Ok my friend and I were kicking around ideas about Dream Bands and such when we started talking about bands that probably would never happen because they are so rediculous. Well here is my Dream Band or Nightmare Band depending on what side you are looking at. LOL

Amy Lee (Evenecence)-Vocals
Carlos Caver (Machetazo)-Bass/Backing Vocals
Jeff Loomis (Nevermore)-Guitar
Frost (Satyricon/1349)-Drums

LOL Imagine that! GAH! It be like operetic vocals with blast beats and the bass and guitar going nuts in the back ground. LOL If you wanted to make it more interesting you could add Sven from Aborted as a second vocalist. LOL

So yeah I was just wondering what would be your dream (or nightmare LOL) band?

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No twist in my dream band, just straight up brutal death metal

Vocals - Jeff Walker (Carcass)
Lead Guitar - Trey Azagthoth (Morbid Angel)
Rhythm Guitar - Chuck Schuldiner (Death)
Bass - Alex Webster (Cannibal Corpse)
Drums - Doc (Vader)

We've got other threads for straightforward 'dream' bands. Go post there.

To be perfectly honest, a lot of people's dream bands are pretty ridiculous as it is, always assembled with no idea of what an ensemble is. Name one virtuoso vocalist, two virtuoso guitarists, a virtuoso bass player, and a virtuoso drummer, and chances are you've invented a shitty band that can't play well together.

Anyway, being deliberately ridiculous:

Vocals - Hansi Kurch
Guitar 1 - Buzz Osborne
Guitar 2 - Janick Gers
Bass - Alex Webster
Drums - Phil Rudd

PRESENTING THE DIMEBAG DARREL and company REAL LIFE FUN TIME EXPERIENCE!

Chuck Shuldiner - Vox, Guitars [ex Death]
Jared Anderson - Bass, Backing vox [ex Hate Eternal]
Dimebag - Guitars [ex Pantera]
Ken Owen - Drums [ex Carcass]

And another band called Sadistik Exekution.

Hades - Guitar [Sad X]
Rok - Vox [Sad X]
Slave - Bass [Sad X]
Sloth - Drums [Sad X]

lol, my dream, super group is:

Scott Ian
Ted Nugent
Evan Seinfeld
Sebastian Bach
Jason Bonham

it would be SOOOOOOOOOOOOO cool if they got together...

haha ted nugent rules!

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Ha, Evan Seinfeld was the real oddball choice, out of a full line-up of oddballs.

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the irony there is that there was a show on VH1 that had that..... nice BRB, nice

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I knew that dude. That was a horrible show with back getting into scripted arguments with nugent. The bass player was just a dick and then the drummer never really did anything.

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mike patton
sean malone
david gilmor
martin lopez or neal peart

it would rock

or

bizzy bone
trey adghaklsdjghklasdfojuaoei (morbid angel)
sherman li
joey de mayo (manowar?)
corey taylor

it would suck a lot.

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you know your shit.

that line-up is called Damnocracy, formed in the Super Group show on VH1.

Sebastian Bach is a personal favourite though, as i honestly believe Skid Row was badass in ways and forms unknown to the mere mortal.

This is a silly thread.

Vocals - El Chombo
Guitar - Muhammed Suicmez
Bass - Les Claypool
Drums - Flo Mounier
Trumpet - Ornette Coleman
Keys - Mozart

Now that I would like to hear.

Vocals - Michael Jackson
Guitar - Prince
Bass - Sting
Drums - Phil Collins

What a Super group! Fred Durst could also be a guitarist.

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Ornette Coleman for trumpet, eh?

Weird Al- "Awesome and hilarious" Clean vocals and rhythm Guitar
Oderus Urungus- "Obscene and Semen-spewing" backing Vocals
Galder- "Bald and Shiny" Lead Guitar
Ryan Martinie- "Crazy redundant" bass "slapper"
Madonna Wayne Gacy- "Sun-bright hair fag" Keyboardist
Nicholas Barker- "Phat Azz" Drums and Battery

The band will be called "Weird Al and the Leftovers."

Note; the quotes are what will appear in the album booklet when the members are listed.

Their producer will be George Lucas, and their manager will be Mark Hamill.

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drums-george kollias
guitar/vox-mikael akerfeldt
guitar-john petrucci
bass-me

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Yeah he played trumpet (and violin apparently) as well as sax.

I know, but everybody else in your band (even the 'Chacarron' fucker) is playing more or less the instrument he's known for having played (except for Mozart, who's playing an updated version of something he played), so having Coleman play an instrument he's not as good at or known for is strange.

Well, I thought the trumpet would compliment the vocal stylings of El Chombo much more effectively. Having a sax in that lineup would just be fucking wierd. It would sound so out of place.

Vocals: Lord Worm
Guitar: Muhammed Suicmez
Bass: Tony Choy
Drum: Todd Sucherman (styx)

Right. That would be the odd thing about the band.

Vocals - Harry Nilsson
Guitar 1 - John McLaughlin
Guitar 2 - Greg Ginn
Bass - Tony Levin
Drums - Brian Harvey
Keyboards - George Duke

^^ Yes.

Singer/Rhythm Guitarist - Devin Townsend
Lead Guitar - Jeff Loomis
Drummer - Horgh
Bass Player - Eric Langlois

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that depends. if you stick to similar, or the same, genres, i doubt the musicians would come up with shitty stuff. even if you mix genres... these people are well-known for a reason, and its not like every band is some miracle match with no flaws.

I think we have a record label with proof that doing something like this doesn't work *cough*Roadrunner*.

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Yeah but they restricted the groups within their own label, which was not a very good label to begin with. If Nuclear Blast or EArache di dhte same thing I think that it would have had more positive results.

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Yeah, you've got a good point there.

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my point is better

Bloodbath shows that dream bands can work.

Yeah, I can't believe I forgot about that. They seem way better than a sideproject. It boggles the mind.

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Drums-Derek Roddy
Vocals- John Tardy
Guitar- Karl Sanders/ Luc Lemay
Guitar- Pat Obrien/ Chuck Schuldiner
Webster


those two guitar /'s are if i want brutal or prog/catchy/brutal

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Even within the same genre, a lot of people who show up in dream bands don't know how to play a supporting role. Most of the people whose talent catches our eye are not only exceptionally talented, but placed in an eye-catching position, often with the band existing to create that space for them. So, when put into a band where they have to playing a supporting or collaborative role, they fall down. There's also just the fact that most supergroups, whether imagined by some fanboy or real, don't have a focal point. And a focal point can be very different between two bands in the same genre.

Bloodbath are a counterexample precisely because this isn't true. They had a generating idea (Nystrom's decision to make a throwback band), around which they gathered some big names who were willing to play out of position (Renkse as a bassist, Swano as a drummer, Akerfeldt as a just-death metal just-vocalist, everybody playing as though their own bands had never existed and changed the death metal scene) to achieve the plan. They're an exception for a reason.

I'd also like to remind some people that we have other threads for regular dream bands. The first post here explains what this one's about.

Thank you.

Also look at Voodoocult. Pure dream band that kicked ass. Mille Petroza, Chuck Schuldiner, Dave Lombardo..what more could you ask for?

But like PST 88 said. Let's try and follow the whole reason why I made this thread.

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a supporting role? they'd just play the instrument they always have, like every post on this subject, ever. wouldnt that support the cause enough. i dont know man, that doesnt sound like it would have anything to do with their ability to write together.

i just tried to make a dream band for the second time. ive come to the conclusion that i hate trying this. i went for about 10 minutes. fuck. that.

Sure it would. A band is made of somewhere between three and six people, all attached to personalities and skill sets. Each person assumes a role, and does a particular thing, which, if the 3-6 people each do the right thing, gels together and makes the band tolerable. There are a lot of bands out there, and still more in genres where virtuosity's emphasized, where all the other members exist to allow one virtuoso to do his thing. A lot of people like this, or at least like the virtuoso's work. This isn't really a problem so long as the dynamics stay the same. However, take this same virtuoso and transplant him into a band that hasn't been engineered to fit his strengths, and he's suddenly an ill match. He doesn't understand how to play with people, as he's always played over them. He doesn't know how to collaborate, how to play a role in the overarching structure of a song, how to support somebody else's work. So 'playing his instrument like he always does' in this new context has a very different effect, like a very good boxer fighting a Gracie. It's still a fight, and he's still a good boxer doing what a good boxer does, but it's no longer right for the situation. Dig?

Guitar/Bass - Stephan O'Malley
Drums - Frost, or the dude from Orgin

Super fast drumming under super slow droning.

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Vox - GG Allin
Guitars - Chris Broderick
Guitars - Abbath
Bass - Paul McCaurtney [sp?]
Drums - John Bonham


odd line up?? if i may say so myself

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ahahaha oooh....

vocals - mister hustler
guitar - herman li
guitar - jeff loomis
bass - alex webster
keys - sebastian bach
drums - caitlin schipper >.>

this would sound absolutely terrible, i'm sure. maybe it's for the better that this will never actually happen

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Vocals (growled)- Mikael Akerfeldt
Vocals (clean)- Bruce Dickinson ( back in the day)
Guitar 1- Paul Masvidal/ also providing some synth vox
Guitar 2- Jason Becker
Bass- Lars from Spiral Architect
Drums- Mike Smith
Keys- Jordan Rudess

He he crazy combo, but hey it would be a crazy band

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the all star team syndrome.

i guess it is can boil down to whos compatible<personality wise>and whos similiar in style. there are some bands/side projects i see locally that kinda are like mini-all stars and most of them sound better as an idea than they actually are, not that they are all totally bad.

funny how jazz musicians always swap seats and bands are trios,quartets,quintets etc. of individuals. but even that genre has its dud line-ups of what people thought would go over well.

how about this, syncronized full band orchestration

take nile and necrophagist and make them play together like a big band<keep the two drummers tho>. the drummers can trade bars, the guitars can do triple leads and crazy harmonization,interplay. some of the guitar players would have to sit out parts like in any large ensemble but if composed correctly would be a cool concept.

then get ronald mcdonald and bozo the clown to trade high and low vocals.

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ehm....pantera?

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Guitar: Bill Steer
Bass/Vocals: Jeff Walker
Guitar: Michael Amott
Drums: Ken Owen

Yeah.....

For my ridiculous one, I have Mike Smith, Ihsahn, Bill Steer and Steve DiGiorgio playing with a pick (all bassplayers can go cry to their mommies).

Nile and Necrophagist wouldn't be able to play together in that way.

As for jazz musicians: the reason there are dud lineups there has to do with the fact that most improvise the whole way through, and it's hard to improvise with somebody, no matter how well you know each other. And the reason they can play together is that there's no such thing as a jazz musician who doesn't spend most of his time learning to play to compositions. There are still dozens of reasons why they can't hang out, though.

bozo the clown and ronald mcdonald may hold it all together tho, throw in a laser/light show and pyrotechnics and hopefully that would disguise the not so stellar music.

good point about jazz musicians and in addition to that, they are the best sightreaders on the planet and most prominent jazzers today went thru music school. most are certified studio guys anyway, that means most are trained as session stand-ins who do what the sheet says. thier adaptability is not limited just to jazz.

granted this is more the cooperation/collaboration aspect. that standard of proffessionalism does not conflate with the writing of actually good music, even within their own genre, of course.

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Yeah, the vast majority of jazz guys are infill players. I'm not really sure it's even possible to 'write' jazz anymore. It's gotten to a very unusual place.

OK I'll change mine a bit.

Tarja Turunen (ex Nightwish)-Operetic Vocals
Nergal (Behemoth)-Guitar/ Death Vocals
Mauser (Vader)-Guitar
Martin (Decapitated)-Bass
Mustis (Dimmu Borgir)-Keyboards
Frost (Satyricon/1349)-Drums

For some reason. I actually think this would be wicked.

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Well, since it wasn't specified that the musicians had to be REAL, I'm gonna go in a different direction

Drums; General Greivous (You CANNOT say no to this; the dude has 4 arms, infinite stamina if you ignore the coughing, and he's part droid so he's gotta be exceptionally coordinated and fast)

Keyboards/synth- Emperor Palpatine

Bass- Chewbacca

Rhythm Guitar/Backing vocals- Darth Vader

Lead Guitar- Han Solo (stand-in musician for Count Dooku, who lost his hands )

Lead Vocals- Darth Maul

I shall begin drawing album art.

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Lead Vocalist - LBxxx
Lead Guitarist - Tranz
Rhythm Guitarist - Dissection
Bass - Requiem
Drums - CTL

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There ya go.

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No man...I would want nothing to do with that band. haha.

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That band wouldn't make it because no one would call me and Requiem whenever rehearsals were going to be held. And I'll probably get pissy everytime someone says Wedge was a good leader (he's a pussy).

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Damn, i always thought that was you in the avater.

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....... I have no clue as to what you are talking about.

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avatar*. Your avatar the guy in the picture i thought it was you!

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Oh, haha. I am not nearly cool enough to look like that guy.

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Here we go. an idea for a classic rock band;

Guitar/vocals- Han Solo
Drums- Luke Skywalker
Bass- Mace Windu ("FUCK YOU, RACIST!")
Stoned Hippy with tamborine- Qui-Gon Jinn

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If you really weren't racist, you would have put the black guy somehwere else besides the rhythm section.

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i got something close

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I saw that pic, and actually have it as my wall paper... sort of.

It wasn't big enough, so it's there in four places, and it has a quote under each pic saying "It's Comforting to know that no matter what you do in life, it will never be as awesome as this picture."

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hahaha wtf is r2 doing. and the picture's right, ctl. luke would definitely be on guitar, and chewie on drums. i'm sure it's what episodes vii-ix were all going to be about......

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Yeah. I'm sure after the Battle of Endor, they're thinking "HEY! Dudes, instead of focusing on rebuilding the republic, let's start a metal band!!!" "That's an awesome idea dude, and we can kill all these ewoks and wear their skin on stage!"

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Are you trying to go for most effeminate band ever? It's pretty close. It's at least twice as effeminate as L7.

My band looks like this-
Lead/Rhythm guitar- Ted Nugent (because I'm listening to Great White Buffalo right now and it fucking RULES. I thought Anthrax and Iron Maiden had the market cornered on cheesy songs sympathetic to the plight of Native Americans at the hands of 17th and 18th century Eurotrash.

Rhythm/Lead guitar- Pete Townshend. No one knows what it's like to be the bad man...

Bass guitar- Flea. I watched the Big Lebowski like three times last week, and it convinced me to put Flea in a super band because he doesn't "believe in anything, Lebowski!" Fucking nihilists.

Drums- Gene Hoglan. He's been in at least 58% of every good band ever, even more if you count fill ins and being a session player. He even played on a shell on Symbolic. How sweet is that?

Vox- Rob Halford. EXCIIIIIIIIIIITER comes for EEEEEEEEEEveryone!

Weaklings everywhere, cower in fear of the awesome might and musical mass of the band that will bring armeggedon to RAGE on your puny world...

HELLBENT FOR GLORY!

If you don't like my band, suck a European Buffalo's nasty ass with Heinz Tomato Ketchup.

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Retro Mix Dream Band

Axel Rose - Singer
Jimmy Page - Guitar
Randy Rhoads - Guitar
Victor Wooten - Bass
Danny Carey - Drums

Meta Dream Band

Corey Taylor - Singer
'Evil' Chuck - Guitar
Alexi Laiho - Guitar
Cliff Burton - Bass
Derek Roddy - Drums

these are just off the top of my head...

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random

Rob Halford-Vocal
Steve Harris-Bass
Marty Friedman-Guitar 1
Dave Mustaine-Guitar 2
David Lombardo-Drums

replace dave with nicko and it would be alright

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bass - me
drums - the one armed dude from def leppard
guitar - this dude named will that I know from skoo
vox - another guy I know who goes by the name of "fat joe"

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dave mustaoine -guitar/vocals
Chuck schuldiner Guitar/vocals
dimegag -guitar
cliff burton -bass
scott travis -drums
dani filth - vocals

I want to see Havok and Novy back in Behemoth and not Seth and Orion's Nazi ass.

I'd also love to see Erik Rutan back with Morbid Angel although I really like and respect his other work.

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Vocals - Philip Anselmo (Pantera)
Lead Guitar - John Petrucci (Dream Theater)
2nd Guitar - Dimebag Darrell (Pantera)
3rd Guitar - Randy Rhoads (Quiet Riot, Ozzy Osbourne)
Drums - Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater)
Bass - John Myung (Dream Theater)

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