Help select candidates for more Battle of the Bands threads

[bobthedrummer]

Here's a few to vote on, you can endorse your own favorites too.

[SEAburb]

1. How about a head-to-head match up between

Funk bassist Larry Graham vs Bootsy Collins.

2. don't forget this battle of Bootsy's

http://www.onion.com/onion3539/national_funk_congress.html

or this one

http://www.warr.org/bootsy.html

In 1985, Bootsy cut a single with Jerry Harrison under the name Bonzo Goes To Washington: "5 Minutes," which uses samples of Ronald Reagan's famous "The bombing starts in five minutes" speech over a funk groove.

[bobthedrummer]

3. I like to mix and match, unconventionally

both are great funky players that would go up against Stanley Clarke well, or Tina Weymouth IMHO.

[mlawson]

4. Hey, no fair. SOME of us don't have decent radio stations.

We have top-40 trash stations here, plus a public station that USED to be college radio, but now they play 'refined' top 40 and a lot of hillbilly.

I can get good stations online, some times, but not always. I have heard of ONE of the bands you have listed; the others, never.

[bobthedrummer]

5. Well we don't have any progressive radio in Green Bay either

I was turned on to most of these groups by other musicians-plus my wife spends a lot of time grabbing stuff off the Internet, also saw a few of them years ago and was impressed...

BTW, WMSE 91.7 fm Milwaukee School of Engineering is one of the best stations around to listen to all kinds of cool stuff

http://www.wmse.org/listen.shtml