# You won the lottery. Which currently available artist/group do you hire to provide the live music? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 11, 2013, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-won-the-lottery-which-currently-available-artist-group-do-you-hire-to-provide-the-live-music/646815 "2013-01-11T02:41:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2013, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-won-the-lottery-which-currently-available-artist-group-do-you-hire-to-provide-the-live-music/646815/61 "2013-01-12T01:18:07Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > You know, I’ve seen this mentioned before and thought you were kidding. Wow! > [@arjee](#): > > She is. Kidding, that is. > > I would hire The Waybacks, MonkeyJunk and Paul Simon. Great. Now I’m back to not knowing what to believe. ---
**Author:** ![dubs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dubs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dubs)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2013, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-won-the-lottery-which-currently-available-artist-group-do-you-hire-to-provide-the-live-music/646815/62 "2013-01-12T02:42:45Z")
Devin Townsend! But I get to pick the songs because they’d mostly be from Addicted and Ghost. And for my son, I’d probably allow some stuff from Devin’s Strapping Young Lad days. Anneke will have to sing because she has the voice of an angel and RVP will have to drum. I guess I better go buy some lottery tickets… ---
**Author:** ![luv2draw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@luv2draw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luv2draw)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2013, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-won-the-lottery-which-currently-available-artist-group-do-you-hire-to-provide-the-live-music/646815/63 "2013-01-12T02:56:15Z")
The Rolling Stones. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2013, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-won-the-lottery-which-currently-available-artist-group-do-you-hire-to-provide-the-live-music/646815/64 "2013-01-12T03:08:44Z")
Sonic Youth. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2013, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-won-the-lottery-which-currently-available-artist-group-do-you-hire-to-provide-the-live-music/646815/65 "2013-01-12T03:10:35Z")
Assuming Kim and Thurston are talking again. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2013, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-won-the-lottery-which-currently-available-artist-group-do-you-hire-to-provide-the-live-music/646815/66 "2013-01-12T03:22:54Z")
I would love to see the Seatbelts live, and this might be the only way I’d accomplish it. So…yeah. The Seatbelts. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2013, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-won-the-lottery-which-currently-available-artist-group-do-you-hire-to-provide-the-live-music/646815/67 "2013-01-12T03:35:38Z")
You know what, if I win the lottery, I can have two bands on consecutive nights, damnit. A weekend-long party. So…The Seatbelts on Friday night, and Rush on Saturday night. Because the one Rush concert I was able to go to, I was totally unable to view due to people standing, dancing, talking and being rude. Missed the whole thing. ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2013, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-won-the-lottery-which-currently-available-artist-group-do-you-hire-to-provide-the-live-music/646815/68 "2013-01-13T18:25:14Z")
How much would it cost to get Bob Dylan to sing Steeler Wheel’s “Stuck in the Middle with You”? ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2013, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-won-the-lottery-which-currently-available-artist-group-do-you-hire-to-provide-the-live-music/646815/69 "2013-01-13T19:48:56Z")
Jeff Beck Prince The Brian Setzer Orchestra I would sit in with each performer. It’s good to win the lottery. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2013, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-won-the-lottery-which-currently-available-artist-group-do-you-hire-to-provide-the-live-music/646815/70 "2013-01-13T20:40:36Z")
[It’s gotta be R2-D2 on bass.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXW5pBDvqWw) ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2013, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-won-the-lottery-which-currently-available-artist-group-do-you-hire-to-provide-the-live-music/646815/71 "2013-01-13T20:54:52Z")
[Piffaro, the Renaissance Band.](http://www.piffaroplaza.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Noodles\_Fellicini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e36b37/32.png) [@Noodles\_Fellicini](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noodles_Fellicini)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2013, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-won-the-lottery-which-currently-available-artist-group-do-you-hire-to-provide-the-live-music/646815/72 "2013-01-13T21:57:42Z")
I’ve been planning a house party with Brian Vander Ark anyway, so I guess I can have him open and then have the rest of The Verve Pipe join him and play most of Underneath. Dinner and drinks and then Duncan Sheik. And I’ll spend big bucks on a sound guy who knows louder isn’t always better. ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-won-the-lottery-which-currently-available-artist-group-do-you-hire-to-provide-the-live-music/646815/73 "2013-01-15T02:33:11Z")
Natalie Merchant. If she’s busy, Fountains of Wayne. ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-won-the-lottery-which-currently-available-artist-group-do-you-hire-to-provide-the-live-music/646815/74 "2013-01-15T02:55:46Z")
> [@midnight-dreary](#): > > 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. For a party? Type O Negative isn’t party music, is depressing-sad-time music. > [@Loach](#): > > If it is a Christmas party, Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Full cast, full stage show.. Having seen them, I agree. I would have to hire [Korpiklaani](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7kJRGPgvRQ) and have an open bar. And hire drivers so no one has to drive home. ---
**Author:** ![MegaBee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@MegaBee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MegaBee)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-won-the-lottery-which-currently-available-artist-group-do-you-hire-to-provide-the-live-music/646815/75 "2013-01-15T15:57:57Z")
Puscifer ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-won-the-lottery-which-currently-available-artist-group-do-you-hire-to-provide-the-live-music/646815/76 "2013-01-15T17:09:21Z")
Lyle Lovett to open for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. ---
**Author:** ![Blaster\_Master](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cab0a1/32.png) [@Blaster\_Master](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blaster_Master)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-won-the-lottery-which-currently-available-artist-group-do-you-hire-to-provide-the-live-music/646815/77 "2013-01-15T17:22:19Z")
> [@dubs](#): > > Devin Townsend! But I get to pick the songs because they’d mostly be from Addicted and Ghost. And for my son, I’d probably allow some stuff from Devin’s Strapping Young Lad days. Anneke will have to sing because she has the voice of an angel and RVP will have to drum. I guess I better go buy some lottery tickets… Yes! Can I attend? There’s a several other artists I like more, but Devin Townsend is probably the best choice for a celebration because he just does fun uplifting music and he puts on one hell of a live show and one hell of a stage presence. And Anneke… how can you not love her? I haven’t seen her since her days with The Gathering, but hands-down my favorite singer. I tend to like her collaborations more than her current solo stuff, particularly the range of projects she does, and her work with Devin Townsend is no exception. Though I do have a preference for her and Anathema. Actually, I’d probably choose Anathema, because I haven’t gotten to see them live yet and, though not quite as much for celebration, they are probably my favorite. ---
**Author:** ![Sateryn76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Sateryn76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sateryn76)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-won-the-lottery-which-currently-available-artist-group-do-you-hire-to-provide-the-live-music/646815/78 "2013-01-15T17:27:54Z")
Steely Dan, with Paul Simon being a close second. Many of my friends would think I’m nuts, when I could have gotten Metallica/Black Crowes/Whatever. But it’s my money, and I’d give a lot to hang out with Donald Fagen for an evening. I’d almost rather just chat and party all night, with the music being incidental. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-won-the-lottery-which-currently-available-artist-group-do-you-hire-to-provide-the-live-music/646815/79 "2013-01-15T17:49:53Z")
Josie Cotton, if she’s still around and performing, and agrees to stick to her first album, plus covers of other singers’ work. ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-won-the-lottery-which-currently-available-artist-group-do-you-hire-to-provide-the-live-music/646815/80 "2013-01-15T17:56:55Z")
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