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This was a topic on the old forums but I don't see it here, so I thought I may as well ask the question:

What's your fantasy band?

Mine, after much consideration, would have to be:

Vocals: Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin)
Lead guitar: Jack White (White Stripes, The Raconteurs, Dead Weather)
Bass: Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Keys/Synth: Keith Emerson (Emerson, Lake and Palmer)
Drums: Neil Peart (Rush)

The bands that are great are so because of some unquantifiable aspect, some kind of invisible glue or secret spice. Talent and ability shoved into a room together doesn't work alone, it's all about chemistry.

Fantasy bands hardly ever work out well, super-groups tend to release lacklustre recordings and the only time they really work is when you take a full well-known band and replace their singer with another well-known singer (ie: Audioslave).

Also, my fantasy bands already exist and they're already perfect.

Anyway, for the purpose of the game, I'd be interested to hear what the following mix of musicians could achieve:

Vocals: Jonas Bjerre (Mew)
Guitar: Justin Beck (Glassjaw)
Guitar 2: Theresa Wayman (Warpaint)
Samples and Gadgetry: Oni Ayhun (The Knife)
Bass: Tom Vek (Tom Vek)
Drums: Matt Tong (Bloc Party)

Mick Jagger and David Bowie -- oh, wait.

Tim Hecker on everything.

a happy song wrote:The bands that are great are so because of some unquantifiable aspect, some kind of invisible glue or secret spice. Talent and ability shoved into a room together doesn't work alone, it's all about chemistry.

Fantasy bands hardly ever work out well, super-groups tend to release lacklustre recordings and the only time they really work is when you take a full well-known band and replace their singer with another well-known singer (ie: Audioslave).

I totally agree. This is just fun to consider what kind of sound they would produce and, therefore, what kind of musical energy everyone here enjoys most.

Yeh, I just felt the need to spew some pedantic rambling. :p

Godspeed You! Black Emperor, except with John Coltrane, and maybe also William Basinski.

Bass: Bracken Keysell
Bass 2: Victor Wooten
Bass 3: Les Claypool
Bass 4: Bracken Keysell because he is just cool that way and he could probbaly most likely handle it
Guitar: Jimi Hendrix (RIP <3)
Drums: Carla Azar
Vocals: David Bowie
Vocals 2: John Lennon


Woot woot.

Edit: Matthew Bellamy on Vocals 1, Bowie on 2, and Thom Yorke on Vocals 3.

Bass: Robert Trujillo
Lead/rhythm guitar/vocals: Matt Heafy
Lead/rhythm guitar: Dimebag Darrell
Drums: Vinnie Paul Abbott
Vocals: Corey Taylor

I'm expecting immense criticism of my musical tastes.

Brian May
Roger Taylor
Freddie Mercury
John Deacon

:'(

Sufjan Stevens and Mimi Parker (Low)
because male/female vocal pairings are awesome, and both pitch in with extra instruments so they don't look like lemons just singing

Kevin Shields (My Bloody Valentine)
indie guitar fellow

Chris Taylor (Grizzly Bear)
awesome bass player/backing vocalist, plus with him and sufjan there'll be some sweet horn/woodwind sections

Rostam Batmanglij (Vampire Weekend)
keyboards and programming and all that, he makes some really cool yet subtle stuff, and him, chris, and sufjan can co-produce <3

Bryan Devendorf (The National)
flipping brilliant drummer

Amy Whinehouse
Taylor Swift
Hannah Montana
Katy Perry

w00t w00t

now that I think of it, all of the bands/musicians I love either peaked in the nineties (Aphex Twin), have broken up or shifted genres (Out Hud, Soulwax, SOAD) or would probably not collaborate (Autechre, Aphex twin again...)

Oh, man. Kazu Makino (singer for blonde redhead) sings for a Massive Attack track... that Philip Glass helped write. Mmmmm.

I have a few:

Michael Angelo Batio - Lead Guitar
Tiego Della Vega - Lead Guitar
Les Claypool - Bass
Inferno - Drums

Serj Tankian - Vocals
Buckethead - Guitar
Les Clapool - Bass
Keith Moon - Drums

Rob Swire (Pendulum), Kevin Sawka (Pendulum), Joel Zimmerman (Deamau5), Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (Daft Punk) and Thomas Bangalter (Daft Punk).

I'd have to go with maestro on lead vocals and Stephen Hawking as either backup vocals or drums.
After that it wouldn't matter as much who anyone else was.

EDIT: In all seriousness, I'd combine the instrumentalists of of Ulver with the vocals of Weird Al, Regina Spektor, and maybe Joanna Newsom.

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Now playing: Nintendo - SM64 - Snow Mountain
via FoxyTunes

Vocals - Serj Tankian
Backup Vocals and Bass and keyboard and anything else necessary since he can play like 5 instruments at once - Geddy Lee
Guitar - Jimi Hendrix
Drums - Neil Peart

Wow, half of that is Rush o_o

fantasy Hip-Hop group:

MC 1: Kamaal Ibn John Fareed (jazz-rap)
MC 2: Nasir Jones (hardcore rap)
MC 3: Kheavan Brerton (alternative rap)
MC 4: Keith Thornton (acid rap)
DJ: Hideaki Ishin

that's a pretty odd group right there.