Create your all star band---what musicians working together would you

[Zuni]

want to hear? You can have several choices for each, or you can rank your top three


For me it would be a blues band, and my choices are not in any particular order.

Main Vocals
1. Muddy Waters
2. Howlin' Wolf
3. Otis Redding
Piano/Organ
1. Booker T. Jones
2. Otis Spann
3. Ray Charles
Lead Guitar
1. Peter Green
2. Mike Bloomfield
3. Buddy Guy
Rhythm Guitar
1. Hubert Sumlin
2. Steve Cropper
3. Keith Richards
Bass
1. Donald "Duck" Dunn
2. Jerome Arnold
3. Jack Bruce
Harmonica
1. Paul Butterfield
2. Little Walter
3. Junior Wells
Drums
1. Sam Lay
2. Bill Ward
3. Mitch Mitchell
4. ginger Baker

[Crazy Guggenheim]

1. Do any of them play Viking Metal?

[Zuni]

2. unfortunately

no. :cry:

[CanuckAmok]

5. No drum section is complete without:

Roli Mosimann AND Ginger Baker.

Bass: Les Claypool.


Probably nobody else. Just Roli, Ginger and Les.

They could call themselves "Lesmogin"!

[Zuni]

6. I should have put Ginger Baker up there

he rocks.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

3. I would pick ............ I don't know there are too many good ones!

[johnnie]

4. Here is mine

Vocals
John Lennon

Keys
Ray Charles
Brian Auger

Lead guitar
Robbie Robertson

Rhythm guitar
Keith Richards
John Lennon

Drums
Keith Moon

Bass
Jerry Sheff

The Memphis Horns with Paul Butterfield

Little bit of rock and a little bit of funk/blues

[KittyWampus]

7. Vocals... Michael Franks As An Alternate

[greendog]

8. Acoustic String Band

Tony Rice .. guitar
Alison Brown .. banjo
Darol Anger .. violin
Rob Wasserman .. bass

[Zuni]

10. are these guys bluegrass musicians?

[greendog]

11. both bluegrass and jazz

n/t

[tyedyeto]

9. It already happened...re: Traveling Wilbury's

Best composite group ever!

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

12. I was just about to say that!

:)

[tyedyeto]

13. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...... the memories n/t

[mitchum]

14. You would have Hubert Sumlin playing rhythm instead of lead?

And I would dump Ginger Baker and add Fred Below. Can't argue with any of your other choices, though

[Zuni]

15. Hubert is a fantastic guitarist

and his best stuff are his riffs---"Killing Floor" or "Smokestack Lightning" are two excellent examples.

The best solos usually attributed to him in Wolf's band at least (I am not familiar enough with his solo work) are actually by other Guitarists---the bad ass solos and leads in "Wang Dang Doodle" and "Spoonful" are by Freddie Robinson, not Hubert.

And while Hubert is one of my all time favorite blues players, It is more for his skillful role accompanying other players. Peter green, Mike Bloomfield and Buddy Guy stand out as exceptional soloists. Sumlin does not play the same way---not that they are any better, mind you, just Sumlin is better at coming up with inventive ways to back up others.

[Zuni]

16. kicizk

[LynneSin]

17. Vocals - Robert Plant, Guitar - Jimmy Page....

...Drums - John Bonham and Bass - John Paul Jones

Wait - that's just Led Zeppelin

:bounce:

[Zuni]

18. Honestly, I would have to change Plant

I always thought Zeppelin needed a singer with a deeper, more gravelly voice...but that is just me. :D

[johnnie]

19. It's not just you..lol

But that is as much as I will say.
:hide:

[LynneSin]

20. Don't you dare pick on Bobby P

:loveya: Robert Plant

You're mean about Robert Plant and I'll give you a wrong address to the DC gathering :eyes:

[Zuni]

21. OK Lynne---lets bury the hatchet

I'll throw you a bone---I really love "How Many More Times" and "Dazed and Confused" and "The Lemon Song". :D

When I was younger I was a major Zep head---I had every one of their albums and could lipsink Stairway to Heaven flawlessly (I was 12 or 13 at the time---don't tell anyone about this :o). :blush:

And John Paul Jones is an incredible bass player, second only to John Entwhistle among rock bassists at the time.

You should really check out some of the blues stuff that inspired them, though. For example, check out "Killing Floor" by Howlin' Wolf (which was only about 10 yrs old at the time actually), which the Lemon Song came from---extended jams of Killing Floor in Zep concerts gradually morphed into The Zep II track.

side note---the first song the Jimi Hendrix Experience played to an American audience, at Monterey in 1967 was "Killing Floor"

[LynneSin]

27. I"ve listened to much of the blues that has inspired Zeppelin

and I adore your crack smilie so much that it's hard to be mad at you

:loveya:

[Patiod]

22. No band is all-star without Clarence Clemons on saxaphone

The Big Man adds the magic.

[ProfessorGAC]

23. You Guys Don't Want To See My List

You'd hate it. Admit it, zuni. You know you'd hate it!
The Professor

[Zuni]

25. I want it now

:D

No seriously --- you can post it---I promise no "hair metal" jokes either :P

[ProfessorGAC]

26. No Hair Metal From Me

I didn't like most of that stuff. (OK, i liked Round and Round by Ratt.)

This is a "rock" or pushing the envelope rock.
Drums: Stewart Copeland (He can play any music at the highest level)
Rhythm Guitar: Adrian Belew (Tone, noise, and ego in check)
Lead Guitar: Joe Satriani (Shredder, but with taste and melodic sense)
Keyboards: Joe Jackson (I shouldn't have to explain why)
Bass: Tony Levin (Same as above)

We'll get Paul Carrack to sing.
The Professor

[Squeech]

24. Weird intellectuals with glasses

This is a lineup I've been dreaming of for years.

Guitar: Robert Fripp (King Crimson, of course)
Bass: Janik Top (from a band called Magma, and he'd be really good with Fripp)
Drums: Jerome Cooper (free jazz improvisor, played with Revolutionary Ensemble)
Horns: Anthony Braxton (free jazz improvisor and composer)

I haven't decided who should sing. McCoy Tyner would be just right on keyboards, except that he doesn't wear glasses.

But if I hit the lottery for zillions, I would hire those guys and make that record.

[flvegan]

28. Angus Young and Eddie Van Halen on dueling banjos!

Neil Peart, drums (of course).

Mike Patton, vocals.

Rudy Sarzo, bass

Mixmaster Mike, DJ

It'd be rap/metal like never heard before.