Who would be in your dream band - 1 singer, 1 bass player, 1 guitarist, 1 drummer and 1 person of your choice to do what ever.
This was one of those pointless things on Facebook and I started with good intentions but just had more fun creating the most bizarre group instead. Here's what I came up with...
Ian Curtis (Joy Division), Mark Overmars (former Arsenal winger), Peter Cook, Miriam Margolyes and Stephen Hawking.
Ben Folds, Darren Jessee and Robert Sledge.
Corin Tucker, the RZA, George Burns, Animal and sideshow Bob reading, like what when he done took over from krusty that time
A bunch of lesbian supermodels (one singer, one bass player, one guitarist, one drummer and one groupie), who would frequently be dragging me into their exciting sex sessions and take me to nice parties with loads of booze. They would also do Bowie songs in the style of the Pixies. And fight crime from a secret lair (done up to look like a plush bordello) beneath my garage.
singer - Elvis Presley
guitarist - Jimi Hendrix
bass player - Richey Edwards
drummer - Keith Moon
Half Naked Go Go Dancer in Background - Roy Orbison
Dragging their rotting corpses onto the stage night after night would get a bit dull. So I'd have to get Disney to animatronic the dead bastards.
Probably start off doing the Monster Truck circuit in the southern United States to build grass roots support before hopefully getting a spot on Letterman.
If the above isn't possible, then I'll take the Pussy Cat Dolls - but again, dead and re-animated by Disney Imagineers.
Quote: Kenneth @ April 21 2009, 11:45 PM BSTA bunch of lesbian supermodels (one singer, one bass player, one guitarist, one drummer and one groupie), who would frequently be dragging me into their exciting sex sessions and take me to nice parties with loads of booze. They would also do Bowie songs in the style of the Pixies. And fight crime from a secret lair (done up to look like a plush bordello) beneath my garage.
Why do the words - sex session, booze, secret lair, bordello and beneath my garage seem to spring out from your description Kenneth?
All you'd have to add is night vision goggles, anasthetic and wearing their skins as dresses and I think we'd have a complete picture of your true intentions. 
Not sure it could get any better than the original Who lineup of Townshend, Daltrey, Entwistle and Moon. Maybe I'd throw in Nels Cline on lead guitar and leave rhythm guitar and the occasional keyboard bits to Townshend. He's really more of a rhythm player anyway.
Adolf Hitler on vibes.
Jeez, I could play this kind of indulgent game all night as I have no self restraint and literally dozens of musicians I love, for the sake of fun and my own inability ever to stick within the remit I've tried to do an old(ish) and new although even then it's not exactly that way... Great fun question though Tuumble.
Ronnie Lane – Bass
Keith Moon – Drums
Jimi Hendrix – Guitar
John Lennon – Vocals /Guitar
Nick Drake - Guitar/Vocals
Pete Doherty – Guitar/Vocals
Matt Tong (Bloc Party) - Drums
Robin Pecknold (Fleet Foxes) – Vocals
Alex Turner – (Arctic Monkeys) – Vocals/Guitar
Paul Mcartney – Bass/Vocals
And that's leaving the likes of Marriot, Carole King, Jimmy Page, Entwhistle, Dolce....right shutting up now.
These posts are pointless because nobody ever reads or comments on anyone else's choices.
Maddy Pryor, Jimi Hendrix and Earl Scruggs. Managed by Malcolm Mclaren.
Well here you go then Godot, Erl Scruggs is simply inspired, I do not profess to know much but what I have seen of his playing is inspiring, an absolute joy and a master. As for Maddy Pryor I have a weakness for that kind of voice although there's always Sandy Denny for me...and Jacqui McShee.
This lot would be fun in a totally f**ked up way:
Sun Ra
ODB
Viv Stanshall
Bowie
Paul Kossoff
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ April 21 2009, 11:53 PM BSTWhy do the words - sex session, booze, secret lair, bordello and beneath my garage seem to spring out from your description Kenneth?
All you'd have to add is night vision goggles, anasthetic and wearing their skins as dresses and I think we'd have a complete picture of your true intentions.
No, there is never any violence, let alone night-vision nonsense. I said they will take me to nice parties. When not at parties, I'll just be "relaxing" with a couple of members of the band, while the others sing Pixies/Bowie songs and invent cigarettes that don't cause cancer. When I'm busy working, they go off and fight crime, generally helping the oppressed to take on corrupt politicians, bureaucrats and police.
Quote: Godot Taxis @ April 22 2009, 12:24 AM BSTThese posts are pointless because nobody ever reads or comments on anyone else's choices.
Usually the first page will be read in full, as long as it's the only page in the thread. Once the thread has got more than five pages, only professional procrastinators with long attention spans will read the lot.
Quote: Lord Summerisle @ April 22 2009, 12:39 AM BSTWell here you go then Godot, Erl Scruggs is simply inspired, I do not profess to know much but what I have seen of his playing is inspiring, an absolute joy and a master. As for Maddy Pryor I have a weakness for that kind of voice although there's always Sandy Denny for me...and Jacqui McShee.
This lot would be fun in a totally f**ked up way:
Sun Ra
ODB
Viv Stanshall
Bowie
Paul Kossoff
Of course I wasn't being serious, Summerisle, the Mclaren comment should have alerted you to that, although I do like each of the people I mentioned - except Mclaren. Earl Scruggs was responsible for my parents' divorce, BTW. If only he'd taken up the piano.
I trust the sight of the young people refreshes you?
Vocals - Betty Davis, the Funk singer who was married to Miles Davis, and had an affair with Jimi Hendrix, not the actress.
Guitar - Tom Morello, from Rage against the machine
Bass - Buckethead
Drums - Clyde Stubblefield, who used to play with James Brown, and played on the song Funky Drummer, which contains the most-sampled drum break of all-time.
Rap MC - Immortal Technique
I name my band The Intergalactic Funk Connection!!
'Buckethead'. That a stage name, is it?
Quote: Godot Taxis @ April 22 2009, 12:54 AM BSTOf course I wasn't being serious, Summerisle, the Mclaren comment should have alerted you to that, although I do like each of the people I mentioned - except Mclaren. Earl Scruggs was responsible for my parents' divorce, BTW. If only he'd taken up the piano.
I trust the sight of the young people refreshes you?
Ha,ha, well Mclaren is an arse but the others are all to be respected, although the Earl Scruggs thing is sad, I hope he didn't live next door and his incessant plucking drove them to distraction...
"Do sit down, Sergeant. Shocks are so much better absorbed with the knees bent!"