You're the music manager - who'd be in your ideal band?

[vurt]

drums - echo

not dr. avalanche?

nah, too goth for my needs!
echo has a cheerful disposition and will fit well with bowie and barrett, i think.

[rcat]

Tony Levin, bass
John Mclaughlin, guitar
Bill Bruford, drums
Peter Gabriel, keyboards and vocals
Chris Botti, trumpet

In an all-night concert including "all you can consume" of the finest German beer on tap and the best Canadian Skunk. If I were a millionaire, I'd actually actively pursue this.

[thecontrolcentre]

an all-night concert including "all you can consume" of the finest German beer on tap and the best Canadian Skunk.

Sounds like a gig I played in Amsterdam, during the Cannabis Cup. There was a free vaporizer in the lobby, then at midnight balloons containing free spliffs floated down onto the dancefloor.

[ksandvik]

*Anyone* who played in Frank Zappa's bands.

[Josmoker]

Guitar - Dimebag Darrell
Vox - Phil Anselmo, Regina Spektor, Chava Alberstein
Drums - DJ Premier

errr, okay, this doesn't go anywhere...

[Doug1978]

When considering a great band (and even more especially from the managers point of view, who has to tolerate all the contradictions and still sell the band, as Doug here has suggested), one has to understand that "a great band" is not at all necessary the same as "a group of great musicians". Therefore this approach is rather childish. E.g. I dare to suspect that Moon-Jamerson rhythm combo wouldn't be ideal, how much I admire both musicians in their genre. The chemistry of the musicians is the core in everey really good band (good music a group of skillful musicians can create put to be a creative band in the long term is a different thing than play a couple of pieces), one famous example is of course the Beatles. For the same reason many attemps to build so called "supergroups" artificially often fail miserably. History knows maybe just one or two exeptions. Harry

In fairness, I'd probably agree with your overall remarks Harry if this was a serious thread - but you and I know that it's not. Also, I don't think you'd get anything like the number of joyful, imaginative suggestions on a more serious thread as you do here.

I disagree completely with your viewpoint that Jamerson and Moon could not have been an effective rhythm section together. For me it would be ideal because although Moon's style was not to play a Motown beat (at least not publicly), it is his incredible timing and control at all times on the drumkit that made me choose him - and I say this as a drummer of 22 years experience myself - that there is NO reason why Moon would not be able to play any (slower) music just as effectively. Hell, in a different era with different influences, I think that he would have been a fantastic jazz drummer.
Similarly, although Jamerson is best known for his Motown funky grooves, it is his incredible imagination and feel for the instrument that I think would make him equally at home in plenty of other genres.

More to the point, and as you can see from my other selections, it is not a Motown or Mod sound that I'm going for. It is a heavily rhythmic, somewhat reggae, sound above all else - hence McCook, Drummond, Wright, Ranglin and even Dury.
Could Moon and Jamerson play in a reggae funk band? I think so not least because such a genre is built around the bass and drums. I also think they'd be great - with chances in every song for both players to have wild solos!


And yeah, of course "a great band" is not at all necessary the same as "a group of great musicians". If it were, I'd have picked Hendrix, Presley and Wonder amongst others - but I didn't.
I notice that you're yet to stick up your own band suggestion Harry - which of course you don't have to do, but why come onto a thread mainly to disagree with others?

Ultimately, if you want to get serious then you'd have to say that there's no way of proving or disproving whether these musicians could work together - for the obvious reasons.

However, this is a light-hearted thread. And as such, were these comments really necessary?:

If we just want to list good musicians what's all that manager-crap in the header?

Therefore this approach is rather childish.

Also, is Keith really all that bad as a bassist??

Keith Richard(s) is a crap bass player.

[Doug1978]

Thank you to everyone who made such interesting (and in ZombieQueen's case, 'rather curious'!) choices.

Please keep them coming.

[vurt]

im a bit worried about why i was picked for drums? ive heard me play drums!

[Doug1978]

^^ Assuming that you're not Keith Moon (which would be fantastic but also a bit worrying), using my detective skills I deduce that you are in fact...

John Wright.


Or maybe Stewart Copeland?

(actually a brilliant drummer).


Anyway, having heard what you can do with your own music, I'd probably add you to my band Vurt as live mixing engineer - and let you lose on those effect buttons!

[cryophonik]

My new band, The Big Bottoms, would consist of:

Bass: Jaco Pastorius
Percussive bass: Les Claypool
Rhythm bass: Bootsy Collins
Lead bass: Billy Sheehan
Piccolo bass: Stanley Clarke
Cage dancer: me

[skipscada]

My experience with typical pub bands suggests this would be an ideal lineup:

Bass: Guy Berryman (Coldplay)
Piano: Tim Rice-Oxley (Keane)
Drums: Tony McCarroll (Early Oasis)
Guitar: Nathan Conolly (Snow Patrol)
Vocals: Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong

Name: The Zzz's

[Zombie Queen]

Why curious? Manager's sole point of interest is to manage to make money, so I picked most popular figures on the biggest market and equipped them with instruments they can possibly handle.

[Doug1978]

^^ actually now I see your cunning plan, I can't fault your logic Zombie Queen. Although the rattle can be quite a demanding and nuanced instrument to master (even for those with the most delicate of hands).


I like your idea Cryophonik for BIG bass (and cage dancing too ). I just wonder whether it would be quite tricky to EQ and separate the instruments - though maybe this doesn't matter. BASS.


Indeed Skipscada - I've sat through plenty of those pub gigs too

[bluedad]

Paul McCartney on bass/vocals
John Lennon on guitar/vocals
George Harrison lead guitar/vocals
Ringo Starr on drums
maybe could get Billy Preston to
play a little keys every now and then..

[debra1rlo]

i would fire the manager and the band and cash the advance check