Kevin's Watch

the musicians, producer, song, band name, albums
whatever you like...

Acid Cool Blues
Bob Mould: guitar/vocals (Husker Du, Sugar)
Kristin Hersh: guitar/vocals (Throwing Muses, 50 ft Wave)
Mike Watt: bass/vocals (Minutemen, Firehose)
Dave Narcizo: drums (Throwing Muses)

www.granarymusic.com/
www.throwingmusic.com/
www.hootpage.com/

first up would be a live album...

New Day Rising (Mould)
Corona (Watt)
Spain (Hersh)
New #1 (Mould)
Making the Freeway (Watt)
Walking In the Dark (Hersh)
Dio (Mould/Hersh)
Riddle of the '80's (Watt)
Furious (Hersh)
Celebrated Summer (Mould)
In the Engine Room (Watt)
Soul Soldier (Hersh)

Flip Your Wig (Mould/Watt)
Max and Wells (Watt)
Loon (Hersh)
Hanging Tree (Watt)
Walking the Cow (Watt)
Cuckoo (Hersh)
Turn Out the Lights (Mould)
Do You Want New Wave Or Do You Want the Truth? (Watt)
Red Shoes/Pearl (Hersh)
Explode & Make Up (Mould)
Puked To High Heaven (Watt)
Hook In Her Head (Hersh)

oof! i'll have to give this some thought!!! i'll get back to you on it!

(by the way, i can't believe you're somebody's GRANDFATHER! sarge!!)

My dream band, musically, probably wouldn't made any sense at all-probably end up sounding like a schreeching cat fight:

Guitars:
John McGlaughlin
Joe Satriani
Chris Cornell
Pat Travers
Jeff Beck
Dwayne Allman
Stevie Vai

Bass:
Chris Squire

Drums: Billy Cobham

(though I do think Chris and Pat might end up sounding interesting on vocals...)

Guitar: Gord Johnson (Big Sugar)
Drums: Jimmy Chamberlain (smashing Pumpkins)
Vocals: Jim Cuddy (Blue Rodeo)

Songwritters.. music:Alex Lifeson(Rush)
Lyrics: Dave Pirner (soul Asylum)

Produced by: Mutt Lang.

Reasons:
Gord Johnson is Heavily influenced by Rush, but he's got this rough blues edge..so if he played a song written by Lifeson-well think of a cross between Tom Sawer by rush with Black Dog by Zepplin.
Dave Pirner writes incredible stroy telling folk style lyrics, Jim Cuddy can make anything sound beautifull, he's got such a strong yet mesmerizing voice.
Jimmy Chamberlain automatically improves any song that he plays drums on--he's even better than John Bonham (sorry C!)

I never really thought of a bass player, maybe Chris Murphy from Sloan..he could singbackup too.

Oh and if Mutt Lang doesn't get your album triple platinum, no one can.

danlo writes,

My dream band, musically, probably wouldn't made any sense at all-probably end up sounding like a schreeching cat fight:

Guitars:
John McGlaughlin
Joe Satriani
Chris Cornell
Pat Travers
Jeff Beck
Dwayne Allman
Stevie Vai

Bass:
Chris Squire

Drums: Billy Cobham

(though I do think Chris and Pat might end up sounding interesting on vocals...)

ah...this is pretty close to what i might come up with for ONE of my dream bands.


cross off satriani, travers, and vai for me. not into THAT kind of speed playing.

add instead...that hunky guitarist with the tasty chops, Doyle Bramhall II,
how 'bout Adrian Belew for some kick*ss vocals along with Chris, and i do belive Chris Squire sings as well.
keyboards? why Donald Fagan, of course, or if you wanna keep it progressive, Patrick Moraz or Wakeman, OR if you wanna get another vocalist who also plays keyboards, Gary Brooker for the more R & B sound, and then, of course, you've left out the all important BACKUP SINGERS!!!! heh.
say, Valerie Carter (sings Long Distance Love with Lowell George)
Merry Clayton (sings Gimme Shelter with Mick!)
Rosemary Butler (you've heard her with Jackson Browne, James Taylor, and a host of others)


and lastly, two drummers, keep Cobham and add Bruford!! heh.

yeah.

You never need two drummers. The Greatful Dead did it for a while..it's so unnessecary.

A drummer and a percusionist maybe (Someone to play hand drums, and tambourines and shakers and stuff)
But two guys (or gals) on the traps--waste of effort.

(But if you got Jimmy Chamberlain..he saunds like two drummers)

Speaking of backup singers what about Clare Torry who wailed on Dark Side of the Moon?

Yes Chris S. sings--A Fish Out of Water (his first solo album) is great!
I'd probably pick Keith Emerson for keyboards, Ritchie Cole for sax and Rebop Wakuba (Traffic) for percussion--and Magic Dick (The J. Giels Band) on harmonica: just listen once to Whammer Jammer and you'll understand .

Lyrics? Neil Young and Maynard (Tool, PC) wouldn't they make an odd pair?

Guitars-Stevie Ray Vaghn, Jimmy Page,Ry Cooder-3 guitar attack!
Vocals and Hamond B3-Gregg Allman
Bass-John Entwistle
Drums-John Bohnam and Keith Moon
Piano-Otis Spann(Muddy Waters band)
Harp-Little Walter

part two

Trey Anastasio: guitar/vocals
Mike Watt: bass/vocals
Jon Fishman: drums


call themselves Minutephish

Version 2.0

Vocals-Joe Cocker
Drums-John Bohnam
Guitar-Dewayne Allman
Guitar-Johnny Winter
Bass and organ-John Paul Jones
backed by The Dirty Dozen Brass Band

all time fantasy?

Bob Mould: guitar/vocal
John Bonham: drums
Mike Watt: bass/vocals
Kristin Hersh: guitar/vocals

Dream band?.. wow, that's tough. Off the top of my head:

drums: Bill Bruford
guitars: Robert Fripp & Frank Zappa (I know, crazy, but I have often wondered about what sound they would produce together.)
vocals: David Bowie
bass: Tony Levin (I know, a lot of KC choices...), Chris Squire or Geddy Lee
keyboards: Patrick Moraz

And the name of the Band?...

"The Crimson Mothers of Spiders"

Vocals-Robert Plant

Guitar-Jimmy Page

Bass-John Paul Jones

Drums-John Bonham

But, seeing as how that's been done....

Vocals-Pat Benatar

Guitars-George Lynch and Dweezil Zappa

Bass-Roger Glover

Keyboard-Jan Hammer

Drums-Cozy Powell or Carmine Appice

Have Mutt produce it.

how 'bout a GIRL band!!!?? (this is harder)


drums - can we get Sandy West (runaways) outa retirement?
bass - Tina Weymouth (talking heads)
guitar/vocals - Chrissie Hynde
guitar/vocals- Joan Jett
keys - i dunno, maybe Christine McVie?

(too many good girl singers to include everyone...Sharleen Spiteri (Texas), Shirley Manson (Garbage), Exene, Siouxsie, etc..)


got any ideas on this one guys?

Paula Blade (Lochinvar) - vocals
Kendra Smith (Dream Syndicate, Opal) - vocals, bass, keyboards
Elisa Martin (Dark Moor) - vocals

Probably getting too obscure.

I'll have to give it some thought.

i'm either old or a "pop tart"!! i have no idea who those girls are Captain!

i need EDucatin'!! (as my daddy would say!)

Rather obscure 80's metal for the most part.

Like I said, I'll give it more thought.

Given that my main two genres are metal and more "indie/alternative" stuff, I'm going to have to make two bands. To put it another way, I can't have, say, Ian Curtis singing over Jon Nödtveidt's frantic guitar-shredding. Even if it would be quite fun to see. And I'll have to restrict myself to one musician per band, I suppose.

Metal
Guttural/growling vocals: Jon Nödtveidt (Dissection)
Clean vocals: Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden)
Guitar 1: Arjen Anthony Lucassen (Ayreon/Star One)
Guitar 2: Samoth (Emperor/Zyklon)
Keyboards: Nobuo Uematsu (The Black Mages)
Bass: Peter Iwers (In Flames)
Drums: Hellhammer (Mayhem/Arcturus)

Alternative
Lead vocals: Thom Yorke (Radiohead)
Backing vocals: Jón Þor Birgisson (Sigur Rós)
Guitar 1: Joey Santiago (Pixies)
Guitar 2: Claudio Sanchez (Coheed And Cambria)
Bass: Simon Gallup (The Cure)
Drums: Jimmy Chamberlin (The Smashing Pumpkins/Zwan)

Mostly 80s metal guy here...

Vocals : Eric Adams (Manowar)
Guitar 1 : Dave Murray (Iron Maiden)
Guitar 2 : George Lynch (Dokken / Lynch Mob)
Bass : Steve Harris (Iron Maiden)
Drums : Nick Menza (early Megadeth)

Now that's my dream lineup.

for Lucimay

guitar/vox: Kristin Hersh (Throwing Muses, 50 ft Wave)
bass/vox: Kim Deal (Pixies/Breeders)
drums: Maureen Tucker (Velvet Underground)
guitar/vox: Tanya Donelly (Throwing Muses, Belly)
Guitar/vox: Kelly Deal (Breeders, Kelly Deal 6000)