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Rockstar Poll!

Who's the bigger rocker, Jim Morrison or Robert Plant?

 

MusicMan

Those two are pretty close in my opinion, as far as rock star status. Morrison was more epic because of his weirdness and/or tripping all the time. But Plant has had rock star status for 40 years now, whereas Morrison has been dead for 38 years.

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Stringbender

I agree with Musicman. Obviously, Morrison had the whole "lizard King" persona perfected, but Plant was a "golden god". personally- I will take Plant over Morrison. My reasoning is that Zeppelin stretched over several decades and have changed as to styles of songs from blues to folk,to all-out-hard-rock assault, gone UnLedded, done solo works and now going in a bit of an opposite direction from the Zep stuff with Alisson Krauss.This makes me lean more towards Plant because Morrison was only alive and in the spotlight for a short time -during which the music and his "rock-star image" had not changed much at all.Technically, I suppose that going nuts on drugs, pulling your pants down onstage and eventually dying from an overdose (if that actually happened and he's not pulling a Rimbaud move by faking a death,)
then those moves put Morrison ahead of Plant as a "bona-fide rock star",
maybe we need to better define what in your terms makes a "rock star" .. because if we just go by vocal prowess- it goes to Plant.

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Uncut Rubber

Jim Morrison has my vote.

I mean, of course Plant was a better singer technically, but the "soft", feminine style he often reverted to really annoys me sometimes.
I love the Doors for their dark, gloomy sound, and Jim Morrison's mighty voice contributed a lot to this dark atmosphere. Like Plant, he could switch from a "soft" to a "rough" vocal style within seconds, but with Morrison it never gets annoying.

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