Pick your Best Fantasy Band

[Boringvolvodriver]

Here’s something to think about.

Pick your fantasy band within the following parameters - my pick noted

Lead Singer/ Front man - Freddie Mercury
Lead Guitar - Eric Clapton
Rhythm/2nd Guitar. Jimmy Page
Bass John Entwistle
Keyboards - Rick Wakeman
Other instrumentalist (optional) - Clarance Clemons
Drums Neil Peart

Only one artist from a band

[gazza285]

Ian Kilmister, from Hawkwind on bass and vocals.
Eddie Clarke from Fastway on guitar.
Phillthy Taylor from Waysted on drums.

I think that combination would work...

Edited by gazza285 on Saturday 7th August 15:36

[popegregory]

Boringvolvodriver said:

Here’s something to think about.

Pick your fantasy band within the following parameters - my pick noted

Lead Singer/ Front man - Freddie Mercury
Lead Guitar - Eric Clapton
Rhythm/2nd Guitar. Jimmy Page
Bass John Entwistle
Keyboards - Rick Wakeman
Other instrumentalist (optional) - Clarance Clemons
Drums Neil Peart

Only one artist from a band

Whilst this is a great thing to debate, this band of yours would be so bad!

[Dynamic Space Wizard]

gazza285 said:

Ian Kilmister, from Hawkwind on bass and vocals.
Eddie Clarke from Fastway on guitar.
Phillty Taylor from Waysted on drums.

I think that combination would work...

That would be good. They could name their band after a Hawkwind song that Ian wrote and do a version of the song, and have an album of the same name. They'd do really well

[Boringvolvodriver]

popegregory said:

Boringvolvodriver said:

Here’s something to think about.

Pick your fantasy band within the following parameters - my pick noted

Lead Singer/ Front man - Freddie Mercury
Lead Guitar - Eric Clapton
Rhythm/2nd Guitar. Jimmy Page
Bass John Entwistle
Keyboards - Rick Wakeman
Other instrumentalist (optional) - Clarance Clemons
Drums Neil Peart

Only one artist from a band

Whilst this is a great thing to debate, this band of yours would be so bad!

Actually probably fair! A case where together it wouldn't work in reality. I did say fantasy band!

[popegregory]

Boringvolvodriver said:

Actually probably fair! A case where together it wouldn't work in reality. I did say fantasy band!

No actually, at the risk of overthinking this far more than it really hypothetically warrants, I’ve changed my mind! I think your two guitarists would work very well and provided they could allow for the flamboyance of the singer and drummer, it could make something rather good if they went in the style of an over the top prog rock / rock opera sort of thing along the lines of Jesus of Suburbia or Knights of Cydonia.

[Boringvolvodriver]

popegregory said:

Boringvolvodriver said:

Actually probably fair! A case where together it wouldn't work in reality. I did say fantasy band!

No actually, at the risk of overthinking this far more than it really hypothetically warrants, I’ve changed my mind! I think your two guitarists would work very well and provided they could allow for the flamboyance of the singer and drummer, it could make something rather good if they went in the style of an over the top prog rock / rock opera sort of thing along the lines of Jesus of Suburbia or Knights of Cydonia.

With Freddie and Rick it would certainly be over the top!

[cherryowen]

It's a great idea for a discussion, BVD!

I think it needs................I dunno..............clarity?

For example, my fantasy blues line-up would look like this:-

Lead Guitar : Christone "Kingfish" Langham
Rhythm Guitar : Danny Kirwan
Bass Guitar : John Paul Jones
Drums : Pete Ward
Vocals : Paul Rodgers

Which would look nothing like my fantasy line-up for rock:-

Lead Guitar : Guthrie Govan
Rhythm Guitar : Dave Mustaine
Bass Guitar : Cliff Burton
Drums : Nick Menza
Vocals : Robert Plant

[Walter Sobchak]

Lead Vocals: Beth Gibbons
Lead Guitar/Backing Vocals: John Frusciante
Bass Guitar: Peter Hook
2nd Guitar/Piano/Synths/string arrangements etc: Jonny Greenwood
Drums:Dave Grohl

[Drooles]

I’m going to say:

Vocals: Peter Gabriel
Lead Guitar: Eric Clapton
Rhythm: Bruce Springsteen
Bass: Mike Mills
Drums: Mick Fleetwood
Keys: Billy Joel
Other: Midge Ure (synth/guitar/production)

[Boringvolvodriver]

cherryowen said:

It's a great idea for a discussion, BVD!

I think it needs................I dunno..............clarity?

For example, my fantasy blues line-up would look like this:-

Lead Guitar : Christone "Kingfish" Langham
Rhythm Guitar : Danny Kirwan
Bass Guitar : John Paul Jones
Drums : Pete Ward
Vocals : Paul Rodgers

Which would look nothing like my fantasy line-up for rock:-

Lead Guitar : Guthrie Govan
Rhythm Guitar : Dave Mustaine
Bass Guitar : Cliff Burton
Drums : Nick Menza
Vocals : Robert Plant

You have a point - maybe we could add that you state what genre the band would play

[gazza285]

John Baldwin from The Deltas on bass.
James Page from Carter-Lewis and the Southerners on guitar.
John Bonham from Terry Webb and the Spiders on drums.
Bobby Plant from Crawling King Snakes on vocals.

Probably go down like a lead balloon though.

[Johnspex]

How about-
Steve Marriott of Humble Pie/ Packet of 3 vocals & guitar
Kenney Jones of the Who/ the Jones Gang on drums
Ian Mclagan of the Faces on keyboards
Ronnie Lane of Slim Chance on bass

[P5BNij]

Johnspex said:

How about-
Steve Marriott of Humble Pie/ Packet of 3 vocals & guitar
Kenney Jones of the Who/ the Jones Gang on drums
Ian Mclagan of the Faces on keyboards
Ronnie Lane of Slim Chance on bass

It’s all too beautiful.....

[thebraketester]

Lead Vocal.... Paul Simon

BVs... Michael McDonald

Keys... Chick Corea

Lead Guitar... Van Halen

Rhythm Guitar+BVs... Glen Campbell

Bass.... Leland Sklar

Drums... Steve Gadd

Percussion... Paulinho da Costa

Trumpet.... Jerry Hey

Trombone.... Bill Richenbach

Sax... Bob Mintzer



That will do....

Edited by thebraketester on Sunday 8th August 08:32

[Boringvolvodriver]

gazza285 said:

John Baldwin from The Deltas on bass.
James Page from Carter-Lewis and the Southerners on guitar.
John Bonham from Terry Webb and the Spiders on drums.
Bobby Plant from Crawling King Snakes on vocals.

Probably go down like a lead balloon though.

WRT clever! - no lead balloon, if Carlsburg did Rock and Roll bands, this would be it!

[cherryowen]

How about a fantasy Jazz quintet? Something like:-

Vox : Sarah Vaughan
Guitar : Joe Pass
Keys : Oscar Peterson
Drums : Buddy Rich
Bass : Jaco Pastorius

Mmmmmmmm. Nice!

[thewarlock]

Difficult, you can't just pick the best guys and assume it'd work.

Would Les Claypool work, sonically, with Mike Portnoy? Or Dimebag?


Singer - Chris Cornell
Lead Guitar - John Fruiscante
Bass - Victor Wooten
Drums - Stewart Copeland

I'd probably listen to that.

[thewarlock]

I'd also add that Them Crooked Vultures is about as perfect a 'supergroup' as I could ever imagine. Wish they'd done a 2nd album. Or I'd had a chance to see them live

[LargeRed]

John,

Paul,

George,

Ringo.

Oooooooooo that has been done before, didn't work for long.