Let’s get a little chatter going! Most of you know this drill by now, but if you’ve been following along from the sidelines and want to make your initial splash in the Halls of Rock the following questions require nothing more than your gut answers! There’s no better way to jump into the fray because the only expertise required is a sound knowledge of and confidence in your gut feelings!
What full-time bass player-less band has the best bass parts on record?
Who’s your favorite singer in a band you don’t particularly like?
If you had the managerial powers to take a cool, indie-rock or otherwise “underground” musician and attempt, in the most blatant, crass way, make him or her a superstar, who would it be?
How do you mend a broken heart?
Who’s got the best suspenders (braces, for our UK Townspeople) in rock?
Taking into account the musician’s relative rock superpowers within his or her band and Look, who’s the Jaclyn Smith of rock?
I look forward to your responses!
What full-time bass player-less band has the best bass parts on record?
Tears for Fears
Who’s your favorite singer in a band you don’t particularly like?
Noel Gallagher
If you had the managerial powers to take a cool, indie-rock or otherwise “underground” musician and attempt, in the most blatant, crass way, make him or her a superstar, who would it be?
Jandek
How do you mend a broken heart?
bang a new hotter girl
Who’s got the best suspenders (braces, for our UK Townspeople) in rock?
Leo Sayer
Taking into account the musician’s relative rock superpowers within his or her band and Look, who’s the Jaclyn Smith of rock?
i don’t know if i get the question, but it’s either Jack White or Rick Wakeman
To clarify my intent on the Jaclyn Smith question: In terms of her Charlie’s Angels’ superpowers, she was merely “The Pretty One, who while not as hot nor remotely as slutty as Farah, at least provided an option for teenage boys seeking relief for imaginary sex with a brunette who was not dubbed The Smart One (ie, Kate Jackson).”
I’m sure this clarification will help you answer the question in rock terms. I have a specific musician in mind who fits this bill. He’s the brunette, distant-second pretty boy in his band of rock superheroes.
in light of these clarifications, i would like to change my answer.
Izzy Stradlin.
1. Easy. Roxy Music.
2. Alex from Franz Ferdinand
3. I see kilroy’s Jandek and raise him one Jeff Mangum.
4. “I Think I Need a New Heart”
“I think you’re gonna need a bigger boat.”
5. I used to wear suspenders, so I’m surprised I had trouble answering this. If you google “rock star suspenders,” and look at the images, the closest you get to a rock star is one of the Olivers from Genesis.
http://blog.room34.com/wp-content/uploads/underdog/darylstuermer.jpg
6. You guys sure do talk about Charlie’s Angels. That’s alright though. If I were writing these Dugout Chatters, we’d probably be talking about the ladies from Twin Peaks a lot.
What full-time bass player-less band has the best bass parts on record?
Dunno
Who’s your favorite singer in a band you don’t particularly like?
Not sure… David Sylvian? Phil Collins has a nice timbre to his voice.
If you had the managerial powers to take a cool, indie-rock or otherwise “underground” musician and attempt, in the most blatant, crass way, make him or her a superstar, who would it be?
The Upper Crust — those guys could do the mega-stardom thing in ways that would be both precedent-shattering and utterly perfect for the form. Watching the escapades of Lord Bendover plastered across the cover of “Us” magazine would be too wonderful for words.
How do you mend a broken heart?
Listen to music you hate and write music you love. The former ensures no great album is ruined by the experience, and the latter allows you to blood-let and purge your venom without actually killing anybody.
Who’s got the best suspenders (braces, for our UK Townspeople) in rock?
Roger Daltrey!
Taking into account the musician’s relative rock superpowers within his or her band and Look, who’s the Jaclyn Smith of rock?
Phil Rudd
What full-time bass player-less band has the best bass parts on record?
Sleater/Kinney. They get a real fat bottom end. I really like those girls.
Who’s your favorite singer in a band you don’t particularly like?
Gregg Allman. I was thinking about Whipping Post the other day. Dude was pissed!
If you had the managerial powers to take a cool, indie-rock or otherwise “underground” musician and attempt, in the most blatant, crass way, make him or her a superstar, who would it be?
Mick Collins. He’d be the greatest superstar ever.
How do you mend a broken heart?
Duct tape and beer.
Who’s got the best suspenders (braces, for our UK Townspeople) in rock?
Debbie Harry. Remember that picture of her where those are her shirt?
Taking into account the musician’s relative rock superpowers within his or her band and Look, who’s the Jaclyn Smith of rock?
Joan Jett when she was in The Runaways.
What full-time bass player-less band has the best bass parts on record?
B-52s
Who’s your favorite singer in a band you don’t particularly like?
Sheryl Crow and that guy from Lifehouse (Jason Wade – had to look that up)
If you had the managerial powers to take a cool, indie-rock or otherwise “underground” musician and attempt, in the most blatant, crass way, make him or her a superstar, who would it be?
Sonic Youth – make Thurston a dreamy Tiger Beat boy, tart up Kim like a little Madonna, make them play synths and dance beats and force them to work the NYC publicity machine for all it is worth.
How do you mend a broken heart?
it scabs over by itself
Who’s got the best suspenders (braces, for our UK Townspeople) in rock?
Bowie (http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/88428472/Redferns)
Taking into account the musician’s relative rock superpowers within his or her band and Look, who’s the Jaclyn Smith of rock?
Clearly there is a right and wrong answer here and I don’t know it.
What full-time bass player-less band has the best bass parts on record?
**The Doors**
Who’s your favorite singer in a band you don’t particularly like?
**Paul Rogers**
If you had the managerial powers to take a cool, indie-rock or otherwise “underground” musician and attempt, in the most blatant, crass way, make him or her a superstar, who would it be?
How do you mend a broken heart?
**Get Back on the horse**
Who’s got the best suspenders (braces, for our UK Townspeople) in rock?
**Mick Jones circa 1980/91
Taking into account the musician’s relative rock superpowers within his or her band and Look, who’s the Jaclyn Smith of rock?
Jon Bon Jovi looks like her
These questions flummox me so:
What full-time bass player-less band has the best bass parts on record?
There are bands like this? But why?
The Archies.
Who’s your favorite singer in a band you don’t particularly like?
Karen Carpenter
If you had the managerial powers to take a cool, indie-rock or otherwise “underground” musician and attempt, in the most blatant, crass way, make him or her a superstar, who would it be?
Hans Rodenberry and the Shazam could pull off an arena show.
How do you mend a broken heart?
Stare deeply into the abyss. Write it all down in your journal. After the journal is full, read it. Burn journal in disgust and tell that dude he is an idiot because it’s possible there’s someone else within the few billion people around he could get along with again.
Who’s got the best suspenders (braces, for our UK Townspeople) in rock?
I thought braces were buttoned in, and suspenders were clipped?
I can only think of bad examples of this, and thanks a lot for that Dexy Midnight Runners imagery.
Taking into account the musician’s relative rock superpowers within his or her band and Look, who’s the Jaclyn Smith of rock?
George Harrison.
George Harrison is a great answer to the Jaclyn Smith question! He’s not the musician I had in mind, but he’s definitely worth setting against my choice for a future Once and For All post! I’m curious to see what other fine Jaclyn’s might arise in this thread.
Lots of other great points have been raised so far, including the Twin Peaks women (I was strictly a Sherilyn Fenn guy) and the thought of a photo of Debbie Harry in suspenders. I don’t recall that image. If anyone comes along it before I do, please send it my way. As a would-be amateur photographer I bet that a lot could be learned from a close study of the shot’s lighting and composition.
I think Sleater-Kinney might be the best answer here.
Not going to commit to an answer yet, but I think had Steve Perry been traded to another band, he could have done some decent work. Maybe if Gene Simmons had portrayed a mute in KISS and they’d signed Steve Perry to sing all of Gene’s songs for a Perry/Stanley dual attack? Perry would have to keep his ’70s moustache under the KISS greasepaint like Cesar Romero on Batman, too.
Nanites.
Until or unless this Debbie Harry-in-suspenders rumor is proven, the answer is Billy Childish, hands down. The only suspenders wearer in rock with the 1880s baseball player/English bareknuckle boxer/Prussian Hussar moustache to back those suspenders up. Very underrated Look.
Kilroy’s suggestion of Izzy Stradlin seems like a winner, but the more I think about it, wouldn’t Izzy actually be the Kate Jackson of GNR, being the “thinking man’s” choice of the band? The Ju-Ju Hounds were, by extension, his Scarecrow & Mrs. King.
I’m with Oats in favoring the Twin Peaks lineup over the Charlie’s Angels lineup by a longshot, but I hope he can understand that, conceptually, the “Jaclyn Smith of Rock” is an easier sell than the “Shelly The Waitress of Rock”. I’m surprised Oats didn’t throw Tom Petersson out there.
alexmagic wrote:
DING DING DING DING DING! That’s the Jaclyn Smith I had in mind, however his name is spelled (does it end with an “en” or an “on”)!
The Twin Peaks vs Charlie’s Angels topic may need to be addressed as well following the conclusion of the World Cup. Perhaps we’ll find a way to move the discussion OFF The Main Stage…
alexmagic, have you checked this out?
http://twitter.com/OldHossRadbourn
“Perry would have to keep his ’70s moustache under the KISS greasepaint like Cesar Romero on Batman, too.”
holy shit that’s awful!
“The Ju-Ju Hounds were, by extension, his Scarecrow & Mrs. King.”
holy shit that’s funny!
What full-time bass player-less band has the best bass parts on record?
The Stones.
Who’s your favorite singer in a band you don’t particularly like?
Gary Floyd, Sister Double Happiness
If you had the managerial powers to take a cool, indie-rock or otherwise “underground” musician and attempt, in the most blatant, crass way, make him or her a superstar, who would it be?
Fucked Up, by selling the singer as a sex symbol.
How do you mend a broken heart?
By being heartless.
Who’s got the best suspenders (braces, for our UK Townspeople) in rock?
Pere Ubu’s David Thomas.
Taking into account the musician’s relative rock superpowers within his or her band and Look, who’s the Jaclyn Smith of rock?
Alex James of Blur.
I’ll play!
For me it’s a toss-up between The Doors and Roxy Music. If forced to choose I’ll go with The Doors because they had more blues-based songs that depended on interesting bass parts from either their studio cat or Manzarek’s bass keyboard.
Probably Freddie Mercury. I wish he’d been in Hall & Oates or Squeeze or some pop band I liked a bit more.
The Fiery Furnaces. I’ve got three or four of their records, and I usually find them loaded with unusual Bowie-esque songs and strong vocals by the sister, in particular. I’d like to put them in a studio with top-notch musicians, like the crew who played on Eno’s rock records or the studio cats he used to flesh out those Talking Heads records.
Let it bleed.
I’m still on the look-out for that Debbie Harry photo. I’ll decide when I find that.
I say Tom Petersson; mockcarr says George Harrison. We will play this question out in the coming days!