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I'm here to see what peoples fantasy bands are. Please give a broad style and up to six names. Go ahead and critique and debate but for my sake please don't senselessly bash.

Classic Style type rock

1. Lawrence Gowan-Keyboards and Vocals-multiplatinum canidian artist, amaing songwriter, graduated Royal Acadamey of Music in piano performance currnetly plays in styx.
2. Brian May-Guitar and vocals-Queens guitarist, not super great technicaly but is a stylistic genius, made lots of his own guitars, can also write songs and sing.
3. John Petrucci-Guitar-plays in Dream Theater, amazing player with some classic rock influences, would add a little modern spice to the band, often lacks sense of musicality
4. Flea-Bass-I like his style and that he plays multiple styles, besides the guy can write amazing bass lines that aren't intrusive and can play just about anything you'd hear in a band of this style, awful little guy for such a big insturment
5. Todd Sucherman-drums-Solid technical player, gooddoulble bassdrum work, good cymbal work, studied at Berklee college of music, studio gun, currnetly on tour with Styx, besides I really like his style
6. Some one solid who could do just about anyhing, particulary sax and flute, axullary percussion and boards and maybe sing a little- open to suggestions

Candy Dulfer?

Hard Rock

1. Freddie Mercury - vocals

2. Jimmy Page - guitar

3. Pete Townshend - guitar

4. Geddy Lee - bass

5. John Bonham - drums

Hard Rock

1. Freddie Mercury - vocals

2. Jimmy Page - guitar

3. Pete Townshend - guitar

4. Geddy Lee - bass

5. John Bonham - drums

1. Amazing, huge range, anystyle, dead, but amazing
2. In the immortal words of Thin Lizzy "I hate LEd Zeplin" the music, especially the vocals grinds on my nerves, but solid technical choice
3-5 all solid choices

Candy Dulfer?
Dude, you need help....
eek.

All sax players can play flute (good ones anyway).

Dream bands have already existed for me:

Dizzy, Bird, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus, Max Roach on The Quintet.

Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, and Max Roach on Money Jungle.

Dude, you need help....
eek.

All sax players can play flute (good ones anyway).

Dream bands have already existed for me:

Dizzy, Bird, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus, Max Roach on The Quintet.

Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, and Max Roach on Money Jungle.

Very good albums, I've heard bits and pieces of both. As to saxaphones on flute, all alto sax players can and the others could learn easily enough, it's being good at those two and the other ones that make this trickey. Speaking of Jazz and great Sax/Flute players, if anyone ever gets the chance go see the Gary Foster Quartet, saw them last week and they were amazing, from LA area I believe.

Drums: I like Bill Bruford he has a jazzier feel than most and played some fusion bands before. Phil Collins was great in the 70's and since then I am sorry
Vocals: Greg Lake cool barritone gets away from all the shrill squeeky singers.
Guitars Steve Howe a country jazzy player on acid great technique.
More guitars Adrian Belew for noise sqwaks and randon stuff.
Keys Tony Banks in his prime. Or Rick Wakeman. Now maybe Tomas Bodin from the Flower Kings.
Bass Tony Levin he did the great riff to sleepless (king Crimson)and can play stick too.
Violin John Luc Ponty. Even more for his work with Mahivishnu Orchestra and Frank Zappa.

More of a classic Prog band.

Vocals- Chino Moreno
Guitar&Vocals- Jerry Cantrell
Drums- Dave Grohl
Bass- Me

As long as we're throwing ourselves in


vocal-me, three octave range versitile voice
lead guitar-my clone I can solo
rythm guitar-dunno can't chord
bass-me played for years, accomplished bassist
drums-anyone but me, i'm screwed here, i'm not coordinated ehough nor will I ever be

Just kidding guys, just poking some fun, I'm not all that good at anything on here except bass and on a really good day vocals

Vocals: Glenn Danzig (Danzig, Samhain, Misfits)
Guitar: Kerry King (Slayer)
Guitar: Jairo T (Sepultura)
Bass: Joey DeMaio (Manowar)
Drums: Dave Lombardo (Slayer, Manowar)

Vocals: Mike Patton
Lead Guitar: John Pertucci
Bass Guitar: John Myung
Drums: Mike Portnoy
Keyboards: Keith Emerson (or can i have Liszt?)

Oh, and simce when has brian may been a technically proficient guitarist? he even said himself that when he was playing with vai etc he couldnt keep up with them.

Vocals- Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys (So he's got a terrible voice. Who Cares!)

Alternatively, Layne Staley from Alice in Chains.

Rhythm Guitar- Kurt Cobain of some obscure band I forget (Commercial success guaranteed!)

Alternatively, hmm...Kim Thayil from Soundgarden.

Lead Guitar- Hendrix.

Alternatively Tom Morello from Rage Against the Machine.

Bass- Nick Oliveri from Queens of the Stone Age and Kyuss.

Alternatively, Justin Chancellor from Tool.

Drums- John Bonham.

Or perhaps Dave Grohl, but i'm trying to keep it one member per band. Too bad. :p

Bass- Me
Haha, good one.

Lead Vocals:Ronnie Van Zant vastly Underrated

Guitarist(1):Joe Walsh decent giutarist-Great Lyrics,could be backup Vocals


Guitarist(2):Mark Knoffler fastest fingers this side of VanHalen


Bass: Dusty Rhodes not only is he a good Bass player but he can sing as well



Drums:Phil Collins Only drummer i can think of


Keyboards:That Guy from Styx

Hard rock/metal

Vocals-Bruce Dickinson
Rhythm Guitar-James Hetfield
Lead Guitar-Steve Vai
Bass-Cliff Burton(if dead people not allowed then Flea)
Drums-Dave Grohl

^^ that is a nice Set up :)

BUMP :rolleyes:

Jazz Combo

1)Chick Webb
2)Louis Armstrong
3)Benny Goodman
4)Count Basie
5)Miles Davis
6)John Coltrane
7)Me

Lead guitar- Hendrix
backup guitar- weird al's guitarist (actually VERY good)
vocals- steve miller
base- hendrix's base player
drums- Mettalica's drummer (name escapes me at moment)

some clashing of styles, but oh well, they are all awesome.

Jazz Combo

1)Chick Webb
2)Louis Armstrong
3)Benny Goodman
4)Count Basie
5)Miles Davis
6)John Coltrane
7)Me

By your name is it safe to assume you play trombone?

Yes, yes I do. I'm also a vocalist, but then again so is Louis. I was thinking about adding Frank Sinatra, but decided that he would probably go better in a Big Band.