Is there such thing as being a substitute or alternate lead singer for hard rock/metal bands? How to go about becoming a part time lead singer for a band?

Music is an art like any other and as such, the artists have different styles. Because of that, most bands don’t have alternates for anything. Someone might fill in last minute if an emergency comes up but not often. Vocal styles and sounds are even more exclusive because it’s hard to produce someone else’s voice. Usually in vocal emergencies they don’t get a back up, they just cancel a few tour dates.

I’m not going to say that it’s not possible to do, but I think you’ll have trouble finding a band that would want a part time vocalist. But… the only way to do it is to try until you find a band that’s interested in the idea. Good luck.

The vocalist is generally the frontman of the band – they are the public face of the music. They’re the ones responsible for connecting with the crowd, talking to them, getting them pumped up, and generally being the thread that connects the music with the listeners.

That’s apart from the actual voice, which is often one of the key elements of the band’s sound. I know I’d demand my money back.

Who would go to an Aerosmith show if Steven Tyler’s backup guy was the one on stage?

True-I would think twice, but then I would weigh the vocal virtuosity of the backup singer, and his syncopation with the audience. Despite what is traditionally done, (ie. having a stable one or two regular singers) are not most musicians in search of that “new” thing that designates them as completely unique artists? Maybe that ability extends to the fact that most people in the audience at one point or another have longed to be part of what is going on on stage, whether that is performing, or just dating Mr. Bieber…

I am not a music major-I do not write this from any degree of expertise, but merely a hunch that there is something to what Im scheming. But since I am not a music major, I appeal to others on fluther to cite examples of groups that have succeeded and failed with swiftly changing their lead singers, or having a brief substitution.
Its not that I am completely lacking in the motivation to apply myself, its for lack of knowledge of sources where I can find musicians who are as interested in helping others develop all their creative talents as I am with my art, and helping others to understand it and theirselves in the process. I would hang out in bars and clubs where many groups got their start but I have little interest in the drinking that occurs in those places. As for choir, I join them when work permits but I have been unable to attend regularly. And college is out of the question. I just like music. We ALL like music.

I am a visual artist, and I try always to show people their inner creative no matter how sceptic they are. I listen to the James Blunt Parody with a bemused smile…I like my job, feel most every day that I have achieved my goals, but the experience hound in me is always looking for more. Say its not possible, look at American Idol where they juxtapose prospective talent with absolute performance devastation. And look at the success that show has had. I know Robert Scott says ”...its a long way to the top if ya wanna rock in roll…” But maybe, in times of lay offs and swift change bands who develop innovative responses will appeal to the imprisoned artists dormant in cubicle monkies, and those still suffering lost security of those cubicle prisons.
But I totally get what your saying. So maybe I’ll just stick to “hosing and scrubbing” my car on my lunch break as best as I can in a skirt on my lunch break. Sorry Wyn Cooper (The poet who penned the song that Sheryl Crow croons her way into fame with)