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Posted: August 02 2017 at 21:25
miamiscot wrote:
Jon Anderson
Chris Squire
Steve Howe
Rick Wakeman
Bill Bruford
With this threads this is the very line-up I always want to put up first. No other band has had such a perfect line-up in which I really love every musician in their instrument as the best, or a strong contender for the best. Not even Yes themselves with any other of their line-ups.
Male Vocals: Ian Gillan, Ronnie James Dio, Peter Gabriel.
Female Vocals: Kate Bush, Jane Relf, Maggie Reilly.
Electric Guitar: James McGaw, Andy Latimer, Mike Oldfield.
Acoustic Guitar: John Renbourn, Steve Tibbetts, Michael Hedges. Bass: Philippe Bussonnet, Eberhard Weber, Tony Levin. Drums: Christian Vander, Bill Bruford, Simon Phillips. Synthesizers: Edgar Froese, Vangelis, Klaus Schulze.
And all songs written by Elton John & Bernie Taupin.
My perfect line up? Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe. :) You can add Squire too to make it the Fragile/CTTE line up. Runner up would be the SEBTP line up.
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Posted: July 18 2017 at 20:45
Another one, I came up with this one trying to think of artists that could match Yes in their prime days, and whom I would like to be the ones coming into the band to replace the ones that may not be up to continue. Mostly, I thought when Yes were replacing vocalist and keyboard player, the Iamthemorning guys should have been great to do the job (even if Gleb mostly plays piano and not much other keyboards). So:
- Vocals: Marjana Semkina. - Piano / Keyboards: Gleb Kolyadin. - Guitars: Colin Tench. - Bass: Nick Beggs. - Drums: I don't know, I guess Gavin Harrison.
And the thing is, even after thinking of such a great line-up, I read something about Gleb working on a solo album, with just about this very line-up, minus Marjana, for it would be an instrumental album (and otherwise it might just as well have been another Iamthemorning album), plus Jordan Rudess (I guess for more keyboards besides the piano, and whom I also thought would be a great fit for Yes).
Ahh this thread. Always nice to dream away and think of the impossible.
Let's see, it's Thursday...hhmm alright then:
Franco Battiato - vocals, VCS3
Igor Wakhevitch - organs
Pierre Moerlen - drums
Bernard Paganotti - bass
Manuel Göttsching - guitars, synths
If you're going to have Igor and Franco in the same band you have to have an epic synth duel. Preferably with Pierre bashing hell out of his vibraphone at the same time
Pierre is of course welcomed to provide anything bashable to the proceedings.
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Posted: May 18 2016 at 22:17
I was just remembering one little song, not very well known I guess (and not prog at all), but it's got a wonderful line-up: - Rod Stewart on vocals. - David Gilmour on guitars. - John Paul Jones on keyboards.
The song they did is "In a Broken Dream"... and what an emotional performance it is. Perhaps not the longest and proggiest guitar solos from Gilmour, but they are powerful and fit Stewart's vocals perfectly. Now, an album with this line-up would have been wonderful.
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Posted: May 14 2016 at 23:01
I had already posted something very similar to this line-up on this thread, but wasn't really convinced with the keyboard player, and I just thought about the right one for it:
- David Gilmour - Guitars and vocals. - Steven Wilson - Guitars, vocals, and keyboards. - Kevin Moore - Keyboards. - Mariuz Duda - Bass and vocals. - Chris Maitland - Drums. - And I guess we could add Theo Travis on Sax and winds (or else, Dick Parry himself).
I think such a line-up could actually reach the heights Pink Floyd themselves reached in their prime... or at least get very close.
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