Lead singers who are drummers

[John_DiFool]

Other than Phil Collins, I come up blank. Anyone else?

[Joey_P]

Don Henly.

[Subterraneanus]

The greatest singer/drummer of them all (not that there are that many): Levon Helm.

[Little_Nemo]

An offboard discussion on this issue.

[Lisa-go-Blind]

Grant Hart from Hüsker Dü split lead singing duties with Bob Mould.

The drummer from Cowboy Mouth is also the lead singer.

ETA: Scrantonicity!

[fishbicycle]

Peter Hoorelbeke of Rare Earth was their lead singer.
The drummer of the mid-'70s version of The Four Seasons sang lead on “December 1963 (Oh What A Night)” although I don’t know what his name is, and it’s not listed at allmusic.com.
Occasionally, Ringo Starr still sings lead while playing the drums, but we all give him a pass for being Ringo.

[BlakeTyner]

Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters can do it. He was the drummer for Nirvana from “Nevermind” on, and now plays lead guitar and lead vocals for the Foos. He doesn’t often sing and drum at the same time, though. He did, however, have a second drum kit on the stage last time I saw the Foos, and he and the drummer had a “drum-off” that was really good.

Henley drummed and sang lead quite a bit. I know he did on “Life in the Fast Lane” on Hell Freezes Over.

[Rico]

@fishbicycle

The drummer of the mid-'70s version of The Four Seasons sang lead on “December 1963 (Oh What A Night)” although I don’t know what his name is…

Gerri Polci was his name. And he shared lead with Valli. Frankie did the bridges.

[DfrntBreign]

Buddy Miles.

I seem to remember that Steven Tyler (Aerosmith), Peter Gabriel (Genesis) and Peter Wolf (J Geils Band) all started out as drummers.

[buns3000]

Jim Rutledge, Bloodrock.

[MrDibble]

Karen Carpenter

[MerryMagdalen]

Didn’t Mickey Dolenz sing a lot of Monkees songs?

Wikipedia says yes.

[TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW]

two women drummer/singers:

Georgia Hubley from Yo La Tengo

Shivika Asthana from Papas Fritas

[buns3000]

Keish from the Hard Ons.

[JThunder]

Karen Carpenter

[BobLibDem]

I don’t believe the use was needed, and neither did some people that were in better position to know than I…

MacArthur biographer William Manchester has described MacArthur’s reaction to the issuance by the Allies of the Potsdam Proclamation to Japan: “…the Potsdam declaration in July, demand[ed] that Japan surrender unconditionally or face ‘prompt and utter destruction.’ MacArthur was appalled. He knew that the Japanese would never renounce their emperor, and that without him an orderly transition to peace would be impossible anyhow, because his people would never submit to Allied occupation unless he ordered it. Ironically, when the surrender did come, it was conditional, and the condition was a continuation of the imperial reign. Had the General’s advice been followed, the resort to atomic weapons at Hiroshima and Nagasaki might have been unnecessary.”

William Manchester, American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964, pg. 512.

“During his recitation of the relevant facts, I had been conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced to him my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives. It was my belief that Japan was, at that very moment, seeking some way to surrender with a minimum loss of ‘face’. The Secretary was deeply perturbed by my attitude…”

Dwight Eisenhower, Mandate For Change, pg. 380

I think McArthur had it right on- if the US had initially agreed to allow the Emperor to remain, a surrender could have been achieved without the bomb.

[Annie-Xmas]

Ringo Starr

[jayjay]

@BobLibDem

I think McArthur had it right on- if the US had initially agreed to allow the Emperor to remain, a surrender could have been achieved without the bomb.

Gosh! I didn’t even know MacArthur could drum!

[RealityChuck]

Robert Wyatt of Soft Machine (and as a solo artist), though I believe he had to give up the drums after he broke his back.

Jim Capaldi of Traffic occasionally sang lead. He did sing a lot of harmony vocals for the group.

Emitt Rhodes, since he did play drums – as well as all other instruments – on his albums.

[Beware_of_Doug]

@BobLibDem

I think McArthur had it right on- if the US had initially agreed to allow the Emperor to remain, a surrender could have been achieved without the bomb.

Especially if we’d’ve air-dropped Buddy Rich on the suckers.

In other news, I read the header as Lead singers who are dummies.