Your Perfect Dream Band...?

Who makes up your perfect dream band? The impossible supergroup!

You are allowed to choose ONE musician for each instrument, and ONE on vocals. Live or dead. I suppose if one of these are multi-instumentalists, there can be overlap (ie: same guy on two instruments).

Here's one of mine (it changes, as you would expect, with the bands im currently listening to!).

Guitar: Steve Howe

Bass: Tony Levin

Drums: Jon Theodore

Snyths:  Rick Wright 

Organ: Jon Lord

Flute: Ian Anderson

Saxophone: David Jackson

Vocals: David Gilmour

I know, weird choice for a dedicated vocalist, but there's something about his voice that puts me at ease. Couldn't help but choose him.

So...who's got the ultimate dream band thought up?         


Edited by Eapo_q42 - January 26 2010 at 23:57

Forgot flute!......and saxophone, hehe thanks. I'll edit my original post.

What if our ideal band has a multitude of vocals and/or more than one person on a specific instrument? (For example, something like Magma with 2-3 female and 2-3 male vocalists, sometimes 2 keyboards, 2 drummers, 2 of others, etc.)

Vocals- Jon Anderson

Vocals: John Arch 

rushfan4 wrote: I hate to be a party pooper but there are about 100 different versions of this thread.

Thanks Scott, but new people come on the site and want to discuss the same things people did in the past. I don't think there is a problem to that. I think always deferring to old threads would get kind of boring after a while.

You're doing a fine job Scott.

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.

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

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.