Top Female Performer You've Seen Live

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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,473
    Jason P wrote: »
    Thom Yorke



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  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,236
    Drowned Out wrote: »
    g under p wrote: »
    I'm watching Tina Turner in concert in Holland and got me thinking how many here have seen a female act in concert. I've seen her live 5 times the first MD/VA on The Private Dancer Tour when Mister Mister opened for her was the best. The last was in VA when Cyndi Lauper opened while being 5 months pregnant. TT can put on a hell of a show in those heels for two hours.

    So what's your list of female performers as single acts or lead in a band?
    I haven't seen many female performers over the years....very few, actually. But when I saw this thread, Tina Turner was the first woman that came to mind. Saw her in 2000 with Joe Cocker opening....got free tickets and kinda expected it to suck. But what a show! Cocker completely blew me away, for starters. Then TT's stage show, her energy....and those dancers...dayum. She kept up with the dancers the entire show - women half her age, while wearing 4" heels. She sounded great and had more songs that I enjoyed than I remembered before I went....It was a blast!

    Most of the other females I've seen perform were in support roles, or part of a mixed band....Smashing Pumpkins, Coal Chamber....and this very talented lady was playing with Alice Cooper when I saw him open for the Crue a couple months ago (Nita Strauss) :
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    Sean Yseult

    Speaking of female players in a band I had the pleasure years ago 1994 in seeing and hearing this bass player play for White Zombie. Very artistic woman with quite a flair with style to that WZ sound. Here's a bit more on her....
    "How To Make A Monster...An Interview with Sean Yseult

    Shauna Reynolds was born June 6, 1966 in North Carolina & it's an odd coincidence that she has 666 in her birthday because Shauna is best known as White Zombie bassist Sean Yseult!

    Sean & Rob Zombie created a band that would define a sound, a genre & the music/art the 2 created forged a bond between them that not only made them artistic partners but also lovers who shared a long term relationship which sadly collapsed over the course of the monster that was White Zombie.



    Sean's father is Michael S. Reynolds who is a noted biographer of Ernest Hemingway & her childhood was an interesting exploration of culture, art & experiencing life as a freak. Sean recently put out a book entitled, "I'm In The Band" which is a joke title simply because many people didn't believe she was a member of a heavy metal band based strictly on the fact that in the 90's there were few if any females in metal bands.

    Sean gained the respect of the metal world due to her musical prowess & her onstage energy and I recently had the opportunity to interview Sean about all things White Zombie both past & present; Sean was very open, very pleasant & very candid.

    http://rocknrollexperience.com/news/53/25/Sean-Yseult-Interview-2011/

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  • BIGDaddyWil
    BIGDaddyWil Michigan Posts: 3,080
    Dead Sara……I know, they're a band.

    I've never seen this band, but I would love to!!! This girl can belt it out! Fantastic voice.

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  • cydonia
    cydonia Denbighshire, North Wales , UK Posts: 456
    Kate Rusby -great folk singer from Barnsley
    Mariza - amazing fado singer from Portugal
    Rokia Traore - singer from Mali, Africa
    Beth Orton - great British songwriter
    Eliza carthy - part of the watersons singing tradition in the uk .
    Natasha Atlas - great uk artist, performs regularly with transglobal underground....
  • JH6056
    JH6056 Posts: 2,437
    cydonia wrote: »
    Kate Rusby -great folk singer from Barnsley
    Mariza - amazing fado singer from Portugal
    Rokia Traore - singer from Mali, Africa
    Beth Orton - great British songwriter
    Eliza carthy - part of the watersons singing tradition in the uk .
    Natasha Atlas - great uk artist, performs regularly with transglobal underground....

    Whoa, you've seen Natacha Atlas live?? I have only one cd by her, but there are 3 or 4 songs that make me dance uncontrollably every single time. She'd be great to see live!

    Good call on Beth Orton too. I've seen her twice. She's not on my "best ever" list, but she is really good and talented.
  • dustinpardue
    dustinpardue Las Vegas, NV Posts: 1,829
    Do yourselves a favor and add every Meg Myers track to your library

    http://www.axs.com/meg-myers-performer-profile-22252
    "All I Ever Knew" available now in print and digital formats at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and iBooks.
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,473
    forgot one: Niva Chow. Co-lead vocalist of Dearly Beloved. Canadian band.

    the guy in the picture is Rob Higgins....I didn't know until recently his uncle is Geddy Lee.

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  • llessuR
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    Catpower, Bonnaroo 2008.
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    Fiona Apple
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  • Daron Oshay
    Daron Oshay Middletown, NJ Posts: 2,591
    Annie Clark
  • JH6056
    JH6056 Posts: 2,437
    Daron Oshay wrote: »
    Annie Clark
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    Annie Clark

    LOVE St. Vincent! Only saw her as a support act, would love to see her headlining.
  • LongRoad1802
    LongRoad1802 Posts: 107
    Peaches
  • JH6056
    JH6056 Posts: 2,437
    Sinead O'Connor, as she was when I first saw her live: Her song "Troy" at PinkPop

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeIHZvZTJTg

  • bluegrace
    bluegrace Posts: 2,357
    Ladies I want to see:
    Kate Bush
    Tori Amos
    Sinead O'Connor
    Joni Mitchell
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  • kwdaley
    kwdaley Posts: 499
    The Wilson sisters...

    http://youtu.be/4gpNqB4dnT4
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  • Shibboleth
    Shibboleth Posts: 1
    Tori Amos- Amazing live
  • goldrush
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    JH6056 wrote: »
    KT Tunstall - nice to see her added! But I saw her about a year ago and I was not feeling her newer music. Still love that album with Suddenly I See on it though...
    Yeah I'm not that big a fan of her new stuff either. It's a bit too 'pop' for me I think. But seeing her alone onstage in a small club with just an acoustic guitar singing 'Throw Me A Rope' was absolutely stunning.
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  • JH6056
    JH6056 Posts: 2,437
    edited January 2015
    kwdaley wrote: »
    The Wilson sisters...

    http://youtu.be/4gpNqB4dnT4

    1. That is my absolute favorite Heart song.
    2. How did women's clothing then look so awesome then and still look awesome now, but the guys in the silky flowing shirts look silly to me now?
    3. Heart is one of the top 10 bands I would take a time machine back to if I could to see live.
    4. Curse you Kwdaley for posting that link - after the song ends there is an endless choice of awesome performances on Midnight Special - I will be up for a few more hours looking at them when I should be in bed since tomorrow is a work day! So far watched the Cars "Just What I Needed" (fave Cars song - and damn wasn't Benjamin Orr a hottie!), and Cheap Trick "Surrender" (when I saw them on the Dream Police tour and they did Surrender, that line when he sings "When I woke up, Mom and Dad were rolling on the couch... rolling numbers rock and rolling got my Kiss records out" they threw a huge armful of actual Kiss vinyl into the audience (when it was all vinyl!). I guess things were more reserved for t.v.?
    5. Oh Mmm Gee: Little Richard just introduced Golden Earring and "Radar Love" by saying "I LOVE golden earrings!!!" TOO FUNNY! And I'm pretty sure the singer and guitar player were high as f'in kites on that one, on something that makes you paranoid because they kept looking at each other as if they they were keeping the other from freaking out... aaaah, 70s rock!

    Ok, back to female singers... I've got more 70s t.v. to watch... :)
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  • helplessdancer
    helplessdancer Posts: 5,293
    first time i saw/heard susan was 20 years ago
    she was amazing then

    Just Won't Burn (Live at Farm Aid 1999)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_96KMJEhy0

    Susan Tedeschi - It Hurts So Bad (Live at Farm Aid 1999)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxXtn5r09ks

  • erebus
    erebus Posts: 614
    edited February 2019
    Saw Metric open for the Pumpkins last year, they were great
    have always loved Kim Deals part of the Pixies
    high as a kite was really good, cannot remember who they opened for, Sigur Ros?
    L7 at Lolla were o.k

    would have loved to seen the Sugarcubes, Cocteau Twins
    if I get the chance I would see Mavis Staples, Alabama Shakes, Macy Gray, Bjork

    and I forgot about the Fastbacks opening for PJ, also very good

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