I would like to make a band called The Satanic Asswipes with the following members:
Michael Angelo (former guitarist of Nitro and a speed metal freak. He isn’t musical at all but he can play scales and arpeggios very fast and he does a lot of gimmicky things with his hands. One of my friends has a video of him playing and it is one funny train wreck to watch.)
King Diamond (Just as silly as Micheal Angelo. He does this growly low thing and this girly high thing with his voice and wears Kiss-esque makeup.)
Les Claypool (The bassist from Primus. He is just as silly and as much a showman as the first too. He plays a mean funk bass. He is just as gimmicky with his bass as the previous two; however, he is actually musical where the first two aren’t.)
I can’t really think of a good drummer but any of the grindcore/death metal drummers could fit in doing some fast double bass stuff. I would like it for the drummer to also die of some type of heart aneurysm and be replaced with a similar drummer every 10 months. The band would love the publicity and tell the press mixed reviews about how he died (King Diamond would say he was sacrificed to Satan. Micheal Angelo would say his boozing ways finally got to him and the dozen hookers with him said he was happy when he had gone. And, Les Claypool would make up something equally bizzarre or just tell the truth.)
Together they would be the Satanic Asswipes. They would all have their own image that they try to keep up in the band. They would also perform in their current styles but somehow the songs they perform would mesh but in a very unusual way. I would pay over 100 bucks to see that band live.
A long time ago I came up with the idea for a band consisting of:
Layne Staley of Alice in Chains on vocals and guitar (no idea if he played guitar, but well, he could learn.)
Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots on vocals and bass (don’t know if he plays bass)
Dave Navarro (Jane’s Addiction/RHCP) on guitar
Jimmy Chamberlain (Smashing Pumpkins) on drums
The band would be called The Untourables. The “joke” (though it really isn’t funny) is that all of those people were at the time heroin addicts who seemed to be causing their bands not to fair very well tour wise. The idea was perhaps if they all had a band together, things would work out better. And besides, they’re all rather talented people. Such a thing will never happen because Layne Staley is dead and I think the others have cleaned up (hopefully). Sorry if this offends anyone.
Yeah, I figured they’d sound sort of like a combination of all those bands. An alternate name for the band that I had thought up at the time was Layne’s Addiction.
A totally different band I’d want to see, consisting of all living people:
Kat Bjelland (Babes in Toyland) on vocals and guitar
Cyndi Lauper on vocals
Mike McCready (Pearl Jam) on guitar
Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers) on bass
Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters) on drums
Queen Latifah backup rapping
Yes, I know that is a bizarre mix, but I think it would work.
I like the Me & the Dead Guys idea, that’s pretty cool!
Maynard James Keenan (Tool) on vocals.
Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails) on vocals/keyboards/guitars/misc. random musical devices.
Flea (Red Hot Chilli Peppers) on bass.
Danny Carey (Tool) on drums.
Lead Vocals: Elvis Costello
Background vocals: Jake Burns (Stiff Little Fingers)
Lead Guitar: Lars Frederiksen (Rancid)
Rhythm Guitar: Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine)
Bass: Matt Freeman (Operation Ivy/Rancid)
Drums: Chris Hugall (Mouthwash)
They’d be called “A Very Competent Group of Musicians, Really”
James Hetfield - (Metallica) Tenor?
Peter Steele - (Type O Negative, Carnivore) Bass
Maynard James Keenan - (Tool, A Perfect Circle) Contralto
Trent Reznor - (Nine Inch Nails) Tenor?
Jerry Cantrell - (Alice in Chains) Harmonization
Band name: Sharp Metal
They might not be any good, but they’d sound pretty cool and their lyrics should kick ass. Plus it would be kind of fun trying to fit egos that large into the same recording studio.
Keith Emerson and Greg Lake seem to place some importance upon maintaining their band’s intitials, briefly assigning rhythm responsibilties to Cozy Powell when they needed a replacement for Carl Palmer. My brother and I imagined other possible Emerson, Lake, and P- lineups: Ian Paice, Neil Peart, and even Tito Puente could each have served as the “P” to Keith’s “E” and Greg’s “L.”
Just take Bela Fleck and the Flecktones and throw in any decent singer. Bela Fleck and the boys have to be the most talented group out there these days.
Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, and 50 Cent. I don’t want to hear 'em perform, I just want them to take lots and lots of trips on small, single-engine airplanes together. Preferably in bad weather.
Bootsy Collins on bass - the slappinest, funkiest bass player ever!
Jimi’s dead so…Jimmy Page on guitar - the greatest blues player I know of (beside Robert Johnson or Leadbelly (Billy Gibbons maybe…) )
Eddie Van Halen on guitar - another amazing player.
Gregg Allman on keyboards/vocals - unbelievable at both!
Neil Peart on drums - nuff said!
Janis is dead so…Robert Plant on vocals - greatest screamer ever.
Add “The Blues Brothers” horn section (could they be the one’s who backed Aretha and Otis and others, down in Muscle Shoals? ) and you could probably make some good tunes with THAT group!
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