New Music Survey: GO!
Since everyone was so so so awesome with the last music survey, I thought I’d press my luck. Two survey questions:
1) What’s your dream rock band lineup? I suppose, “with a reasonable amount of people”, “who you expect would work well together”, and (ideally) “are still alive”.
2) Three favorite Beatles songs?
I won’t hide my answers until people reply this time. Answers inside.
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March 25th, 2010 at 15h21
Ideal rock band:
Vocals: Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam)
Guitar: Jack White (The White Stripes)
Guitar: Jerry Cantrell (Alice In Chains)
Bass: Les Claypool (Primus)
Drums: Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater)
Keyboards: Jordan Rudess (Dream Theater)
Other: Loreena McKennitt’s touring band
Maybe I could get Mark Lanegan, Josh Homme, Tom Morello, Flea, Dave Grohl, Ray Manzarek, and John Paul Jones, respectively, to sit in with them sometimes.
Beatles songs:
1. Come Together.
2. Let It Be
3. Something
March 28th, 2010 at 08h45
Vocals: what his name the lead singer from Frozen Ghost (I had to look it up, it’s Arnold Lanni)
Vocals: Khaled
Gangsta Rap Vocals: MC Hawking
Guitar: Robert Fripp (King Crimson)
Guitar: Buckethead (because every band should have a guitar shredder with a chicken bucket on his head)
Bass: Geddy Lee (Rush)
Drums: Terry Bozzio (Frank Zappa)
Keyboards: Jon Lord (Deep Purple – to hell with synthesizers, play that organ!)
Didgeridoo: Graham Wiggins (Dr. Didg)
Beatles songs:
The Inner Light
Tomorrow Never Knows
Strawberry Fields Forever
March 29th, 2010 at 14h15
The (totally imaginary) danger here is that history tends to suggest that when you take elements of well-loved bands and combine them into some sort of mythical super-band, the end result is seldom as satisfying as one would initially hope. See: Audioslave, Velvet Revolver. I can only think of a couple of times where it’s worked out (definitely Fugazi, maybe The Highwaymen).
For the sake of playing along, though, I’d stick Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe (Basement Jaxx) in a room with Jake Shears (Scissor Sisters) and Wayne Coyne (Flaming Lips). The result might or might not be great, but it would certainly be different.
Or, for really different, David Bowie with Richard James (Aphex Twin).
March 29th, 2010 at 21h43
You’re forgetting Them Crooked Vultures and Probot in the “successes” column, and Pearl Jam with Neil Young in the “failures”.