Greatest Female Rocker of all Time?

Bonnie Raitt and Melissa Etheridge come to mind...

Oh, hell, I've got to admit, I've never heard of her.

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Lydia Pense

Hell yeah!

Hi,
She's cool!

Peace

if they get the chance. Her band is also one of the best.

:thumbsup:

That is all.

:D

Janis Joplin.

Janis, hands down.

Janis Joplin
Bonnie Raitt
Patti Smith
Chrissie Hynde
Annie Lennox

Hall of Fame, mainly due to the Runaways. For petes sake, they inducted Madonna! The Runaways were so freaking influential to generations of female rockers.

but you said female rocker, which could mean an instrumentalist, so, I don't know.

can't seem to get enough of the sisters Wilson.

Tikki

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Joan Jett is not a rocker - she's a boring songstress who just plays louder than most women.

Bonnie Raitt and Ethridge both make me think more "Oh, this is just country music through a distortion pedal", but don't make me think "Oh, wow, they're really rockin'!!"


Ann or Nancy Wilson are probably the best choice for living woman rocker.

of the rockitude of female rockstresses.
:toast:

too many to name just one.

Where are all the "new" rockin' women? They all look like porn stars to me and have little to no talent. Sad.

I can't believe you mentioned her. My coworker and I were listening to her last Friday when we were doing anything but working!

...I like her music but wouldn't label her a rocker. She's especially good as an extended member of the Little Feat family, that whole roots-y yet slightly eccentric edge of the music community.

Same for Etheridge. I just don't see her as a "rocker." I don't know what label...if any...would be the most accurate. "Singer-songwriter" also, I guess.

When I think of female rockers, I think of Joan Jett first. Lita Ford is also on the list but I think it was obvious to all who witnessed her career that she attempted to compensate for what she lacked in natural talent with an overdose of attitude and image. Joan had the look AND the chops.

However, in terms of sheer popularity and music sales, I think Gwen Stefani is probably going to eclipse all those previously mentioned, as much as I like them all.

100% pure rock-n-roll music. I saw her play a free show at a cowbarn in 1989 and she destroyed!

She plays a badass guitar, a B3 and sings like a nasty little angel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8FPwNDOd_I

Grace Potter, Joe Satriani, Steve Kimock, Reed Mathis, Willy Waldman and Stephen Perkins cover Cortez the Killer at the Jammy's. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paeNnR33i5Q&feature=fvw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jP7qYLJEMM&feature=related

She's got some voice! That 'Cortez' clip was amazing.

When talking about great female artists or even newer artists that are seriously good. She playa Flying Vee too and kicks aserious ass. But in that Cortez clip ther seem to be enough guitarists on stage at the time...

Thanks for the heads up.

More people need to know about her. She is kind of in the jam band thing, but she really fits all kinds of styles. Her band rocks hard, but they don't do the jamband endless thing. they are more a hot blues band....

Such a wonderful sweet and powerful voice and could rock out !
I never really got into Blondie until I heard their live stuff and it blew me away plus she has had a duet with Kermit (a very high honor)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRvhRhWWE44

rock on :hippie:.

I just got one of her CDs ~~ Cry Baby!

:hi: I love this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjD4eWEUgMM

Joan Jett is great, but so are Grace Slick, Stevie Nicks, Alanis, Shirley Manson, Courtney Love, Melissa Etheridge, Susanna Hoffs, Janis Joplin, etc.

:P

There is not one, however, that I would call "great."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl1UvbGkQAs


(right after Janis, of course)

:hi:

An woman rocker who is neither eye candy nor a tragic victim of fate

That woman's voice could reach into my chest and pull my heart out.

Love her.

Definitely among the best.

lol

Janis Joplin is and was my all-time fave, though.

Lately, I have admired the bass guitar work of Tal Wilkenfeld.

Tikki

thing a little, but then we laughed and said, except of course that she is.

She was the epitome of power in her voice; she had range, passion...:D

And those eyes...:loveya:

The Velvet Underground were so scary at first that people didn't even notice there was a GIRL back there making that primal racket with the drums. Short hair, no makeup, adrogynous clothes...she had no interest in being a front person or a sex symbol, she just wanted to be the foundation and backbone of some vicious and terrifying noise! And she was. And you just know that even Lou Reed and John Cale weren't willing to make her mad.

Women are expected to be out front, looking sexy, singing, not necessarily doing anything else. I have to give my props to one of first and greatest to say, "fuck that." She was the Rosie the Riveter of rock'n'roll. That scary screaming fighter jet isn't getting off the ground without her. :)

Patti Smith Group - Free Money (Stockholm 1976)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPVMYDrbrCo

Patti Smith - Horses & Hey Joe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3coSfks4rQ&feature=related

Patti Smith - Smells Like Teen Spirit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_ciiCyxOJA&feature=related


She is my light and hope. I love her!!!!!!!!!!!!

She was also one of the greatest folk musicians and, as well, a great jazz musician.

I don't think she did much country music though.

:)

Watch this and tell me that she wasn't a force of freaking nature back in the '80s!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyAATgzDg8c

I saw her at a very small club in Atlanta in 1985 when she was with Lone Justice. Her act was...electrifying.

Hi,
Thanks for sharing that, I only know her from If Love is a Red Dress from the Pulp Fiction soundtrack, love that song..
Peace

Great voice! Can you believe she once trained as an opera singer?

Their suckiness was almost surpassed by the headliner band that evening, Quiet Riot.

Luckily, Saga played in-between, to cleanse the palate.

I think it was the "Lock Up Your Sons" Tour. Besides, Lemmy likes them. :D

Otep Shamaya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfLnDUPmP4s&feature=related

No acoustic bullshit from these two.

Sarah Borges

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pik2FyFrH9k&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.artistdirect.com%2Fnad%2Fwindow%2Fmedia%2Fpage%2Fvideo%2F0%2C%2C5016797%2C00.html&feature=player_embedded

Always been a big fan of Bonnie, Janis and Patti but Sarah rocks!

seriously?

No one else comes close

Where do you think Alanis came from?

But ultimately, music is music. It's like asking who the greatest rocker who's 5'9'', then 5'10'', etc.

One of the best voices in rock history. She can carry off a loud rocker like "Mandinka" or a folk lullaby like "This Is To Mother You" with equal skill.

A long-time personal favorite!

n/t

She had a razor sharp voice with no fear, no mercy. Perfect rock voice, perfect rock attitude.

But if you heard me, you'd be all like, wait, what? I'm like that.

No really, Bonnie Raitt is good. Even Stevie Nicks, even if she influences Cheryl Crowe, who, like Carly Simon before her, hasn't the greatest sense of pitch, isn't too bad. So Melissa Etheridge, who writes her own songs and performs them, is excellent. Damn near a girl-Springsteen. Lita Ford is astonishing. And the Indigo Girls are like the bombdiggety. A little like femme Simon and Garfunkel? And don't forget Heart! "Barracuda!" "Magic Man!" And maybe we'll count Linda Rondstadt.

I'd say extra props go to Joan Jett and Patty Smyth. Both rule in ways I can't quantify--and so do Tina Turner and Patti La Belle.

Technically, who is the greatest male rocker? I'm putting in for David Lee Roth.

Their songs described in great detail what a rocker was. Misunderstood, wrong side of tracks, bad- but good bad and not evil.

This band was set to make a comeback in the midst of the CBGBs scene in 1977. Mary Weiss is actually younger than Debbie Harry and was set to front a reformed Shangri Las with a real rockin' band behind 'em. It is the music fan's great loss that this dream act never happened.

Joplin.


no one even comes close to her. no one.

lotsa members named her...

Koko Taylor. These ladies paved the way for all rockin' women. I miss Queen Koko Taylor.

Accept no substitutes.

Really, come on now, people.

n/t

Aretha was the Queen of Soul.

Janis was the greatest Rocker. Period.

I think she may have just been inducted into the RnRHoF this year. She's most famus for "Let's Have a Party" and "Fujiyama Mama."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0uq1vNHIUI

JANIS (of course).

We are talking about Rock & Roll, not just pop music in general, right?

And very sound reasoning.

;)

Chick rocks the guitar and sings like Aretha drunk with Janis Joplin.

http://www.myspace.com/carolynwonderland

She does this one for Molly Ivens http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm1WGJvhkdo

still is.

mark