Your Place in the Band

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

What would your role be in a band? Unrealistic to think I would ever be in a band but I always image I'm on stage doing something when I listen to stuff!

If I had the talent I envisage I would be the singer or bass player, not together as I doubt I would have the co-ordination to do both. I would sing the male driven songs and play bass on the female driven songs!

I would have a group made up thusly!

Vocals or bass = ME!
Vocals or bass = female player (I have someone I used to work with in mind but I have no idea if she's musical! But she would have looked the part)
Lead guitar = some young male prodigy!
Rhythm guitar = female player (notionally the girlfiend, but she really has no ability!)
Keyboards & miscellany = female again, but classically trained pianist and classical guitar and can fill in as 3rd guitarist and backing singer!
Drums = there's a bloke I used to work with who plays drums and is into metal! I always imagine he would be on the sticks!

[Charger]

Well obviously if I could sing I'd like to be the singer...

Music style would be a mixture of Purple, Sabbath and Rainbow...with a very doomy edge.

Two guitarists that could trade off solos...So no rythm and lead but both lead...(Imagine Lonely Is The Word, one guitarist does the first solo the second one the outro solo)

Keyboard player that could both add ambiance and the occational solo even.

A good strong bass player that could even play rythm to the guitars...like Geezer Butler.

A drummer that has groove but can also be really heavy and fast.

[Zzzptm]

Dude, I got no talent for performing music, but I can PERFORM. I can also write material that others can interpret to reveal the beauty.

So I need to be a bandleader of a funk ensemble, a la George Clinton in Funkadelic. All I need is a samba whistle and a comfy, roomy costume. I got a cane, so we good there.

Vocals: Gonna need about 6-8 persons here. Prefer 8, so I can have a wide range of voices and the ability to interleave vocal lines. Very important to have counterpoint and fugue in funk compositions. I'd love to have that guy fronting Gabriels doing male lead vox.

Bass: Bootsy's still around, I'll give him a call. I'm dreaming, so he says yes.

Guitar: Michael Hampton is the last living Funkadelic axeman, so I grab him up so we can do "Maggot Brain" right and properly. I'll need 2 others for the full band, I'll go with kids that are Hendrix freaks and work with that.

Keys: Bernie Worrell, RIP... he's not gonna answer the phone, so I need to do a search. If I could convince Herbie Hancock to go back to funk, we got us a BAND!

Drummer: Jerome Brailey. Jaimoe Johnson. Both of them. This is gonna be a Funkestra.

Horns: Hands down, I gotta have Fred Wesley on trombone and Maceo Parker on sax. Those cats have done it all and they are TIGHT. They'll find some other folks to handle additional sax and trumpet duties, I trust them.

Pretty much I provide the setting, words, musical direction, and then they cut loose in their own directions when we hit the stage. All I really need to do is wave my arms, point at who's playing next, and get the audience to chant, "Hey! Think! It ain't illegal yet!"

Once I get the cease and desist letter along with lawsuit papers from George Clinton, I'll know I've got it made!

[Jack the Stripper]

Guitar would be the only instrument I’d play and they’d be vintage Gibson Explorers and Flying V’s.

I’ve always thought Down would be the ideal band I’d most like to sound like. A good mix of sludge and Iommi doom with some chugging groove and a sprinkling of southern rock.

Bass player would have to be a finger plucka like Geezer & Cliff with a similar tone.

The drummer has to be able to swing like Bill, groove like Vinnie Paul and double bass like Dave Lombardo.

Prefer a raspy singer in the mould of Hetfield over an operatic or vocal gymnast type. Not that I don’t like those type singers, just not in my band for the style of music I’m playing.

A 2nd rhythm guitarist is a must to fill the sound and make it more heavy.

Keyboards will not be tolerated in my band at all…

[Typhon]

Can't really say what part in the band I would be.  Never played guitar or drums, other than the air variety  , and my singing is so-so.  Of course the overall sound would lean towards the heavy side, whether it was called metal or hard rock, I wouldn't care. 

But one thing for certain, I would have to be in charge of the financial side of things.  Nobody is going to rip us off! 

[Vyn]

Tambourine. But I'd need to take some lessons first.

[Zzzptm]

@Typhon: Good call, that's been the undoing of many a good band.

@Vyn:

That should school ya!

[Vyn]

Thanks Z! With enough practice, I might be able to eventually reach my long-term goal of playing cowbell!

[Zzzptm]

Thanks Z! With enough practice, I might be able to eventually reach my long-term goal of playing cowbell!

RIP GENE FRENKLE

Gotta say his name whenever I hear mention of the instrument that he totally rocked.