best rock voices


looking for nominations for best rock voice, NOT best vocal performance.......looking for the rock-quality of the voice itself........my first obvious choice is the ORIGINAL Rod Stewart
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Without further ado:

Chris Cornell - Soundgarden
Robert Plant - Zeppelin
Paul Rogers - Bad Co.
Jim Morrison - The Doors
Burton Cummings - The Guess Who
Bon Scott - AC/DC
Layne Staley - Alice In Chains
Steve Perry - Journey
Bono - U2
Maynard James Keenan - Tool
Steven Tyler - Aerosmith
Ian Astbury - The Cult
Freddy Mercury - Queen
Brian Ferry - Roxy Music
Eddy Vedder - Pearl Jam
Robert Pollard - Guided By Voices (he's just cool)
Don Henley - Eagles
Greg Allman - Allman Bros.
Lou Gramm - Foreigner
Roger Hodson - Supertramp
Tom Waits
Jimi Hendrix
To be honest I don't even remember how I first got into GBV. I may have heard them on a local college radio station, or just perused Amazon and was intrigued. In any event, after one CD I was hooked. Great band... Pollard is a special song writer - witty, edgy and prolific.