# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Scholar\_Beardpig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de053/32.png) [@Scholar\_Beardpig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scholar_Beardpig)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-won-the-lottery-which-currently-available-artist-group-do-you-hire-to-provide-the-live-music/646815/81 "2013-01-15T18:16:12Z")
Mariachi Vargas! ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-won-the-lottery-which-currently-available-artist-group-do-you-hire-to-provide-the-live-music/646815/82 "2013-01-15T20:26:09Z")
The Stones, though it’d have to be an enormous lottery win to afford them and I’m not sure I could, even then, justify spending that much on one band. So perhaps Brandi Carlisle and Simple Plan or one of my GF’s or daughter’s other favourite acts. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-won-the-lottery-which-currently-available-artist-group-do-you-hire-to-provide-the-live-music/646815/83 "2013-01-15T20:39:25Z")
> [@John\_Bredin](#): > > NOT Poison, that’s for sure. > > (Too soon? :p) Help me out? I even searched Google, expecting to see a dead Bret Michaels or something… ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-won-the-lottery-which-currently-available-artist-group-do-you-hire-to-provide-the-live-music/646815/84 "2013-01-15T20:44:08Z")
The Black Keys ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-won-the-lottery-which-currently-available-artist-group-do-you-hire-to-provide-the-live-music/646815/85 "2013-01-15T23:08:49Z")
> [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > Probably Prince. Absolutely, definitely Prince. ---
**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-won-the-lottery-which-currently-available-artist-group-do-you-hire-to-provide-the-live-music/646815/86 "2013-01-15T23:55:44Z")
> [@MegaBee](#): > > Puscifer This. And Queens of the Stone Age. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-won-the-lottery-which-currently-available-artist-group-do-you-hire-to-provide-the-live-music/646815/87 "2013-01-16T00:23:27Z")
Hell, I’d hire [these guys to sing just this one song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmkrTjExU3k&list=PL7D98ECBE57405851&index=5) for the fake check acceptance…and then jet everyone over to my house to play the whole damn playlist. ---
**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 16, 2013, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-won-the-lottery-which-currently-available-artist-group-do-you-hire-to-provide-the-live-music/646815/88 "2013-01-16T00:33:39Z")
> [@hrhomer](#): > > Help me out? I even searched Google, expecting to see a dead Bret Michaels or something… but I think it’s a joke related to the recent lottery winner who collected his check and was dead of (cyanide?) poisoning the next day. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-won-the-lottery-which-currently-available-artist-group-do-you-hire-to-provide-the-live-music/646815/89 "2013-01-16T00:43:47Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > Absolutely, definitely Prince. Yeah, when I saw that, I realized that would be a tough one to beat. > [@Taomist](#): > > I would love to see the Seatbelts live, and this might be the only way I’d accomplish it. So…yeah. The Seatbelts. 🙂 As in, with Yoko Kanno? Because I would like to attend, please. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-won-the-lottery-which-currently-available-artist-group-do-you-hire-to-provide-the-live-music/646815/90 "2013-01-16T00:52:10Z")
As a resident of Chicago-ish, and with the intent of going with something new-ish, I’d hire JC Brooks and The Uptown Sound. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/-hT1hMSnvmY/hqdefault.jpg "JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound "Want More"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hT1hMSnvmY) (Or Hot Tuna, depends what I felt like that day.) ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2013, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-won-the-lottery-which-currently-available-artist-group-do-you-hire-to-provide-the-live-music/646815/91 "2013-01-16T01:03:21Z")
> [@Truman\_Burbank](#): > > but I think it’s a joke related to the recent lottery winner who collected his check and was dead of (cyanide?) poisoning the next day. Ah, I do recall that very vaguely, but hadn’t realized it was a next-day death! What a coincidence! ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-won-the-lottery-which-currently-available-artist-group-do-you-hire-to-provide-the-live-music/646815/92 "2013-01-17T20:39:03Z")
I would hire Hugh Laurie, Stephen Frye and the entire cast of Big Bang Theory to do a production of the original Andrew Lloyd Webber & Alan Ayckbourn musical [Jeeves](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/By_Jeeves). NOT the readaptation of By Jeeves, but the original Jeeves. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-won-the-lottery-which-currently-available-artist-group-do-you-hire-to-provide-the-live-music/646815/93 "2013-01-17T20:44:17Z")
They Might Be Giants, and/or The Roches. Maybe The Rutles. ---
**Author:** ![FrankJBN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f0a364/32.png) [@FrankJBN](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrankJBN)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2013, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-won-the-lottery-which-currently-available-artist-group-do-you-hire-to-provide-the-live-music/646815/94 "2013-01-17T21:08:44Z")
Los Lobos, who if not stars would be the greatest bar band in the world, based on the number of covers they have done. (Used to feel this way about the Dead). ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2013, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-won-the-lottery-which-currently-available-artist-group-do-you-hire-to-provide-the-live-music/646815/95 "2013-01-18T15:22:33Z")
The Seekers, definitely. Don’t even need to bribe them out of retirement - they’re planning another tour for this May. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2013, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-won-the-lottery-which-currently-available-artist-group-do-you-hire-to-provide-the-live-music/646815/96 "2013-01-18T15:28:00Z")
Nickelback. ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2013, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-won-the-lottery-which-currently-available-artist-group-do-you-hire-to-provide-the-live-music/646815/97 "2013-01-18T20:12:15Z")
Holly Cole and Tom Waits, with a Spinal Tap intermission, a set by Catherine Ohara and Fred Willard doing “Midnight at the Oasis”, and the composer from “Life of Pi” and Danny Elfman trading off on musical filler throughout the evening. And at the end of the night, after the guests go home, we all sit around and talk and laugh and drink until Lyle Lovett comes in for a duet with KD Lang, and we all hug and buy a studio together. It’s good to be rich. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2013, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-won-the-lottery-which-currently-available-artist-group-do-you-hire-to-provide-the-live-music/646815/98 "2013-01-18T20:27:14Z")
Sarah Brightman. ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2013, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-won-the-lottery-which-currently-available-artist-group-do-you-hire-to-provide-the-live-music/646815/99 "2013-01-18T21:18:26Z")
Shonen Knife, opening for The Hives. ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2013, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-won-the-lottery-which-currently-available-artist-group-do-you-hire-to-provide-the-live-music/646815/100 "2013-01-18T23:05:30Z")
Duran Duran. I can’t believe anyone is considering any other band! Sheesh! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-won-the-lottery-which-currently-available-artist-group-do-you-hire-to-provide-the-live-music/646815.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-won-the-lottery-which-currently-available-artist-group-do-you-hire-to-provide-the-live-music/646815.md?page=6)