The "Your Dream Band" Thread

Title says it all, who do you want to see play together? Dead or alive, all musicians are fair game.

Fusion jazz group:

Jeff Beck - Guitar
John McLaughlin - Guitar
Chick Corea - Piano
Miles Davis - Trumpet
John Coltrane - Tenor sax
Cannonball Adderley - Alto sax
Jaco Pastorius - Bass
Tony Williams - Drums

Prog metal group:

Tommy Rogers (Between the Buried and Me) - Vocals/keys/samples
Mikael Åkerfeldt (Opeth) - Vocals/guitar
Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree) - Vocals/guitar
Robert Fripp (King Crimson) - Ambient guitar soundscapes
John Myung (Dream Theater) - Bass
Blake Richardson (Between the Buried and Me) - Drums

Guitar: Jimmy Page
Drums: Keith Moon
Keyboards: Ray Manzarek
Bass: John Enwhistle
Vocals: David Bowie or Jim Morrison

C'mon, no John Entwistle on bass?

Kieth Moon is beast on drums, probably my favorite drummer of all time.

Originally Posted by TravestyHelp

C'mon, no John Entwistle on bass?

Kieth Moon is beast on drums, probably my favorite drummer of all time.

I couldn't remember his name so I just put down Aerosmith's bassist. I'll edit now.

Hard Rock:

Vic Vergeant - Guitar/Vocals
Werner Froelich - Bass/Vocals
Cosmio Lampis - Drums

Oh, wait, this band already exists.

I'm not changing any lineups, good sir. My favorite bands are favorites for a reason.

Songwriter: Billy Corgan/ Jack White
Singer: Billy Corgan/ Brandon Flowers
Guitar: Jack White/ James Iha (?)
Bass: Flea
Drums: Keith Moon

I wish, right?

90's rock:
'91 era Chris Cornell (Soundgarden) - Vocals
Kim Thayil (Soundgarden) - Guitar
Billy Gould (faith No More) - Bass
Roddy Bottum (Faith No more) - Keyboards
Reni (The Stone Roses) - Drums


And my dream a cappella group:
Chris Cornell
Mike Patton
Dax Riggs
Lori S.

Awesome metal band:

Lead Vocal: Mikael Åkerfeldt
Backup Vocal: Karl Sanders
Lead Guitar: Muhammed Suiçmez
2nd Guitar: Alexi Lahio
Bass: David Ellefson
Drums: Max Duhamel

Something of a mash-up between punk and RATM band thing:

Vocals/freestyling: Zack de la Roche
Guitar: Tom Morello.
Bass: Matt Freeman
Drums: Chris Dangerous

Rock awesomeness:

Vocals: Jousha Homme or Eddie Vedder
Lead Guitar: Steve Vai
2nd Guitar: Eddie Van Halen
Bass: Les Claypool.
Drums: Tim Alexander

I think I've already seen one of my dream bands perform: It was a jazz group made up of the most amazing jazz artists alive today, and it was awesome. March 7, 2008 - Crescent Jazz Festival. Let's see if I can remember who was there, with a little help from Google -

Drums:
Robby Ameen ("funkify the clave") on set
Alex Acuña ("the rhythm collector") - set and auxiliary percussion
(yeah, they both played two different sets at the same time - they traded off solos and everything. It was amazing.)

-These two drummers were seriously the two most amazing drummers I have ever seen or heard. Screw you guys and your little metal/rock drummers with their double bass and other crap, these guys actually knew how to drum. Robby Ameen played a twenty-minute drum solo with more amazing stuff in it than the standard rock drummer plays in his entire life. He kept the "clave" beat (five hits in two four-count measures) going in some way, shape, or form throughout his entire solo, be it on the high hat, the cowbell, the rims of his drums, etc etc. He was amazing. Alex Acuña's limbs operate entirely independently of each other, and he can play different time signatures in each one. Five against nine against three against four? NO PROBLEM. Each limb could play something completely different, and he made it look so easy. He's also a master of traditional Afro-Cuban drums as well. He's also one of the most in-demand session drummers ever, playing with everybody from Weather Report to Paul McCartney to U2 to Elvis to Carlos Santana to John Williams. You can keep Neil Peart and Jimmy Sullivan and Joey Jordison, Robby Ameen and Alex Acuña could OWN any of them.

I just had to take a tangent and rant about real drummers versus lame rock drummers. Returning back to the topic at hand now.

Trombone:
Conrad Herwig (currently holds the title for "best living trombone player in the world")

Sax:
Ed Calle (His solos were insanely fast) - tenor sax
Eric Marienthal - alto sax

Trumpet:
Adolfo Acosta (of Tower of Power fame)
Claudio Roditi

That was seriously one of the most amazing performances I have ever seen. Anyway, my fantasy blues-rock group would comprise:

Guitar:
Eric Clapton (lead)
Jack White (rhythm)
John Frusciante (awesome)

Bass:
Flea (Michael Balzary)
Victor Wooten

Drums:
John Bonham
Chad Smith

Keyboards:
Fats Waller (Fats Waller is my idol for sweet and simple jazz piano)

Vocals:
Jack White
Anthony Kiedis
John McCrea

Hey, what do you know! Every member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers is included in the list above! That's because I sincerely believe that the members of the Chili Peppers are honestly four of the most talented individuals to ever get together and jam. I love them all.

I've always found the red hot chili peppers to be extremely average musicians individually, aside from John Frusciante, I suppose.

Chad Smith, their drummer (who by the way looks exactly like Will Ferrell), is evidently good enough to play in a band with Joe Satriani, tentatively titled Chickenfoot.

I've always considered him to actually be a pretty good drummer, maybe even a more interesting drummer than John is an interesting guitarist, although I am a fan of John's creative abilities, to be certain.


My fantasy group would have -

Thomas Erak, of The Fall of Troy, on lead guitar and at least partially as a vocalist. The guy has amazing vocal range, and aside from that, many songs by The Fall of Troy would be considered pretty damn good if they were instrumentals, which you don't get much from modern music. He does a good deal of screaming when he isn't doing some impressive falsetto work, and I do believe that screaming in music, while not necessarily an operation that requires talent, can get a lot across emotionally and musically. It's kind of like Jonathan Adam's use of whispering in his arrangement for El Dorado.

His guitar parts, while not the most technically impressive (although still pretty damn impressive, to be sure, they are not like Yngwie Malmsteen), are wildly creative and heavily emotional.

Edit: This song, I believe is a good demonstration of his creative abilities. The song is called I Just Got This Symphony Goin', and yes, it does scream a lot throughout the song. The intro line is a pretty unique sounding semi-complex tapping riff, and I love it.


Cedric Bixler-Zavala of The Mars Volta on lead vocals. I'm not going to give this guy a large description, as he much more widely known than Thomas Erak. I will just say that he has my favorite voice of any male singer out there. Hell, of any singer out there period.

On drums, none other than Mike Portnoy of Dream Theater. While I do feel that collectively Dream Theater's library of music is rather boring and lacking soul (a few songs are huge exceptions to this), there is no denying that separate Dream Theater may very well be the most talented collection of musicians out there today.

On bass, Victor Wooten. Why? Because the dude's creative as hell, and he can carry a damn song.


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What kind of band would this be? A jazz/prog metal band. Which I guess sounds odd, but trust me, it would be sweet.

Guitar
Jimi Hendrix
Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin)
Slash (Gun's N Roses)

Drums
Either Neal Pert (Rush), or Kieth Moon (The Who), can't decide which.

Vocals
Steve Tyler (Aerosmith)
Joey Ramone (The Ramones)
John Lenon (Beatles)
Janis Joplin

Keyboard
Richard Wright (Pink Floyd)

Travis Barker - Drums (blink-182)
Joel Madden - Vocals (Good Charlotte)
Eddie Van Halen - Guitar (Van Halen)
°Dave "Brown Sound" Baksh - Guitar (Brown Brigade)
Jason "Cone" McCaslin - Bass Guitar (Sum 41)

Layne Staley-vocals
flea-bass
Tom Morello-guitar
Malcolm young-rhythm guitar
John Dolmayan-drums


eddie vedder-vocals
krist novoselic-bass
travis barker-drums
slash-guitar

axl rose-vocals
jeff ament-bass
dave grohl-drums
angus young-guitar


jello biafra-vocals
duff McKagen-bass
mike McCreedy-guitar
Matt sorum-drums

layne staley- vocals (chains)
matt bellamy - backing v's, lead g's (muse) or mike mccready as lead (pearl jam)
rob deleo - bass guitar (pil0ts)
rolling stones drummer, or the rev from a7x

band would be called

PIME TARADOX

EDITED

but still pime taradox..

Originally Posted by Nox

Something of a mash-up between punk and RATM band thing:

Vocals/freestyling: Zack de la Rocha
Guitar: Tom Morello.
Bass: Matt Freeman
Drums: Chris Dangerous

Whats cool is that Zack de la Rocha was in a hardcore punk band before RATM.

Crazy industrial goth mayhem:
Peter Steele: Vocals/Bass
Trent Reznor: Vocals/Synths
Larry LeLonde: Guitar
Van Williams: Drums

man that would be cool. ill think of more crazy dream bands later!

Lead Guitar - Steve Vai

Back-Up Guitar - Eddie Van Halen

Bass - Greedy Lee

Vocals - Freedie Merucry

Drums - I don't really care for drummers.

Best band ever

Lead Guitar: John Petrucci (Dream Theatre)
Rhythm Guitar: Dave Murray (Iron Maiden)
Third Guitar: John Frusciante (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

Lead Bass: John Myung (Dream Theatre)
Rhythm Bass: Steve Harris (Iron Maiden)

Drummer: Mike Portnoy (Dream Theatre)
Second Drummer: Jai Jaimoe Johanson (Allman Brothers Band)

Keyboardist: That dude from Nightwish

Lead Vocals: Thom Yorke (Radiohead)

Choir Vocals Tenor: Freddie Mercury (Queen)
Choir Vocals Second Tenor: Brandon Boyd (Incubus)
Choir Vocals Third Tenor: Lenny Kravitz
Choir Vocals Fourth Tenor: Adam Levine (Maroon 5)
Choir Vocals Baritone: Morrissey (The Smiths)
Choir Vocals Second Baritone: Anthony Kiedis (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Choir Vocals Third Baritone: That dude from Stone Temple Pilots
Choir Vocals Impossible to Understand: That dude from Fall Out Boy

Guitar / Male Vocals - Chad Petree
Synthesizer - Jeremy Dawsom
Drums - Mike Martin
Bass Guitar / Synthesizer - Sisely Treasure


....Oh, wait.