Hottest band members who are NOT lead singers.

In case there was any doubt of how he's held up, 2015:

You type straight groupie now ageing but still doing her hair and makeup as if it were still 1994, OP.

Ashton Irwin

JC CHAVEZ.

R2 I wish I could be that fabulous. Thanks for the confidence, though.

Greg Erwin

Kevin Richardson.

Guy Berryman of Coldplay

Larry Mullen, Jr.

Connor Hanwick, former drummer of The Drums. On the left in the below pic:

R2 I didn't even know who Blur were until 2008.

Steve Mackey from Pulp

Jonny Greenwood

Blackie Onassis from Urge Overkill was pretty good looking and definitely the best looking guy in that band, though that was not a huge achievement.

Have you read Dennis Cooper's "Guide", OP?

Except in teen pop or Idol/Xfactor contests, hotness or conventional good looks don't often crop up successful music acts. It's more important that you look and sound distinctive and confident. Take scenes like Britpop and Metal--all you need is a combo of arrogance & swagger, a weird sound, and an unmistakeable presence.

Looks also don't count for much in soul (maybe in R&B or recent dance genres more). A great example is Isley Brothers, who hired and then shacked up with their blisteringly gorgeous backup wenches, JS (sisters Krystal and Kandy Johnson). Ron married Kandy, with 35 years age diff. between them. You can bet it was his musical talent, natural charisma and showmanship, or his $$$ (enough to commandeer private Yachts) that got him that girl, OP, his looks not even a factor. They sound great on record together, so it worked out anyway.

Serge from Kasabian. That's him on the left in the hat.

John Taylor of Duran Duran.

Garry Gary Beers

(R17) yuck!

Joe Perry

R15 No but this is what I got from The Independent:

"...This is the tale of two men and one obsession. One man is Alex James, who plays bass with the rock band Blur. Mr James has black hair that flops over his eyes and an air of studied insouciance. On slow evenings in the rock 'n' roll calendar, he can be found in fashionable London clubs, acting cool and playing billiards with Stephen Fry and other literary nighthawks. The other man is Dennis Cooper (picutred below), a fortysomething Californian writer with a reputation for shock tactics. He writes short, stark novels with zippy monosyllabic titles (Try, Frisk, Closer) and recurring themes of paedophilia, murder, evisceration, sadistic fantasy and forensically- described gay sex. He's like Bret Easton Ellis but without the, you know, charm. Now then. In Cooper's new novel, Guide, his usual stock company of priapic junkies includes a chap called Mason, who is obsessed with a musician called "Alex Johns", the bassist in a band called "Smear" (its other members are called Damon, Graham and Dave. Mr Cooper does not tax his imagination when it comes to names). Both Mason and the narrator (who's called "Dennis") enjoy violent fantasies about having sex with Alex. In one dream episode, on page 64, "Dennis" imagines killing the Britpop Adonis at the point of climax ("I bury the blade, then drag it down to his groin ...").

The book is out in March, but proof copies have been available for a couple of weeks. Someone at the publishing house, alert to the correspondences with real life, sent a copy of Guide to the Blur offices, where, instead of ignoring the book as the outpourings of a sicko fan, Alex James became intrigued by it. It's easy to see why. Along with all the fantasy stuff, he could, for example, read whole paragraphs of impertinent character- analysis about himself ("Alex, twenty-eight, is an insecure, self-involved, artsy borderline alcoholic, with a blandly witty manner, passable musical talents, amazing luck and this humungous IQ ...") and a lengthy description of how Mason meets "Alex Johns" in the street one day, invites him into his apartment, spikes his Pepsi with Rophypnol and, when he's unconscious, rolls him onto his stomach and removes his ... But perhaps you get the picture.

Blur, I'm told, passed the book from hand to hand, amazed by such bizarre and intrusive fictionalising. Eventually Alex James, simultaneously flattered and alarmed, expressed a desire to meet the author. And his wish is to come true. Next week, Cooper flies into London for a round of pre-publication interviews. One of them will be with The Idler magazine. The interviewer's name is Alex James. Both men are reportedly "terrified" by the prospect of the encounter..."

R22 "A Bit of a Blur" shows how close he liked to fly towards the flame. I think he actually got kicked off the same Mexican pyramid he tried to climb at night, that Justin Bieber recently did.

Steve Norman of Spandau Ballet

I agree about John Taylor.

I thought Steven Tyler said he wasn't into men. I've never seen that picture of him and Joe Perry.

R15 An excerpt Dennis Cooper interview (by Alexander Laurence):

"...AL: What about some of the people that you have named directly and are characters in the books like Alex James of Blur or Daniel Johns of Silverchair? Did you ever meet them or hear their response to your novels?

Dennis: When Guide came out in England it caused a big sensation because of the Blur stuff. Someone got the idea to have Alex James interview me about it. About a half hour before it was going to happen he freaked out. Or something happened and he cancelled. And then someone interviewed me about him not showing up. Supposedly the Blur people said that we don't want to get near this. I have never actually met Alex James but if he wants to have a drink with me, whatever. And Daniel Johns from Silverchair: I have never had any personal contact with him. It's funny because there's a film being made of one of my stories right now in Australia. Daniel might do the score for it. One of the reasons he might do it is because of Guide. Those two people I have never actually met. It's no big deal. I put Blur in there because they liked my work. They have sent me messages inviting me backstage. I have never done it..."

He was a notorious gay-baiter in the 1990's, frequenting gay bars everywhere with gay friends, so I don't think that was the issue. I think it was Cooper's imagining drugging and gutting him that made him uneasy.

Roger Taylor

Taylor Hawkins - Foo Foo Fighters

Photoshop at R21?

Okay, an Alex James anecdote that must be shared. Oh, my:

"...While explaining how totally tough it is for an A-lister, Pro Green - real name Stephen Manderson - recalls: "It was hard to keep track of all the people I was meeting.

"Sometimes I didn't realise until a moment had almost passed that it was something I should be filing away in my memory.

"But that's the way it was. I couldn't live it and watch it at the same time, not those brief occasions when, say, I might be getting stuck into the whiskey at a do hosted by Jamie Oliver when Blur's Alex James offered, in an otherwise normal conversation, a blowjob.

"I laughed and said, 'Well, depends who it's from'. He kind of walked away awkwardly. I'm pretty sure he was joking. I hope he was joking."...

Maybe his notorious gay-baiting was a little more ambiguous than I thought it was.

R30

John Taylor forever and ever.

OP, you're right, Alex James HAS aged well. I haven't really loved anything Blur's done post '13', so I haven't paid them much attention in the past 15 years.

I've always crushed on Ed O'Brien of Radiohead.

And even though their music is, of course, terrible, Coldplay's Guy Berryman is pretty hot.

Christopher Bear of Grizzly Bear

Simon Gallup of the Cure (not that he had a lot of competition...).

Izzy Stradlin, although he's more of an offbeat and shy-guy kind of sexy, not what you'd call smouldering. Honorary mention to Kelly Nickels of L.A. Guns, who was and remains adorable.

R33 Yes, Alex James certainly has. These louche, lanky Brits with their floppy hair, permanently snooty noses and taunting smirks. Why must you torment me? Why?!!

R14 MY fave song ever!!! And while he is ugly, I was always turned on by the lead singer.

Scott "Babydaddy" Hoffman, Scissor Sisters

Izzy was hot but my fave was Slash.

R21 I had to laugh at your suggestion of Joe Perry.

Back in 1981, I was going with the lead singer of Journey, and they were touring with Joe Perry's group(The Joe Perry Project I think) which he formed during his split with Tyler and Aerosmith. There was a big contest among the top touring bands for the ugliest LS of that time, and Joe won running away. Now, I agree that his looks are different and interesting, and he's far better looking than icky Tyler. It's funny how over time one's perspective can change so much.

Is your name Sherrie, r42

U2 drummer Larry Mullin.

I didn't know that Mexican boxer Julio Cesar Chavez plays in a band, R4!

Jason Orange of Take That

R39 Well, he is certainly unique looking and that can be appealing. After all the years of speculation, I was surprised to find out he was the subject of Exile in Guyville.

more Jason Orange

Sonic Youth's bassist Kim Gordon

Ugh I completely agree about Alex but young Damon was an absolute twink

Drummer Fabrizio Moretti of The Strokes

Blast from the Past: Dave Clark.

R43 Nah...I preceded Ms Swofford in the lineup.

Johnny Marr

R50 Damon was (and still is) the epitome of "beautiful man" but since lead singers get lots of love, I thought the focus had to be on the others. I'm not a first wave fan, either. Alex James isn't much younger than my Dad and I still fantasize about ravaging him.

Those lips on Damon.

John Paul Jones. He also aged the best of all of them

Jules de Martino, The Ting Tings

"Them" being Led Zeppelin

Crue drummer Tommy Lee had something going on in the 00's. Maybe he cleaned up a little or did yoga or something, he hit his hotness peak around then (still stayed scuzzy though).

His roasting of his beloved Pam was surprisingly charming, sweet and lewdly funny respite, in a night of offputting, cold and insincere material.

Since Katie White usually does all of the lead vocals of their songs, I'm choosing drummer/co-vocalist Jules De Martino of The Ting Tings.

R57 beat me to it.

R55 this made me hard. Thank you.

Tom Kaulitz, lead guitarist of german electropop/rock band Tokio Hotel. Big brown eyes, long fingers....eh or just watch the video, he's hot.

[quote] Tom Kaulitz, lead guitarist of german electropop/rock band Tokio Hotel.

Aren't he and the singer identical twins?

Yeasayer guitarist Anand Wilder (on the left) is beautiful

Alan Wilder, Depeche Mode

Awful band, awful musician, but there's something very boy-next-door-who-might-do-Corbin-Fisher about Zack Merrick of All Time Low.

Alex Scally, guitarist for Beach House.

Carl Barat of The Libertines (on the left)

How'd we get this far without mentioning Fab Moretti, drummer for The Strokes?

Nate Harold bass player for Fun. and Nate Ruess

OP, stop stanning anyone who makes cheese outside their underwear.

Simon Gallup, best-looking member of The Cure

You prefer cheese made inside their underwear, R72?

Jon Farriss - INXS

I would've chosen John r69. He's on the right.

Carl Dalemo, left, of Razorlight. Way hotter than the rest of the band

R72 Ugh, that just makes me want him more. He's such a damned stallion. And reportedly insatiable and packed full of an endless supply of cum since 1994. He has five kids and those are just the ones we know about.

R74 Thank you! I rest my case.

Keith Strickland of The B-52s. Always and forever. And ever and ever.

God what a beautiful man!

graham coxon was my favorite blur boy.

the pic is from1993

coxon in 2012/13

R82 Graham was adorable, boyfriend material. They were all rolling around with each other backstage, anyway. The horniness quotient was high and plus, they're all English. I have no idea what's in the British water but it's like half the men in Britain are one drink away from going down on you. Damon was always pawing them up.

Good god, Damon, cold shower!

R83 It's too funny.

Keith is still hot!

Graham is my pick from Blur also.

As someone posted earlier though, Jason Orange from Take That OWNS this thread.

graham coxon always held that alex had the most gay friends, even at goldsmith's college.

alex has told a story of waking up with a guy sucking his cock- said he didn't interrupt him. alex also maintains that damon is the gay one in Blur.

as a 1st generation fan, it always seemed to me that damon was gay from graham and jealous of the attention alex got. in so many interviews you would see damon dry-hump graham. and damon was always kissing graham. coxon has addressed all the homo-erotic fanfic stuffon his message board and twitter.

R89 Damon was always very tactile and I wrote it off as an artsy guy with a provocateur spirit but there is no doubt he enjoyed "relations" with men. David Bowie took this picture of Damon in the shower at a hotel they were both staying at:

R70, I did! See R51!

R89 I've heard the one of his waking up to that guy sucking him off in the alley, before before but the new story of his offering to give a blowjob to Pro-Green just last year is news to me.

I've loved Blur - from afar, here in the US - since I was a teenager in the 90s. Perhaps because Blur weren't front-and-center in the media here I literally had no idea about Damon & co's proclivities until now. Of course, this only makes me love them more. What's the story on the shower pic? Can we REALLY attribute it to Bowie??

R89 Still so hot. He always looks kind of like a rentboy, though.

R93 Yes, there's a story about it in Alex's book. Only part of the story, of course.

R93 I think he was always just teasing Graham but is also totally open and probably genuinely bisexual.

R95 - I'm not buying Alex's book, so if you'd care to share, please do!

R97 They were all at a hotel sitting in the lobby and hadn't showered for a while and I think Bowie thought they were prostitutes and he started talking to them. Damon told him they were musicians only there temporarily and asked Bowie if he could use his shower. Bowie said he could, if he'd let him take pictures of him showering. I imagine there are others than the one posted above.

R97 I wasn't pitching to have you get his book! It is funny, though. He's a great conversational writer.

Andrew Ridgely of Wham was hot.

I have long hoped that alex is a grower......

R101 He must be!

Any of the Blur guys could be bisexual, but at the time, and even now, all their touching read to me like straight boys trying to be cute and coy for attention. It's a bit like Brett Anderson and his whole, "I'm a bisexual who's never had any homosexual experiences," schtick. To some extent I think it was also a reaction to the obnoxious laddish shit that Oasis brought to the table.

R98 - that was a great story - thanks for sharing. And, I know you weren't trying to sell Alex's book!

R101 - what the actual fuck is going on there? Is that Hyacinth Bucket in that pic?

Here's Carl Gerges, guitarist of indie Lebanese band Mashrou' Leila, which has gained a lot of international attention in the past couple of years. Mashrou'Leila's lead singer is also REALLY hot and, bonus, openly gay.

Without trying, Jules De Martino has my vote from those band members listed on this thread. He's extremely sexy in the Ting Ting videos.

Anybody know the story behind R101's pic?

R105 I think that was supposed to be Damian Hirst "art" around their "Fat Les" period.

The Blur Thread.

R107 I know, we started talking about it, what can I say? Off on a tangent.

it was a promo pic, of sorts, for alex's side band fat les. clockwise keith allen (lilly's dad), Damien hearst. I always believed the little boy was alfie allen, but maybe not. they had a single vindaloo

Cheap Tricks Robin Zander and Tom Peterson were both pretty boys back in the day.

75% of the Vaccines are so fuckable

75% of Peace is so fuckable

66.67% of Friendly Fires are so fuckable

Larry Mullen sure was pretty when he was younger

OK, after those last entries, this one is going to look super old, but I always thought Peter Timmins of Cowboy Junkies (on the right) was very sexy.

Hate U2, but Larry Mullen was gorgeous.

only 50 % of Kasabian is fuckable

100 % of Everything Everything is fuckable

100% of franz ferdinand is fuckable

100% of The Cribs are fuckable

80 % of the Foals are fuckable especially at the fit as fuck lead singer!

Wow, still can't wrap my head around that Damon/Bowie shower story. Albarn was very, very beautiful when he was a young lad. Kinda like in the Jonathan Rhys Meyers mode. Preternaturally beautiful. I don't think Albarn's aged well but then it's hard for the pretty ones. Like JRM, he'll always have the bone structure to fall back on.

I can see Bowie being taken in by that beauty.

These are mostly English bands?

So many drummers are often the cutest/hottest of the band. Roger Taylor of Queen, Roger Taylor of Duran Duran, Jon Farris of INXS, Keith Strickland of The B-52's, Larry Mullen, Jr. of U2, and BDF Stewart Copeland of the Police

100 % of Swim Deep are fuckable

40% of Palma Violets are fuckable

100% of Disclosure are fuckable

20% of Clean Bandit is fuckable

63.667 % of Years and Years are fuckable

Mark Pontius (right) of Foster the People

100% of the Klaxons are do-able

klaxons=tasty tasty guys

Alex Leonard, the drummer from Protomartyr, on the far right.

Neil Amin Smith of Clean Bandit is pretty dreamy, yes. This probably isn't very PC to ask, but... what's his background? Mediterranean? Persian? South Asian?

R101 is that a CHILD in the picture?! Isn't it kind of SICK?

R134 I'm familiar with the surname Amin as Indian/South Asian, though I don't know that it is exclusively so. It's sad that simply asking about a person's background is considered offensive or racist these days. It was a pretty normal question to ask when I was growing up and that included asking other white kids where their families were from. Ah well!

r134 he is mixed half east indian. he is also gay and was with Olly Alexander of years and years for ages but i think they are taking a break right now. Olly wrote the song Kings for him.

I am not old, but I've never heard of half these bands.

The drummer from nickelback is hot as F

R122 Yeah, though most will laugh at this, I think Bowie honestly thought about it in an artistic way. Damon was just that beautiful as a young man.

R135 This is one on the things I loathe about art/hippy families; they figure "it's nudity but we aren't doing anything sexual, so what's the problem?" even when they're exposing their kids to really, weird things that can really impact their well-being. These families are also more likely to let actual pedophiles who will do harm into their social circles because they naively assume everyone has the same boundaries they do.

I knew a guy from Ireland who's family were nudists and he grew-up going to nudist beaches with them. Totally unorthodox but he was such a nice, well-adjusted guy. They just didn't think there was anything shameful about the human body. In naive, hippy World, that might make sense but I think it leaves people vulnerable in the world almost everyone else grows-up in.

These kids can be taken advantage of by predators and the warning signs might be hard to catch. I'm an artist and wouldn't do it. I don't like that blurring between adult and child worlds.

Yeah, Joe Perry!

R124. Stewart is in his 60's and still doable. He's got a glint in his eye and a firey personality, both very attractive qualities. The great skin, pretty eyes, talent and sense of humour help, too.

Is it clean living? Does he bathe in some kind of elixir? Did Sting impart to him some Tantric wisdom? (doubt it, Stu looks better than Gordon) Or is it just that naturally skinny men age better?

100 percent of Air are fuckable

100% of M83 is fuckable

25% of Phoenix is fuckable

66.7 percent of Zoot Woman is fuckable

75 percent of the Arctic Monkeys are fuckable

I wouldn't fuck Dave Navarro these days, but he was very hot in his prime.

The drummer for U2, and the drummer for Duran Duran.

Dave Novarro isn't much for fucking anyway.

Yes, Kevin Richardson from BSB. The others are chopped liver.

Dennis Wilson-The Beach Boys

Back in the early 80s, Tom Petty's keyboard player, Benmont Tench, was a hottie.

True, R114 but these days he looks like Leonard Kosnowski.

R4 Good taste. :) Couple little corrections - it would be "Chasez" not "Chavez" and yes he's a very handsome man but he doesn't qualify in this thread because he was actually the lead singer, he and Timberlake shared the lead singing in Nsync. Most of the time they split the lead on each song, they'd each have at least one verse they sang lead vocal on, but occasionally they'd get a whole song. In fact I'm pretty sure JC had more lead vocals than Justin did over the course of the group.

Always gave me good vibrations R152

I thought Dennis Wilson was hot too and Warren DeMartini from Ratt.

I thought the guy (second from right, next to Coverdale) from Whitesnake was hot but I couldn't find out who he is. It seems like their lineup changed quite often.

R158, that's Rudy Sarzo. He was in Quiet Riot before Whitesnake.

I had a thing for Ron Stryker in the Men at Work videos of the early 80s. In "Who Can It Be Now" he appears at one point in drag as a prostitute, convincingly. He did *not* age all that well, sadly.

Not so sure what he looks like now, but I always thought Mike Dirnt from Green Day was kind of hot. Hotter than The lead singer, anyway. He's on the left.

Nathan from Fat White Family (far left) is pretty cute. The guy on the far right is too but I don't know his name. It's hard to find decent pictures since they look like complete messes most of the time. Apparently they smell terrible too. The singer (center) is Nathan's brother and is a bit of a two face. He gets naked on stage a lot.

Scott Gorham of Thin Lizzy, in his prime

Ed O'Brien, Radiohead's guitarist.

Hello! Warren Cuccurullo--from Missing Persons and Duran Duran (later years, touring mostly)

NSFW!

[quote] Scott Gorham of Thin Lizzy, in his prime

When I was 20 I volunteered at GMHC and some mean guy on staff made fun of me for knowing that a song playing on the radio was Thin Lizzy.

Adam Yauch from the Beastie Boys. Topper from the Clash.

Rick Savage from Def Leppard

Brian Bell, guitarist for Weezer.

I"m not that big on country music, but there's a gorgeous, dark-haired guy (40+?) in Reva McIntire's band.

Sort of off-topic, I have a huge crush on the bandleader of the SNL band. Know I should remember his name...Something very sexy about him, even though he's a big chunky and no kid.

R140, well said.

[quote]Adam Yauch from the Beastie Boys.

Much as I loved MCA, IMO you picked the wrong Adam from the band - for me that would be Adam Horovitz (aka Ad Rock)

r170 -- Re SNL Band -- You talking about sax guy Lenny Pickett or guitar guy Jared Scharff?

Token les Asian vote for dancer/model/backup singer Song Qian/Victoria Song from f(x)--the one with black hair and bangs in the video link.

Park Sun-Young/Luna (the blue haired one) is the lead singer (and the best), and Krystal (blondie) the model/face, deservedly. Krys is beautiful and has that model attitude, but Queen Victoria just has her beat. Legs always win. Krystal is kinda too young to be considered 'hot' imo.

I guess you could say Amber (red hair, tomboi look) is most popular among fangirls though, particularly the teen ones exploring their sexuality.

Forgot to add, maybe don't watch the video above if you get set off easily by a lot of symbols, flashing images/lights, or EDM/weird noises.

It's a cool track but a total mindfuq.

R82 : is that you, fangirl slut Deborah?

Zayn Malik.

Thanks, R171!

Zach Hill who plays drums in too many bands to mention, though most recently Death Grips. That's his dick on the cover of their album "No Love Deep Web".

Dave Taylor, bass guitarist of Bryan Adams 80's band. He played on all the early releases, and toured with Bryan extensively. I think he left by the Everything I Do... Era, though.

Guy Berryman owns this

Nuno Bettencourt

Fabrizio!