Singers gone missing

A dying species?

Why must the male singer always play guitar at the same time, or piano or any other instrument? What happend to the true singer with just a mic? Where did he go?
Bold men like; Robert Plant (Led Zepplin), Anthony Kiedis (RHCP), Bono (U2),Freddy Mercury (Queen) and Mick Jagger (almost forgot him(!)) didn't need anything else but their blessed voices. Sure, occasionally Bono picks up the guitar and Mr Mercury mastered the piano like a god. But still, it's their voices that made the crowd go bananas! Female singers always dedicate their entire soul to singing, why not men? The energy gets so intense with a solo vocalist that it compensates that "missing guitar" - just check Rage Against The Machine. Guess this era is soon to be a closed chapter in the history of Music.

Mr Alexis "Bananas"

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Benny

I think it's a lot more fun playing (guitar) and singing at the same time. Not that I'd feel lost without it -- it's gives you a bit more freedom as a singer to jump around, climb amps etc. Some artists do choreographies like Viktor mentioned. But I think our two guitars gives us the right sound so I'll keep it. BTW, now all of us sings almost in every song which takes focus away from a calssic lead vocalist. Yeah, whatever. :> 2010-11-23 14:29

Alexis

I was like thinking about todays rockbands...and stuff 2010-11-23 10:43

Viktor

Darin plays no instrument ;O 2010-11-23 10:10

Singers gone missing

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