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

[Doug1978]

Hi everyone

Just as a light-hearted idea, if you were the Svengali forming a new pub band and had the chance to pick from (dead or alive) music legends, who'd you go for?

There'll be plenty of great musicians you could pick, but would they suit your vision of the band as a whole?

And would enough people want to come to your first pub gig?


Here's my line-up:

Bass - James Jamerson
Drums - Keith Moon
Horns - Tommy McCook, Don Drummond
Guitar - Ernest Ranglin
Organ - Winston Wright
Vocals - Ian Dury


(As an aside, I learnt today whilst dreaming up this band that Tommy McCook and Winston Wright etc's reggae hit 'The Liquidator' actually inspired the Staple Sister's classic 'I'll Take You There' - and not the other way round, as I previously thought).


Cheers

[K-Bee]

No need to figure out a line up for me! It's already there!



May the funk be with you!

[Doug1978]

Hi K-Bee - yep, they're a great band (and I think maybe not as known as they should be?).
I'd heard one of their videos whilst trawling YouTube a few months ago but had forgotten about them, so it's great to remember who they are!

Of course, as a band they already exist - so in addition can you think of who you'd like if you were creating your own legends group (in any genre) from scratch?

[AdmiralQuality]

Lead Guitar - Eric Clapton
Guitar and vocals - John Lennon
Drums - Mitch Mitchell
Bass - Keith Richards

[Harry_HH]

Hi everyone

Just as a light-hearted idea, if you were the Svengali forming a new pub band and had the chance to pick from (dead or alive) music legends, who'd you go for?

There'll be plenty of great musicians you could pick, but would they suit your vision of the band as a whole?

And would enough people want to come to your first pub gig?


Here's my line-up:

Bass - James Jamerson
Drums - Keith Moon
Horns - Tommy McCook, Don Drummond
Guitar - Ernest Ranglin
Organ - Winston Wright
Vocals - Ian Dury


(As an aside, I learnt today whilst dreaming up this band that Tommy McCook and Winston Wright etc's reggae hit 'The Liquidator' actually inspired the Staple Sister's classic 'I'll Take You There' - and not the other way round, as I previously thought).


Cheers

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

[damoog]

James hetfield-rhythm guitar and vocals
Chris Adler - drums
flea- bass
Slash - lead guitar
Liam howlett - synths

[vurt]

bass - mani
lead guitar - hendrix
rhythym guitar - syd barrett
drums - echo
synth n keys - howard scarr
vocals - david bowie
percussion - animal
sax - zoot
bez ztyle stage dancer - anyone but bez.

[vurt]

Hi everyone

Just as a light-hearted idea, if you were the Svengali forming a new pub band and had the chance to pick from (dead or alive) music legends, who'd you go for?

There'll be plenty of great musicians you could pick, but would they suit your vision of the band as a whole?

And would enough people want to come to your first pub gig?


Here's my line-up:

Bass - James Jamerson
Drums - Keith Moon
Horns - Tommy McCook, Don Drummond
Guitar - Ernest Ranglin
Organ - Winston Wright
Vocals - Ian Dury


(As an aside, I learnt today whilst dreaming up this band that Tommy McCook and Winston Wright etc's reggae hit 'The Liquidator' actually inspired the Staple Sister's classic 'I'll Take You There' - and not the other way round, as I previously thought).


Cheers

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 chimistry 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

i think were just having a bit of fun, i dont think anyone is suggesting we will actually reanimate the dead and take these acts on the road...

[Nighthawk77]

bass - mani
lead guitar - hendrix
rhythym guitar - syd barrett
drums - echo
synth n keys - howard scarr
vocals - david bowie
percussion - animal
sax - zoot
bez ztyle stage dancer - anyone but bez.

The ghost band of the afterlife....
Something to look forward to..

[Harry_HH]

Hi everyone

Just as a light-hearted idea, if you were the Svengali forming a new pub band and had the chance to pick from (dead or alive) music legends, who'd you go for?

There'll be plenty of great musicians you could pick, but would they suit your vision of the band as a whole?

And would enough people want to come to your first pub gig?


Here's my line-up:

Bass - James Jamerson
Drums - Keith Moon
Horns - Tommy McCook, Don Drummond
Guitar - Ernest Ranglin
Organ - Winston Wright
Vocals - Ian Dury


(As an aside, I learnt today whilst dreaming up this band that Tommy McCook and Winston Wright etc's reggae hit 'The Liquidator' actually inspired the Staple Sister's classic 'I'll Take You There' - and not the other way round, as I previously thought).


Cheers

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 chimistry 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

i think were just having a bit of fun, i dont think anyone is suggesting we will actually reanimate the dead and take these acts on the road...

I was having fun. BTW, If we just want to list good musicians what's all that manager-crap in the header? H.

[MaxSynths]

[vurt]

fair enough!

and who wouldnt want to manage the electrc mayhem?

[Harry_HH]

Lead Guitar - Eric Clapton
Guitar and vocals - John Lennon
Drums - Mitch Mitchell
Bass - Keith Richards

Keith Richard(s) is a crap bass player. But as a fun bier-drinker-fella in the pub-band he would play his role well. H.

[fmr]

This reminds me of the "galactic" team of Real Madrid (football). The Real president hired what he thought were the best players in the world. In the end, the team played lousy, and won almost nothing. OTH, teams assembled by good coaches, with a vision in mind for "a team" played formidably, and won lot of titles (see how Barcelona plays, for example, or, for those that can remember it, the Ajax team of the end of sixties, early seventies, leaded by Johan Cruijf). This not music, but the principle remains the same. In a team (or in a band) the whole must be more than the sum of the parts. The Beatles were not particularly amazing as musicians, but the band was amazing.

[Trakstar]

James brown on drums, Hendrix on guitar, and susan boyle on vocals with eminem and snoop dogg doing backing rap sections for support