What group would you have liked to have sung in or played an instrument in?
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You would be just as good as the person you are replacing once your in the band.
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That I wouldn't completely mess up the band by my presence, like I'm as good as the person I'm replacing?
If that's the case ... I pick Prince. With either the Revolution or the NPG 
If I have to be at my own level of skill (or at least what it was in my prime) first pick would be to guest on vocals at a Pink Floyd show for a few songs. I used to be able to do really good impressions of both Waters and Gilmour.
EDIT: I was also told by a few DU'ers that I do a pretty mean Steve Earle impression when I posted my cover of Copperhead Road, so ... getting up and singing a song or two of his with him and The Dukes would also be pretty freaking killer.
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I figure I come off a bit self-centered most of the time so ... I thought I'd leave that one be and if someone ASKED ... well ... you know, okay
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Creedence Clearwater Revival was so successful without it, but I guarantee the pedal steel guitar would have filled in and added texture to a lot of their material.
Curiously, John Fogerty started playing the pedal steel guitar on some of his later recordings (I like to think John listened to a lot of 'Bakersfield Sound' on his AM radio late at night, and was mesmerized by Ralph Mooney's magical pedal steel guitar)
I can't walk and chew gum at the same time. 
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It's been a long learning curve, and he's starting to get the hang of it, but he's never gonna be a Clarence White.
Couriously, I was just watching filmmaker/documentarian extraordinaire, David Hoffman's 1971 film on Earl Scruggs trying to reinvent himself. One segment had Earl Scruggs playing with the Byrds, and there he was, Clarence White playing the fabled Parsons/White B-Bender.
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Here's Gene in his super double secret workshop up around Fort Bragg, Calif.
I know Perry (Jesse) liked playing guitar as much (if not more so) than bass, and I always loved playing bass--and I loved their music. Earth Music is one of my favorite albums of all time.
I was also a huge Doors fan, and played the same musical set-up that Ray Manzarek played, when not playing a four string bass. I handled the left-hand bass leyboard through the bass amp, and played the organ parts with my right hand through another amp. We were known in Northern Virginia and DC as one of the few bands who, already in 1967, could play the long version of Light My Fire note for note.
Later on, when I was deeply into the 12 string guitar, I would have liked to have joined the Byrds, but by then, they had lost Crosby and had gone heavily toward country--something this Southern boy never really got into. If Leo Kottke had kept a long-term four or five piece band, I would have given anything to have been part of THAT.
Actually, my current project, The Freedom Toast, has received written requests asking when and where we can be seen live. Oh, man I would LOVE to do that, but getting us all together in one country, let alone the same city, at once would be a monumental logistics task. Considering the nature of our material, I think our biggest expense would be security! Once they listen to us, Republicans tend to get very hostile. Plus, these days, they're all armed, and we're not.
I almost never sing, though. Assault with a deadly weapon is still a criminal offense in most states.
get the band together--maybe in blue areas of the country. You may never get the chance again and you can't miss the opportunity to do it.
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Brian Jones' place in the Rolling Stones. I even have blonde hair.
Why not? Even prog rock is still part of the entertainment business!
I never dressed as a chemist on-stage. Well, I didn't dress like a chemist when I was in the lab either!
