Reply To: If You Could Reunite Any Band for One Show What Band Would That Be?

[Peter DeLegge]

Some of you are naming multiple bands. So I’m not complaining — I just want to join in!

While my top rock band would be The Beatles, here are my other rock bands I would love to reunite for one show (this is pure fantasy, so that includes members who have passed on):

Jeff Buckley – he and his band were perfection, but I’ll take any combination with Jeff Buckley.

Kevin Gilbert – any combination.

Nick Drake – pure magic.

Led Zeppelin – the original lineup with Bonzo. The greatest hard rock band of all time, IMO.

Yes  – early 70s lineup with Anderson, Wakeman, Bruford, Squire, Howe).

Genesis – with Peter Gabriel on vocals and Phil Collins on drums.

Kansas – with Steve Walsh — one of my favorite rock singers — in his prime (70s until the very early 80s).

ELP – Keith Emerson was brilliant. My classical trained pianist / organist mother considered Emerson the greatest rock keyboardist of all time, and I still believe she was right. As a boy, my youngest sister told me she would take me to see any major rock band playing in town that year as a birthday gift — I think I was 12. I picked ELP, as I had fallen in love with the Trilogy album.

The Jimi Hendrix Experience – it was before my time, but timeless genius.

Chicago – the original lineup with Terry Kath on guitar, and Danny Seraphine on drums. Back in the day, in my late teens and early 20s, I played in a band with a 3 piece horn section that performed a lot of Chicago songs, and it was a blast. Terry Kath was an underrated killer guitarist and Danny Seraphine did a great job on the drums for this very creative band.

Billy Joel’s classic 70s band lineup (The Stranger) – Joel’s songwriting was amazing and so was his band during the 70s. IMO, one of the greatest American pop songwriters of all tiime with one of the greatest American rock band lineups. They were just great together.

I’d add Steely Dan, but they were a bunch of studio musicians playing with Fagen and Becker. I suppose the lineup I would most want would be from the Aja album — an album I learned every drum part for back when I was a kid.

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