The fourth round of the 2007 Rock Town Hall Fantasy Rock Band League Draft is underway! If you don’t know the drill by now, you might as well disband. Here’s the round where cap space management might get tricky! To date, Sammy is closest to capping out, with $1.1 million spent; Mr. Mod is next with $950,000 of his budget spent on 2 first-round picks and a high third-rounder. The league capologist is currently computing remaining cap space for each band. He will try to notify you as you reach $1 million.
Picks from the third round are listed here.
Picks from the second round are listed here.
Picks from the first round are listed here.
Sammy will receive Andyr’s pick in this round. BigSteve, Scott, and Sammy have forfeited their fourth-round picks owing to free-agent signings. Andyr received Sammy’s fourth-round pick in a trade before it had been forfeited by Sammy. For the fourth-round draft order and analysis…
FOURTH-ROUND SELECTIONS
1. Mockcarr, GM (4-piece or 5-piece w/keys): NO PICK THIS ROUND
2. Division By Zero; Sammy, GM (4-piece): TOM VERLAINE*
3. Bob Seger and the New Dynamic Superiors; Hrrundivbakshi, GM (powerhouse): JACK WHITE
4. Geo, GM (4-piece w/keys): TERRY ADAMS
5. Even Worse Wizard; Saturnismine, GM (bassless 2-piece):
6. The Subwoofers, BigSteve, GM (4-piece w/keys): NO PICK THIS ROUND
7. Meanstom, GM (power trio): TONY McPHEE
8. American Metal, Sally Cinnamon, GM (powerhouse): PETER BUCK
9. Scottrodgers, GM (5-piece w/keys): NO PICK THIS ROUND
10. Ray Cooper’s Cabo Wabo Party Band; Andyr, GM (powerhouse): SAMMY HAGAR
11. Afterschool Special; Mr. Mod, GM (5-piece w/keys): PAUL THOMPSON*
*Denotes free-agent signing.
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Mockcarr is on the clock.
By the way, I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’d sleep well this weekend if we could wrap up the final 2 rounds by the end of the day on Friday. If you’re able to check in before then and think of it, feel free to send me offlist 2 or 3 additional picks – in order of preference – that you would draft, if available, in the 5th round. That way, we can just fill in the final round in one shot and prepare for months of analysis, songwriting, recording, photo shoots, publicity, and touring. Thanks.
I’m clear for a free agent pick this round based on remaining cap space, right?
You’re in good shape re: the cap, Geo!
Just to be fair, don’t I lose my pick this round because Mitchell was a free agent?
You’re right, Charlie. Sorry about that mix-up. What we need around here is a STRONG commissioner.
Sammy is on the clock. That’s right, Sammy, it’s 6:23 your time. Let’s get it on!
Sorry. Wakin’ and bakin’ with some choice Grapefruit. I have enough to make one more free agent pick, right?
The $200,000 it will cost you to make a free-agent pick in this round will bring you right up to the $1.3 million cap. So, yes. That would complete your 4-piece.
Excellent. Division By Zero is proud to announce our lead singer, lead guitarist and lead songwriter- Tom Verlaine.
Now what?
Very interesting selection!
Now you can beging drafting a paragraph or two on the vision you have for your band. When the draft is completed, a thread wil go up encouraging GMs to do likewise. Questions from the press may follow. A few weeks later, you can expect a call for progress reports on your band’s songwriting and recording. A month after that I foresee the release of each band’s initial single or album. GMs will be asked to either record an actual song in their band’s style or write a paragraph that is so descriptive we will be able to hear the music being described. Hold tight, and those of you who don’t get into the sports nerd thing, trust that the end of this excruciating draft is in sight!
Thanks for playing along, Townspeople.
Hrrundi is on the clock.
Things have gone horribly awry in the rehearsal hall (located — and this is telling — in an unused banquet room at the Waldorf Astoria). Oh, everybody is getting along fine enough — but Keith seems oblivious to the central purpose of the New Dynamic Superiors: to make Bob Seger *look good*.
It’s not that he’s not trying. But something is very, very wrong with his ability to tell what’s actually cool from what’s obviously not. He keeps going on about how the band neeeds to head into the “shtyoodeeoh” to “lay down some tracksss” with Willie Weeks and Andy Newmark. Seger is game (he’s a pretty nice guy), but Al Jackson is getting a bit antsy to actually play something.
It’s clear that my efforts to inject a bit of edginess by deploying Keef were a bit off the mark. I think we need somebody on the bass who can really, a.) command a bit of respect from the assembled geezers; and b.) who is inclined to return an appropriate amount of hero worship where appropriate. Somebody with the ability to dial up the intensity in Seger’s well-intentioned, fist-pumpin’, all-American Rock by bringing it away from L.A. and back to the Motor City. Somebody who truly understands Seger’s fundamental midwestern-ness. Somebody who really does seem to have a knack for getting talented-but-bored musicians back to a point where they feel relevant again.
Ladies and gentlemen, in a surprise deployment to bass guitar, and using my free agent card for the first time, Bob Seger and the New Dynamic Superiors announce the drafting of…
Jack White.
Thank you. We’ll answer questions as events warrant.
Canny choice, Hrrundi. Don’t forget, folks to send in 2 or 3 choices (ranked in order of preference) for the final round, in case you’re going to be out of touch this weekend. Please send them to me OFFLIST, so others don’t get wind of your plans. Thanks.
Geo is on the clock.
Gotta leave soon, and I don’t know who much I’ll be around this weekend. Hope Geo doesn’t mind if I hop ahead of him and round out my power trio with a final free agent selection. To join John Bonham and Jack Bruce, Triptych (my power trio’s name) selects The Groundhogs’ Tony McPhee.
Hey, I was gonna take McPhee. Not!!!
No, I need a keyboard player with chops so Prince won’t push him around like he did Dr. Fink. Howzabout a guy that can bang out some boogie-woogie or Monk-like piano? Laydown some thick, soulful B-3 when the need arises? Or best yet, kick up an unholy racket on the clavinet to rival a Branca guitar army? If certain moderators could somehow see past the affable goofiness, they’d realize that I just picked up possibly the best Rock’n’Roll keyboard player available. Terry Adams.
All right, Tom and George. Thanks. Sally C sent me her pick in advance. I’ll look it up and get the board updated in a few minutes.
Andyr is on the clock!
Sally C has drafted Peter Buck.
Andyr is on the clock.
Hrrundi, you completely took me by surprise with your pick! Holey Joe! Great write-up! Great pick! Complete surprise, I tell you!
Just got in from a sweaty night with my lead singer Tim Rogers, talking to him about the “new” band – The Khyber, my friends: was toast. Tim says that his fantasy band is his own. I believe he pointed to me at some point, and we did talk about Peter Buck, who was actually at a recent show of theirs, but that’s for another discussion. Oh yes. Complete rock n’ roll takeover. My ears are ringing.
I need a guitarist/vocalsist and someone who knows how to throw some riffs together. That’s it. The RCPB doesn’t need no big-time song writer. Giving off a fun vibe is just as important in this band!
There is one person left on the big-board that can do all of these things.
RTH – with the 10th pick of the 4th round, The RCPB selects Hall of Famer Sammy Haggar.
I have spoken with his agent, and Sammy has gracioualy to offer his Cabo Wabo resort as a home base for the band; in exchange for a slight change to the band’s name. Henceforth, we will now be known as Ray Cooper’s Cabo Wabo Party Band
Andy sez:
Henceforth, we will now be known as Ray Cooper’s Cabo Wabo Party Band.
I say:
Now THAT’s funny!
To wrap of the fourth round it’s time I dip into the free-agent market to grab a drummer. I had considered The Doors’ John Densmore, but we’ve already got 2 members who dance on the edges of Rock Action, Mick Jones and Bruce Thomas. No, to give Roger Daltry the strong support he needs, I need a drummer who’s strong and steady in a storm, a drummer who can push the beat or settle into an awkward groove for an epic song, a drummer who has some familiarity with reggae and proto-disco beats. In the fourth round, Afterschool Special selects Roxy Music’s rock steady Paul Thompson.
Stay tuned for the fifth and final round of Talent Pool selections!