Design your own band.

Have we done this before? I know there have been threads about "fantasy" or "dream" bands, but what about a band that features people YOU want to work with? Does this make the choices different? I guess this kind of rules out dead folks, so unless you're headed to the cemetery with a shovel, it's best to limit yourself to people who are presently oxygen-dependent.

This would be more fun allowing dead people IMO.

Well, alright, but a record's never gonna get made that way.

Musicians WE want to work with? What, in rampant ego land where these people would actually agree?

Well I've always had a hankering to write 4-part vocal arrangements for men. I've written endlessly for 4 women, and even sometimes for 2women and 2 men but it would be a challenge to write for 4 mens' voices without it turning into a laptop shoegaze boyband. Hell why can't I do the shoegaze boyband I've always wanted? Ian Masters doing the high falsetto descant, Mark Gardener doing an alto harmony, prod Thom Yorke with sticks to get him to stick to his lovely baritone range and I really struggled to think of a living bass vocalist I don't hate (I don't like many male vocalists to start with) but if we could dry out Jim Reid and get him to do that Lee Hazlewood thing he sometimes does, that'd work.

They would all kill each other in about 30 minutes, I think those boys would be a diva catfight nightmare, but if I could get them to sing in a capella harmony for 5 minutes before they scratched each others eyes out, I could do some interesting things with that.

I would listen to the hell out of this.