If you asked me this question every day, I’d probably come up with a different line up. Maybe that will be an excuse to bump down the road depending on mood.
Been listening to a lot of Dio lately (for obvious reasons). Both Dio and Ozzy, whether by divine intervention, human design, or dumb luck seemed to have harvested legendary guitar players.
I would have loved to hear a Dio/Wylde matchup. It is never to be, though.
My line up would have been a simple iteration of those who previously played with Dio/Ozzy.
Dio: vox
Wylde: Guitar
Robert Trujillo: Bass
Vinny Appice: Drums
Yeah, this is harder than fantasy baseball line ups.
Gotta have Les Claypool on bass. Guy was rejected from MetallicA for being too talented, back when that meant something.
Dimebag Darrell and Kirk Hammet can switch off between rythm and lead guitar.
Drummer…Vinnie Paul, a young Lars Ulrich, or maybe James Sullivan from A7X.
Vocals…wow. Kieth Caputo, Corey Taylor is immensely talented with like a six octave range, Tom Araya…that’s the hardest one. It seems the vocalist would change more than anything dpending on what I’m in the mood to listen to. Drummers can speed up/slow down depending on the song, and guitarists can change their sound quite a bit with foot pedals.
Yeah, I’m going with Les, Dimebag, Lars, and Corey Taylor.
[quote]BradTGIF wrote:
I too think Les is the best bassist ever…
But damn, in a band setting he’d overpower everyone else, no?[/quote]
I was sort of thinking the same thing, but Les is my favorite bassist so I had to have him. The whole process of coming up with only one band is hard. It seems like there are many combinations that I would like.
