Dream Band Super-Group Tournament - CONGRATULATIONS, SELF!

[Lament]

Maybe he was gonna pick Prince and now you've ruined his strategy and he has to rethink things.

[Norah]

[Lament]

I didn't realize Sarge had such a nice car.

[LetMeSleep]

Why is the text upside down?

[Sgt. Crackpot]

I don't. This is me on my daily commute.

[Sgt. Crackpot]

Why is the text upside down?

[epilogue]

did he show up to comment and not pick?

I'M OUT AND ABOUT IN THE CHIT CITY AND I NEED A MINUTE TO THINK STIP

[Kevin Davis]

Joey picks Yngwie Malmsteen.

[Norah]

Make me proud, Joey.

[Sgt. Crackpot]

I'm tied. I think he'll pick MC Hammer or DJ Bobo.

[stip]

Joey picks Yngwie Malmsteen.

could you spell that off the top of your head, or did you need to look it up?

[stip]

did he show up to comment and not pick?

I'M OUT AND ABOUT IN THE CHIT CITY AND I NEED A MINUTE TO THINK STIP

I feel more chastened than usual

[epilogue]

Okay so I'm thinking about this contest and I'm making sketches. And all of them are interesting for one reason or another. I really love this idea. There are so many options. When after the die is cast, the only thing I can really do is go with my heart and try to assemble a band that I would LOVE listening to.

So what do I love about music?

I love melody. I love guitars and people who don't shy away from letting those guitars have a little fun. I love harmonies. I love a little bit of rust. If it's too polished it takes me aback. I'm a big fan of blues. I like country rock, too. Of course I like punk and alternative, but when I look at the acts I keep coming back to, there's always a blues heart and some deep roots.

But I also want to play this like a real experiment. Whether they are dead or not, I want to put together a band I think would sound great together but also that could actually exist together on stage and/or in a studio. Personality conflicts are okay to a point, but I want to be able to picture these people really enjoying the time they're spending together and playing off of each other in a satisfying and challenging way.

That's where I'm coming from with all of this. And that's why I'm having a hard time putting the pieces together.

But there is one thing I know for sure. Regardless of whatever happens next, I know who I want at the center of this thing.

[Norah]

just make your fucking pick!

[epilogue]

For my first pick in the Dream Band Super-Group Tournament, I select:



Neil Young.

A concement professional who embodies so much about what I love about music. He's one of the greats, and he's a personal hero. A man who actually has been a member of a "Super-Group" and continues to blur the lines between blues, country and alternative rock.

Music owes him a lot and I'm thrilled to have him on my team.

[Norah]

Now pick again!

[Lament]

Can't argue with a pick like that.

[Lament]

I'm off to work, but I'm pretty sure I'll be back before this makes its way back around to me. Or maybe not. I can never tell what time it's supposed to be in Australia (with LMS being the pick before me).

HOLD DOWN THE FORT, GUYS.

[Kaius]

Love it dct! I was sooo close to taking him. I'm glad he found a home in round 1.

Great write up as well. I couldn't have said it better.

[epilogue]

This next one might be controversial. But whatever, this is my team. And I'd shit myself to see this two play together. And I'd hate to not take him here and watch him get grabbed up before my turn comes around again. Plus, this is another dude who can shred, but keeps his roots in blues. AND he's proven more than a couple of times that he can collaborate.

So, for my second pick, I select:


Jack White

From Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists List:White has become the hottest new thing on six strings by celebrating the oldest tricks in the book: distortion, feedback, plantation blues, the 1960s-Michigan riff terrorism of the Stooges and the MC5. Onstage, decked out like a peppermint dandy, he violates classic covers (Dolly Parton's "Jolene," Bob Dylan's "Isis") with fireball chords and primal, bent-string scream. He is also an acute orchestrator in the studio, stirring the scratchy-78s atmosphere of Blind Willie Johnson sides, 1970s punk and Led Zeppelin-style drama into his own howl. Don't pay attention to the notes; White is not a clean soloist. He's a blowtorch.