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01-17-2005, 10:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Ontario | | | What backing band would you most like to play in?
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Just started watching this Diana Krall DVD I got tonight (Live in Paris) and a thought occured to me -- how freakin' SWEET would it be to play in her band? I don't know about the guitar player, but the drummer is apparently her regular drummer (and he pulled off one wicked solo in the first track). Also, I knew she was a great singer, but DAMN! I didn't know she had piano chops like that! I'd definitely like most to play in her backing band...lots of great basslines, playing in a band with such phenomenal talent (especially if the guitarist stayed on!) and with such a stunningly beautiful frontwoman...hell, why not? Great music, great performances, great pay, and great venues.
What about y'all? Now, this is a BACKING band, so you'd be backing someone specific (singer, guitarist, trumpeter, whatever) but it doesn't have to be jazz, the name on the CD should just be the name of the iconic leader.
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01-18-2005, 12:03 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Lowell, MA, USA | | | I'd like to have David Dyson's old gig in Me'Shell N'Degeocello's band. Man, can she play, and she always takes a second bassist with her on tour as well. A gig like that is basically a guarantee of night after night of funky, improvisational jams with smoking players - Me"shell is known for letting her songs stretch out into long jams, so it wouldn't get stale. |
01-18-2005, 02:13 AM
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just cause i think she is da bomb
actually just about any femele singer would be cool. not that it's my favorite type of music but i've had a blast every time i've played with female vocalists. besides, riding the coattails of some famous gal sounds like a sweet gig. Travel, money, and a good view from where i'll be standing.  |
01-18-2005, 07:41 AM
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Or Stevie Wonder. |
01-18-2005, 08:28 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Columbus OH | | | Peter Gabriel. Tony Levin has the greatest gig with him, IMO. Great material, creative basslines, lots of space, just the absolute dream gig. |
01-18-2005, 09:14 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Boston, Taxachusetts | | Richard Thompson or Lucinda Williams...whoever phones me first  |
01-18-2005, 09:31 AM
|  | I Know Nothing | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Columbia River Gorge, WA. | | | Honestly, no one. I rode the bus enough with a famous band to know that I don't dig that life. |
01-18-2005, 11:39 AM
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01-18-2005, 01:03 PM
|  | Trying to keep it on the 1. | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: The Bay. | | Prince.
Yea what about Rhonda?  |
01-18-2005, 01:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Chicago, IL | | THE JBs  HIT me!  |
01-18-2005, 04:25 PM
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01-18-2005, 04:56 PM
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01-18-2005, 05:01 PM
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01-18-2005, 05:18 PM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Still in Margaritaville | | | Chris Botti, Harry Connick, Jr., or B.B. King...with my apologies to their excellent regular bassists who are far more famous than I.
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01-18-2005, 05:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Columbus, Georgia | | | I would love to replace Nathan East with Mr. Clapton.
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01-18-2005, 05:34 PM
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01-18-2005, 05:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: florence , mississippi | | | Robert Plants band, Ive seen them live and those guys really rock, they sit there and jam forever, its great. Skin is also a badass guitarist.
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01-18-2005, 05:45 PM
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Really though, Jeremy Camp; I just dig the music man.
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01-18-2005, 05:52 PM
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Robert Plants band, Ive seen them live and those guys really rock, they sit there and jam forever, its great.
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01-18-2005, 06:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: North Dakota | | | From what I hear, Diana Krall is a B-I-T-C-H to work with.
Nathan East has a sweet gig. Fourplay, Clapton, studio, etc.
For upright - I'd love to play with Tony Bennett or in a big band - maybe Harry Conick Jr., something like that. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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