Dream Team - Supergroup of yer choice

How's about this then??

Vocals / acoustic guitar - Greg Lake (when he was young)
Keyboards - Dave Greenslade & Hugh Banton
Guitars - Fripp & Zappa
Bass Guitar - Jaco Pastorius
Drums - Neil Peart





Edited by Jim Garten

Okay, how's this -

Guitar/Vocal's - Francis Dunnery

Keyboards - Rick Wakeman

Guitar - Dave Gilmour

Bass - John Jowitt

Drums - Neil Peart or Terry Bozzio

drums:  Jaki Liebezeit

bass: Squire

guitars: Hillage & Fripp (who isn't allowed to solo)

keys: Kerry Minnear + Tim Blake on synths

vox: nobody! this is an instrumental supergroup with no crappy singer to mess it up.

Steve Morse is excellent, I love some of those old Dixie Dregs albums, Night of the Living Dregs comes to mind.

 You mean no one objects to having Styx and Starcastle do the catering? Not even the young Americans? For shame!

 Lucas, re your query concerning prog placement, I'd say yes to Kate's "Hounds of Love," but no to Pat Metheny (excellent music, 70s to now; saw him twice in the Watercolors/Cross the Heartland era, awesome shows!) and Spyrogyra. That's just you branching out and enjoying some modern jazz. (Of the two artists, I'd say Metheny has considerably more depth and soul.) As I've said here before, not all good, intelligent and challenging music is capital-P Progressive. That music was known as jazz fusion when it was evolving. (Other artists & albums include Jean Luc Ponty, Al DiMeola, Jeff Beck -- especially "Blow by Blow" and "Wired" -- Return to Forever, etc.) I think we should give this music its due historical place as a sub-genre of jazz (rock influenced), and not try to make everything we like fit under some all-encompassing "umbrella."

Now, Metheny, RTF, Beck & others certainly caused  jazz, and music in general, to "progress," or move, in a different direction (Metheny, for one, is still doing so), and their stuff may be very accessable to many fans of classic prog, but I'd maintain that that's because we're broad-minded (at least musically), serious music fans who are open to new, varied, and challenging music. I think that Bach and Beethoven (or cave men) wrote some of the first "progressive" music, if you follow my line of reasoning. In a sense, no Bach means no Beatles. How far do we want to stretch the definition? (Of course, that's the problem: the thing we all love to debate remains undefined!)

But as I've suggested before, how you file your music, and what you group together on compilation discs, or play over the course of a listening session, is a matter of personal taste. There are progressive moments and sounds in a wide variety of music. If you want to listen to "Morning Dance," "Tom Sawyer," "The Girl from Ipanema," "For the Benefit of Mr. Kite," "Child in Time," "Take Five," "Toccata," "Freeway Jam" Beethoven's 9th and "War Pigs" back-to-back, then who's to stop you? Possibly your wife, but certainly not me! Long live good music. It's okay to like many forms. That's just my opinion, of course. You -- and everyone else -- are free to differ! (I don't know the other no-doubt good artists you mention.)

PS: Are you familiar with Metheny & Mays' classic As Falls Wichita, so Fall Wichita Falls? Hypnotic, expansive, and beautiful music. Great for reading, dozing, "cuddling up to," etc!

Edited by Peter Rideout

ALRIGHT THIS HAS TO BE THE BEST LINE UP EVER

RONNIE JAMES DIO, GREG LAKE AND FREDDIE MERCURY - VOCALS

RITCHIE BLACKMORE, DAVE GILMOUR AND JIMI HENDRIX - GUITARS

RICK WAKEMAN, KEITH EMERSON AND JON LORD - KEYBOARDS

GINGER BAKER, COZY POWELL - DRUMS

BEAT THAT

Go up a few posts, I think Peter Rideout's Band Kicks yer !!!!!!!!!!!, Progman.

Lemmy doing prog!!!?:i can see it now, Dark side of the moon becomes" Dark blood at Noon",Pictures At An Exhibition becomes "Pictures Of An Execution" and Leftoverture becomes "Bloody Leftovers, For Sure!!" not to mention trying to fit E.L.P's more complex peices into three chords and twelve bars!!!! love all your comments. stay safe!!!

 Appearance of Veracity: Oh, they'd probably play a Michael Jackson medly, then a tribute to Shania Twain, then a 20-minute version of "Freebird," and as for the "how," why, standing on their heads, of course!

But seriously, they'd learn various longer pieces by each of the big names present, including "Supper's Ready," "Thick as a Brick," "Close to the Edge," "Karn Evil 9," "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers," (for Max) etc!

(And why not? This is happening in my head, after all!)

 Anyway, it doesn't really matter what they play, because they'll sell out, and I'll have left with the $$$$$$ before they even start to play, pausing only to grab a couple of sandwiches from Starcastle and Stynx on the way out! Those boys in Stynx really know their cheese: "Too much (11 21 13) on my hands, too much --- on my hands, and it's drippin' away, drippin' away from me...."  (With sincerest apologies in advance to those who truly believe that Styx and Starcastle were the best thing since sliced White Bread.....)

Anyway guys, nice to see you all here, and that there's still some life in Danbo's great thread! I had a lot of fun with that supergroup concept! Thanks for those who took the time to read and comment, especially to Danbo. (But then again, Progman has exhumed Hendrix, and Lemmy's moustache is bigger than Levin's....) 

PS: BRUFORD is the BEST EVER! Who else has seen him live? What a treat! I've also seen Mason, Palmer and Collins (w. Genesis, not solo), but I think that ol' Bill's my all-time fave. His drumming on "Cinema Show," off Second's Out, is sublime!

Take it easy, but play it "Loud 'n' Proud," Proggers!

Edited by Peter Rideout