Top Front-Persons

[Tiggi]

Certain performers have an unusually charismatic stage persona. Some of the best live performers I've seen would include Jagger, John Lydon in PIL days, Ian Dury, & Roy Harper.

Some of those I've yet to see live would be Bowie, Julian Cope, and possibly Brooce.

What do y'all think ??

[Music Wench]

My personal favorites are Michael Stipe of R.E.M. - he's disarmingly charming, and Bruce Springsteen - comes across as just another guy who happens to have a band.

Of course I saw both of them at the same time and it was heaven!

[sade]

it's sad that I've never attended a live show in my life..as of yet..
saw some great videos of Iron Maiden and Led Zeppelin performing live..Linkin Park looks good on stage as well..but according to the innovative color-play and stage-designs used, I guess it's Radiohead that's better than many other bands..

[CMB1888]

I'm almost embarassed to put this but Jimmy Euringer of Mindless Self Indulgence is easily the most entertaining frontman I've seen in the last couple of years. Just this side of crazy on stage - and really witty as well. I really only knew a couple of their songs before but I absolutely loved the performance.

He was helped by the fact that MCR came on afterwards and Gerard Way was spectactularly charmless!

[jazzboCR]

Little Richard, Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis. In their heyday and even much beyond, they were electric--can't take your eyes off them.
LR (Richard Penniman, thank you very much): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7pjP_XkK4U << mildest perf I could find and still...those eyes, those teeth, that voice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_wWkvd39...rp8AOhBIuD << great idea, brilliant execution--you'll come back to this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbHC54c4AR4 << maybe this is common, I don't know but--some of the audience look like they would walk across broken glass if he asked them to--that's what power is, folks--that's what a consummate frontman is all about.

...And then there's The Killer, the original White wildman (at least the first to achieve national prominence 'cuz of the songs) who brought everything American together in his music (yes, so did Chuck Berry--a bit weak on the country and Gospel was he though).:
quality classic clips are scarce--how about 2 from Wembley when he was 47 with all those troubles behind him but still mighty energetic? Putting his touch on modern material? Work for you?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhTfpVnm4...halEGZ3Hi5 << a showcase event--arrangements, players, enthusiastic audience eager to see The Man newly resurgent--all there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMzJvDmcDZg << if you have feelings about Rock'n'Roll--U need this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4N1-ek1PgA << his appeal is universal . Do you think the older members of the audience thought there'd ever come a day they'd see him live?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-4hEvlcKR8 terrif conjunction-of style-and-song pastiche--look'm up--Scotty J

Chuck Berry. If ever a man that was his own man, it's Chuck Berry--check out the extra material on that Keith Richard-inspired, Taylor Hackford-directed tribute/re-intro concert--the 2-disc is all you really need.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvKDr8AgvK8 << playing with a jazz band/supper club band--they're good but proves he could play with anybody.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgQJHyLLTHU << what I'm talking about
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ROwVrF0Ceg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wACKIHIZot0 << who in American pop in 1957 was doing Caribbean-inspired music? Much less a tune that wasn't all mindless jollity?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOdnV2lF0YM << with the man who originally hired and whose band he took over inside a year...to their mutual benefit: Johnnie Johnson: another by that 88s guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gNVj-U38i0
Hip cover of a CB classic (aren't they all?): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksCrjdgo_JU << my kinda Christmas song

[SteveO]

Two for the price of one!

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[SteveO]

Saw Paul live in 2009! Not at Glastonbury but in Halifax NS ! The Halifax vids are amateur and crappy so I went with this one!

[video=youtube;CVJMhnPzhts]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVJMhnPzhts[/video]

[SteveO]

and John as the frontman!

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