meatloaf's daughter. And I did not know such. Indeed, he is. And meatball. He said he was, you know, they they got along great later on, but at first it was just like meeting any dad of any daughter you're gonna date.

You know, I thought he would, you know, maybe Sarah uh cyanide he'd he'd marry or something like that, but you know, so I saw his real name was Marvin Lee a day. That's correct. I I do recall that now.

Unless unless you like the movie Fight Club, and it was his name is Robert Paulson.

Yep. And he was in the uh the male breast cancer uh meetings, right? Which is a real thing, by the way. Yes, which Peter Chris survived. Yep.

He beat it, yep. What did he oh he called him the big moosey? Yeah.

Awesome. He was a great actor. He was actually definitely sure was. All right, so that's to me, then I believe. Excellent. And um my list, boys, is I'm sure we're gonna have several here today that may coincide. But mine's gonna be a little backwards because people are gonna give me hell because my bottom view should probably be closer to the top. But as we say on this show here at Pastimes880s High, these are our favorites, and mine is Steve Perry. Undeniable voice, incredible. I mean, all you gotta do is fucking watch American Idol every other night, and somebody's doing don't stop believing, you know, to showcase their voice.

But that guy from uh the little dumpy guy, the janitor there. He ended up winning AGT and he oh, he was awesome.

Yeah, the old dude with the beard, like go to the he was incredible, right? But anyway, just Steve Perry. I mean, even when he went off into his solo shit with O'Sherry, man.

I powerful voice.

Yep, I thought it had powerful Jedi, yeah, exactly.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I've tried to fail to do that on karaoke a few times.

I I can't remember who said it, but somebody said it brilliantly. Why are you trying to sing Steve Perry at karaoke? Steve Perry can't sing Steve Perry.

Exactly.

Why do you think you can do Doge Noveline? Well, because I'm drunk like everybody else doing karaoke.

Yeah, whoever's up there, and I'm gonna do it this time. And it it sounds like cats. Yeah.

Cats getting strange.

Cats in a blender.

So I won't go into super depth with it because he could come up again. So I will move on to you, Donald.

Cool. Uh, yeah, this was a fun, fun category for me because I do deep down appreciate the instrument of the voice the most. Indeed. You know, I'm a guitar player by trade, but I'm I really am impressed with what people could do with their voice. So some of my picks might be a little strange, uh a little out in left field, but some are also very mainstream. So it doesn't matter. This is your favorite. So, like like you, I went with what I liked and and things that you know grabbed me at the time. And uh my first one's gonna be Jeff Tate from Queens Rice. Yes, sir. Um, just you know, an operatic voice for a metal singer, um, huge vocal range, just you know, awesome. He was he was awesome. And uh, you know, like take hold the flame is just like to me, that's his pinnacle song, uh, where he just belts it out, you know. And I love that about a singer who can just belt it out.

So incredible. Actually, later I have a little story, but if I said it now, it would ruin one of my later picks. So we'll go there afterwards. But yeah, awesome cook, Donald. So that's to you then, Kev.

Well, I will just say along the lines of what Donald said, I agree. When you think about like in the land of the lost, the lost, of or the time I should say, of reunions and and nostalgia tours and whatever else, you can pretty much replace a guitarist, a bass player, a drummer, a keyboard player, and nobody knows because you can get up to the keyboards and sound exactly like the guy if you have the right setup, if you've got the right and nobody cares, Captain. And nobody cares. The front man, as well as bands starting out. I mean, think about my son sent me a link, his one of his teachers' bands is on Spotify, and I'm listening to them, they're they're great, and the lead singer is very good, but if they had a distinct lead singer, they probably could have gone to a whole different level. Right. Think about what that because most people hear that voice, and that's what they you know.

That's where abnormal tape, yeah. Exactly. Absolutely.

Um, so anyway, without much we've got our first double here. Uh my first pick number seven would be Jeff Jeff Tate. He was he's just an amazing voice. I think, AJ, I think you were with us. We saw, I think it was him with I don't think he was with Queenswich. Well, maybe no, he was with Queenswright over in Portland with uh Scotty and Boogie and I think you're on that trip. Uh and just uh as amazing live as as he was recorded. Um my little side note um on Jeff Tate is one of the early bands that he was with was a local cover band called Tyrant. I'm watching your face, AJ. Um and and he was playing with uh uh one of the members of uh of that band later went on to this band Culprit that I'd never heard of. And I looked them up, and they had their first album came out in '82, '83, something like that. Those guys were like Metallica before Metallica.

Right.

They were they were. I mean, if you get a chance, listen to Culprit's first album. They were amazing.

And Tate was singing for him.

He was not singing for them. No, this is the band that this guy joined later. But that's kind of what I love about what we do here. Is I never would have heard of that band before if I wasn't.

Exactly.

And I don't want to, I wanted to take that little side route in case maybe Tate comes back up again in the future. Anyway, so yes, a little repeat right off the gate gun.

Probably won't be the last one either. It will not be the last one. But now that we have finished round one, I just wanted to bring something up because we had I brought up American Idol earlier, and something Gene Simmons said in an interview once that I thought made such a great fucking point. And this is not contrary to what you said, Kevin. It was a really good point. Because Gene was talking about nowadays and how difficult it is to make it, and you know, he has his theory rock is dead, which is fucking bullshit. But but I get his point because he's talking about American Idol, and he's like these vocalists. Now you put David Lee Roth, all right, you put Gene Simmons, you put Bob Dylan, put any of those guys onto American Idol, right? Are they going anywhere on American Idol? Hell no, no, right?

But it's an interesting thing, right?

Now think of that because they're some of the greatest songwriters, so it takes more than just the voice, is my point. But I see your point too, Kevin.

No, my point, my again, that plays exactly into my point. My point was you don't have to be an opera singer, but you have to be distinct. Yeah, and I think that's exactly what what Gene was saying. Yep, Moss Isley. Let's face it, you're sitting around the campfire with Neil Young, and it's like, and that always blows my mind. I'm pretty sure he's not anybody's list.

He was on that list that I was just saying.

You're with Crosby Stills and Nash, some of the most amazing singers that ever recorded. Their harmonies were fantastic. And somebody went, hey, I got an idea, Neil. You sing this one. Who the fuck said that?

Exactly, right?

Awesome. Anywho. All right, brother. That's to you, Mark.

I don't feel bad for putting somebody at number seven or number six. You're still in the top seven in the world.

Oh, I don't feel bad either. Yeah. These are my favorites.

So I have Axel Rose from Guns N' Roses.

Fucking hate him.

Go on. Well, I'm okay. You don't have to like him, AJ.

I don't. You're right. Everyone loves him.

Like his first couple records. I'm not a big fan of him. I don't like people that show up three, four hours late for concerts. You know. But I do his voice is very distinctive. I mean, he has he has basically two different voices. Yep. You know, he has his you know, look at songs like Civil War, and you know, it starts off look at the flaglins. And then my hands are tied. And he he just shows a lot of range.

Oh God, yeah, Mark. Yeah, his screening style is is unique. It's it's the only way you can describe it as unique.

But I always thought that this is what Mike Tyson would sound like if he sang sometimes. But he just I love his voice. It's it's different, it's powerful, and you you can't deny appetite for destruction and use your illusion. I love to listen to his voice.

Absolutely. Yeah, there's people I mean that l absolutely love his voice. Different strokes for different folks, that's all, right?

He definitely just does not hold back. I mean, that is what he does, I think is full throated. There's no figured out somehow to stay in tune while belting it right out there. Reckless abandon. I think that's why his voice is kind of so fucked up today.

Right. All right. So the good thing about my list being a little backwards here is I think I'm hitting things before anyone else will.

I'm trying to beat y'all, but it's not working.

My number six is should probably be number one if we're going by voice. But like I said, we're doing my favorites, or I'm doing my favorites. You guys are doing yours.

My number six I know I'm trying to do your favorites, AJ.

Is Freddie Mercury. This guy can could belt it out. We always, anytime we talk about him, we go to like live aid. I didn't know this till the movie when they did the movie Bohemian Rhapsody, you know, the biopic. It's a fact. First of all, I didn't know he was Indian, but I also didn't know that Indian as in Not Shot. I was gonna say that too, but then I figured it out.

Not Native American, she's Indian as in actually he was Moroccan, wasn't he?

So one thing I didn't realize from until Bohemian Rhapsody, then I kind of used the Google machine to check it out. But he was actually born with four like extra incisor teeth. Interesting, which actually gave him more range because his mouth was technically bigger. Like they actually didn't want to hire him at first.

But what are the incisors?

I think they're the vampire teeth. Yeah, right? The sharp ones in the front.

I thought those were the canines.

Oh, whatever. We're not going to dentistry right now.

All right.

You brought it up, AJ. I didn't. I know, but uh, but that's pretty cool that I had actually read that later in life when he became famous and and and had money, that somebody had offered to to fix his teeth, and he was always afraid to do it because he thought that he would he would lose his singing lose that range. Absolutely.

So I mean, what can I say about Freddie Mercury? And so I will throw the towel to you, Dongo.

Cool. Um, I'm gonna go with Tommy Shaw. Yes I and I loved him with sticks, but I really loved him with damn Yankees. Yes, like the song Come Again is like I I could listen to that song over and over and over again. You know, he's got a high vocal range, like a high mid-range, but he it's clear as a whistle, you know, it is so clean. You know, he it's just I love his singing style. Yeah.

Him and Jack Blades together was incredible.

Yeah, yeah.

You're fooling yourself if you don't believe it.

Yep. And something somebody, and I I won't do any uh, you know, you you got me on the um the spoilers. I won't do any spoilers, but that a boy, Donald. Circle back to Tommy Shaw with another thing. I'm gonna use, and I just hope that someday they maybe do a like a get together and do a duet.

Yes. Well, I'm gonna kind of go into something for that real quick, Kev, before I go to you. I've said this on many shows like that we've done on Preachers and the Ted Nugent episode that I still want to release. I feel like it's a no-brainer dongo for a shed tour. When I say shed tour, that's amphitheaters, like the place in Guilford, like the outdoor summer places. I mean, what a no-brainer to have Night Ranger, Sticks, and Ted Nugent tour together. Oh my god. Like a triple bill, right? Yeah, we can't. And then they finish the night out with a damn Yankee set. That would be absolutely epic.

Put it out there, people. Like, start tweeting it and exiting it. Well, he is my uncle, and maybe I should let him know. Unreal use your socials make it happen.

Damn it. All right. So that is to you, Kevin.

I, at number six, had to go with Bruce Bruce, Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden. That guy could just belt them out. And we all know that, so I'm gonna use my time to talk about some funny stuff that I dug up while brushing up on Bruce Bruce, which is one of his early nicknames. Um, the one of the first bands that he auditioned for, he made a cassette tape of his vocals and sent it to them. And the note said, If you think the vocals are crap, there's some John Cleese stuff on the back side. So he actually put some Monty Python, some John Cleese stuff on the back side just to entertain the boys if they didn't like his singing, which of course they did. Um, the only other thing that I gotta say about him, and I don't know if you guys have seen this or know that it exists, but the band that he had together. In 94, uh was touring in Eastern Europe and they actually snuck across the border into Sarajevo and did a concert while the Bosnian War was going on. And there's a documentary called Scream for Me Sarajevo, which is unbelievably cool. That he was like, Yeah, those people need something to bring them up. And he literally took his band into a war zone, and you can see like munitions going off down the street from where they are. I mean, talk about talk about a slightly crazy ballsy move as a right.

That's awesome. I just literally wrote it down while you're talking about that.

They actually became empowered to to fight because they were like, if this guy can come here, then we can defend our our homeland.

So that's awesome.

I think we've talked about Bruce and Iron Maiden quite a bit, so I'm gonna leave it right there at that. That if you get the chance, like I said, it's called Scream for Me Sarajevo. And it came out in December 2015.

All right, boys. So we are to number five then to you, Mark, correct?

Yes, and uh well, I could not pick my favorite Amy because she's starts it in 2003, Amy Lee. Couldn't pick her, but I did go with Amy Mann from Till Tuesday, the bass player from Till Tuesday. Angelic. Her voice is Angelic coming up close. That's my favorite song that she does. She's just a beautiful angelic voice. Yeah. And um, so you know, I like Amy's, I guess.

All right. So that's number five to me. I am going with an operatic voice, somebody that I think is one of the greatest hard rock slash heavy metal singers out there, and does not get his recognition like he should, and that would be Sebastian Bach. Oh, a good one. I mean Skid Row, you go back and listen to those albums, and I've said this on this on the cast before. I always go to Eddie Trunk talking about um how he knew all these guys in advance. They went to uh a show in New York at a club, you know, to see Skid Row, just thought it was a normal club show, and there was like six or seven limos parked out front. That was a number I threw out there. There were a bunch of limos, I don't know how many. When Eddie was walking in, he asked the door guy, he's like, What the fuck's going on? Why all these limos? You know, I've seen these guys a hundred times, and they're like, Well, we have this new guy, they have this new guy singing for them, and the record companies are all over it. So he went in. I've said it before, there's six five Sebastian Bach, pretty boy blonde, belting out one of the fucking most beautiful fucking voices ever that really helped them, you know, take off. But he's awesome. And then he did, you know, Broadway. You don't do that unless you can fucking sing. He was just kick-ass because he had attitude, he had hit the highs, hit the lows, hit the errr, the growls.

There was a VHS tape out there of um Sebastian and uh Zach Wilde, I think, playing at somebody's wedding.

Right.

And it's too bad that the it was just terrible VHS, right? The audio is horrible, but can you imagine the two of them together?

So that's five then.

So five to you, Dongo. All right, and um we did say that we can go all genres of music, everything, yes, as long as it's within the category, yes, and this this singer has one of the most beautiful voices for a male singer, and it's clean in his songwriting, and it's John Denver. Yeah, yeah, he's incredible. You know, just an incredible voice, awesome, awesome songwriter, awesome songwriter, awesome man melody. The guy can spin a melody. Going back to a story, we were in Munich, Germany at Oktoberfest, and for whatever reason, it's a thing that when you're in one of the beer tents, that Country Roads comes on and the entire place starts singing Country Roads. It's just amazing. Germany at Oktoberfest. Amazing voice money. Yeah.

You know, I thought you were gonna tell me that he was in there drinking because he did like to put a few back. Yeah, he did. Bless him.

I like to do it.

And then this one is playing something wrong with that. No, nothing wrong at all. All right, thank you.

You know, whenever he comes up.

He's got him a country boy.

Yeah, you know, whenever he comes up, I have to bring up the PMRC.

Yes, I know.

Where he came in and ate them alive.

I'm here to address the issue of a possible rating system in the recording industry, labeling records where excesses of explicit sex or graphic violence have occurred, and furthermore, references to drugs and alcohol or the occult are included in the lyrics. These hearings have been called to determine whether or not the government should intervene to enforce this practice. Mr. Chairman, this would approach censorship. May I be very clear that I'm strongly opposed to censorship of any kind in our society or anywhere else in the world.

Because they thought he was gonna side with them. It was beauteous.

Yeah, because he wanted to go into outer space with NASA. So they thought they thought he was gonna bow to him and he came in and shoved it right up Congress.

All right.

I guess I get to. I didn't think I'd make it this far. But I will take the metal god, Rob Halford. Yes.

He'd be in there somewhere. I knew he was on your list.

He's unmatchable. So in my notes, I'm looking at this. So on that ridiculous, and you've all heard us talk about this before. The Rolling Stones and some of the online rankings are just terrible.

Garbage.

Um they had Rob Halford at 129.

I'm surprised 200 singers. Knowing that.

Neil Young was 133.

No, again, it's called politics.

You know, I'm a clash fan. They had Joe Strummer at 125. Joe Strummer higher than Rob F and Halford? What is wrong with these people? Why do they have any relevance in the world of rock and roll at all? But I will say this I I used to have a subscription to Rolling Stones that that I paid for every year. I'm talking 30 years ago. When it came out with the Rolling Stone lettering in hot pink, and they had the Spice Girls on the cover, I immediately canceled my subscription to Rolling Stones. We are no longer. Anyway, the only other thing I want to say from Hal about Halford, because we all know that he is the god, the metal god. The metal god is that in a world where people like to point fingers and call people ists, homophobes, racists, and all these other things, here's how I know me and my people aren't what they try to say that some of us are or aren't. When Rob Halford came out in '98 and announced to the world that he was gay, it made zero difference to me about how much I loved his music or how much I respect him. Fucking. And you did not see all the misogynistic metalhead freaks didn't stop going to his concerts. No. They didn't stop. So that stuff that's projected upon people is BS. Because you you love something for the reason that you love it, and it doesn't matter. I don't care what his personal life is about any more than anybody else, aside from maybe a couple of the couple of the guys that get caught in pedophile things that should be shot anyway. But for the most part, I think.

That's a big difference.

Yeah, he's incredible. Criminal versus right, exactly. He's a great singer that just happens to be gay. That's just my point is I just I I hate this world where people point their fingers and call somebody something that they don't even know.

Moss I go on, Kevin. I apologize. That was it.

That was I I don't think there's too much, if anybody else has anything, but I'm sure he's gonna come up again. That that to me is just that I don't know, maybe he should have been my number one. I just think that he is unmatched in so many ways.

That my whole list could be my number one. All right, brother Mark, number four to you.

Number four. It's the lead singer of Rainbow, um, second lead singer Black Sabbath, and the lead singer of his own band. His name is Ronnie James Dio. You know, we talk about front men and and singers. He was, I mean, he has a decent voice, I guess. Nothing close to Ronnie James Dio. Well uh Ozzy was probably more of a front man, but that's all I was gonna say about Ronnie James Dio for fear of my life. I was just kidding, brother.

But Mark, you go ahead and say what you want. But I mean, stop it.

You're in a safe space. Yes, you are in a safe space because I can't reach you.

You know I was gonna pick him for God's sakes. I know.

I was just hoping I was gonna get to him before you.

I'm sorry. I was I did have no, I actually I moved him up my list.

Thank you. I will talk um just real quickly before you go, Dongo, as far as what you were talking. Oh, I am next. Okay, so Ronnie James Dio is my number four, so I shall continue. But what you were saying about Ozzy, um, I'm looking at my screen and messing up. But what we were saying about Ozzy being a front man, yes, that because he is the furthest thing from a vocalist. Like, you know, he did bring, I guess what he brought to the show, I mean, to the to the writing table, he brought in a lot of amazing vocal melodies, and he was really good at that. So he's not untalented, and his unique voice was so fitting for the shit he did. But yes, when we're talking vocalists, Ronnie James Dio, and this, and the reason I was mad Mark took it, Kevin, before me was because you were talking about Halford being the metal god, and to me, if there's one metal god ahead of him, for me, it's Ronnie James Dio. I just, and that's my opinion. Exactly. I love Ronnie James Dio, and I love Halford. I mean, it's I mean, they're also different, you know. So it's one of my favorite songs he does just left me. Children Children of the Sea. Oh, yeah, incredible on Heaven and Hell. There's an incredible documentary out. Actually, was it you Dongo that went with me to the theater? Yeah, we saw it down in Mass. Yeah in Salem or something, right? Oh no. I mean, he was amazing, and I think what comes out on top above all of it is the human being that he was and the way he treated his fans. Like they in the documentaries, there the fans are talking about how they met him and then saw him. Like, one of them was like, I saw him like two years later, and he asked if my aunt was okay. Because you know, just shit like that, just shows, and he always said, No matter how big you get, these are the people that brought you there, and you need to treat them that way. A lot of people should uh make sure you learn that emotional, I think. Ronnie James Dio, baby, NTU Dungo.

Don't forget, don't forget.

Oh, the devil horns is.

Oh no, no, Gene Simmons. Gene Simmons did that. And I'm joking because Nino did it before Gene.

Well, can I mention Neon Knights at least? That his vocals on that song is just incredible.

Yeah, all of his vocals are incredible in my opinion.

Well, it's funny because Ozzy tells a story about breaking the old X bathroom sink handle off and putting it around his neck is how the whole cross thing got started. I don't know how much truth there is to that or whatever, but a lot of people claim those devil horns. But the story I believe is that that Ronnie James Dio got it from his grandmother. Malacca. The hex on people. Yeah, the Malacca. The Malacca. The hexon people.

Yep.

Gotta give him credit for that too. I mean, how do you think?

I mean, that's a genuine thought. Gene Simmons claimed it was because he held his base pick between his middle and ring finger with his thumb. So when he held his hand up, that's how it went.

Who holds a pick like that? Anyway.

Gene Simmons.

Apparently.

All right, Dongo. All right, before I get into my pick, because we've already gone with Tate, Halford, and Dio, for the kids out there who didn't see it live, YouTube or Google the um Wear Stars video. It was like a charity video. And I won't say any of the others that may have may come up in this, but those three were in that video um singing a charitable song. Sometimes in the night when you're feeling the cold, take a look at the sky.

Sometime in the night when you're feeling the cold.

Now that you brought it up, Donald, thank you so much. Because remember earlier when I said there was something I wanted to say, but I wouldn't do it because someone else might come up. Right. What I was going for, because I had Dio coming up. When you picked Jeff Tate, and you both did, I can't remember who I was talking to, but people were talking about how Jeff Tate should have taken the lead on that, and that Dio should have been axed, which pissed me off. But still, fucking Jeff Tate, man, what an amazing voice.

Oh god!

That's a great documentary, too. And you got Blackie Wallace, Ted Nugent all doing the chorus.

That was incredible, man. Yeah. Awesome. All right. Oh, so it is my pick, though. Yes, it is. And this is where I go, I go a little off, and I show you more side. There is no off. I'm not well, I'm a little off. I'm I am a closet uh theater, like musical theater nerd. I love it. I love musical theater. You like what you like. Yeah. And there's a a ton of, you know, you can't be in musical theater, especially on Broadway, without being hugely vocally talented. Um, but I'm going with Leah Salong, and she fits in the category of the time frame. You would have to, you know, that's all that matters and follow her up. But she was in uh Little Saigon was her big thing, but she was also in Le Miz. Um Later I mean one of the most amazing renditions of On My Own from Le Miz. It's just one of those that gives you chills when you hear it. I mean, she's very small in stature, um, but huge voice. You know, clear, good things vocal range. I love that shit. So I would check that out uh on my own. She's also was the voice of uh Jasmine in Aladdin, and she was the voice of Mulan as well. So kidding. Okay, Donnie? Uh Leah Salong.

Nice Leah Salong.

Now, just just to interrupt quickly, have you guys all seen the uh Hugh Jackman version of Le Miserra?

Yes, yep, yeah, brings to the case. You know, must have been a theater kid, you know. But um I love voice, yeah.

Has to be an amazing musical, though, for me to get into it. Yeah. Greece, who couldn't love Greece too? But anyway, not Greece too. I meant Greece as well. Because that was awful. Awesome. Great pick, Donnie. See, that's why this is beauteous. So to you, Kevin.

All right, I too am really stretching the boundaries here, like Donald is, because my number four is uh Dino Paul Crichetti, also known as Dino Freon, yeah, Enrico Palazzo.

The king of cool, Dean Martin. When Marimba rhythm starts to play, dance with me, make me sway like a lazy ocean hugs the shore. Hold me close, sway me more. Yes, sir.

That guy has such a mollifalous voice, and it always appeared like he put no effort to it, but it was so amazing the way he sang. I love I love all of his stuff, and he was he was definitely well, they say he was a triple threat, but he was actually an actor, a singer, a nightclub performer, as well as a stand-up comic. Um, you know, there's legendary stories about him and the rat pack with Frank Sinatra going into Vegas while they were filming Oceans 11, going in and he'd take over a blackjack table and pay everybody. He'd send the dealer away and he'd just pay off on people when they busted and whatever. And Vegas loved it because people would, when they heard they were gonna be there, people would just show up. Um, but he started out dirt poor. Um, some of his first money was as a prize fighter. He uh he called himself uh Kid Kid Crotchet or something like that. And and he he had 12 12 professional fights and he said out of the 12 of them he won all but eleven. His his roommate was his roommate was class Joe. And to make a little extra money, they would invite people into their hotel room and beat each other until one of them was knocked out. Ah that was literally how they would that how they would pay pay their bills. He was just he was when they call him the king of cool, he was the king of cool.

Right, you just picture a guy in a tuxedo with a whiskey glass, all those guys, man. Yeah, yeah.

Grasshopper walks into a box, looks at the bartender, orders a scotch and soda. The bartender looks at him and says, Hey, we get a drink named after you. And the grasshopper goes, Really? You have a drink named Irving? Anyway, one of his his license plate was drunky, D-R-U-N-K-Y. But the fact of the matter is, he always was in control. That whole bit about him being drunk on the roasts and whatever else and saying inappropriate things, he always drank moderately, and a lot of times he was drinking apple juice.

Yeah. Um that's probably the safest. License plate in the world because if a cop sees that, like I'm not pulling them over, he's not that dumb. Exactly.

So anyway, yeah, Dean Dean Martin was just always one of my heroes, just the coolest dude ever.

Great pick. I have one of them on my honorables when I say the rat pack. But I've never seen the original Oceans 11. You haven't? Nope. I need to look that up and check it out. But great pick, Kevin. Awesome. So Mark, we are at number three, I believe. Number three.

I mean, I will institute somebody out for my number three, but I can't. I have it picked higher than y'all did, but I have Jeff Tate from Queens Reich. Nice.

Never heard of him.

Yeah. Oh, well, no kidding, huh? Queens Reich was one of the earlier bands. Well, not earlier, I shouldn't say that. That would have been the 70s. But Queen's Reich did open up for KISS.

Yes, they did. Oh, interesting. I did not know that. Oh, yeah. Several times.

Yep. And uh, no, I just my favorite song that they do is Eyes of the Stranger. I don't know what it is about that song. It's like maybe someday a past life. I don't know. I was in a it just reminds me of being in a mental institution. Even though when you see the video, it's you know, the nun and the guy with a gun and everything. But just, you know, Operation Mind Crime. It just is range and it's powerful, powerful, powerful voice. Incredible. Yeah.

I'm the only one that doesn't have him. And I knew he would be on there. He's on he's on my list when I was writing these guys down. Incredible voice.

I mean, we've talked about it, so I mean, that's I guess right to you, brother. Awesome.

So I'm wondering, here I am at my number three, if I could perhaps pull a Donald here. Yes. Because I'm picking Ann slash Nancy Wilson.

Oh, geez, you're picking them both. You can bet they're unacceptable.

It's unacceptable, Donald. I'm cheating. But call them the Wilson Sisters. Here I go. Because when these girls are singing, mostly Ann, but I cry, I smile, like they bring so much fucking emotion to me with their music.

I mean, oh my god.

Their voices and their lyrics. You know, they're just incredible. I mean, I always think of Charlie Mark, Charlie Manson, fucking magic man, just what an incredible, incredible song. Barracuda dongo we talked about a couple weeks ago. Um uh all I want to do is make love to you. Yeah, video when that came on. I like would watch that video and just take that whole story in. I'll say Anne Wilson. Okay, make it fair. That's important to me when music does that and just fills you with emotion.

Yeah, it gives you that tear in your eye or the chill.

You know, reaches in and touches you. Yeah, somewhat inappropriate.

You feel the hairs standing up on your arm, kind of thing.

Yeah, just just doing this exercise, guys. Last night I'm in my kitchen walking around. Sadie's like coming up to love me and see what's wrong because I'm bawling out loud. You know what I mean? Like listening to the music. That's beautiful. That's what that's what I mean, and that's why they had to be there. I just couldn't put them up against the other. He's an emotional person.

I talked to it takes all of us.

Awesome. So that's number three to you, Dungo. All right. So I'm gonna go with one, and I'm probably gonna butcher the name, but it's Milyanko Matovich.

Oh Milyanko Matovich?

Milianko Matovich, he's the lead singer of Steelheart. Ah, yeah. So, you know, they is an amazing singer. Amazing. He was, and Steelheart was a victim of, you know, they came out in the 1990, and they were a hairband. Awesome. And they kind of got caught up in the you know, the end of the hairband era to the lost out to the neuronas. Like they struggled to get signed because of um at that time there was hairband saturation, or you know, what do you call glam rock saturation, like that's but he also was the singer for the movie Rockstar, yeah, with the song All Die Young. Yes, and that song is also amazing, like the river flows. You know, he can sing, he's got a huge range. Um, he can go from like singing very clear to like a scream, and he can hit the high notes. And again, that movie, Rockstar, which was a pretty decent movie, but it came out in 2001. Yep, and then 9-11 occurred, and then it like it squashed it. Yes, see this this guy like should be up in the upper echelon of singers and rock, and he just kind of hasn't hit that got shot down that title. Bad timing.

Yep.

Um, it's it's unfortunate, but the guy can sing and remind me to be.

Oh, I'll never let you go. I'm writing the song down, that's why I'm away from the microphone.

Steel Heart. Because I remember I did some research after I I watched that movie, Donnie, and now it's coming back to me.

Steel Heart's incredible movie about who, Kevin? Uh Ripper Owens. Tim Ripper Owen, which was which was loosely to Rob Halford. Yeah, it's Tim Ripper took Halford's place. Exactly that's right.

Ripper Owens took over when Halford left and did his solo stuff. I just found out today, interestingly enough, that Halford didn't leave the, he didn't want to leave the band.

No, just like in the movie.

Right. He wanted to do a solo project, and they made him sign something, and before he knew it, he was a priest. I did not know that.

But Miles Kennedy, okay, does anyone know him? Because Dungo, you're talking about great singers, and I just thought of the fact that man, this guy should have been on the list. Miles Kennedy is where I was going. The lead singer of Altarbridge Donald is the guy crunched in the corner at the end of the show. That you remember Wahlberg was down there and the lead singer gave him the microphone. Yeah. Well, at the end of the movie, Miles Kennedy is the guy in the crowd that Mark Wahlberg gives the microphone to. And Miles Kennedy also was the guy who sang the songs for when he was at the club in Seattle at the end, and like two other of the metal songs. So check out Alterbridge because you know we say new bands now when they're like a decade or two old.

But check out Alterbridge, Donnie.

And I guarantee you got into Dirty Honey after I told you about him. Awesome. That's number three to you, Kev.

Number three, I I debated, but not for long. I went with David Clayton Thomas. David Clayton Thomas, the lead singer of Blood, Sweat, and Tears. This guy could belt it out to you that would make nervous nervousness. That's classic. Yeah. That would make you nervous. I mean, when you think about spinning wheel.

What goes up must come down. Spinning wheel got to go round. Talking about your troubles. It's a crying sin. Ride a painted pony, let the spinning wheel spin. You got nobody.

I don't know. They just they had such a series of hits, and he was actually the second lead singer of the band. But what a great band they were. What an amazing singer he was. And again, for your viewing pleasure, if you want to see an interesting story, there's a documentary called What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat, and Tears. Because Clayton Thomas was a Canadian, there was an issue with his passport. He got into a little bit of trouble. I don't think it was anything serious. Basically, as the band was taking off, um, I think it was the FBI was trying to leverage them because of his passport issue. And they wanted a band to go into the Russian states and tour and kind of like spread Americanism as well as spark.

Oh, it was a Soviet Union then.

Soviet Union, yep. Um at any rate, what happened was they went and the tour was kind of it was great in some places and absolutely terrible in other places. Some people just didn't those people never heard rock and roll, so they didn't understand it. Right. Um so they had some terrible nights, but they had some great nights with people that really appreciated what they were doing. But what happened was they came back, and with all the anti-communism sentiment that was going on, people accused Blood, Sweat, and Tears of being Russian propaganda. And they ripped that band apart, they destroyed them. Um great, great documentary, and of course the music is fantastic. And and like I said, Clayton was one of those voices that you just he belted it out. Uh yeah, and you just what's his last name again? Uh it is David Clayton Thomas.

What's the documentary, Kevin? I love those songs, man. They're so good. Yeah.

It's called What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat, and Tears. What the hell happened to you?

Give me all that time's on time on my hands right now with the shoulder, so yeah, give me stuff to watch. Thank you.

Another interesting point about uh Clayton Thomas was that he was discovered by um Screaming Ronnie Hawkins, who also pretty much discovered the band. Robbie Robertson, Lee Von Helm, Rick Danko. They were his the band was his band early on. Um so that's that's two for Ronnie Hawkins.

Nice. Yeah. Great pick, man. I love these deep ones you pick, Kevin. Yeah, I do too. So you're gonna be pretty shallow here.

I do my best.

What a great pick, Kev. I love it when you pick these deep things, man. It makes it so unique. Awesome. So that's number two to you, then, Mark.

Alright, so this is a somewhat underrated singer because a lot of people didn't respect this band because with all the makeup and everything. Uh, it's Paul Stanley from Kiss. Um, yes, AJ. I know he's probably on your list. Hey. Well, I'm just saying he just has an incredible, incredible voice. I think he really hit his prime in the eighties. Not that he did not have a good voice in the 70s. He had a great voice in the 90s. It you know, it evolved through the years, it evolved all the way to not being able to sing. But uh at the same time, um powerful. I know I keep using that word. Just it is very unique, it's different. I could almost pick him, I could almost pick him on uh the if we had a top seven male, or I could even do that for female too. So I mean him being kind of a he she.

Anyway, uh I was gonna say, just like Rob Halford, I don't care what he does in his free time.

I'm not even I'm not even talking about anything that you may imply that you're saying, but uh I'm saying that his voice was high. He just had a androgynous uh way of dressing and everything, and I I don't know what he does in his personal life. But Gene Simmons says he has as far as he knows, Paul Stanley doesn't have a gay bone in his body.

I don't think he does either. I don't. I think he's labeled, but a lot of people say that.

Well, they just called him the hee-shee. I mean, the guys in the band called him the hee-shee, and just it doesn't matter. His voice is undeniable, again, underrated.

All right, well, my number two is actually gonna be someone who I'm certain is not on anyone else's list. But this voice is undeniable, and his name is Michael Sweet, and he sings for a band called Striper. He is friggin' phenomenal. Great singer, just a man. He's unreal. He uh actually learned to sing. There, it's a Christian rock band, a very a pretty big rarity that a Christian rock band that made it, like on MTV. They are the only band in MTV history that I believe have two or maybe even three songs on top videos rather in the rotation at the same time.

Their songs are rocking, and he was an amazing singer.

He still is Donald. Like, if you hear their new albums, they kind of went more metal. Like, you need to look a song up when we're off this cast called Blood Footmark.

Are they still singing Christian songs? Are they?

Oh, yeah, but they're they're more metal now, like they got heavier. Oz Fox has like brain cancer, I think. Like they actually cut the top of his skull off. Jesus. And made he had to be awake for this because they needed to know the part of the brain they were working on. So when he was literally in the hospital bed, they were asking him to play guitar so that when they touched certain spots of his brain, they could see which. Yeah, it's fucking crazy. No, it's not um there's a song called Blood from Above on one of their I say newer, but now I think it's like 2019, but amazing. But you go back to Soldiers Under Command or the Yellow and Black Attack, the album before that. Unbelievable music. My sister Robin called me one day and said, This Christian band's gonna be playing, uh playing on TV. They play hard rock. I watched, they did Makes Me Wanna Sing. I and I think Soldiers Under Command, and I was sold immediately.

Johnny, we used to listen to that. Uh well, I don't know. I mean, you were probably in the trunk of the citation because you were the luggage. But uh we used to, me and David uh used to listen to that, and I don't know, maybe you could hear it through the trunk.

Oh, I remember Dave's citation, like the the shittiest car ever made, but somehow had some of the best acoustics for an alcoholic system.

That was even better than my my Honda Civic, which also had incredible. Yeah.

Those are happy times. Yeah.

Weren't they happy times, man? Anyway.

Yeah. Michael Sweet.

Yeah. Yeah. Michael Sweet, so underrated, not underrated, more unknown than underrated, but I I firmly believe that that band, and kudos to them for sticking to their religious beliefs.

If they were marketed as Satan worshippers, they probably would have gotten a lot more record sales and sold, but they stuck to their Christian beliefs. Which seems so strange that that's think it would have been Mark Bitter instead of Michael Sweet.

That's the Mark phrase. The silence says it all. You guys don't like my joke. No, it was a bad Mark joke. But anyway. I just had to let you hang on.

I ain't attained myself. I don't really care. So I'm here for me.

So we are at number two to you, Donald. All right, and I hope I don't step on anybody's toes. Um, this touches the vintage, but it he was definitely playing and singing before 2000, and it's David Draymond from Disturbed. I love this guy's voice. Oh, we're breaking rules again. Wait a minute. No, he was like Was he before Down with the Sickness was before Down with the Sickness was like I'm just kidding, Donald. Never mind, I think it was fantastic up. Yeah, so it was late 90s, but the guy, the guy is an amazing singer. Like, I love the power in his voice, like the anger in his voice, yeah, how clear it is. Like Disturbed is a great band for me because it's like it's heavy but yet melodic. And I love that.

Melodic is in this.

A lot of people like the scream music now, and I'm like, I can't get there yet. You know, I haven't I can't appreciate it. Cookie monster voice, but I do appreciate when you know, like you can play a really heavy song, but yet have a melodic voice and and vocals behind it. And uh that's I love that down with the sickness.

Anthrax kind of did that, yeah. You know, like that's what I that's why I loved anthrax, like just to have that unique voice, you know what I mean? Yeah, hope nobody hates him.

And some of his, you know, the newer stuff, like Sound of Silence, like that is the best cover. Like, it's better than the original.

Oh god, now that you mention it. Oh my god. That song goes right to the soul. Yeah. Doesn't it, Donnie? That was the year Dave passed away, too.

Yeah. Which I mean, I won't say anything till our dialogue at the end. I don't want to ruin anything, but that's a great pick, Don. Yeah. So do you Kev for number two?

Number two is uh I committed to this will be my ramble because my number one will not be a ramble. Um for number two, I'm picking one of my favorite artists. I've spoken about him before. Absolute genius, three and a half octave voice, Harry Nielsen. Um he was referred to as the American Beatle. Um, when they asked John Lennon, you know, who's your favorite American singer? And he said, Nilsen. And then they turned to McCartney and said, What's your favorite American band? He said, Nilsen. Um thought it was Eddie Murphy, but Eddie Murphy was. Was the fifth beetle, yes. Man, man. Um so most people probably don't know this, but Harry Nielsen was what with Alice Cooper, Keith Moon, Ringo, and Mickey Dolan's monkeys were the original Hollywood vampires.

Yes, sir. Really?

They had a private room above the rainbow at the rainbow on sunset, and they had their drinking club. Um quite famously when Yoko sent Lennon out to the West Coast with his girlfriend Sun Yi and whatever else, they got in a lot of trouble. They Nilsen and Lennon drank together and just would go into, I think there was an award ceremony. I can't remember if it was Grammys or what. They got kicked out because they were so drunk and obnoxious. Um, some of the other kind of um honorary members of the Hollywood Vampires, John Belushi, Mark Bolton from T-Rex, Keith Emerson from Emerson Lake and Palmer, Mal Evans, who was the head roadie for the Beatles, uh, John Lennon, of course, Bernie Taupin, who did uh wrote all of Elton John's songs, and then one of the best bass players ever, Klaus Vorman.

Um did you was Keith Moon in your first thing?

Yeah, Keith Moon is a founding member.

He's an original, right?

Absolutely. Some of the stuff that Nilsen did, like a lot of people like who? But y'all know Coconut, y'all know without you can't live if living is without you, which is just talk about a song that makes a hair on your neck stand up and brings tears to your eyes. Oh, okay. That's it. Um, the song One, one is the loneliest number that uh Three Dog Night took off with and had a big it's just crazy because Coconut jump into the fire, which was used in Goodfellas with that massive bass line, is actually Klaus Vorman, and that's something that that you would recognize. And if you didn't know, courtship of Eddie's father.

Yes, sir. Mr. Eddie's father to you, Mr. Eddie's father. Mr.

Eddie's father. People let you tell me about my best friend. That was Harry Nilsson.

He's a one boy cuddly my up, my down, my pride and my joy. Yep. Love that.

Um one of one of the other little interesting side notes about Nilsen because he was just he was an amazing character. Um he had bought uh a flat in London where he when he was working there and visiting with with Lennon and McCartney and Ringo and the and the boys. Um, but he'd lend it out to people. The first thing that happened was he was back in the States and Mama Cass was there doing her one man show or one woman show, and she actually died in that apartment. That's that's where she died. Not too long later, Mooney, Keith Moon, overdosed on the anti-alcoholism drug when he was trying to straighten himself out, also in that apartment. In that same apartment in London. So and this blows my mind.

Odd coincidence, yeah.

Right? Nilsen was like, fuck that, I'm not going back there, I don't want to deal with it. He sold it. Pete Townsend bought it.

Wow. Oh my god.

Which is really weird. Really fucking. Why would you buy the apartment that your drummer died in? I mean, I just very strange. But anyway, if if you don't know Nielsen stuff, and some of it is he had a real penchant for like 1940s music, like um, what was the Casablanca song? Uh you played it for her, you can play it for me. Play it again, Sam. You must remember this. A kiss is just a kiss. He did a lot of those recordings of those standards, but so like, and I didn't even realize this because new stuff gets released quite a bit. He's also got a song called Sit on My Face. Um, the dude had a sense of humor like nobody's business. Uh he had a song, I'd rather be dead than wet the bed on the I think it was in the Nielsen Schmilson album. He had a song called You're Breaking My Heart. You're tearing it apart, so fuck you. Um he just he really didn't he didn't care. The guy never toured. He did not, he did a few like television performances, and he says he regretted it later in his life, but he didn't like so he he never went out and toured, he never did any like live shows and still had huge success writing for other people and himself, but just again, especially writing for TV man, that shit makes people money. Exactly. Yeah, he wrote the Cudley Toy was one that he wrote for the monkeys as well. But can you imagine sitting there in the rainbow room with with I mean, what an interesting group Cooper, Alice Cooper, Mickey Dolan, and we just and you know, and then Belushi shows up and I mean that must have been awesome documentary, Kev, on Amazon called Just the Rainbow.

It's amazing.

Like didn't uh didn't Lemmy end up spending like the rest of his years there sitting there playing video poker? Wasn't that the same thing?

Yeah, he had an apartment on sunset for that right only that that's the only purpose. So we would go there. Yeah, sat there, drank Jack and Cokes all night. People come up and talk to him all night. He sat at that poker machine all night.

Right. I mean, I don't I don't drink anymore, and I certainly don't drink like I used to, but reading about the Hollywood vampires, man, I would love to go and can you imagine just sitting there absolutely polluted?

You don't drink anymore, but you don't drink as much as you used to. That implies that you still do.

I have understanding. Kevin doesn't drink anymore like he used to. I don't drink anymore like I used to. I I'm not I'm not dry. I will, I'm not opposed to it. I just it's not really part of my life.

No, it's a way bigger.

I'll have a scotch or a glass of wine with somebody, but but as far as like you know, as a 17 Captain and Cokes doesn't count. I mean, I did my time. I I was I was an Olympic distance drinker.

Oh, Kevin did his time.

Yes, all right. He did.

Well, you know, he did his time when far more the liver can rejuvenate, so that's good news. So it might be back. I don't know.

I haven't kept so anyway.

Harry Nilsen is a genius and an amazing, amazing voice.

Yeah. Awesome. So I believe that brings us to number one, and that's G mark.

Number one, I'm not sure if it's controversial or not, but we'll tell you. Um I have a demarcation point in this man's career. It's Steven Tyler from Aerosmith. Yes, sir. I knew that. And uh the demarcation point. My buddy Gino last night basically said when they did uh Walk This Way with Run DMC, that's when the voice started going. I don't know if you want to see a commercial or just it lost all its edge.

I feel like he had his edge until two years ago. Well, and I'm not talking on albums, Mark. I'm talking live.

No, I I I kind of agree with you. I did see him do I mean when he did uh um One Way Street, he did seem to have his edge again. But uh studio during the 70s, he had the crispest, most friggin' edgy battle trash, friggin' gang, friggin' New Hampshire voice. I don't I don't even know how to say it.

Powerful.

Powerful, but just it was crisp. There was something about it that I just cannot put in words. Words.

The the right amount of dream on.

Listen to Women of the World, songs like that in uh Seasons of Wither.

Oh, that's a great song.

Absolutely sharp, crisp. I I can't it's it's just the perfect voice for my life at the time, and I still love his voice back then, but I had to uh put a line there. So and then that's the way I am with the band Aerosmith, in which they they kind of lost me. Yeah.

Most I going three of the four of them in the 1980s, it was like uh She's an Angel or whatever. There was a video on TV. I hate that. It was like he was like outside singing, and you could see like the the vapor, you know, he was outside in a couple of things. I love that song.

How much I love that of his lungs.

Like the he's a tiny dude, but how much like vapor was coming out of the dude's lungs showed what his vocal capability was. Absolutely.

And I think where Mark and I are disagreeing here is more of the type of music. Like his voice didn't go mark, his type of music changed for the mid to late 80s, and we hate that shit.

So, yes, personally, I put the I put the line of demarcation with, and I agree exactly with what you're saying, AJ. His voice still held up for many years after, but my interest in the sucked, right? My interest in what they were doing ended with Done with Mirrors and maybe one or two songs off permanent vacation, which I think they just put it in the copy machine, and just every album after that sounded like I couldn't agree with you more.

So I believe so that was Mark number one, right? All right, so that's number one to me, and I think it's been given away here, but I am of course picking Paul Stanley, Peter Chris for you, okay. I uh Peter has an amazing voice as well. However, I will say that Paul Stanley's fucking attitude in his voice. When you go through, let's see, kiss hotter than hell, dress to kill, destroyer, rock and roll over, love gun, then you go the side four of a live two through his solo album, bam, nineteen seventy-eight. Paul Stanley's voice through that period had so much attitude in it. There was emotion there, baby. And then after that, when he got into I was made, and then all of a sudden his register started to change and into the 80s for the high, dare I say, which I hate, hair metal voice came along.

I'm gonna go, where'd it go?

His register was so high, and so I mean, he did fan of Phantom of the Opera, Phantom, you know, on on not Broadway, but in in Canada, but still friggin' amazing. What I think he did is he painted himself in a into a corner by singing so high for those songs that I feel that's what destroyed his voice, didn't allow him to sing later in his years, because he pretty much fell off a cliff in like 2005.

So he didn't conserve conserve his voice, if you will. Basically, what you're saying is he he went all out kind of like uh you're running a race, and you know, it's like five miles and you sprint for a mile and a half.

Kind of, but at the same time, if you think about it, you know, a baseball pitcher, they lose their speed. You know, they need to know to give it up. And what pisses me off about this whole scenario is the fact that you know, when they did the farewell tour in like 2000 with Ace and Peter, all over the media, it was we don't want to stay on too long at the party, we want to go out on top, we don't want to be a shell of what we used to be. But of course, once that surpassed, they made other excuses, and it's this is because Paul Stanley has an undeniable, undeniable voice, is so underrated, and that's all I shall say about it. He was incredible for a long time, too. Damn right he was, and that is number one to you, Dungo.

All right, and Paul Stanley does have an amazing voice. Yes, he did. Um, good pick there. So, this pick, and again, tying back to my Tommy Shaw pick, very similar voices. I would love to hear them sing together, probably would never happen, but very similar. And this is an underrated, never got the accolades that other bands did, partly because of the music, also partly just you know, kind of fell on the radar, and it's Rick Emmett from Triumph. Oh, God, yeah. Um number one lay it on the line.

Don't waste my time.

Oh, yeah, okay. Somebody's out there, fight the good fight. I mean, the guy can sing, he's got that clear, like what I like is he's his voice is clear as a bell, but yet he can hit some high notes as well. Yeah. Um, canadian. He plays guitar too, he's a good guitar player. Um, just rocking. If you go on YouTube, he's still out there, you know. He's just like older gentleman in his late 60s, still his voice still sounds crystal clear, and he can sing like there is no auto-tune with him. There's nothing like no tracks, yeah. And uh, it's just triumph never got, you know, it was kind of like a rush where it's progressive rock, never really hits the mainstream, but it's good music.

Um, nobody's ironically, Donald, something about Triumph real quick. I can't remember if they're Canadian or not. They are Canadian, but they were a band that like hit the Bible Belt for some reason. Not maybe not the Bible Belt, but the mid-United States. Like they could go to like Texas and sell out a stadium, yeah, and then they could come to New Hampshire and play a club. So I don't know what happened with them where they could be so huge in just one tiny part of the US, but it really did, and it's well known, so that's crazy, huh?

Like it's got a beautiful voice, and I'd love to hear him and Shaw together because they're very similar to me. I'd be awesome as far as range and tone and like a duo, yeah.

Yeah, great, amazing voice, great three-piece band. And I always felt like you know, if you thought like not only were they hard rocking and and like right out there, I mean they kicked ass, they were a kick-ass band. And I felt like if if you know they were walking by and you were like mowing a lawn, like they'd come up and help. I just got that vibe from that. You need a handbag? You want me to rate that Canadian feel, you know? Yeah. Right. We're gonna rock your socks off and then you know, do your dishes. That's all.

That's all. Awesome. So is that one to you then? That is one to me, and then we're done. Or that's to you, Kevin.

Sorry. So again, he came up earlier, but it was it was early on, and as I said, I rambled on with my number two pick. My number one pick is the greatest lead singer ever. In your opinion. No?

In everyone's opinion.

He is the greatest lead singer ever. Freddie Mercury, I just think, just light years beyond anybody else. Just such an amazing voice. When you're talking about, again, not a vocalist. I mean, he was a front man, but and if anybody questions that, go listen to the live aid.

Absolutely.

Where he came out and he just he held that entire stadium in his hands. Unbelievable. Absolutely unbelievable. Such a powerful voice. And then the only other thing that I can say is that Innuendo, that last album that he wrote and performed as with the boys as he was as he was succumbing to AIDS, I mean, was still powerful and touching. There's some songs on there. The show must go on. Again, you talk about feeling a song. I mean, that one and knowing the story about what was happening is is an emotional song, and it will it will get you right in the feels. So I give it up to Freddie Mercury. He was absolutely amazing.

All right, awesome show, boys. That was a lot of fun. I mean, God, we're gonna be able to go down a lot of roads with this category. Great times, though, and everyone out there, thank you so much for listening. Thank you so much for the downloads. We're getting really close to our next download badge. Not that anyone out there knows what that means, but it's really exciting for us, and we can't appreciate it.

I've never received my first three or four badges.

All right, so thank you, Donald. Thank you. Had a lot of fun, yes, Mark.

Thank you, AJ. That was great, man.

Kevin, good times, AJ. Good times, awesome times, and just real quick, let me get the email address out there for everyone. And mind you, we are looking really forward to getting to into some uh participation. So we're hoping to have some of you guys call in and be able to give your lists right on the show out loud to the audience. So I know how I always want to scream at my speaker because I can't get my voice heard. If you're interested, email us at pta80h at gmail.com and one more time that is pta8h at gmail.com. And we can't thank you enough, folks, and thank you, boys, and we are out in the misty morning on the edge of time, we lost the rising sun, the final sun, as the misty morning rolls away today, reaching all the stars with blind the sky.