Stop arguing everyone: behold, the ultimate rock band
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Do you ever find yourself discussing who rocked more, Freddie Mercury or Kurt Cobain? Perhaps you find yourself sweating and raising your voice as you constantly become embroiled in debates about whether it was Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page or Slash who could shred the hardest? They’ve been doing just that over at Gigwise.com, where they’ve conducted a poll to find the quartet – vocals, guitar, bass and drums, of course – who’d comprise the ‘ultimate rock band’. Rockin!
Queen frontman Mercury came out on top in the singers' poll, beating Rolling Stone Mick Jagger into second and Cobain into third. Jimi Hendrix won out in the guitarists category, while reports indicate that Flea of Red Hot Chili Peppers was very gracious for the chance to rock the low-end. "Dude, this fuckin' rocks," the rock legend was heard to say.
Keith Moon of The Who’s on drums. More quandaries to have faced real hardcore rockers over the years were finally put to rest – remember when Ozzy Osbourne bit the head off that bat?!?! Yeah, pretty gross! Yeah, that was the most outrageous stunt ever pulled in the history of rock music. The best ever gig to have ever taken place was Queen’s performance at Live Aid.
Anyway, now that’s out of the way we can get down to the root of the matter – who’d be in your ultimate rock band, readers of DrownedinSound? There won’t be a poll ‘cause we can’t be bothered to count it up, but victors should emerge clearly enough from the comments left below. Personally, DiS reckons John Maus, Jamie T, Daniel Treacy and that guy from Tokyo Police Club could do something great together. That'd rock. Rock. Rock?
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He's like a solo version of every irritating indie accent band lingering around right now.
He swallows his word
Apparently he's an incredible lyricist but I can't understand what the fuck he's going on about.
flea
:((((
does it need to be said
that some people who sing with accents do actually have accents.
and anyway, he doesn't sound like any band around.
jamie t
is soooooo bad
I just don't get jamie T
ignoring his irritating accent he still talks shit and makes crap music.
Remeber the topic on here
about fantasy bands. That was way cooler than this list
My Fantasy Band...
Frontman... Freddie M.
Lead Guitar... Johnny Marr
Rhythm Guitar... Prince
Bass... McCartney
Drums... Keith Moon
vocals:
jamie stewart
I've tried to do this before
I was struggling to get beyond:
D. Boon; vocals and guitar
Mike Watt; Bass
George Hurley; Drums
best band ever
vocals: oli sykes
Guitar: elliot smith
Bass: les claypool
Drums: rick allen
piano - yann tiersen
Flea
is my least favourite musician alive.
i never get tired of this
vocals - bjork
keyboard - rick wakeman
piano - matt bellamy
lead guitar - guthrie govan
rhythm guitar - jack white
drums - roget taylor
bass - Jesse F. Keeler
MAD BAND
that was my thread!
i said Thurston Moore, Stephen Malkmus and J Mascis should have a project together.
i still cream my pants thinking about how amazing that would be.
Vocals: Fred Durst
Guitar: Wes Borland
Bass: Sam Rivers
Drums: John Otto
Decks: DJ Lethal (bring it on)
yes
in every way that would be amazing
Mine would just be
An epic, fast-paced electronica album mixed by Burial and The Avalanches.
Featuring original samples by loads of musicians including Regina Spektor, Matt Stanier, Chuck D, Jamie T, Devendra Banhart and Fionn Regan.
It would also include samples from various styles of world music.
...it's ideas like this that are making me fail history.
imagine if you will...
Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes) - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Nick Zinner (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) - Guitar, keyboards
Russell Lissack (Bloc Party) - Guitar
Kapil Trivedi (Mystery Jets) - Drums
Carlos D (Interpol) - Bass
Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy) - Violin
Gareth Campesinos! (Los Campesinos!) - Glockenspiel
Sam Scott (Youthmovies) - Trumpet
(I know it's not strictly a rock band
I just wanted to share that idea)
my fantasy band:
the guy from a hawk and a hacksaw playing accordion and the health drummer, with panda bear doing vocals. safe.
Mike Watt - Bass
Jaco Pastorius - Rhythm Bass
Charles Mingus - Lead Bass
Tom Jenkinson - Lead Bass 2
that dude from Chic - Bass Bass
I'd go for
Vocals: Frank Black/Patti Smith
L Guitar: Keith Richards
R Guitar: George Harrison
Piano: Thom Yorke
Drums: John Bonham
Bass: Entwhistle
Maybe Bez to gurn and jig about...
Er ...
Vox: Nick Cave
Guitar: Roland S. Howard
Bass: Tracey Pew
Drums: Mick Harvey
NEXT!
Fantasy lists
are really for people like reading Mojo, surely?
you forgot Fieldy.
FAIL.
best have a crack at this i suppose
This would definitely be a pretty heavy one. Fucking ace mind:
Vocals: Kurt Cobain (Nirvana)
Lead Guitarist/backing vox.: Josh Homme (QOTSA)
Rhythm Guitar: Rob Flynn (Machine Head)
Bassist: Jess F. Keeler (DFA1979)
Drums: Steve Hewitt (Placebo)
definately
juanita stein
hayley williams
m.i.a.
karen o
mary-beth from brs
jemina pearl
i don't care who plays what
DONE
That'd be immense
Hahahaha
Oli Sykes! Watch out for the stream of urine!
Nearly Mine Too
Although Les Claypool takes things up a notch in the "woo look at me, I can make a bass sound slappy and shite" stakes.
Slap bass. It's just wrong.
Jamie T can fuck right off
But regardless of that...
Vocals: John Garcia (Kyuss)
Guitars: Matt Pike (Sleep/High On Fire etc)
Bass: Mike Dean (Corrosion of Conformity)
Drums: Dale Crover (Melvins)
Honourable mentions would go to Juan Montoya (Torche) on guitar and Dave Lombardo on drums.
fantasy band...
Vocals: Robert Plant
Guitar: Jack White
Guitar: Johnny Greenwood
Guitar: Prince
Bass: Peter Hook
Keyboards: Ben Folds
Drums: Dave Grohl
Backing vox: Beth Gibbons / Feist
Triangle / Cowbell: Me
yep...THREE guitarists..it's my band, I make the rules.
QUEEEEEEEEEEEEEN
WOOOOOOO!!!
Flea is shit
Les Claypool however is not
to be able to play slap bass on a 6 string fretless is no mean feat
Best bassist is Cliff Burton easily
Flea is Not Shit
Yes, Burton,Claypool, King, Pastorious etc are loads better than him, but that don't make him shit. But I guess an opinion like mine aint controversial enough for DIS
vocals.....
... bill hicks.
House of the Dead
band?
Biggie Smalls, Kurt Cobain (bass), Freddie Mercury, Marc Bolan? Add on John Bonham...
but
surely zinnera and lissack would clash horribly as they arent that different in style?
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