Band Line Up

A few of the guys from work and myself were discussing who would have made the ultimate band line up ever. I am talking about the greatest of the great coming together to perform in a band, dead or alive. So I put it to you to pick five different musicians with at least one singer amongst them and post it here. You can have whatever range of instruments you like as I know that genres will vary.

I'll start off with mine;

Vocals; Phil Anselmo
Guitar 1; Kirk Hammett
Guitar 2; John Petrucci
Bass; Cliff Burton
Drums; Dave Grohl

Robert Plant
Eric Clapton
John Entwistle
John Bonham

Mike Portnoy
Glenn Hughes
Keith Emerson
Alex Lifeson

Lead Singer: Jeff Buckley
Lead Guitar: John Squire
Rhythm Guitar: Noel Gallagher
Bass Guitar: Paul McCartney
Drummer: Dave Grohl

...alomost completely unworkable as a band in theory, but it's really just a collection of my favourite artists. 4 of them could make a good case to be lead singer too, so at least their album would be full of variety!

Vocals: Brandon Flowers
Piano/Guitar/Vocals: Damon Albarn
Guitar: Mick Jones
Bass: Paul Simonon
Drums: Rick Buckler

Vocals: Billie Joe Armstrong or Crispian Mills
Lead Guitar 1: Eric Johnson
Lead Guitar 2: Slash
Drums: Travis Barker
Bass: John Paul Jones

Very interesting subject. I am sure if everyone answered tomorrow it would be different.

Vocals: Bono
Backing Vocals: Ian Brown
Lead Guitar: Jimmy Page
Guitar 2: Johnny Marr
Bass: Kim Deal
Drums: Keith Moon

Gregers wrote:Vocals: Brandon Flowers
Piano/Guitar/Vocals: Damon Albarn
Guitar: Mick Jones
Bass: Paul Simonon
Drums: Rick Buckler

Good call on Simonon and Jones, I could probably find space for them over my picks, definitely Jones over Squire!

Everything: Matt Bellamy
Guitar/Vocals: Prince (one of the most underrated guitarists of the 20th century)
Bass: Paul Simonon (sorry to copy you Gregers, but it was too good!)
Piano/Vocals/other: Regine Chassagne
Drums: Matt Cameron

Big shout out to Mike McCready too, tough to leave him out.

Pr4wn, no worries mate. Paul Simonon is the best bass player PEROID

Didn't know you were American, Gregers.

Haha Im not, just it sounds better than putting FULL STOP!

Gregers wrote:Pr4wn, no worries mate. Paul Simonon is the best bass player PEROID

Got to be Entwistle or JPJ

vocals - Damon Albarn
guitar - Tom Morello
rhythm guitar/vocals - Noel Gallagher
bass - Flea Balzary
drums - Taylor Hawkins

Imperial Ghosty wrote:

Gregers wrote:Pr4wn, no worries mate. Paul Simonon is the best bass player PEROID

Got to be Entwistle or JPJ

Amen for JPJ.

Drums Ginger Baker
Bass Greg Lake
Keyboards Jon Lord
Singer Ronnie James Dio
Guitar Ritchie Ritchie Blackmore or Jimmy Page. I favour Blackmore but I would be more than happy with Page

Good choices asdral - apart from Jabba the Lake. Just think what ELP could have been with someone other than him. Average singer, mediocre bass/acoustic guitarist

I was going to put Geddy Lee in