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How about an all-German band?

Barbara Dennerlein - Hammond B3 including bass pedals

Roman Bunka - guitar, oud, vocals

Chris Karrer - guitar, violin, saxophone, oud, vocals

Mani Neumeier - drums, percussion

Inga Rumpf - vocals, acoustic guitar, percussion

The band could not have gone off before 1979 though when a 15-year old Barbara Dennerlein had her stage debut. And yes, she is a jazz organist but was always open for experimentation.

As to the oud: Both Bunka and Karrer probably did not start playing oud before the 80s, so this is a bit cheating. But they definitely play oud now.

A bass player is of course not needed when Barbara Dennerlein is around (she used the bass pedals at the very beginning of her career already).

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octopus-4 wrote:

I'd say

Vocals Jon Anderson

Guitar Steve Howe

Bass Chris Squire

Drums Bill Bruford

Keys Rick Wakeman

But looking for an alternative

Vocals Greg Lake

Guitar Andy Latimer

Bass Doug Ferguson

Drums Andy Ward

Keys Peter Bardens

The impossible one which would collapse under its own weight:

Vocals Jon Anderson

Guitar Robert Fripp

Bass Roger Waters

Drums Billy Cobham

Keys Keith Emerson

Trumpet Miles Davis

Flute Ian Anderson

I can see them fighting with wands and clubs in the rehearsal room.

The Yes Line-up, it's always the one I think of on this type of threads. You might want to think about perfect bands and all... but we did have it with this line-up of Yes... it can't get any better than this.

So, for an American (not so prog) band:
- Jimmi Hendrix on Guitar (and some vocals).
- Jim Morrison on vocals.
- Jannis Joplin on vocals.
- Ray Manzarek on keyboars.
- And I'm afraid I haven't paid enough attention to be able to choose a bass and drum player suitable for this line-up.

A challenging one:

John De Leo - Vocals

Frank Zappa - Guitar

Christian Vander - Drums

Thierry Zaboitzeff - Cello

Jannick Top - Bass

Gleb Kolyadin - Piano

Mont Campbell - Keys

Lars Andreas Haug - Tuba

Geinoh Yamashirogumi (the whole) - Backing Vocals

Tommaso Leddi - Violin

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Dellinger wrote:

So, for an American (not so prog) band:
- Jimmi Hendrix on Guitar (and some vocals).
- Jim Morrison on vocals.
- Jannis Joplin on vocals.
- Ray Manzarek on keyboars.
- And I'm afraid I haven't paid enough attention to be able to choose a bass and drum player suitable for this line-up.

How about Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead on bass & Mike Shieve of

Santana on drums to round out your line up?

I think they would be good fits for that band.

Edited by Argo2112 - November 14 2019 at 14:53

Andy Latimer - Guitar, flute, vocals

Rick Wakeman - Keyboards, clarinet

John Wetton - Bass, vocals

Andy Ward - Drums

With that band, you don't need anyone else.

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octopus-4 wrote:

But looking for an alternative

Vocals Greg Lake

Guitar Andy Latimer

Bass Doug Ferguson

Drums Andy Ward

Keys Peter Bardens

That would have been amazing!

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Dellinger wrote:

richardh wrote:

Howe

Emerson

Lake

Palmer

apart from amusing initials this would have worked. Howe and Emerson had a great deal of mutual respect and would have written some amazing stuff together given half a chance

I believe I read sometime that Emerson... well, I think it was something like he always thought of his band as a trio, but the guitar player he would would have wanted would have been Howe.

I've been mulling over the whole guitar thing in ELP lately. The few times Greg played a little electric guitar it was precise and tasteful. Sometimes (think Bo Diddly) it was raw and in your face. Don't forget, he had the same music teacher as Robert Fripp. I often wonder why they didn't make more use of it in their recordings. Other than the fact Keith (and the boys) have talked previously about not being able to replicate Trilogy live due to the overdubs and that they had no interest in backing musicians. To quote Keith himself "ELP play ALL the music).

So what do you think? How different would the band have been.

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JD wrote:

Dellinger wrote:

richardh wrote:

Howe

Emerson

Lake

Palmer

apart from amusing initials this would have worked. Howe and Emerson had a great deal of mutual respect and would have written some amazing stuff together given half a chance

I believe I read sometime that Emerson... well, I think it was something like he always thought of his band as a trio, but the guitar player he would would have wanted would have been Howe.

I've been mulling over the whole guitar thing in ELP lately. The few times Greg played a little electric guitar it was precise and tasteful. Sometimes (think Bo Diddly) it was raw and in your face. Don't forget, he had the same music teacher as Robert Fripp. I often wonder why they didn't make more use of it in their recordings. Other than the fact Keith (and the boys) have talked previously about not being able to replicate Trilogy live due to the overdubs and that they had no interest in backing musicians. To quote Keith himself "ELP play ALL the music).

So what do you think? How different would the band have been.

It's true that Greg was a fine guitarist and proved it many times. When ELP played live , Keith would replicate some of bass guitar parts on the keyboard to allow Greg to play lead (KE9 being the main one) . Howe would have brought more on the writing side perhaps but it is hard to say whether HELP would have been that much different. Howe was able to play in the spaces very well and never felt the need to dominate the band. You can hear that with Yes very well I think.

Another guitarist that ELP considered was Randy Bachmann (BTO) but PLEB would also have been problematic initials wise Wink