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

[LinkedMusicians]

So you get to pick one band (or one band from each genre if you want), regardless of whether the members are living or dead, that you could reunite for one show. What band would you pick?

 

Of course, I’ll go with The Beatles for rock. But I’m going to go with a second pick, a jazz band, and they actually would be the band I would most want to see live. The Miles Davis sextet that played on the album “Kind of Blue.” My kids grew up on Miles Davis, John Coltrane and a lot of jazz music even though I only did two professional jazz gigs in my working drummer days (I remember my son, then in elementary school, asking me why none of his friends know about the music he loves when he’s asked them — and aren’t even familiar with jazz; so yes, what a way to make your kids socially awkward, expose them to jazz!). I absolutely love jazz and there’s no two jazz musicians / songwriters / artists whose work I enjoy more than Miles Davis and John Coltrane.

The band featured Miles Davis on (trumpet), John Coltrane (tenor sax), Julian “Cannonball” Adderley (alto sax), Bill Evans (piano), Paul Chambers (bass), and Jimmy Cobb (drums). Pianist Wynton Kelly plays piano on “Freddie Freeloader.” No offense to Kelly, but I would want Bill Evans on piano in this dream show.

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[fretman]

Blind Faith

America

Crosby, Stills, and Nash

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[patrickwichrowski]

Emerson, Lake & Palmer.

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[fretman]

Oooh, yes! I need to add them to my list.

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[William Heins]

The Beatles

Genesis(Gabriel, Hackett, Banks, Collins, Rutherford)

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

ELP

Gentle Giant

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[joegyork]

Pink Floyd – I will forever regret not going to see them in Manchester (UK) and instead going to see Genesis in Leeds on their Invisible Touch tour. They were deadly dull and only played a short medley of their older stuff

Renaissance – I suppose they are the same genre (prog rock) but totally different sound and epic songs – sadly I think only Annie Haslam (she of the beautiful voice) is left now from their classic era when they recorded the Live At Carnegie Hall album which was the first of their I bought

Five Hand Reel – a Scottish folk rock supergroup featuring Dick Gaughan, Bobby Eaglesham, Tom Hickland, Barry Lyons and Dave Tulloch. The voices of Dick and Bobby were marvellous – Dick is still alive but has suffered a stroke and so is not working now. An 8 album tribute set has been released to help support him as many of his solo albums have not been available for many years as they were licensed to Celtic Music (along with many other artist’s recordings) who refuse to re release them. Bobby Eaglesham sadly died in 2004

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[patrickwichrowski]

Renaissance is a great Symphonic Prog Rock band. Here in Brazil we put them amongst Yes, ELP, Genesis, Triumvirat, Etc. But I know this perspective is different in USA.

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[fretman]

Yes, Renaissance. Love ’em. Mother Russia can’t you hear him, too?

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[jude77]

On fretman said

Blind Faith

America

Crosby, Stills, and Nash

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I saw America way back in 1974 (I think “Tin man” was their hit at the moment).  I wasn’t expecting much, but I was impressed by how good they were as musicians, they were very tight and well-rehearsed.  Quite a few songs were stretched out with jams where each of them took a turn soloing.  All in all an excellent show.  Good choice on your part.

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[peter]

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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[MagicRuss]

In terms of dead artists, obviously Beatles, Zep, Brian Jones era Stones, Bon Scott era AC/DC,  The Who, and a host of others.  Crowded House with the Woodface lineup.

But if we exclude necromancy and medical miracles (ie the health issues keeping artists such as Phil Collins and Linda Ronstadt out of the game aren’t going away), then who?

I wouldn’t complain about a Jason Bonham powered Led Zeppelin reunion.

I’m sad I missed the AWR tour because from the clips I’ve seen they work well together.

This probably doesn’t count, but I’d like to see a 7 Worlds Collides tour.  For those who don’t know that was a charity project hosted by Neil Finn which also included his brother and son, various members of Wilco and Radiohead, Johnny Marr, KT Tunstall, Dan Wilson, Bic Runga, and a few others I can’t remember.  It would be fun to see them all on stage doing an All Starr Band thing.

 

 

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[LinkedMusicians]

On MagicRuss said

In terms of dead artists, obviously Beatles, Zep, Brian Jones era Stones, Bon Scott era AC/DC,  The Who, and a host of others.  Crowded House with the Woodface lineup.

But if we exclude necromancy and medical miracles (ie the health issues keeping artists such as Phil Collins and Linda Ronstadt out of the game aren’t going away), then who?

I wouldn’t complain about a Jason Bonham powered Led Zeppelin reunion.

I’m sad I missed the AWR tour because from the clips I’ve seen they work well together.

This probably doesn’t count, but I’d like to see a 7 Worlds Collides tour.  For those who don’t know that was a charity project hosted by Neil Finn which also included his brother and son, various members of Wilco and Radiohead, Johnny Marr, KT Tunstall, Dan Wilson, Bic Runga, and a few others I can’t remember.  It would be fun to see them all on stage doing an All Starr Band thing.

 

 

Let’s see, out of your list, I’ve seen Crowded House on the Woodface, 7 Worlds Collide tours, as well as other Crowded House, Neil Finn, and the Finn Brothers on other tours. Did I share how I saved Neil Finn’s life? True story (okay, I say it that way for a laugh, but I did stop him from being hit by a car going around 35-40 MPH) and he did say thanks. It was in the mid 90s when my girlfriend (who later became and remains my wife) and I were on a date to see Neil in concert.

I’ve seen Dan Wilson with Semisonic back in the 90s and had a several minute conversation about songwriting. I saw Wilco back before they got big (we were playing some of the same venues back in the early 90s). I saw The Who with Simon Phillips on drums back in 1989. I never got to see Zeppelin, but saw Robert Plant with Phil Collins on drums. I’ve seen Paul McCartney back around 1990 with Chris Whitten on drums and conversed with Chris several times (also, conversed with and was connected with Beatles mixer and David Bowie producer Ken Scott — I saw Bowie in concert back in the 80s, although you didn’t mention him — I’m guessing with so many bands that you and I have in concert that you probably enjoy Bowie’s music too).

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[MagicRuss]

That’s a cool story about Neil Finn.

I’ve actually seen most of the 7WC artists, but I still think it would be cool to see them as a collective.

I did actually see Page and Plant at Red Rocks in 1998 and it was amazing.

 

[LinkedMusicians]

On MagicRuss said

That’s a cool story about Neil Finn.

I’ve actually seen most of the 7WC artists, but I still think it would be cool to see them as a collective.

I did actually see Page and Plant at Red Rocks in 1998 and it was amazing.

 

I would have loved to have seen that show. In addition to my being a huge Zeppelin fan, the drummer on that tour — who sadly has since passed away — had the greatest feel. For any drummer that has played with those guys since Bonham’s passing, not one of them even came close to John Bonham’s feel (sorry, but I find Jason has a really bland feel). Michael Lee’s feel was incredible. IMO, he was the perfect drummer to play Bonham’s part. Pure magic.

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