Pick your band.

[Tyrone Biggums]

Just a quick shot from the hip.

Vocals: Layne Staley
Guitar: SRV
Guitar 2: Rich Robinson
Bass: P-Nut
Drums: Carter Beauford

[slow55]

Vocals - Dio
Guitar 1 - Randy Rhoads
Guitar 2 - Dime
Bass - Steve Harrison
drums - Dave Lombardo

[fordracer2]

Vocals - Maynard Keenan
Lead Guitar - Dimebag Darryl
Bass Guitar - Les Claypool
Drums - Danny Carey
Piano/Synth - Elton john

Done!

^ This would be awesome!

[Vanner27]

Vocals- Bruce Dickinson
Lead Guitar- Dimebag
Guitar 2- Ted Nugent
Bass/Vocals- Lemmy
Drums- Dave Lombardo

[War Machine]

Beatles as is

[YALE]

I think I'd like to see the Band backing Sam Cooke or Screamin' Jay Hawkins, or just Derek and the Dominos.

[mstng86]

Vocals- chris cornell
Guitar 1- jimmy page
Guitar 2- jimi hendrix
Bass- flea
Drums- john bonham

[Slowhand]

Who are all these people that want Chris fucking Cornell on vocals in their dream band?!

[SS Junk]

Travis Barker - Drums

Banned!

[71chevellejohn]

Who are all these people that want Chris fucking Cornell on vocals in their dream band?!

Looks like just two of us right now. I quoted the posts so you can see them easier.

Vocals- chris cornell
Guitar 1- jimmy page
Guitar 2- jimi hendrix
Bass- flea
Drums- john bonham

Chris Cornell - Vocals
Brian May - Lead guitar
Cliff Burton - Bass
Travis Barker - Drums
Will Ferrel - Cowbell

[Geor!]

Vox - RJD
Geets - Joe Bonamassa; Jeff Henneman
Bass - Colin Edwin
Drums - Brann Dailor
Keys (if they are absolutely necessary) - Kevin Moore

[Slowhand]

Looks like just two of us right now. I quoted the posts so you can see them easier.

Two people that feel that way is a lot to me, lol

[71chevellejohn]

Banned!

Meh, I couldn't really think of drummer. Would you rather I put Tommy Lee, Lars or Dave Grohl in there?

[talisman]

Vocalist- Shirley Manson
Guitar 1- Jimmy Page
Guitar 2- Pete Townshend
Bass- Les Claypool
Drums- Dave Grohl
Keyboards- Trent Reznor

[Slowhand]

I'll assemble a second group of people I think have been overlooked so far:

Bass and Keys - Geddy Lee. You can say what you want about him as a vocalist, but he's one of the funkiest, most underrated groovemasters in the history of rock on a bass.

See: Cygnus X-1, La Villa Strangiato



Drums - Glenn Kotche. The absolute best drummer in modern music. No double pedal, no gimmicks, just some of the most innovative rhythms in the history of drumming. No one is more technically sound or philosophically innovative. Most importantly, he understands how drums fit into music; I think that's something that lots of great drummers really don't get because they're drummers, not musicians. Stewart Copeland (a possible substitute for Kotche on my list), Nick Mason, and John Bonham are the three drummers that I think of (in rock) that get drums and music like Kotche does.

See: On and On and On with Wilco. If you're expecting to hear something mindblowing, you'll be disappointed. But the drums on this song fit in perfectly with the context of the rest of the music, and it really drives the music when it comes in at the 2:30 mark, and then once the drums have given their piece, they go away. It's a perfect example of a musician playing drums, as opposed to a drummer playing drums.




Keys - Richard Wright. This one surprised me the most. Funky, funky, funky! His work on the keys is often mistakable for guitar riffs, he's a master of the use of organ pads to set the tone of a song. And who could forget the keys on Great Gig in the Sky? Or any other song off DSOTM?

See: Great Gig in the Sky



Guitar - Nels Cline. A modern technical master of the guitar with a range of abilities and taste that dwarf almost ever other guitarist in rock music history. As much as I love Clapton, Stevie Ray, and Gilmour, they don't have the breadth of ability that Cline does; Duane Allman is the only guitarist that I can think of that has such a versatile sound.

See: Side with the Seeds - Wilco



Guitar 2/Keys/Songwriting/Vocals - Elliott Smith. The greatest songwriter of the past 20 years, bar none. A lot of people don't dig the timbre of his voice or his style of music, but he was an excellent musician with a lot to say through music, and he did it exceptionally eloquently. Not on here because he's a technical master (although his theoretical understanding of music is comfortably massive), but because he got music better than anyone. Kind of a theme with this list of mine.

See: Son of Sam. The bridge is the pinnacle of this song.