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endlessepic 
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 Posted: April 15 2007 at 12:34 |
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Gentle Giant!
Also, Greg Lake on lucky man...although that is with himself.
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Passionist
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Posted: April 15 2007 at 12:40 |
Hm, obviously the whole Jethro Tull band on Songs From The Wood. You've all heard it 
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: April 15 2007 at 12:42 |
 Passionist wrote:
Hm, obviously the whole Jethro Tull band on Songs From The Wood. You've all heard it |
If I choosed a JT song with great backling and chorus I would go with "Songs from the Wood" also. .
Iván
Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - April 16 2007 at 00:55
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King Zappa
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Posted: April 15 2007 at 12:45 |
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I'm quite partial to the combined lead and backing of Zappa, Willis, Keneally, Martin on Broadway The Hardway and The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life.
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Moogtron III
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Posted: April 15 2007 at 13:43 |
The guys from I Giganti on Terra In Bocca, and indeed: Yes has Squire (and Howe).
Non prog: the backing vocals on Donald Fagen's albums (probably it was himself again), CSNY and Beach Boys.
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ProgFan
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Posted: April 15 2007 at 15:51 |
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Angela Gordon Goldthorpe by Mostly Autumn
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stewe
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Posted: April 15 2007 at 17:56 |
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May, Taylor to Mercury
Rabin, Squire to Anderson
Shaw, Young to DeYoung
D'Virgillio, A.Morse to N.Morse
Wolstenholm, Lees to Holroyd
A.Geffen and S.Wilson
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: April 15 2007 at 21:17 |
stewe wrote:
Shaw, Young to DeYoung
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STYX'S case is much me complex.
De Young: Rocking the Paradise, Come Sail Away
Tommy Shaw: Fooling Yourself, Boat on a River
James Young: Miss America, Snowblind
Are all lead vocalists in some tracks, and all where backing vocalists when others are singing, plus at least Chuck Panozzo's backing vocals are alkso very good.
Iván
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el böthy
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Posted: April 15 2007 at 23:27 |
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I would say the guys from Queen probably take the cake... May alone is a good singer, but of course he had to be in second place when he sung aong with the voice of all voices
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"You want me to play what, Robert?"
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puma
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Posted: April 15 2007 at 23:39 |
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Don't forget the amazing backing vocals Mikael Akerfeldt of Opeth does on Deadwing
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darksideof
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Posted: April 15 2007 at 23:41 |
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BroSpence
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Posted: April 15 2007 at 23:59 |
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Two of the best backing vocalists: Mike Mills (R.E.M), and Michael Anthony. So distinctive and they add so much.
Mike Mills especially because he can sing lead and it still sounds awesome.
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stewe
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Posted: April 16 2007 at 05:00 |
Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:
stewe wrote:
Shaw, Young to DeYoung
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STYX'S case is much me complex.
De Young: Rocking the Paradise, Come Sail Away
Tommy Shaw: Fooling Yourself, Boat on a River
James Young: Miss America, Snowblind
Are all lead vocalists in some tracks, and all where backing vocalists when others are singing, plus at least Chuck Panozzo's backing vocals are alkso very good.
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That's right.. but still DeYoung is for me their most important singer maybe along with Shaw. Also BJH alternate lead vocals quite often.
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Heptade
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Posted: April 16 2007 at 13:17 |
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Queen definitely stands out, especially Roger Taylor. I'd say the Moodies, but they don't seem to be able to pull it off live very well, a problem that Roger McGuinn claims the original Byrds lineup had. As mentioned earlier, Gentle Giant had some crazy group vocals going on, which, if the DVD is evidence, they could do live as well.
When Richard Sinclair was foolish enough to let Pye or Andy Latimer (both decent vocalists, though) handle the leads instead of himself, he was a great backing vocalist. All hail Richard!
Edited by Heptade - April 16 2007 at 13:18
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The world keeps spinning, people keep sinning
And all the rest is just bullsh*t
-Steve Kilbey
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Yito
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Posted: April 16 2007 at 13:42 |
NICK D'VIRGILIO
Backing vocals in Spock's Beard in the Neal Morse era (now he is the lead singer).
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Psalm 96
1 Sing to the LORD a new song;
sing to the LORD, all the earth.
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Rolling Ronnie
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Posted: April 19 2007 at 05:49 |
For me it has to be The Northettes 
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Moogtron III
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Posted: April 19 2007 at 06:01 |
Rolling Ronnie wrote:
For me it has to be The Northettes
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If the Northettes were backing vocalists, I would have chosen them as well. But are they? I can't remember that they back up a lead vocalist.
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Snow Dog
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Posted: April 19 2007 at 06:31 |
Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:
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- May, Taylor and even Deacon: Nobody could take the lead fromm Freddy, without him there was no Queen, but the three guys made an outstanding role supporting him.
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Deacon doesn't sing at all Ivan, but May and taylot are excellent vocalists in their own right too.
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Guillermo
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Posted: April 19 2007 at 11:50 |
-YES: Squire, Banks, Rabin, Howe and Sherwood. I saw YES in concert in two different tours with Sherwood. I almost never head his guitar during the concerts (except when he played Rabin`s lead guitar parts), but I could see and hear that most of the time he was singing very good backing vocals.
-Chris Rainbow: IMO, he is a very good singer. There is an Alan Parsons Project song called "Time". He recorded several excellent backing vocals in that song. He also sings very good backing vocals in most songs of Jon Anderson`s "Song of Seven" album. Other very good singers who alternated doing lead and backing vocals were Chris Thompson and Gary howard in Alan Parson`s "Live" album.
-The members of Queen. They are one of the best in Rock. I have a videoclip of them playing "Somebody to Love" in concert in 1978 or 1979. Deacon sang a bit, but most of the backing vocals were sung by Taylor (very good) and May.
-Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. Not Prog, but particularly Crosby, IMO, has one of the
best voices. He and Nash appear in "On an Island" from David Gilmour. Also The Byrds as a band sang very good backing vocals with him.
-Collins, Banks and Rutherford in Genesis. Like Howe`s, Rutherford`s vocals as lead singer are not good, but as backing singer he does a good job.
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Posted: April 19 2007 at 12:44 |
Maybe because I've seen their vocal exercises on DVD, but has anyone considered Gentle Giant's trio (sometimes quartet) of backing vocals. I always get a kick of watching Green, Shulman, Shulman, & Minnear do their Accapella tour de force. Precision, thy name is name is GG. 
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