We’ve all seen stories about private parties with hired stars as the entertainment. My brother recently was at one with Tony Bennett as entertainment.
Who would you hire?
Pussy Riot
Boston Symphony
Sufan Stevens
The cast of Glee. No, seriously, probably The Roots or Lupe Fiasco.
First answer that popped into my brain was Barenaked Ladies. But on second thought, Weird Al would be a much better choice.
NOT Poison, that’s for sure.
(Too soon? :p)
I’d say The Corrs, but they seem to have retired. So instead, Loreena McKennitt, even if she is a weird hippie.
Hmm, most of my favorites are dead or broken up (Warren Zevon, REM, The Clash/Joe Strummer, Morphine/Mark Sandman.)
I might go with Drive-By-Truckers.
Dave Edmunds
OK. Me, it would be Paul McCartney all the way.
If he’s not available then Neil Young.
Slight hijack: I once bartended a wedding of some Telecom magnate and he hired:
David Crosby to play entrance/warm-up music (to the reception);
Jay Leno and Dana Carvey as hosts;
Christopher Cross, REO Speedwagon, Journey (fake lead, not Steve Perry) & Rod Stewart as main entertainment. I wanna say there was another act, but don’t recall. I do recall that there were equal amounts of cases of Dom Perignon and trophy wives with fake boobs.
I heard the wedding cost $5-million.
Rammstein. Complete with the pyrotechnics. Since I also want to buy Belcourt Castle, the city of Newport RI would probably pitch a shit fit since it isn’t their precious vaunted Jazz Festival type highbrow entertainment.
it would be one hell of a lawn party =)
Aerosmith or The Joe Perry Project
(basically, I’d like to meet Joe Perry and hopefully Billie, too)
RUSH!!!
Jimmy Buffet or Lynyrd Skynyrd. Maybe both.
Probably Prince.
Ke$ha
I know you said ‘currently available’… But I’d use all my winnings to bring Peter Steele back to life, and have Type O negative play.
Leonard Cohen, maybe.