Who Would You Have Been Happy To Have On Vocals

As most people seem to hate Adam Lambert I would have had Gary Cherone as the lead singer.I think he would have been a far better choice.

No one, Brian and Roger should have kept putting out albums as May/Talyor and working with guest singers/Muscians. Maybe they wouldn't be selling out concerts, but they would of been putting out some good music. Real music fans look at Queen/lambert as a Joke. How do you go from having steve Howe as guest muscian on Innuendo and Brian playing with Cozy and Jeff Beck to Adam Lambert? The Rodgers era should have been called Rodgers/May/Talyor.

I will never understand why Brian/Roger/John never did an album and tour together on 1997. What's the problem with No-One But You? It sounds more queen than anything that bri and rog did since then, and on the credits of that song on queen rocks they say that that song isn't queen...anyway, my choice will be Justin Hawkins, or even Eric Nally or maybe Luke Spiller, they could fit more with bri and rog than adam, but now is too late, i preefer now that they retired

I would prefer Brian & Roger sharing lead vocals, with Spike on keyboards, and either Tim, Mike, Barry or Doug on bass.

Gary Cherone on lead vocals really "helped" Van Halen become a "blockbuster" band again.

As others said, nobody (with preference to Roger and Brian sharing lead vocals). But if they were to do a Queen+ arrangement, I think George Michael would've been the best fit.

Des O'Connor.

No one.

Whoever's good enough for them. It's their choice.

[QUOTE] [b]Sebastian wrote:[/b]

Whoever's good enough for them. It's their choice.[/QUOTE]

Of course, but I will stick to the question posed by the poster. Jeff Scott Sotto is the one that would give them a rockier edge. He is a fantastic rock singer and the most passionate singer I have ever seen singing Queen songs (appart from the band, obviously). That counts a lot to me.

Cheers,

Ogre-

[QUOTE] [b]Arnaldo "Ogre-" Silveira wrote:[/b]

[QUOTE] [b]Sebastian wrote:[/b]

Whoever's good enough for them. It's their choice.[/QUOTE]

Of course, but I will stick to the question posed by the poster. Jeff Scott Sotto is the one that would give them a rockier edge. He is a fantastic rock singer and the most passionate singer I have ever seen singing Queen songs (appart from the band, obviously). That counts a lot to me.

Cheers,

Ogre-[/QUOTE]

Out of the singers listed I would agree that Jeff Scott Sotto would have been great, and almost was at one point! But also Seb's comment is right.

This thread has clearly pointed out the problem that they faced. Everyone has a different opinion about what they should do and who they should work with.

Someone says they should have done something in the mid 90's. Read the interviews with Brian And Roger, neither felt like they wanted too or could do anything then. George Micheal sung brilliantly at the Freddie Tribute but has Roger said, he's thing was miles away from who they were and RT even mentions in an interview that he winced at the volume they played at. So that's another singer who wouldn't have worked.

Being part of a band is so much mote than being able to sing or play the notes. Some on here don't quite understand that.

Cliff Richard

Either myself or AntonioCatBoy


...I'm leaning towards Cat Boy

I'm a huge Extreme fan but Cherone's vocals are the weakest point in that band. Great on his day but generally sings in too high a key to suit his voice and so ends up straining and missing notes.

His 'Hammer to Fall' on the tribute concert release is an overdubbed vocal and not the live one as he was so flat on the day.

If you want to see HTF covered vocally with ease live, you can do a lot worse than this:

https://youtu.be/aKYEfJy9Mug

Klaus Meine of course.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZfeL2YzuS8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNxT5wqE7Uc

Mike Patton