En route to our Jersey shore extravaganza, Marietta pulled out a little clipping from Spin magazine with an interesting game. Now I'm stealing it from her and you must play along.
You have to assemble your ultimate band. You need to pick a lead singer, a guitarist, a bass player, a drummer and a wildcard that can play multiple instruments. You can't choose Elvis Presley or Sinatra as you vocalist. You can't choose more than one musician from a single band. You can't choose Hendrix as your guitarist or John Bonham as your drummer. The final rule is that the group has to be able to work together. A bit subjective, but I take it to mean that you can't pick Prince simply as your guitarist or Sting as your bassist.
I've changed mine about a thousand times. I'll post it in the comments, too, once I make up my mind.
Okay. Have at it!!
Posted by mikewolf at September 08, 2004 12:10 PMSinger: Axl Rose (G&R)
Guitar: Tom Verlaine (Television)
Bass: Flea (RHCP)
Drums: Phil Rudd (ACDC)
Wildcard: Tina Weymouth (Talking Heads) Keyboards/Backing Vocals
Hi there, nice to be with you, glad you could stick around.
Like to introduce `Legs' Larry Smith, drums
And Sam Spoons, rhythm pole
And Vernon Dudley Bohay-Nowell, bass guitar
And Neil Innes, piano.
Come in Rodney Slater on the saxophone
With Roger Ruskin Spear on tenor sax.
I, Vivian Stanshall, trumpet.
Say hello to big John Wayne, xylophone
And Robert Morley, guitar.
Billy Butlin, spoons.
And looking very relaxed, Adolf Hitler on vibes.
Nice!
Princess Anne on sousaphone.
Mmm.
Introducing Liberace, clarinet
With Garner "Ted" Armstrong on vocals.
Lord Snooty and his pals, tap dancing.
In the groove with Harold Wilson, violin
And Franklin McCormack on harmonica.
Over there, Eric Clapton, ukulele.
Hi Eric!
On my left Sir Kenneth Clark, bass sax.
A great honour, sir.
And specially flown in for us, the session's gorilla on vox humana.
Nice to see Incredible Shrinking Man on euphonium.
Drop out with Peter Scott on duck call.
Hearing from you later, Casanova on horn.
Yeah! Digging General de Gaulle on accordion.
Rather wild, General!
Thank you, sir.
Roy Rogers on Trigger.
Tune in Wild Man of Borneo on bongos.
Count Basie Orchestra on triangle.
Thank you.
Great to hear the Rawlinsons on trombone.
Back from his recent operation, Dan Druff, harp.
And representing the flower people, Quasimodo on bells.
Wonderful to hear Brainiac on banjo.
We welcome Val Doonican as himself.
Very appealing, Max Jaffa.
Mmm, that's nice, Max!
What a team, Zebra Kid and Horace Batchelor on percussion.
A great favourite and a wonderful performer of all of us here, J. Arthur Rank on gong.
http://www.iankitching.me.uk/music/bonzos/tracks/intro-outro.htmlx
Posted by: deano on September 8, 2004 08:20 PM
Drums - Pete Thomas
Bass - James Jamerson
Lead guitar - George Harrison
Rhythm guitar - Keith Richards
Keyboards - Garth Hudson
Wildcard - Steve Winwood
Singer - Otis Redding
It depends on what kind of band you're talking about.
For example, a "British Invasion" supergroup could look like:
Eric Burdon, vocals
Pete Townshend, guitar
Bill Wyman, bass
Ringo Starr, drums
Or a "Monsters of Rock" group would be
Jimmy Page, lead guitar
Angus Young, lead guitar
Slash, lead guitar
Derek Smalls, bass
Keith Moon, drums
The Prog Rock era could be covered with
Peter Gabriel, vocals
Robert Fripp, lead guitar
David Rhodes, rhythm guitar
Keith Emerson, keyboards
Tony Levin, bass
Phil Collins, drums
Brian Eno, whatever
And the eighties would be suitably represented by
Robert Palmer, vocals
The Edge, lead guitar
Elliot Easton, rhythm guitar
Geddy Lee, bass and vocals
Rick Allen, drums
...and so on...
Posted by: Frankenstein on September 10, 2004 11:53 AMGeddy Lee? Ewww.
Posted by: Dennis on September 10, 2004 03:45 PMDrums: Neil Peart (Rush)
Bass: Flea (RHCP)
Guitar: Pete Townsend (The Who)
Vocal: Freddie Mercury (Queen)
Multi: Rivers Cuomo
...with a special Appearance by Dio.
Posted by: Cory on September 10, 2004 06:00 PMCory took two of my choices (peart and mercury), so I had to come up with replacements...
Bass: Bill Wyman (Stones, of course)
Drums: Dave Groehl (Nirvana/Foo Fighters... More for his multiple talents than for his drums, but it's not like he can't keep a beat).
Guitar: Joe Satriani (Would have been Randy Rhodes but dead men can't jam.)
Keyboard: Ray Manzarek (the Doors)
Lead Singers: Geoff Tate (Queensryche... the guy has a five-octave range) and Annie Lennox.
I know, it's a bizarre group, but I like em.
Posted by: K.Britt on September 11, 2004 08:11 PM