BEST BAND EVER: Results!

[LooseCannon]

Foro, you know that Mosh can read your edit history, right?

 

[Night Prowler]

Best Drummer Ever - Top 10
01. Mike Portnoy
02. Neil Peart
03. Dave Lombardo
04. Bill Ward
05. Phil Collins
06. Bill Bruford
07. Stewart Copeland
08. Gene Hoglan
09. Richard Christy
10. Danny Carey

Best Vocalist Ever - Top 10
01. Ronnie James Dio
02. Rob Halford
03. Russell Allen
04. Geoff Tate
05. Floor Jansen
06. Chris Cornell
07. Freddie Mercury
08. Ian Gillan
09. Hansi Kürsch
10. Phil Lynott

Best Guitarist Ever - Top 10
01. Tony Iommi
02. Alex Lifeson
03. John Petrucci
04. Ritchie Blackmore
05. Buckethead
06. Gary Moore
07. Glenn Tipton
08. Dave Mustaine
09. David Gilmour
10. Joe Satriani

Best Bassist Ever - Top 10
01. Geddy Lee
02. Geezer Butler
03. John Myung
04. Chris Squire
05. Flea
06. Phil Lynott
07. Roger Waters
08. Bootsy Collins
09. John Paul Jones
10. Sting

 

[Night Prowler]

Welcome to the Keyboardists part of the Best Band Ever game.

32 keyboardists will participate in a knockout style tournament. They are separated into two groups though, Metal and Rock, and the final match will be the winner of the Metal group vs. winner of the Rock group.

David Paich (TOTO)

vs.
Ray Manzarek (THE DOORS)

Kevin Moore (DREAM THEATER, O.S.I.)

vs.
Sven Karlsson (EVERGREY, SOILWORK)

 

[Saapanael]

Looking at the leaderboards, I have some questions. How come Dave Mustaine made it there instead of EVH or Marty Friedman? Is Geddy Lee that amazing as a bassist? He might be, I don’t know much about bass players.
My favourite drummer won which is fair because my favourite singer got 2nd place and my favourite guitarist 3rd.

 

[Diesel 11]

I’m also shocked to see that Barlow never even made the top ten.

 

[Night Prowler]

I’m also shocked to see that Barlow never even made the top ten.

Don't remind me...

 

[Diesel 11]

Also RIP Marco. #NeverForget

 

[Night Prowler]

Also RIP Marco. #NeverForget

Now would be a good time for @Black Wizard to come back just to say he is a BACKING VOCALIST!!!!!

 

[Diesel 11]

No doubt Moore will win this but I’m voting Sven, he seems more my type and I dug his playing on that Evergrey song a lot.

And Ray for the first battle.

 

[LooseCannon]

Marco is not a top 10 vocalist even if you are doing top 10 backing vocalists for Finnish bands.

 

[Diesel 11]

IRYO

 

[Brigantium]

Some very keyboard-reliant bands here.

Toto's keys are used to good effect for the style, but God I can't listen to music this saccharine for long. Psychedelic keyboards can get wearing, but I much prefer their contribution and overall effect with The Doors. Manzarek gets my vote. I suspect it's more skilful playing, but could be wrong. It depends whether the keyboardists have a major input in composition, really.

I naturally lean towards Dream Theater. Having listened to a bit more Evergrey, I do appreciate Karlssons contribution, but find it very understated. That could be production and the intention of the band, too, though, and it works a treat. Going with personal preference here, Karlsson.

 

[Forostar]

Foro, you know that Mosh can read your edit history, right?

The edit button itself is more important.

Anyway, since I do not give a rat's ass about a band with Portboy, I'm not interested in the rest of the game.

 

[Yax]

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[SixesAlltheway]

Psychedelic keyboards can get wearing, but I much prefer their contribution and overall effect with The Doors. Manzarek gets my vote. I suspect it's more skilful playing, but could be wrong. It depends whether the keyboardists have a major input in composition, really.

Having Manzarek in the final lineup would be lots of fun. I think he and Iommi might work out some very rad tunes Manzarek used to do all the bass parts on the Fender Rhodes in the Doors (and the Doors never had a "proper" bass player") but that's OK, Geddy was never the best bass player anyways, so Manzarek can easily cover that up

 

[Forostar]

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That's alright! Sorry for my little inconvenience.

Foro, you know that Mosh can read your edit history, right?

Unfortunately he can. Unfortunately mods can read quickly edited posts.
If people change a post quickly, to make something less negative, then that was done with good intention and that should be valued, and praised. Imo it should be better if the first post is not monitored, or archived (ffsake!), when edited very quickly.

Too many mods out here (I cannot ignore them either if I wanted). As long as mods deal sincerely with edited posts I can still deal with it as well.

Posts are not (just) meant for mods, they are for all members who read them. Thus the edit button will always be used in great quantity.

 

[Perun]

Imo it should be better if the first post is not monitored, or archived (ffsake!),

The edit history is not archived. It is automatically deleted after a month and even the mods can't see it anymore then.

 

[Forostar]

Good to know. Thanks.

 

[Lampwick 43]

I do not give a rat's ass about a band with Portboy

I'm curious to why this is. Do you dislike him simply because he happened to beat Peart, (probably a little bit of a ridiculous result, I must admit) or for other reasons? His personality, perhaps? Surely you can't deny his talents as a drummer.

PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT:

The game outcome presents a fictitious band. They will not actually perform together nor be an actual band by any measure.

So this whole thing was for NOTHING then!

 

[Brigantium]

So this whole thing was for NOTHING then!

No, I'm still hoping someone is going to do a mashup. I want Rick Wakeman in this all star lineup.