Your Terrible Band Concept Stockpile

Also Matt, if you haven't already, you should check out Naked City's Grand Guignol CD as there are some Messian & Debussy arrangements on there, not exactly rocked up but worth a look IMHO.

I had a friend who wanted to start a female semi-naked ZZ Top covers band, she was going to call it ZZ Topless!

This one's a goer, nabisco! You have to put this band together.

all were to held in secret safe houses by the British security services for the best part of a decade, convening for last minute gigs under assumed names. during this time they only managed to cobble together one (admittedly seminal) EP before the ayatollahs realised they were being used as part of a tacky PR stunt and stepped down the threat.

I always wanted to do something with a proper Drum Machine, ie big meccano-style contraption beating on drums with sticks. (Ideally controlled by 80s style microcomputer like ZX Spectrum.) This could be extended to eg the guitar; twould have to be fretless, with bar moving up and down neck at various angles, while plectrum-studded rubber band strummed all or some of the strings. (Of course this latter idea was rendered obsolete when Loveless came out immediately after my guitar idea, sounding like envisaged.)

Haha nabisco, I read that last post a bit crosseyed – and now I want a full barbershop version of the Rite of Spring!

nabisco you could contruct the papier mache heads so that although the combined equine mass look as though they're staring down the audience, infact the muso's chins are down on their chests shoegazer style. that way they could see their frets/pedals and everything would be good...

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(also: GWAR.)

I'm sure I've got loads more terrible band ideas tucked away in the recesses of my mind. I'll let you all know when they work their way to the surface!

catpower covers in the style of ted nugent or nugent in the style of catpower. cant really find any friends who want to travel down this particular avenue, so ive just started using the name anytime i play in public. all the good names are gone, so i might was go for the stupid or humorous.

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After going through two years of trying to find people to put together a band, I rehearsed for six months with me singing and playing bass with a guitarist having everything else sequenced on a Roland XP80. The guitarist ended up bailing, so I don't know what it would have ended up like live, but I don't think it would have ended up working.

I had an electronic group with two other guys using sequences and then playing off the top. Getting the other two guys to actually practice on tunes working towards a set of material proved impossible. At the time, there was not that many opportunities to pull this kind of thing off live in a club or anything anyway.

It never happend more than a couple of jam sessions, but I always wanted to put together a heavy guitar band with two drummers. Get two full kits in a room with two players that have enough trouble keeping time on their own and you get a huge amount of racket with a hard time finding the one.

Appearantly wanting to start an instrumental rock band is just the oddest idea in the book from some of the responses to ads I have placed looking for players. "What you don't want no singin'?"

This is an awesome idea -- I would join this band in a second.

I had a similar idea for a Spacemen 3-type drone outfit with five guitarists, two drummers, and an organist.

Walter: the one I saw was real! I believe there were also PBS pledge-drive interviews surrounding it that verified as much. Beyond which I was sober and paying attention and it was real for real.

This is what I was thinking of but if somebody made a real life verions of it I'd love to see it!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animusic

My friend and I were talking about a band that would play up that "creativity fueled on the animosity between rival members" cliche, and have a member of the Ku Klux Klan on drums and a member of the black panthers on guitar and lead vox.

Other ideas: A group called The Business Men who would all wear suits and sing songs about memos and stuff and would all play briefcases somehow...

...ohh and a friend and I were going to do a band on stage where we'd go through the entire archetypical bands career -- start out naive and idealistic, become challenging, learn to hate each other, go back to original sound, break up -- all within the span of one show that lasted 15 minutes.

-- acb (il...), November 28th, 2005.

is that a joke about wolfmother?

*the first album is called 'We Are STEED', obv.

had an idea for a stoner metal band w/a theremin player

all lyrics based on pulpy "it came from OUTER SPACE" sci-fi

loosely psych obv

an Oi! band named Michelle Malkin Hatefuck

When I was 16 I thought there totally needed to be a shoegazer band that went everywhere in robes and cloaks. Like shoegazing monks. With hoods.

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had an idea for a stoner metal band w/a theremin player

all lyrics based on pulpy "it came from OUTER SPACE" sci-fi

-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:09 PM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

loosely psych obv

-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:10 PM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

who will form this band with me

Screensaver: a pop duo, sort of a cross between Dollar and Kraftwerk during their Man-Machine dummies phase. The audience would never really be sure who the singers were, or even if they were real people. I would be the sinister svengali controlling it all.

black sABBAth.

nuff said.

had an idea for a stoner metal band w/a theremin player

all lyrics based on pulpy "it came from OUTER SPACE" sci-fi

-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:09 PM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

loosely psych obv

-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, April 13, 2008 4:10 PM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

who will form this band with me

I would LOVE to be in this band. But my theremin is borked.

About 10 years ago I had an idea for a Nazi disco band. All the band members would have Hitler moustaches and wear jackets with swastikas made of sequins. We would play covers of disco hits with offensive re-worked lyrics (e.g. "I Won't Survive") in thick German accents. I almost convinced some drunk friends to do this at a house party in Santa Cruz. Probably for the best that we chickened out.

It might have gone over better in Russia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbuTV86ZXe0

Suddenly - Nikki Sudden tribute band

Weedwhacker - sXe landscape architects rock out

Britney's Peers - shady Florida promoter assembles pre-fab band of young boys & writes songs for them in the style of Incapacitants

I never got around to actually implementing my terrible band concept - probably due to lack of anyone who remotely knew how to play instruments as well as no venue.

It would basically be a super-heavy droney stoner metal type band that only played one huge loud riff over and over until something - anger from the audience, sore hands, power getting cut off - forced us to stop. We would be called Caveman Simulator and would hopefully be dressed like dirty-ass 70's Hells Angels.

Ebenezer and the Scrooges -- a Christmas-themed Stooges tribute band

"Say It Ain't Surf" the weezer surf cover band

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Steed Lord's debut full-length record "Truth Serum" will be out worldwide in the coming weeks. I wanted to reach out and send you a link to an 11-minute continuous mega mix with teasers of all the new tracks that will be on the record:

Their sound:
This is a very unique live electronic act from Iceland that has huge cross-over appeal to many different audiences. Their sound has been described as "electro-crunk with a serving of legitimate disco."

C'MON

Man I hate the way PR people always say "reach out." Why do they have to do that?

I once tried to push a concept on people where it was a band that followed musical "rules". On every song, there would be simple rules for each instrument that allowed limited flexibility. For example, the drum part would have to hit the top tom once, the snare twice, and the low tom once, in that order, every 2 measures, although the timing of it would be up to the drummer.

I was reminded (correctly) that I was high, and that key signatures in themselves were already a form of limited flexibility, and that the band name Band of Rules was awful.

When I was drunk a couple of weeks ago I thought it would be hilarious to start a twee-as-fuck matching-cardigan group with my wife called The Whale Appliques.

Guys I just started a cover band called MIXTAPE...we basically play whatever covers we want regardless of style or obscurity level that are possible w/ our instrumentation and are trying to incorporate tape related sfx into our live show.

We've also told our friends to make mixtapes for us to learn to play so when their birthdays come around we can play their MIXTAPE set.

by tape related sfx I mean like sudden record button release tape squiggles, pause/stop cracks etc

You have to also stop whatever song you are playing, 30 mins after starting your set, then start the next song, 20 secs later, minus the intro.

The PA stacks should be painted silver, with loads of fake speakers that look like real ones, but are just grilles with nothing behind them...

thought i might start a metal band called OSMIUM

^^^actually quite a good idea

Bardcore - metal songs with Shakespeare as lyrics. Large codpieces. Problem is, someone's already done it.

The Heavy Hitlers

Pop-Metal played by overweight dictatorial look-a-likes

MC Onion. First single: "Rap Scallion"

The American Smiths

man, if i could stand the music of grateful dead enough to re-work the lyrics TREKKIN would be a moneymakin' ass project in these parts.

hoos i will start this sci-fi theremin metal band with you!

Suburban London rapper MC Esher.

Band that hurls bottles of urine into the audience, in particular at British festivals such as the Reading festival, for failing to appreciate band's art to an acceptable degree. T

They do not actually perform any music, mind you, just urinate into bottles and launch them at their congregation.