I’m a baseball fan, you guys know that. My Google Reader knows it too. The old reader has recommended a ton of different baseball related blogs. Every morning, I’m confronted with a cornucopia of baseball opinions. Baseball writers and baseball fans love to speculate. They love what ifs. This sort of thing comes up a lot. If you were the general manager of a major league baseball team, what one player would you most like to build your team around?
So, I was thinking of some new ways to spice up the old FNCMFPECDAA and, I thought to myself, why not give the intelligent and thoughtful FNCMFPECDAA participants a chance to play mogul?
This is going to be a little different.
Tonight’s topic is…..
If you were putting together a band, who would you choose, out of anybody, living or dead, past or present, as the lead singer to build your band around?
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J wrote,
I guess Jim Morrison from the male side, and Tina Turner from the ladies perspective.
Jim has a unique voice and a great dramatic/poetic sense.
Tina Turner has (had) the most incredible energy and stage presence. And she wears those fringey skirts that shake with the beat…a built-in conductor (if the drummer will pay attention).
Link | August 8th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
Sans Direction wrote,
Sandy Denny.
There’s lots of great people, people who can move a whole stadium. Freddie Mercury could move a crowd of millions. But I’d love to hear Sandy Denny.
Link | August 8th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
Pat Darnell and Friends wrote,
I can’t believe tonight wasn’t Mobile, AL vs Tampa, FL Little League Championship Playoff… winner goes to Little League World Series. No pressure on the little tykes, eh?
Okay this one is very, very easy for mogul me:
Erich Wolfgang Korngold …mostly because I’m reading his biography; and because “…While watching the Bugs Bunny cartoon Rhapsody Rabbit, Korngold fell out of his chair laughing at the gags portrayed in the cartoon.”
Korngold — composer, prodigious musician, lucky….
…with Lionell Hampton on deck, Benny Goodman in the hold, hitting third. Hitting cleanup — Jack Pribek.
Link | August 9th, 2008 at 12:44 am
Pribek wrote,
Enlightening responses. You all seem to be interested in seeking a unique sound and artistic integrity for your band of the mind.
Although, I suspect Pat is throwing Erich Wolfgang Korngold out there primarily because he is reading the bio, secondarily to send us running to the wiki, which I did and it’s a fascinating story. I do not find any mention of whether Korngold was an active vocalist. But, as I think about it more, that really doesn’t matter because, I suspect that your goal would be to make some interesting music. And, a guy like EWK with that particular trick bag would probably utter some interesting stuff.
Jim Morrison was an interesting choice there J and one that surprised me coming from your corner. I can see the mind of a recordist in motion here. You are seeking a unique voice, lyrics with substance and possibly apparent decibels, no? For the first time, I have realized that there is possibly much common ground Johnny Cash and Jim Morrison.
Tina-can’t argue wid dat. Tina has always been so visual that people sometimes don’t know how truly excellent her singing is. I like the shake your tail feathers conducting idea as well. Seems a no-brainer.
Sans, thank you for bringing up Sandy Denny in any context. Magic voice.
I’m going to give this more thought but, I do have one name to put in the hat so far-
Wilson Pickett
Link | August 9th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Gary wrote,
Hard to decide!
Pigpen
Tim Buckley
David Ackles
David Blue
Janis Joplin, of course
Elkie Brookes
Judee Sill
Rickie Lee Jones
that’ll do for now - ‘night!
Link | August 9th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Sans Direction wrote,
As a second addition, and I reserve the right to name up to seven, I’ll put Curtis Mayfield.
Link | August 9th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Pat Darnell and Friends wrote,
Okay so I screwed up and picked the band members first– voices to build a posse around… personal preferences… hmmmmm, I want to be true to my sternum:
Big Mama Thornton
– and –
ERos Ramazzotti
I realize it is all subjective, and there is a pile of mojo in the lists above; so that no one voice could bear the weight of that entire wanton emulsion. These two [three voices inclusive Tina Turner w/ ERos] rate a 10 on my MooPig Music Scale of Nit Pickin’… 10– Converging arts in cranium resulting in visions and edifications of mind, heart, and soul; or the steaming tea kettle sound of galaxies colliding.
Link | August 9th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
Pribek wrote,
This is an incredible batch of voices on this page. It hits me that to a man/woman these are all voices that are really instruments.
To that end I believe I’d like to throw Van Morrison in the mix. Van always sounded like he was phrasing the way a trumpet player does.
Curtis Mayfield-love that. He was a subtle stiletto.
PD-Big Mama, YEAH! Never heard of ERos before. Is this something you were exposed to on a trip to the old country? Very smoky voice.
Gary-David Ackles, David Blue, Elkie Brookes-I don’t know any of these folks and, Judee Sill sounds familiar but, I can’t place her. So more wiki. That’s what I’m digging about this exercise, I’m being reminded of singers I had not thought about in a while and learning about new ones that hit people in the soul.
Link | August 10th, 2008 at 8:26 am
Sans Direction wrote,
I’ll throw this in because it’s timely, but also true: Isaac Hayes. One of the greats, truly, and one bad mother….
Link | August 11th, 2008 at 9:46 am