Music: Your perfect "Supergroup"?

[tivodan1116]

As I watched the VH1 show "Supergroup" I started wondering about everyone's favorite musicians and then an interesting question came to me...

If you could put together anyone to play music, who would you put together, and what would it sound like (what kind of music would they do)?

Thoughts...

[tivodan1116]

Ok i'll start with one, but i reserve the right to change this later:

This is a rock group, and i envision them playing a mixture of blues-influenced rock and straight-ahead hard rock.

Drums - John Bonham (with Keith Moon in backup)
Keyboards/other - Ray Manzarek
Bass Guitar - John Entwhistle
Rhythm/#2 Lead Guitar - Angus Young (this band is so awesome Angus is the #2 guitar)
#1 Lead Guitar - Jimi Hendrix
Frontman/Lead Vocals - This one is the hardest for me... There are so many awesome choices in this field. I will tentatively say Mick Jagger at this point, but that is only a quick stab in the dark.

Flame Away.

[Clarence]

looks good Tivo. Maybe if you just have Hendrix play rythm. He was moving towards that when he died. He was a bad ass rythm player. Plus if him and angus could switch as seemlessly as Malcom and Angus do...

[greeneyedgirl]

Here's my supergroup. Their music would be a tripped out, ethereal nightmarish mess with an industrial/metal flourish. With each album, new musicians would be brought in to give the band a fresh sound, but the core members would basically stay the same.


Arrangements: Jason Pierce from Spiritualized & Gary Cobain from FSOL.

Vocals: Liz Frazier from the Cocteau Twins
Lisa Gerrard from Dead Can Dance
Nick Cave
Ian Curtis from Joy Division

Sound Effects/Vocal Manipulations - Mike Patton from Faith No More/Mr. Bungle/etc.
Alex Patterson from The Orb

Guitar/Bass - Robert Fripp
Al Jourgenson from Ministry
Tom Araya from Slayer

Keyboards/blips and bloops/mixers- Brian Eno
Keith Emerson from ELP
Richard Dean James from Aphex Twin
Scott Ayers - Tribes of Neurot

[CoffeeSaint]

Lead vocals: Chris Cornell of Soundgarden and Audioslave.
Lead guitar: Stevie Ray Vaughan (I'd say "And Hendrix," but he's been taken:))
Rhythm/lead Guitar and backup vocals: Pick any one of a dozen blues greats: Muddy Waters, B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, etc.
Bass: Les Claypool, Primus
Drums: I'm stuck between John Bonham and Lars Ulrich of Metallica. Maybe both.
Harmonica/vocals: John Popper, Blues Traveler
Any necessary electronics/sampling/etc.: Trent Reznor, Nine Inch Nails

And their first album would be a recording of them beating Ted Nugent and all of the members of Rush to bloody pulps.

[Osborn F Enready]

My dream group?

3 Lead Guitarists: Eric Clapton, Gary Rossington, Allen Collins
2 Bass Guitarists: Flea(Red Hot Chili Peppers) , Billy Gibbons
2 Main kit percussionists: Lars Ulrich, John Bonham
2 Keyboard/Piano players: Billy Powell , Jan Hammer on background rythym
Vocals, both in mix and sharing solo's: Pepper Keenan (COC), Ronny James Dio, Robert Plant


Yea it's a big group, but rules don't make music, musicians do.

[Clarence]

Metal: James Hetfield, Dave Mustaine, Lars, a bass player, and a versatile singer with some aggression and lyrics to match Mustaine's.

Blues-based hard rock: John Bonham, Gibbons (the guitar one), Bon Scott (or Janis as long as she don't bitch), Angus Young, Entwistle.

New creation: Tom morello on guitar. Bradley Nowell (sp) playing guitar but most importantly singing, Pink, Les Claypool, and an entire rythm section with a versatile main set and some other percussion specialists of the ethnic variety.

Team of songwriters: I'd make tom petty and cheryl crow write together. John Lennon and Curt Cobain. Santana and Tupac. Bob Dylan and Kelly Clarkson....

[Plasma Snake[D]]

I think too many celebrities in one group would cause them all to disagree cause they cant all share the spotlight. You can't have it all. I think there should be one ugly chick, two decent ones, and a hot one(metaphorically speaking).

[CoffeeSaint]

Quote by: Plasma Snake[D] I think too many celebrities in one group would cause them all to disagree cause they cant all share the spotlight. You can't have it all. I think there should be one ugly chick, two decent ones, and a hot one(metaphorically speaking).

Interesting metaphor. Can you give us an idea of who the hot chicks of music are? Who are the ugly ones, and who the decent? Place Barry Manilow on the spectrum for me, for instance. Or Kelly Clarkson.

And Clarence, I love the idea of mixing songwriters, but what have you got against poor Bob Dylan to sentence him to such a vile torment?

[Osborn F Enready]

Bob Dylan was/is a damn good writer, and a damn poor singer.

[Chris the Chees]

Vocals & Guitar - James Dean Bradfield (Manic Street Preachers)
Lead Guitar - Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree)
Vocals - Cerys Matthews (Catatonia)
Bass - Kim Deal (Pixies)
Percussion - Jimmy Chamberlain (Smashing Pumpkins)

And lyrics by a collection of contributing artists.

I doubt many here have heard of my two choices for vocals, but James Dean Bradfield (Manic Street Preachers) is one of the best vocalists to have graced rock music. The only other two male singers who come close as Maynard Keenan (Tool) and Jarvis Cocker (Pulp). I also had to include either Cerys Matthews (Catatonia) or Dolores O'Riordan (The Cranberries), because they have truly beautiful voices, Cerys wins out because I happen to be going through a Catatonia patch at the moment.

But in reality the ultime super group already exists: -

James Dean Bradfield - Vocals & Guitar
Nicky Wire - Bass & Lyrics
Sean Moore - Drums

And formerly

Richie Edwards - Guitar & Lyrics

[Anna Perenna]

Vocals: Rick Astley
Guitar: Slash from GNR
Drums: Shree Krishna Bhagwan during an 8 armed moment
Bass Guitar: Tim Commerford from RATM

[grandpa]

Quote by: greeneyedgirl Here's my supergroup. Their music would be a tripped out, ethereal nightmarish mess with an industrial/metal flourish. With each album, new musicians would be brought in to give the band a fresh sound, but the core members would basically stay the same. Arrangements: Jason Pierce from Spiritualized & Gary Cobain from FSOL. Vocals: Liz Frazier from the Cocteau Twins Lisa Gerrard from Dead Can Dance Nick Cave Ian Curtis from Joy Division Sound Effects/Vocal Manipulations - Mike Patton from Faith No More/Mr. Bungle/etc. Alex Patterson from The Orb Guitar/Bass - Robert Fripp Al Jourgenson from Ministry Tom Araya from Slayer Keyboards/blips and bloops/mixers- Brian Eno Keith Emerson from ELP Richard Dean James from Aphex Twin Scott Ayers - Tribes of Neurot

That would be pretty wild.

Here's what 10,000 Lakes proposed in the "Weird, Weird Music!" group on Myspace:
"Take Oprah Winfrey, give her a quart of Gatorade and two Advil, have her featured in a Korn song. Then, record fourteen minutes of some business executive trying to convince Les Claypool that grape jelly should be purchased in bulk, to a soundtrack of someone practicing the trumpet. Use some wood spoons and math books as drums in the next few songs, along with some samples of Lou Dobbs, Britney Spears farting Jingle Bells, a Fatboy Slim song that got mixed with a mechanic telling you what's wrong with your car as the vocals, Fabio and Metallica jammin together at a Starbucks in rural Ohio, Spongebob gone gangsta, a short seminar on potato farming, Tony Danza going over his bills, the sound of a guitar with a really long patch cord hooked up to an amp while being flung by a catapult, some toilet paper commercials looped to 1930's jazz, and monkeys trying to use onions as musical instruments. Then at the end, Snoop Dogg gets to rap part of the transcript to last year's State of the Union address while cooking macaroni and cheese."

[Plasma Snake[D]]

I cant really place Barry Manilow on any scale since I have never really listened to his music. Kelly Clarkson shouldnt really count because you cant just say kelly clarkson, you have to include the dozens of people that put their hands up her ass to control her lips. I dont think she writes any of her music(or at least most of it).