[Music] If you could be, or have been, in any band...

[elwheelio]

If you could choose to be in any band, past or present, which would you choose and why?

Perhaps you've always dreamt of playing lead guitar for the Stones, keyboard for Duran Duran or you just want to be in the Spice Girls (so to speak).

Me, I'd think a few tours with AC/DC would have been a lot of fun.

 

[*Gullsworth*]

If you could choose to be in any band, past or present, which would you choose and why?

Perhaps you've always dreamt of playing lead guitar for the Stones, keyboard for Duran Duran or you just want to be in the Spice Girls (so to speak).

Me, I'd think a few tours with AC/DC would have been a lot of fun.

You nailed it with your first suggestion, for me anyway.

 

[Superphil]

Motorhead guitarist, just to have been in that band, so appreciated the world over, and a clear no dickheads policy on band members, not to mention the outstanding loud, fast and amazing rock and roll music. .

Led Zeppelin triangle payer, kazoo, anything, just to have been part of that behemoth of a band and in front the crowds they played to, and to have been part of some of the finest recordings in hard rock music history.

 

[Is it PotG?]

I'd love to have been in The Corrs.

Well most of them anyway.

 

[Mellotron]

Drums for The Beatles. To watch the other 3 write, and be a part of it all would’ve been unbelievable.

 

[Ding Dong !]

MUSE

 

[Silverhatch]

Led Zep - all virtuoso musicians/vocalists and the biggest band in the world in the early 70s. Throw in their own Starship airliner complete with fireplace - and no smartphones

 

[Muhammad - I’m hard - Bruce Lee]

Iron maiden.
Any of them

 

[Comrade Sam]

Booker T & the MGs! Not just playing with nearly every act Stax recorded, but backing Otis Redding would do it for me!

 

[Pavilionaire]

Drummer for Abba on tour would have been a good gig - staring at Agnetha's arse every night, oh yes.

 

[Mellotron]

In terms of if this was actual real life and I had to use my actual real life music skills? I’d try for bass in Radiohead. Colin is great but he’s a more realistic person to aim for than many others, and again I love their work, and his basslines.

 

[jakarta]

Led Zep - all virtuoso musicians/vocalists and the biggest band in the world in the early 70s. Throw in their own Starship airliner complete with fireplace - and no smartphones

Clearly would have been Robert Plant - at one point during lockdown my hair was getting similar...

Or Dave Brock from Hawkwind, hope he pens his memoirs at some point, will be some read!

 

[GT49er]

I wouldn't have minded being a young lad who played rhythm guitar and didn't sing much who managed to find himself in a band with a good rhythm section, Richard Thompson playing lead and Sandy Denny on vocals!

(In fairness to Simon Nichol, he is now very adept at both vocals and guitar).

 

[Worthing exile]

Any role in The Beach Boys for me. All that Fun Fun Fun music of the 60s.

 

[studio150]

The fun of an emerging band in the 60s travelling up and down the A roads in the back of a transit.

 

[METALMICKY]

Iron maiden.
Any of them

This with bells on! Nearest I got is that I do own a black strat with maple neck a bit like Dave's old favourite.

If not Maiden it would have to be Thin Lizzy. I would have to decline any offer from Metallica as James and Lars are both equally scary and annoying.

 

[boik]

XTC. Maybe I could have helped Andy Partridge to have continued playing live.

 

[vegster]

Probably Madness, I heard Suggs reminiscing a while back and he said it was a lot of fun, he said there was a bloke that would come onstage in the middle of their live performances and just sit down in a deckchair and read a newspaper, he wasn't sure if he was in the band or just walked onstage.... I read newspapers, very well.

 

[DJ NOBO]

I'd love to have been in The Corrs.

Well most of them anyway.

Is the correct answer

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Blondie circa 1979 instead of Chris Stein