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The world's most awesome band

23 Dec 99 - 08:08 PM (#153591)
Subject: The world's most awesome band
From: Mick Lowe

Having just posted my Christmas wish thread.. aka All I want for Christmas etc... a thought has suddenly struck me.. i.e. regarding the world's most awesome band/group/whatever..
Forget all those so called super groups of the late 70's/ early 80's.. cast aside all the mega benefit sessions in aid of whatever charity/good cause of the late 80's and 90's..
THE ultimate band of all time is yet to come together.. all we need is some mega rich benefactor to sponsor the event .. the event that will get all the musicians/singers here on the mudcat together for the ultimate concert of all time, let alone the century/millenium.. what a mind blowing concept that would be.. all we need is someone to construct a stage big enough to hold the "band" which would probably be bigger than the space for the audience.. but who needs an audience, it would be the greatest ever jamming session in the history of the universe, providing we all knew just the one tune/song that is.. LOL
I shouldn't like to be the one to organise it though.. the logistics is mind blowing.. though the "idea" has me "wondering".. what would it be like.... to say the least it would be an amazing exprience.. it would make Woodstock seem like a couple of buskers on the street corner..
Perhaps one day...
Mick


23 Dec 99 - 08:15 PM (#153597)
Subject: RE: The world's most awesome band
From: MK

....so The Beatles were ''chopped liver''?.... (as per the subject thread)


23 Dec 99 - 09:12 PM (#153628)
Subject: RE: The world's most awesome band
From: Mbo

Well, I'd say we would be the greatest band ever (or rather a tie with ELO, eh Mick?). What would we sing? OOOHHH! I get goose bumps all over thinking about all of us playing and singing "Wild Mountain Thyme." Sorta like that weird dream I had where me and my whole Psychology class were singing ELO songs...

--Mbo


23 Dec 99 - 09:44 PM (#153656)
Subject: RE: The world's most awesome band
From: Bill D

...tsk...'awesome' simply is not an adjective I would apply to bands...

__'ol curmudgeon Bill


23 Dec 99 - 09:49 PM (#153660)
Subject: RE: The world's most awesome band
From: catspaw49

What the hell drugs are you on Meebo? Your Psych calss....singing ELO........yeah................still haven't got the "Hassidic" joke have you?........Send me some of whatever you're smokin'...and some to Wild Bill too..........I think we need it.

Spaw


23 Dec 99 - 10:31 PM (#153683)
Subject: RE: The world's most awesome band
From: jeffp

Somebody line it up; I'll be there.


24 Dec 99 - 07:44 AM (#153770)
Subject: RE: The world's most awesome band
From: GeorgeH

but we'd never agree on the repetoire, the arrangements or how to introduce anything . . .

Vive la difference!

G. (now out of these parts for 10 days - in which time I hope to recover from my recent attack of chronic thread-drifting; sorry folks!)


24 Dec 99 - 09:18 AM (#153784)
Subject: RE: The world's most awesome band
From: Steve Latimer

I think there will be a pretty good start on this idea on Monday at the Tranzac.


24 Dec 99 - 09:42 AM (#153787)
Subject: RE: The world's most awesome band
From: gillymor

I'll be there if someone removes the red M&M's.

F


24 Dec 99 - 09:47 AM (#153788)
Subject: RE: The world's most awesome band
From: Mbo

No drugs here, 'Spaw. It's true! In the dream we were all singing "Don't Walk Away," which, incidentally is my favorite ELO song, and also my community college's economics teacher was there in the class for some reason singing too. HEY BILL, to me "awesome" IS a word I use for bands. I like bands 100 times better than single people. It's so harmonious, ya know.

--Mbo


24 Dec 99 - 11:36 AM (#153823)
Subject: RE: The world's most awesome band
From: Big Mick

I saw a warmup of this band at the FSGW Getaway weekend. It was only a small bunch of 'Catters, but if it is representative of the talent here, we are in some pretty tall corn. Count me in Mick..........in fact, you, Mick Bracken (where the hell has he been lately?), and I could do something, eh? The T'ree Micks?

Big Mick


24 Dec 99 - 12:10 PM (#153840)
Subject: RE: The world's most awesome band
From: catspaw49

.........oy...............

Spaw


24 Dec 99 - 12:36 PM (#153843)
Subject: RE: The world's most awesome band
From: Bill D

*grin*...my 'tsk' was not about bands...I often 'like' bands of certain types..(like the *early* Battlefield Band...before the high-octane upgrades)...but about language. You shold hear me tease kids about rating 99% of the Universe as either "cool" or "gross".....'awesome' is simply a buzz word these days that conveys very little to me, as I do not get out in groups where I can detect the subtle nuances and layers of meaning in a social context.......*what*?? what's he babbling about now? 'nuances...social context'?....ahhh, never mind- I guess the pressure of the season are making me grumpy..


24 Dec 99 - 01:44 PM (#153860)
Subject: RE: The world's most awesome band
From: Mbo

Oh, Bill, I understand completely! My Communications Class teacher used to talk about how people today use "awesome" as a generic term. As he said "They say 'Man, this hamburger is really awesome!' But when they see something that really warrants the use of such a powerful word like 'awesome,' they won't have anything to say." S'truth.

--Mbo


24 Dec 99 - 10:27 PM (#153963)
Subject: RE: The world's most awesome band
From: Mick Lowe

Sorry Bill and mbo.. I'm English and tend to use the English language in the manner to which it was formed.. I don't use words like "cool" other than meaning of a lower temperature than is the norm.. so when I say I "awesome" , I mean what the word says... i.e. simply the best ever (ok.. my definition)..
So where are the sponsors we need to get this gig underway?

It's now officially Christmas here.. so..


Merry Christmas to you all.
Mick


24 Dec 99 - 10:39 PM (#153967)
Subject: RE: The world's most awesome band
From: Bill D

and a VERY Merry Christmas to you, Mick...and an AWESOME new year!...*grin*..(your definition!)