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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: HaroldBlvd on January 26, 2009, 01:51:02 AM
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Mine is this. In 1978, after the Ramones released Road To Ruin, the members of the Beatles discover the Ramones through Julian Lennon. The fab 4 are bored with their careers at this time but are blown away by the Ramones.
They decide to get together one last time and produce a Ramones tribute album performing every song on the first four Ramones albums.
They pose for the album cover in their Sgt Peppers uniforms all torn at the knee. They are leaning up against the wall of Abbey Road Studios in grainy black and white.
The name of the album would be "All You Need Is Glue."
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I think you mean "fontasy."
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a weekend of ice fishing with the insane clown posse.
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a reunion of axl, slash, izzy, duff and steven. to quote james hetfield 'nothing else matters.'
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Mine is filling in on guitar for the departed Sterling Morrison in a reunited VU for a European concert tour.
It would be with Lou Reed, Doug Yule and Mo Tucker + Me.
I would sing backups on Lonesome Cowboy Bill.
Another component of my fontasy is that everyone would like it.
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1983 brooklyn, ny - a generation of young black kids get bored with this fad called "hip hop" and start hardcore bands after Run DMC, LL Cool J, and Slick Rick accidentally find themselves at a Bad Brains show and are inspired to start a band.
1997 - the East Coast/West Coast rivalry between the labels SST and Discord come to a head with the shootings of Ian Mckaye and Henry Rollins.
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I'm recycling this from elsewhere, when the question of what your fantasy endgame scenario would be for the Rolling Stones to call it quits while saving face:
In China, The Rolling Stones unveil a huge hot air balloon shaped like their Lips logo to announce that they will promote their next album by hot air ballooning around the world. Mick wears a pilot's outfit, while Ron Wood is forced to don an old-timey leather aviator's cap and goggles with a scarf. Keith refuses to wear a goofy outfit, but Mick makes a public show of having him hand over any knives in his pockets or hanging from his hair so he doesn't accidentally pop the balloon.
The Stones pile in and take off (think the Bee Gees in the Sgt. Pepper movie), planning to circumnavigate the globe in their balloon and play a massive concert atop the Great Wall of China upon completion.
But tragedy strikes: somewhere over Nepal, the Stones' balloon vanishes. A huge search is undertaken, but only the badly-damaged balloon is found and the Stones are missing for months. The world is devastated by this news, and many classic rock stations switch to an all-Stones format for weeks until finally, Charlie Watts emerges from the wilderness as the lone survivor of the tragic hot air balloon crash.
Reporters ask Charlie what happened, but he just shrugs and everybody correctly figures that's the best they'll get out of him. Huge statues are erected in honor of Mick and Keith, with a much smaller statue also put up in honor of Ron. The bass player doesn't get one, which people quietly think is a little racist, but nobody wants to say anything, and besides, these statues are really expensive.
Meanwhile, the rest of the Stones have actually faked their own deaths. In Tibet, Keith buys a bar and spends the rest of his life outdrinking sherpas like Marion in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Ron dyes his hair blonde and lives in a secret room in Rod Stewart's house, occasionally venturing out in public disguised as Rod. No one ever notices. Mick becomes a silent partner in the World's Largest Casino in Macao and regularly performs there, but this never becomes public knowledge in the West due to China's strict media control. Darryl Jones returns to America and actually tours with Eric Clapton a few times, and a handful of people say "Hey, isn't that the bass player from the Stones? Didn't he die in that hot air balloon crash?" but nobody is 100% sure and everyone is afraid to ask.
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1983 brooklyn, ny - a generation of young black kids get bored with this fad called "hip hop" and start hardcore bands after Run DMC, LL Cool J, and Slick Rick accidentally find themselves at a Bad Brains show and are inspired to start a band.
My fantasy would be the exact opposite, and involves D. Boon collaborating with Kool Keith.
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a reunion of axl, slash, izzy, duff and steven doing some much-needed landscaping work around my Manor.
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a reunion of axl, slash, izzy, duff and steven doing some much-needed landscaping work around my Manor.
Winner!
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Kriss Kross, rather than Nirvana, "saves music."
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Not sure what mine is now. But I will admit to an embarrassing one from around 1991. I wished that Flea and Les Claypool would team up. Maybe call themselves "Fleapool?"
I should bring that to a Cringefest in Brooklyn.
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3 words:
Fourth-Wave Ska.
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sometimes i wish the skynyrd plane never crashed.
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An episode of "American Idol" were all contestants must sing Ted Leo covers.
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At least two years prior to George Harrison's death, The Traveling Wilburys reform with Rodney Crowell in Roy O's spot.
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Two words: Punk Tango.
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I wish George Best had recorded an album called Wedding Present .
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Summer 2007, Norfolk, Virginia. The Plain White T's are about to kick off a huge tour in support of their single "Hey There Delilah".
A few seconds into their first song, I emerge from a trapdoor beneath the stage. Slowly, solemnly, I make my way over to singer Tom Higgenson. We are face to face. I shake my head back and forth, as if to say, "No, no. Just...no". He begins to protest, but looks strangely resigned. "Shhh, shhh", I tell him. Then I unburden him of his Ovation acoustic guitar, gently setting in on the ground. I take out a pair of pliers and remove each and every one of its mechanical parts until it's sufficiently unplayable. The rest of the band has retreated into the darkness by now. I do the same with all of their instruments, even disassembling the drum stool and tambourines piece by piece.
With the help of the crowd, we take what's left of the instruments, exit to the parking lot and dump it all in a pile. The detritus is doused in flammable liquids and burned for hours while a silent crowd watches, their faces glowing. No one speaks of the band or the song ever again.
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1989: Dee Dee King replaces Professor Griff as the leader of the S1Ws.
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3 words:
Fourth-Wave Ska.
Seriously though, I wish Tim Taylor from Brainiac hadn't died.
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My fontasy is pretty "out there". It involves the music of Guided by Voices being adapted for a 3-D film about Cleopatra, directed by Steven Soderbergh.
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My fontasy is pretty "out there". It involves the music of Guided by Voices being adapted for a 3-D film about Cleopatra, directed by Steven Soderbergh.
That's just insane, Dave. You're nuts.
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I wish George Best had recorded an album called Wedding Present .
This may be my favorite internet post of all time, in all of human history.
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How about this for nuts: Lou Reed, upon meeting someone he doesn't already know, treats them respectfully.
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Vladimir Putin has Lou Reed kidnapped so the Russians can find the 'secret hidden chord' to Sweet Jane.
Governor Schwarzeneggar and Bruce Willis suit up for one last big adventure.
The two perform a rendition of 'Satisfaction' at a concert for Putin that causes spacetime to collapse on itself.
The Universe is re-born, only this time without Kid Rock.
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A guitar that runs on electricity.