Your Terrible Band Concept Stockpile

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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.

All the sing titles would be:

RE:Re:Fwd
Fwd:RE:
Fwd:Fwd:re:hello

and etc.

It'd be kinda bedroom math rock.

A kind of vocal harmony group, singing about boring office stuff.

AC/DC songs performed by vocal group, including human beatbox drums.

The aim of this band is to impress readers of The Wire by any means necessary.

The Invisibles are going to rewrite Rock History by being the only band ever to book and 'play' coast to coast shows in every state in the U.S., every other country on earth and the Soviet Space Station ALL ON THE SAME NIGHT.

who's with me on this? You Can Fool All Of The People Some Of The Time - it's a fucking moneyspinner!

you could hook up as support to a major tour - no ego's, no bullshit, no soundchecks. this band would be the dream support for any self-respecting megagroop.

remember, The Invisibles are conceptual reprobates, constantly pushing the boundaries of iconoclasm and with it the audience's very perception of the nature of 'entertainment'. Paul Morley would be eating out of The Invisibles hand.

And why stop with the present and future? The Invisibles could claim any number of legendary scalps - co-headlining with Jimi at IOW, Live Aid '85, a permanent Radio 4 residency in between the shipping forecast and the pips - the possibilities are endless.

do The Awkward Pauses actually exist? bet they do. that's why The Invisibles are gonna wipe the floor with every other concept band out there.

Check this: The Invisibles set will consist of 'the band''playing' John Cage's 4'33" five times over (don't laugh, The Jesus And Mary Chain did this with 'Never Understand' and no one asked for their money back).

At some point during the show, some random bright spark a la Moley will pipe up through the Emperor's New Clothes silence: 'hang on! this is the most moronic bunch of art wank bollocks i've ever been unfortunate enough to experience.' the audience is sucked into the entertainment vacuum - cue mass stage invasion. Anarchy ensues. Ladies and Gentleman, the birth of A New Punk Rock.

Meanwhile The Invisibles slip off into the night. Their Work is done.

apart from STEED of course. this near legendary band has been taking up a disproportionate chunk of the part of my consciousness reserved for such things.

i would point the creative powerhouse of STEED towards the theme tune of a '70's sub-Zorro TV show called 'The Flashing Blade'. The song combines a ta-ran-ta-ran-ta-ran galloping type rhythm with lyrics alluding to some weirdly outmoded notion of heraldic chivalry and would make a fantastic motif for such a noble combo.

i'll try and track it down and post it YSI. essential.

My idea is a girl band sort of like the Spice Girls, where each member can easily be identified with some personality-defining label: the smart one, the outgoing one, the nice one, the bitch, etc. But they would play up their labels/personalities more than the Spice Girls did by singing songs that show this personality, e.g. the "bitch" might sing about how tough and mean she is, or she'd sing a duet with the "nice" girl and they'd have a moral debate in the song. In my head, there is more of a story line in the band, maybe there is an accompanying TV show, or maybe each new single they release tells more about the story, I don't know.

They would be marketed so that there is a lot of fuss about "Which ___ Girl is your favorite?" and paraphrenalia for teenage girls to buy and wear and show all their friends which Girl they are a fan of. Then the fans would get all excited when their favorite Girl is the one singing the band's latest single, etc.

They do exist, and have played shows, but there is no one in the band. They do have a label, though, and a long-promised EP (called "10") which will almost certainly never come out.

http://www.government.devisland.net/

go here and check out vinny miller's top 5 0f 2005. the hype has begun...

oops wrong link let's try again:

http://www.hmgovernment.net/

follow directions above ;)

1. corporate band. forget the name we came up with. uplifting power songs. gray suits and short 80s business pony tails. we'd play exclusively at high-paying corporate gigs like company parties, sharholder meetings, etc. the name might have been Payday. can't quite recall.

2. the most annoying band in town. not overtly so, but in subtler ways. like parts don't really fit together. song goes on a little long for comfort. our gear is of questionable quality and the tone is shitty. things like this. band name: Jar Jar Binks.

3. a band where we only play the big last note of a song where everyone just wails on E or A or whatever for a moment. and those are the song titles: G#, A, etc. band name: Grande Finale. or some such.

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.