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Pick your All-Star rock band

posted 4 years ago by Moonglum9 (10713)
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There seems to be quite a few fans of good old fashioned rock and roll on this board. I'd be interested to see who everyone's band of all time greats would include. I'm thinking a singer, two guitarists, a bass player and a drummer. Probably should have a Headliner and an opening act since it will be pretty hard to narrow down as it is. Mine would be something like this:

Headliners:
Vocals - Bruce Dickinson
Guitars - Randy Rhoads and Jimmy Page
Bass - Lemmy
Drums - Ginger Baker

Opening Act:
Vocals - Chris Cornell
Guitars - Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton
Bass - Jack Casady
Drums - Ian Paice

So many others to pick, but I'll leave that up to the rest of you.

[–] Otter (24464) 4 years ago

Lead vocals - Freddie Mercury.

!!!

[–] robocat893 (13430) 4 years ago

Vocals - Ronnie James Dio
Guitars - Eddie Van Halen and Ritchie Blackmore
Bass - Geezer Butler
Drums - Neil Peart

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

That's close to the second lineup of Black Sabbath.

[–] lud (5927) 4 years ago

Vocal - Freddie Mercury
Guitar - Eric Clapton
Rhythm Guitar - Pete Townshend
Bass - Fender Jazz
Drum - Neil Peart
Songwriter - Bob Dylan
Piano - Ray Charles

It's tough when you have to exclude John Lennon,Jimmy Page,Robert Plant,Jimmy Hendrix,David Bowie,Van Halen and more legends,,, Here it is.

[–] chilone (17266) 4 years ago

Headliners:

Vocals - Cristina Scabbia
Guitars - Michael Schenker and Dave Meniketti
Bass - Ryan Martinie
Drums - John Bonham

Openers:

Vocals - Charlotte Wessels
Guitars - Jerry Cantrell and George Lynch
Bass - John Paul Jones
Drums - Leonard Haze

[–] Moonglum9 (10713) 4 years ago

I like these choices because besides the Zeppelin guys, they are different picks than you would usually see for this type of thing.

[–] chilone (17266) 4 years ago

:) Bonham and JPJ were untouchable!

[–] CKid (3816) 4 years ago

Vocals: Bruce Springsteen and Janis Joplin
Guitars: Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton
Bass: Sting
Piano: Nicky Hopkins
Saxophone - Clarence Clemons
Drums: Tommy Ramone
Songwriter: Bruce Springsteen

[–] samoanjoes (50962) 4 years ago

Vocals: Steve Marriott
Guitar: Jimmy Page
Bass: Flea
Drums: Neil Peart

[–] Moonglum9 (10713) 4 years ago

Yeah it was hard for me to leave Flea and Peart off (and Ritchie Blackmore for that matter). If there was a second opening band for me, they would have been on it.

[–] samoanjoes (50962) 4 years ago

I was really close to put Ian Gillan on vocals. Hard to choose just one.

[–] Moonglum9 (10713) 4 years ago

I just listened to Child in Time yesterday. Insanely awesome!

[–] samoanjoes (50962) 4 years ago

Flight of the Rat is my favourite.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Deep Purple in Rock is an underrated album. It came out the same year as Black Sabbath's debut and it's even more hardcore.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Best Deep Purple song.

[–] dmac8 (5050) 4 years ago

Vocals - Robert Plant
Lead guitar - Eddie Van Halen
Rhythm guitar - James Hetfield
Bass - Billy Sheehan
Drums - Neil Peart

[–] AndyKing1967 (33858) 4 years ago

Headliners:
Vox - Robert Plant
Axe - Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton
Bass - John Entwistle
Drums - Keith Moon

Support:
Vox - Roger Daltery
Axe - Eddie Van Halen and Angus Young
Bass - Phil Lynott
Battery - Carl Palmer

[–] Moonglum9 (10713) 4 years ago

Is it possible to argue against The Yardbirds spawning the greatest collection of musical talent in the history of rock?

[–] AndyKing1967 (33858) 4 years ago

I watched an excellent series of documentaries (ten years ago?) called The History Of Rock and they had these wonderful Family Trees showing how so many bands (British ones at least) had links between them.