I dunno if this will work well. For that matter, it might work better in Cafe Society, except that I’m setting it up as a game of responses within this thread.
So I was trying to expand the variety on my Shuffle My Stations feature in Pandora and realized I could widen things out a bit by pulling apart a few bands and including their members as soloists.
But that’s not this game; that would be too easy.
The challenge of this game is going to be to
*take one or two individuals from a band/group/supergroup/whatever you call those teams that sell their music under a singular name
*Change (add, subtract, substitute) one or more individuals
*tell us the name of the resulting band (which may or may not have changed due to the change in line-up) and list the members.
The next responder has three choices
- Quote the original band/line-up and pull one or two other individuals out, repeating the process above
- Quote a response with its line-up, pull a person or two out and tell us what new band they formed and with whom.
- Quote a response line-up and tell us what band one or two individuals were in before getting into that “response” band.
As an abbreviated instance, I could start with…
A) Carlos Santana + Neal Schon + Greg Rollie = Santana
and responders could run with…
B) Neal Schon + Greg Rollie + Steve Perry + Aynsley Dunbar = Journey
C) Neal Schon + Jonathan Cain + Steve Perry + Dean Castronovo = Journey
D) Neal Schon + Jonathan Cain + John Waite = Bad English
E) Jonathan Cain + John Waite + Wally Stocker = The Babys
…and the lists don’t need to be exhaustive, 'cause a band like Santana had something of a revolving door as far as members coming and going, but if you’re quoting A, then you might need to tell us “Well, Santana also had Curtis Salgado in there briefly and Salgado + Robert Cray = Robert Cray Band.”
Clear as mud?
I wonder how long this can run.
So I’ll start the game by throwing a British band out there:
Peter Green + John McVie + Mick Fleetwood + Jeremy Spencer = Fleetwood Mac
–G?