Re: The Well XVII:Cooter McClarky goin' buck wild"
Describe the ideal band for you to be in. Explain the line-up, the genre, the songs, the look, whatever you want. Be as specific or vague as you like.
The music would be energetic ballsy rock music with a heavy southern rock and metal flair to it. Generally faster paced, hard hitting rhythms with tasty, generally, bluesy pentatonic leads over balls out rockin' chord progressions. I've actually got about an entire album's worth of songs, in varying degrees of completion, laid out on guitar for this already.
The line-up would be me on rhythm guitar and sharing lead duties with the lead guitarist. I like playing leads, but not as much as I like writing and playing complicated and oh so tasty rhythm parts. Though I'd take a solo or two and definitely bust out some harmonized leads with the other guitar player. I don't want it to be all about guitar solos so I'd not want some virtuoso on lead, but someone who was good but favored taste over exhibition. The singer I would want to have a really powerful voice that just screamed rock but I don't want any screaming. Some thing like the voice of M. Shadows of Avenged Sevenfold would fit the bill nicely. The bass player I'd want to have crushing bass tone and be as one with the drummer when it came to holding down the groove. A bass player that was proficient on the guitar would be nice too for writing duties. As far as a drummer goes, I want someone who is good at double bass, but uses it as just one tool of many in his belt. No use of blast beats as opposed to actually writing a drum part that fits the song. I can't stand drummers who just pound double bass blast beats for nearly the entire song. The drummer has to realize that he is a crucial part of setting the tone of the song.
The image would be longer rocker hair, but not just equal length metal dude hair. Tight jeans, muscle shirts, studded belts, bandannas around the wrists, fingerless, gloves, my arms tattooed in full sleeves (assuming I was doing this for a living and making good money), white ostrich leather cowboy boots. You name it, its good. I'd want us to look like the new age Motley Crue and have our image be taken so far that it is a borderline mockery of rock and roll. Take it to the extreme. Its more fun that way.
The gear would be just as extreme as the image. I'd probably play ES-335's, PRS singlecuts or Les Pauls and a custom Ibanez Iceman . They'd all be either white, hot pink or outrageous metal flake paint jobs. I'd probably rock four half stacks (a splawn, a bogner ecstacy, a Roadster and maybe an uberschall) all in white tolex. Oh yeah, I'd want a couple dummy cabs with horns in them that shot out fire any time I hit a footswitch so that select pinch harmonics would look like they were causing flames to burst out of my amps. I wouldn't care what my other members used for gear so long as it was equally as ridiculous and I'd mandate that my drummer have 3 bass drums.
The stage show would be laden with fog, lasers, insane light shows, multiple levels of scaffolding on the stage to run around on. There would be ego boxes on the front of the stage to stand up on and shine when I take a solo. I'd also mandate that select gear on stage be painted in paint that reacts well under black lights so that it seemed to glow. I'd prefer that my singer's mic stand be day-glo pink :laugh2:
I'd want to put on the most insane/amazing show and be beyond energetic (might piss of ole Jerry) yet still pull of the songs perfectly. I think that if you go to a show you should be entertained, not just to hear the cd in a live medium. I'd probably also have a faux talk box tube on my mic stand which was filled with Bacardi 151 so I could blow fire right at the beginning of a rippin' riff and blow some minds.
Wow, I've got way too much time on my hands to think about this stuff... :laugh2:
