Red Mosquito

Iholdthepain wrote:You're correct. It would have been a pre-emptive sympathy vote, but I was really just giving you sh!t, homie.

It's cool. I just happen to be the only person besides stip (apparently) who likes his band. I suppose that's what eighteen years in the Purple Church will do to a person.

I'm surprised how many people think Macca is the one who seems out of place. I think he'd fit right in with the mid-80s, artsy, psychedelic, hippy-dippy, Around the World in a Day/Parade incarnation of Prince and Gish/Siamese Dream-era Billy Corgan.

Lament wrote:

Iholdthepain wrote:You're correct. It would have been a pre-emptive sympathy vote, but I was really just giving you sh!t, homie.

It's cool. I just happen to be the only person besides stip (apparently) who likes his band. I suppose that's what eighteen years in the Purple Church will do to a person.

I'm surprised how many people think Macca is the one who seems out of place. I think he'd fit right in with the mid-80s, artsy, psychedelic, hippy-dippy, Around the World in a Day/Parade incarnation of Prince and Gish/Siamese Dream-era Billy Corgan.

Of everyone in this tournament you were basically the one person I thought would like this team. Maybe DcT and Let Me Sleep.

I think there might be one or two others who didn't draft who would vote for it if they came into the thread. But once I got this idea in my head I wasn't expecting to go far.

stip wrote:Of everyone in this tournament you were basically the one person I thought would like this team.

I want to see them do a thirty-five minute medley of The Cross into Jesus, I into Everybody Knows into Purple Rain.

Also, I want to see The Ballad of Dorothy Parker and For Martha with Cohen on vocals. And 7 with everyone besides Dave A. taking turns on lead vocals. And Prince taking lead vocals on I Am One. And Corgan doing Helter Skelter.

Finally...
I had to throw in the towel on some of the details I wanted to include for lack of time allotted to whip this together, but I'm happy with it nonetheless. Sorry for the delay, chaps.

Spoiler: show

Spirits Are Rising Stew

East meets West. West goes East. Here I have a group who although when looking at their individual works may seem very different, they almost all have personal or musical connection to Eastern culture. It's this inflection of eastern tone on our beloved Western music that led these men together here today to form SARS - Spirits Are Rising Stew.

I believe you can put him behind the mic on any song in history and he's going to bring the house down.He has one of the most powerful yet versatile voices to ever grace our ears and a stage presence to get everyone to feel the music.
Freddie Mercury


He's the pick that started me on this journey. Most of my favorite Beatles' tunes are his, and his solo work speaks for itself. Out of the shadow of his former Beatles' bandmates and bringing his own zen boho raga flavors to the group.
George Harrison


Keeping the rhythm and bringing his eastern style like only he can (and because John Bonham was already taken) He may not have a mustache, but he's no less of a man - Stewart Copeland


I had difficulty choosing a bassist, but c'mon, he's the motherfuckin' Ox. Thunderfingers:
John Entwistle


The sounds this man could get out of a set of keys resemble something I would imagine might be from another dimension. His otherworldly tone compliments this group well, and he can jam out with his balls out like nobodies business.
Ray Manzarek


What's this guy doing here? Who fucking knows!? I do know what he brings to the table though. Zen power. And that raga style that I have come to love.
Ravi Shankar


So how did Stewart Copeland end up playing with a bunch of dead guys?
He fucked around with the wrong shaman, drank some ayahuasca-spiked tea, and was visited by all of these late musicians. Somehow they stuck around, and agree to play a one-off, well-rehearsed show at Red Rocks Amphitheatre.

Opening Set
Regatta de Blanc
Savoy Truffle
Break on Through
Contact
905
Riders on the Storm

2nd Set
Dehra Dun
Love You To
Shanti Mantra
Within You Without You
Long, Long, Long
Mustapha

Encore
The Other Way of Stopping
Light My Fire

2nd Encore
Norwegian Wood
Something
Bohemian Rhapsody

I've no great way to wrap this thing up. I'm about half-asleep and at this point am questioning everything. I hope this all makes sense to someone other than me.

Lament wrote:Also, I want to see The Ballad of Dorothy Parker and For Martha with Cohen on vocals. And 7 with everyone besides Dave A. taking turns on lead vocals. And Prince taking lead vocals on I Am One. And Corgan doing Helter Skelter.

I'd love to hear Cohen on To Sheila... The Corgan H/S would be cool... How bout Prince on L&LD?! Macca can cover Angel, I guess

Kaius wrote:What's this guy doing here? Who fucking knows!?

stip wrote:

Lament wrote:

Iholdthepain wrote:You're correct. It would have been a pre-emptive sympathy vote, but I was really just giving you sh!t, homie.

It's cool. I just happen to be the only person besides stip (apparently) who likes his band. I suppose that's what eighteen years in the Purple Church will do to a person.

I'm surprised how many people think Macca is the one who seems out of place. I think he'd fit right in with the mid-80s, artsy, psychedelic, hippy-dippy, Around the World in a Day/Parade incarnation of Prince and Gish/Siamese Dream-era Billy Corgan.

Of everyone in this tournament you were basically the one person I thought would like this team. Maybe DcT and Let Me Sleep.

I think there might be one or two others who didn't draft who would vote for it if they came into the thread. But once I got this idea in my head I wasn't expecting to go far.

I do like your band! You took some big risks and I think many of them are interesting and pay off. Ultimately, I just think, head to head, IHTP's team is stronger. I also have a harder time imaging your band making one or several albums of new original content. And that hurts you in this tournament. But if they all just got together and did new arrangements/reworkings/covers of all their existing content, they'd be an amazing act that I would pay handsomely to see.

But one important element of this contest, for me, is trying to imagine a couple of albums of new material from each group.

durdencommatyler wrote: But one important element of this contest, for me, is trying to imagine a couple of albums of new material from each group.

When you think of Aroma of Man consider the creative wellspring that is Nick Cave, and add Josh Homme to provide as much creative spark as is required for any band. Ginger Baker would certainly have something to say about the direction of things, but SRV will be happy with whatever everyone else says, so long as he gets to occassionaly wail, and Lemmy, well, he can just stay stoned in the corner (although perhaps I'm selling him a tad short here - I mean you have to be some kind of genius to come up with the lyric "Killed by Death" don't you?).

So the Aroma isn't top heavy with creative writing talent. But for sure the guys in charge absolutely have a pedigree in voluminous amounts of quality product, often collabaratively.

As Nick Cave himself said when asked "Do you you have s theory as to why you've managed to stay so strong creatively?" replied "Um. I think I have really good people around me. Y'know, fundamentally I'm a collaborator with music and I recognise my limitations. I allow other people the freedom to kick into a song to make it the thing that it is.".

Imagine how he would work with this lot? When you think of Aroma of Man's own original output think Queens-of-the-Grinder-Creamy-Seed-Heads. Or something.

Molecules 4 Mercy
Broken Signals

Spirits Are Rising Stew is an awesome name for your band, Kaius.

Thanks! If nothing else, I'm proud of the name.

I hope their album cover is one of those 70s classic rock Mom's Apple Pie style paintings of Stewart eating a stew of soup with spirits flying out of the bowl as he brings the spoon to his mouth.

Im actually finger painting the album cover and it's scary how accurate you are.

It's getting hot in herre.

Here's where M4M will be recording...

Good gawd

Ship of Fools and Broken Signals in a close match