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Geizao

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Topic: Your Perfect Dream Band...?
Posted: February 02 2010 at 14:45

Drums: Ian Paice

Bass: John Paul Jones

Piano: Keith Emerson (or below one)

Keyboard: Steve Winwood (or above one)

Guitar I: Steve Howe

Guitar II: Steve Hackett (or even Ritchie Blackmore)

Vocal: Jon Anderson (or even Robin McAuley)

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Posted: February 02 2010 at 14:44

Peter Wolf - Male vocals/woodwinds (Flame Dream)

Karin Nicely - Female vocals (Persephone's Dream)

Sandra Schleret - Female Vocals (Dreams of Sanity)

Michael Brecker - Tenor Sax & Flute (Dreams)

Randy Brecker - Trumpet & Flugelhorn (Dreams)

Jake Reichbart - Guitars (Distant Dream)

Edgar Froese - Keyboards and synthesizers (Tangerine Dream)

Gabriele Tosti - Bass Guitar (Dream Machine)

Billy Cobham - Drums and Percussion (Dreams)

The album will be produced by Terry Brown who produced Fates Warning Perfect Symmetry, which is perfect since the combination of all these members who at once realized they came from bands with the name "Dream" in them, and thus decide to call themselved The Perfect Dream.

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Posted: February 02 2010 at 14:17

TheGazzardian wrote:

Steve Howe, Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, Alan White or Bill Bruford, + pretty much any keyboardist :)

The yes-men are pretty much my top instrumentalists for each of their respective fields.

+ 1 !!

But what about Doug Ferguson ? Mmm... Ferguson or Squire ?

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Posted: February 02 2010 at 12:44

Steven Wilson and Tomas Haake (drums is the only thing sw doesn't play) would be the constant line-up, and they would be joined by/collaborate with: Theo Travis, Fredrik Thordendal, Maynard Keenan, Thom Yorke, the boys from Sunn O))), Mick Harris, Mikael Åkerfelt, Robert Fripp, Clodagh Simons, Dirk Serries, Rob Booth & Sean Brown, you name it

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Posted: February 02 2010 at 07:29

My dream band is almost in existence. it would be Transatlantic but Chris Squire as the bass player

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Posted: February 01 2010 at 17:02

Neil Peart / drums

Steve Howe / guit1

Dave Gilmour / guit2

Chris Squire / bass

John Paul Jones / organ

Jim Gilmour / synths

John Wetton / vox

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Posted: February 01 2010 at 10:17

Dellinger wrote:

Steve Hackett wasn't on the original Genesis lineup.
I think I've also read That both Ian Anderson and Keith Emerson wanted Howe for their respective groups.

Oops, Anthony Phillips! Damn, I keep forgetting him!

Those must have been amazing times, the Brits all hung out together & often swapped bandmates. Here's a very cool interview with Peter Banks about the era:

http://www.themarqueeclub.net/interview-peter-banks-yes

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Posted: February 01 2010 at 09:42

Lead vocals/lyrics/concepts: Jon Anderson

Lead vocals/guitar/lyrics/concepts: Claudio Sanchez

Guitar: Steve Howe

Bass guitar: Chris Squire

Keyboards: Keith Emerson

Drums: Bill Bruford

Flute: Ian Anderson

Violin: David Cross

Saxophone/woodwinds/etc.: Ian McDonald

Edited by SilverEclipse - February 01 2010 at 09:44

"and if the band your in starts playing different tunes, I'll see you on the dark side of the moon"

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Posted: January 31 2010 at 23:21

Steve Hackett wasn't on the original Genesis lineup.
I think I've also read That both Ian Anderson and Keith Emerson wanted Howe for their respective groups.

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Posted: January 31 2010 at 00:14

I'd be curious to hear John Goodsall replace Steve Hackett in the original Genesis lineup!

Goodsall, Gabriel, Rutherford, Banks, and Collins.

Similarly, the rumored union of Fripp with Yes after the departure of Banks would have been quite amazing, but it would have led to a totally different paradigm.

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Posted: January 30 2010 at 20:45

Vocals- Robert Plant

Guitar- Jimmy Page

Drums- John Bonham

Bass- John Paul Jones

Vocals- Ozzy Osbourne

Guitar- Tony Iommi

Bass- Geezer Butler

Drums- Bill Ward

Vocals- Jon Anderson

Guitar- Steve Howe

Bass- Chris Squire

Drums- Bill Bruford

Keyboards- Rick Wakeman

Those three sound like pretty solid band line-ups to me, anyone agree? Tongue

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Posted: January 28 2010 at 23:20

TheGazzardian wrote:

Steve Howe, Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, Alan White or Bill Bruford, + pretty much any keyboardist :)

The Yes-men are pretty much my top instrumentalists for each of their respective fields.

I usually choose Jon Anderson, Steve Howe and Chris Squire, but then add Gavin Harrison and Kevin Moore to mix it up a little.

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Posted: January 28 2010 at 23:17

In other similar polls I have thought just about the same thing, but ofcourse I have my favourite Yes lineup well defined: Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, Steve Howe, Rick Wakeman, Bill Bruford. All among my very favorites on each of their instruments.

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Posted: January 27 2010 at 22:33

Steve Howe, Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, Alan White or Bill Bruford, + pretty much any keyboardist :)

The yes-men are pretty much my top instrumentalists for each of their respective fields.

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Posted: January 27 2010 at 22:15

Well, I've already posted on 2 or 3 threads like this one. I just got a Renaissance CD a little while ago and that gave me an Idea:
- Annie Haslam on Vocals.
- John Tout on keyboards (I think his playing is very beautiful and he's extremely ignored).
- Ian Anderson on Flute and additional vocals.
- Martin Barre on Guitars.
- Greg Lake on bass and dditional vocals (I would just love to hear Lake and Haslam singing together).
- Carl Palmer on Drums.
I might just as well put Steve Howe instead of Martin Barre on Guitars, but I thought that it looked nicer to have 2 members from Renaissance, 2 from Jethro Tull, and 2 from ELP.

Edited by Dellinger - January 27 2010 at 22:18

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Posted: January 27 2010 at 16:45

Guitar - John McLauglin
Bass - Jaco Pastorius
Organ - Brian Auger
Piano\Synth. - David Sancious
Drums - Lenny White

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Posted: January 27 2010 at 16:21

Well, i won't apologise! hehe

Since people use so many different combinations of words to name their threads, even using the search feature it can be quite impossible to figure out if the thread you want to start has already been made.

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