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Sorry I listen to Greg Lake... and then I listen to Pete Hammill.... Pete's voice makes me want to rip people's throats out.... basically starting with him.

THe music can be good... but that voice just causes violence...

Well, that's your problem

No thats the problem of all around me when I listen to it.... if they want to live!!
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Not the worst musician from any point of view, but Steve Howe's voice is a disaster, first time I listened believed it was a joke.

He's among the best guitar players in history, he should not try to sing. Not even in the shower.

Why do excellent musicians in their respective instruments like Howe or Hackett try to sing when they are not remotely good?

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QUIT BASHING THE MARS VOLTA!!!!
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Well, people hate things they don't understand. The Mars Volta rulez!  
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Originally posted by ivan_2068 ivan_2068 wrote:

Not the worst musician from any point of view, but Steve Howe's voice is a disaster, first time I listened believed it was a joke.

He's among the best guitar players in history, he should not try to sing. Not even in the shower.

Why do excellent musicians in their respective instruments like Howe or Hackett try to sing when they are not remotely good?

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Keith Emerson's voice is bad too, not as bad as Howe's though
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Am I the only one who doesn't mind Howe's voice?
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Originally posted by Useful_Idiot Useful_Idiot wrote:

Am I the only one who doesn't mind Howe's voice?

never bothered me, in fact i think its great on the song All's a Chord (Steve Howe Album)
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Steve Howe's voice never bothered me. His appearance nowadays bothers me. As much as I love his guitar work, he's one ugly ugly man. He looks worse than Keith Richards!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 27 2005 at 02:47
Originally posted by threefates threefates wrote:

Originally posted by flowerchild flowerchild wrote:

Originally posted by threefates threefates wrote:

Sorry I listen to Greg Lake... and then I listen to Pete Hammill.... Pete's voice makes me want to rip people's throats out.... basically starting with him.

THe music can be good... but that voice just causes violence...

Well, that's your problem

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I think that 'The Worst' often comes out at a time when a movemnent becomes popular almost overnight, and everyone decides to pick up a guitar overnight and have a go.  This rarely happens in prog, because it isn't popular enough, but take your mind back to some of the truly awful Punk bands that formed in Britain in the late 70's...(remember The Vibrators?) no talent but could get a record deal because of the overnight appeal of the movement.

The only example I can think of personally in prog, are the number of Teutonic Prog Metal bands out there, which are all highly derivitive, and add nothing to the genre... because Prog metal is popular on the continent.

My personal choice for this section would be 'Angra', who I think are truly awful.
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Originally posted by mirco mirco wrote:

Well, the obvious one, Styx... more a joke than a prog band.

You ARE Joking, right?  I think you need to listen to 'The Grand Illusion' again, just to refresh your memory as to how good they were... your grey matter has clearly gone a bit fuzzy around the edges with age!!
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The worst prog band is probably something you never have heard...

...and with a little luck, you never will hear it either.
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I hadn't thought about Styx for awhile, thank god.
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Originally posted by raindance raindance wrote:

Keith Emerson's voice is bad too, not as bad as Howe's though

The difference is tho that Keith only sings as a joke.. even on the Nighthawks soundtrack...



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Originally posted by threefates threefates wrote:

Sorry I listen to Greg Lake... and then I listen to Pete Hammill.... Pete's voice makes me want to rip people's throats out.... basically starting with him.

THe music can be good... but that voice just causes violence...

It's the other way round for me, I quite like his voice but it's only on very rare occasions that the music does anything to impress me. There's a little sax bit that I totally dig, and the piano chords on one of the songs are lovely too but beyond that I could take it or leave it  - from the three albums I have, anyway.
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supertramp!!!
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Originally posted by memowakeman memowakeman wrote:

supertramp!!!

.....well....they are quite good actually for a pop band.
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Originally posted by 46and2 46and2 wrote:

QUIT BASHING THE MARS VOLTA!!!!

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Points: 2373 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 27 2005 at 13:09

Originally posted by Azrael2112 Azrael2112 wrote:

http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6672&a mp;PN=1&TPN=2

So Blacksword is really Steve Howe!
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