If you could be any singer or musician who would it be?

Talent? Fame? Honesty? Money? Likeableness? Integrity? Love for the fans? Showmanship? What would you choose and who?

Personally I would go for Jimi Hendrix, Neil Young, Peter Gabriel and Van Morrison.....

 

Going for coolest, John Lennon... Being pragmatic, he's dead and my favorites that aren't are old.
So I'd like to be somebody young, good looking, grounded and in the money, who makes music I like.

 

John Lennon

 

Didn't even have to think about it: Earl Slick.

I saw him a couple days ago on the Celebrating Bowie tour and he just has this perfect balance of glam strut with a little more angular approach to his solos.

 

Mark Volman

I like his voice

 

Paul McCartney.

 

Dan Lanois or T-Bone Burnett. Well respected, well paid and without the trappings of fame.

 

Benjamin Orr. He got to play bass and only had to sing half the set and got to walk around basically anonymous....wait, sounds like me anyway..but he was much better lookin.

 

Vince Gill

Winner of 21 Grammys. Current member of the Eagles. Amazing solo career. Respected by his peers. Married to Amy Grant. Able to receive Grammy Award from Ringo and diss Kanye West at the same time.

 

i don't mean it in an arrogant way, but i'd be me. i find it easier to be me ... it would be nice to have my own studio again and all my instruments but oh well

 

I would stay me, but add Doc Severinsen's trumpet chops and Pete Christlieb's tenor sax chops. Maybe add Bill Revelli's rehearsal chops.

 

I'd be James Taylor just because he's talented and I wish I had that kind of musical talent.

 

Well, nobody that is dead. If I could sing like Steve Perry that would be great.

 

A mixture of me, John and Paul.^^

 

Billy Gibbons

 

For some odd reason, Richie Furay, because I'd be in an incredibly talented band with two amazing songwriters as fellow bandmembers, and I'd have a great voice and some songwriting talent of my own to boot.

Thus, some talent, some fame, plus a good deal of honesty, integrity, and likeableness. Not much money though! I get the impression he hasn't changed all that much since then and is basically the same down to earth, upbeat guy he's always been.

 

Exactly
Greatest singer ever.

 

Elvis Costello. Durability, talent, and artistic integrity.

 

Jimmy Page

 

Raffi!

 

Hah! I'll take Tony Bennett. Great singer, great attitude and still doing what he loves at a very late stage in life....

 

First thought: Laura Nyro
Second thought: Nile Rodgers

 

Beefheart during the Trout Mask period.. only if I could go back to me at any given time

 

John Lennon Beatles years before Yoko..I'd prefer Cynthia.

 

I like him as well...