ideal band!

[adam04]

what would you have as your ideal band??

Which drummer??
Bassist??
Guitarist?
More guitarist?
Lead singer?
Etc..?

Then if you want to be more adventurous and give us more info on the band....type of music, what songs they would cover and even a band name!

[adam04]

[Mrs Ava]

grr, replied once, then told it was forbidden!  Will try again!

Lead singers...Ella Fitzgerald, Billy Eckstine
Piano...Fats Domino, Jools Holland
Drums...Dave Grohl
guitar...Carlos Santana, BB King, Jimi Hendrix

Why, Ella I have worshipped since a child.  Billy's voice I love (and have a soft spot as I worked with his son for a while).  Fats and Jools are my own piano playing inspiration.  Dave Grohl, foo fighters not Nirvana, is passionate about the drums and looks amazing!  Carlos and BB make beautiful music from those instruments which are a real mystery to me and Jimi, well just because!

I find it hard to pick musicians from todays bands, plenty of singers, but not so many musicians, people who love their instruments and make amazing noises from them.

As for a name for that bunch.......an ecclectic noise I think!

[Derekthefox]

Grrr EJ you have chosen all my favourites too...

ok

lead singers, Gloria Estefan (don;t even go there !!!), Annie Haslam, and Petra Berger
Piano, yes Jools ...
Guitar, Santana, Antonio Carlos Jobim, BB King ...

That is all, the jams between these people would be awesome.

As for a name ... Intonation ...

[ACE]

Derek on guitar,

undercarriage on flute

wardy on drums, (she's always banging on about something)

I play a wicked triangle.


We could do covers of the Loving Spoonful

But call ourselfs 'The Stinking Prongfull'

[sammyd]

GLORIA ESTEFAN ??? ???

[Derekthefox]

Why the ??? ??? sammyd ?

[sammyd]

justa wonderin why you choose her


made me chuckle before i leave for work ;D

[Robert_Brenchley]

I'd go for Salif Keita, Lucky Dube and Peter Tosh; three forms of what's basically African music, and see what they'd make of it together.

[aquilegia]

that's a hard one... (I hope dead people are ok!)

Guitar would be a battle between Santana (from the 70s - not as he is now), Jimi Hendrix and Jerry Garcia
Piano - Cat Stevens or Tom Waits
Vocals - Jimi, Cat, Janis Joplin, Bjork

Actually no sod it - I just like to hear a jam between those guitarists! That would be mindblowing!

[undercarriage plan]

Ace, as long as my stage name wasn't Undercarriage Plan, I could hide behind the curtains with my back to the audience...no probs... ;D
As for the ideal band, can't choose, sorry! Still in a state of indecision, may be permanent.. :-\

[Derekthefox]

Come on Aqui, make your mind up ... are you going for an all guitar band then?

[Ozzy]

okays here goes

drummer = Ginger Baker

Bass Guitar = Jean-Jacques (JJ) Burnel (the stranglers)

lead guitar = Gary Moore or Albert Collins

Vocals = JOSS STONE or Tom Jones

Piano/keyboard = Jools Holland

trumpet = Lois Armstrong

Violin = Nigel Kennedy

Harmonica = Mike Turk



Thats my line up but mahn they probbo wouldn't gel.. would love to hear Tom doing Parisienne Walkways with Gary on guitar and Jools on piano and fire nigel in there with the violin.. that would work..

EJ agree with you about Ella what a fantastic talent she was and truly awesum range, I am big fan of any duet of Ella with Lois Armstrong, those two together are simply phenomenal..

ozzy

:-* :-* :-*

[aquilegia]

Come on Aqui, make your mind up ... are you going for an all guitar band then?

yeah - hell why not? You could join it.

Me make up my mind? Do you not know me Derek?

[Derekthefox]

Never heard of Mike Turk until just now Oz, but the sound samples are just amazing ... thanks for picking him !!!

As much as I would love to play alongside those fabulous musicians Aqui, I think I might be stretched just a little ...

[adam04]

right thought bout mine, well some of it, will have a think for the ones im missing:----

Drummer: Tre Cool (Greenday)
Guitar: Slash (Guns & Roses) Pete Townsend (The who)
Lead singers: Axel Rose (Runs & Roses), Jonny Rotton (Sex pistols)
Synthosier:- Brandon Flowers (Killers)
Bassist:
Song writer: Pete Doherty (Libertines)

Band name:  Unknown!

Genre of music: Punk Rock!

They would play a big venue if to play live, stadiums or milton keynes Super Bowl.

[terrace max]

Morrissey - vocals
Johnny Marr - guitar
Andy Rourke - bass
Mike Joyce - drums

I think I would call them The Joneses, or maybe The Smiths...

[adam04]

 ;D

[Yellow Petals]

Now let me think .....

Drums ...  Roger Taylor
Bass ...  John Deacon
Guitar ...  Brian May
Vocals ... Freddie Mercury

I'm not sure how they would do together <shrug> could be a success.  Can't think of a name but all that talent together is sheer musical royalty. 

;D ;)

[katynewbie]

 ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Chuckles.......nuff said YP!!!!!!

[Derekthefox]

You not said anyone Katy? I thought you would have Steve Hackett as your guitarist anyway ...