Favorite black hard rocker

[MrScorpio]

Poll question: Favorite black hard rocker

There are quite a few.

The winner will be awarded the coveted Jimi Hendrix Award


Let the voting begin

[mark414]

1. fishbone

i think if you look up "underrated" in the dictionary their picture is there somewhere...

[LSparkle]

2. Ice T and Body Count

They were ahead of their time.

[redqueen]

3. Philip Lynott

[AmandaRuth]

7. without a doubt

Phil Lynott,

[Magrittes Pipe]

9. Of course Phil's the correct answer, BUT....

The man put Mick on the list. I gotta give props to that.

[SheepyMcSheepster]

4. Fishbone!

what a great live act!

they have been going at it for a while now.

[Blue-Jay]

5. LC because Vernon Reid is crazy on guitar.

But I like Fishbone a lot too.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

6. Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynott

:toast:

[Magrittes Pipe]

8. Mick almost single-handedly kept Detroit rock & roll alive...

...in the late-'80s/early-'90s.

The Gories were truly one of the few great rock & roll bands in those dark years dominated by hair-metal ballads and teen-dance-queen pop-tarts. Songs like "Nitroglycerine" and "Thunderbird ESQ" are the REASON Detroit had a resurgence in the late-'90s: that's the shit folks like Tom Potter and Jack White and Wendy from the Paybacks were listening to back in the day. And the Gories did it better than Bantam Rooster, the White Stripes, or the Paybacks. ;)

Not to mention, Ultraglide in Black (the Dirtbombs' album of soul covers) is one of my favorite albums ever.

[Kikosexy2]

10. Parliament...

and Prince.

[miss_kitty]

11. LC

no contest. JMHO

[dean_dem]

12. Bab Brains

Honorable mention to TV On The Radio.

[drumwolf]

13. My vote's for Bad Brains

although Kravitz and Hendrix are probably the most likely contenders.

I'm not a fan of King's X myself, but I'm surprised that no one else has yet mentioned the band's leader Doug Pinnick.

And I liked Living Colour for a little while when they first came out, but I think they are horribly dated.

[coloradodem2005]

14. Lajon Witherspoon.

Lead singer of Sevendust.

[New Earth]

15. FISHBONE

THEY FUCKING OWN!!!!! :bounce:

[Bridget Burke]

16. Love's Arthur Lee?

Perhaps a bit folky or psychedelic.

What his group did to Burt Bacharach's "Little Red Book" was pretty hard...

[Magrittes Pipe]

19. "7 and 7 Is"

One of the hardest songs EVER.

[DeaconBlues]

17. Wow - Slash is black?!?

The things you learn on DU.

[Beware the Beast Man]

22. 1/2 black, 1/2 Jewish, and 100% badass.

[DeaconBlues]

24. Isn't Kravitz also Jewish and African-American? n/t

[Beware the Beast Man]

25. Yes. In fact, they were schoolmates and friends.

[Tempest]

18. JIMI HENDRIX - BAR NONE

You never said rockers other than Jimi.

[MrScorpio]

21. If the award is in his honor

It should be common sense that he DOESN'T have to be considered.

But if you want to waste your vote, be my guest.

[Tempest]

28. I will, thank you very much

The people on your list suck compared to the old blues guitarists anyway.

[ariesgem]

20. Funkadelic

Eddie Hazel rivals Jimmy Hendrix on guitar. Check out "Maggot Brain". It's one of the best guitar solos ever. George Clinton's arrangements were before it's time.

[Beware the Beast Man]

23. Wesley Willis

Rock over London,
Rock over Chicago,
Wheaties- the breakfast of champions.

[HalfManHalfBiscuit]

30. Suck a Camel's Dick

Bounty - It's the quicker picker upper

[asthmaticeog]

26. Bad Brains, no contest.

I always loved them, but learned a new respect for them when I wound up playing guitar in a Bad Brains tribute band for a few months. Even the early stuff that sounds easy to play compared to "I Against I" and "Quickness"-era stuff? Guess what? Not so easy.

Of the listed choices, James Blood Ulmer is my second pick.

[sundog]

27. Eddie Hazel - Funkadelic "Maggot Brain"

blurred the line between funk & rock

[6000eliot]

29. Excellent Album

Also, "Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow."

[silvermachine]

31. Arthur Lee

No doubt about it.

[HalfManHalfBiscuit]

32. Wyzard - Mothers Finest

Dude plays some serious bass.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

33. Tough choice.....................

I had to go with Fishbone. Kendall Jones really tears it up on "Truth and Soul", its too bad that some bad craziness happened with Jones after that album.

If I had to pick a number two, it would be a toss-up between Vernon Reid and Eddie Hazel.

[MrScorpio]

34. The Coveted Jimi Hendrix Award goes to...

LIVING COLOUR!!



Congrats, guys!