What three/four/five musicians would make your "best band ever"? (2009)

Them Crooked Vultures :P

I literally came in here and went "Oh, that's easy. Joshua Homme on Guitar/Vocals, Dave Grohl on drums and... Wait... Hold up."

I've been listening to the album again recently and it's still so damn good. Here's hoping for number two sometime soon/ever!!

Nobody. Music is dead.

Trent Mutha Fuckin' Reznor.

For good music:

Noah Lennox (Panda Bear) - Vocals, Guitars, electronics.

Fuck Buttons - Electronics, Vocals

For freakout music:

Brian Chippendale, Greg Saunier, Tatsuya Yoshida - all on Drums and vocals

For Think-y Music

John Wiese: Electronics

Pete Swanson: Electronics

Vocals: Chris Cornell
Guitar: Mark Knopfler
Guitar 2: Slash
Bass: Lemmy Kilmister (yes, I'm resurrecting him for this hypothetical)
Drums: Dave Grohl

Jimi Hendrix Experience, but swap in Victor Wooten.

Add Prince. Get nasty

Vocals - Demon Kogure (Seikima-II)

Lead Guitar - Michael Schenker (UFO & MSG)

Lead Guitar 2 - Akio Shimizu (Anthem)

Lead Guitar 3 - Circuit V. Panther (Sex Machineguns)

Bass - Steve Harris (Iron Maiden)

Synth - Janne Wirman (Children Of Bodom)

Drums - Yoshiki Hayashi (X)

I'm pretty sure this band would not work but it would be fun to see what would happen.

EDIT: Also, this is an 8 year old thread. :)

Stephen O'Malley

Greg Anderson

Björk

Gorillaz + Run the Jewels.

Each has enough variety in their music that they could come up with some really unique stuff I think.

Mark E. Smith and whoever hasn't been in The Fall already. And Skrillex.

I can't think of a "super group" that managed to live up to the material of its individual constituents. The Travelling Willburys are just about the only one I think are worth listening to at all, and even then I'd rather listen to some Bob Dylan or Roy Orbison.

Synths- Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails)

Synths- Flatlander (Death Grips)

Drums- Zach Hill (Death Grips)

Guitar- Jimi Hendrix

Guitar - Adam Jones (Tool)

Bass- Les Claypool (Primus)

Man, thinking about this makes me sad that it could never happen.

I thought about this for a moment. While it'd be fun to get all sorts of instruments, genres and styles together, I'd love to hear what noise these guys would make together.

Vocals: Mike Patton

Guitar: Ron Asheton

Bass: Les Claypool

Drums: Dave Lombardo

Vocals: Bruce Dickinson (Samson)

Bass: Steve Harris (British Lion)

Guitar: Adrian Smith (Primal Rock Rebellion)

Guitar: Dave Murrey (Urchin)

Guitar: Janick Gers (White Spirit)

Drums: Nicko McBrain (Streetwalkers)

*Sigh* I am literally the worst.

Vocals: Trevor Strnad (The Black Dahlia Murder)
Lead guitar: Micheal Keene (The Faceless)
Rhythm guitar: Christian Münzner (formally with Necrophagist and Obscura but still with Spawn of Possession)
Bass guitar: Dominic "Forest" Lapointe (formally with Beyond Creation)
Drums: Steve Flynn (Atheist)

I'm a tech death guy, so, go figure.

Take the members of Them Crooked Vultures (Josh Homme, Dave Grohl, John Paul Jones) and add the Floyd's David Gilmour. Just make sure David's wife Polly never writes any of the songs. And just to make sure David and Josh don't get into any fights over who is singing, bring in Paul Frees as lead vocals

Let me just make sure...

Yep, this thread has enough Dave Grohl that all my concerns are aired. Carry on.

Kyle Gass Band combined with the Black Keys and you pretty much have me at every show humanly possible.

That or an xx/Daft Punk mashup album.

Rob Halford

Andre Olbrich - lead

Jon Schaffer - rythm

Joakim Broden - keyboards

Steve Moore aka the Mad drummer on drums... Just for looks

Vocals - Jon Oliva (Savatage, JOP)

Guitar - Jon Schaffer (Iced Earth)

Bass - Marco Hietala (Nightwish, Tarot)

Drums - Gene Hoglan (Testament, SYL)

Keys - Tuomos Halopainen (Nightwish)

Heavy and Thrashy Orchestra Laden Metal.