80's Musical "What If?" question
 

I asked my brother this and he yelled at me for always asking the tough questions. So now I ask you all:

If you had to be a member of any 80's band/group what would it be and what role would you take? Assume you would not REPLACE the person whose role you are doing, just supplement and learn from them.

The band/group must have released an album in the 80's

I'd be Rick James chapperone.

Assuming I have an ort of musical talent? Lead guitar for Journey, learning from Neil Schon.

Groupie tester for Motley Crue

Haha. No no no silly guys. You have to a PLAYING/SINGING member of the band. And yes, assume that you have the requisite talent.

Anything involving the facilitation of me banging Susanna Hoffs.

i'd be the drummer for Def Leapard.

if a one armed drummer could get that many chicks imagine what a two armed drummer could do.

No, no. Def Leapard's drummer had one leg and two arms.

keyboardist for Van Halen. Eddie would have been freed up to play just guitar in concert, and I would have gathered mad props for my keyboard version of Spanish Fly and Eruption.

Neil Schon is awesome. I saw the Steve Miller Band about 5 years ago. Neil came out and jammed with them for about 10 minutes. He really rocked the house. One of the best I have seen live.

As far as joining an 80's band, I would have to choose Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Lead guitar.

If it would earn me a starring role in 'The Disorderlies', I'd join the Fat Boys. Plus, that remake of 'Wipeout' was way better than the original.

Motley Crue or Metallica to learn drums.

Wrong. Def Leppard's drummer, Rick Allen, lost his left arm in a car accident.

I think it was word play on Leapard... :)

FM

actually it was a bus accident I think. Of maybe that was the other guy and his leg.

I thought it was a car accident where he was drinking or drugged up.

Makes me think of Vince Neil killing...crap can't think of the guy. Guns'n'Roses...Axl Rose...Axl liked the guy...one sec.

bus accident. saw it on some VH1 "behind the music" thing

Hanoi Rocks...Razzle was killed by Vince Neil.

wikipedia:

Bus accident was the Metallica dude, right?

I still think it was a bus. Could have sworn I saw the same VH1 thing and them talking about an icy road or something.

Perhaps I'm cross pollinating my VH1 specials.

I remember the car accident scene from the crappy Def Lepard made for TV movie a few years ago...

that must be it. me too. watch so damm many of them they all blend together

I could be a drummer for Spinal Tap, they always need a drummer.

What about Ace Frehly? What happened to him? I've got that damn Rock Soldiers song stuck in my head now.

"Ace is back and I told you so..."

I remember buying his big debut solo cassette. Man that thing sucked except for that song.

Rick Allen lost his arm in a car accident based on the Def Leppard website.

Vince Neil's daughter died when she was young (4), of stomach cancer. He was in a car accident, drunk driving, and killed the drummer from Hanoi Rocks, Razzle Dingley.

Metallica was in a bus accident and lost their bassist Cliff Burton. Kirk and Cliff had picked from a deck of cards to see who had to sleep in the top bunk...Kirk won and lived.

OG is correct on all counts.

I'll join you as Steve Perry's understudy. That man had some insane pipes.

What has seven arms and sucks?

Def Leppard.

(Yeah, yeah. But you're going to use it around your friends tonight. Don't pretent you won't.)

I'm confused. Are we supposed to take on an additional instrument not already in the band, or be a contributing member playing an instrument they already have and don't need another of (like, for instance, second drummer for 38 Special :) )?

Brian May from Queen.

One word: Axl

Good one. Then you could keep the band together, instead of splitting it into two pieces.

Another good one: Izzy Stradlin's understudy. You know, just in case he ever left the band and they needed a replacement.

And Richie Valens won the coin flip and goes down in an Iowa cornfield. I'd replace Roy Bittan in The E Street Band, be the greatest rock keyboardist ever and never flip or draw high card for anything, and if I did I'd lose on purpose.

not around friends who can count. Def Leppard is a quintet.

Damn. If only there were some way to modify the joke so that it still worked.

yeah yeah, and Clapton gave up his seat in the helicopter that crashed killing SRV.

Canadian conversion rate?

Maybe he was thinking about the time when they were briefly a quartet after Steve Clark died?

Let's not, ya know, get hysterical. Hysteria. Whoa, can you feel it?

Bassist for Van Halen. Because nobody remembers that guy anyway.

BAN!
(besides being a pretty good background singer, Michael Anthony is one of the more underrated bassists of the cheesy hair band era).

Then his son walked out and open windown and plummetted to his death...why in the hell would anyone want to be in the rock and roll business? They are cursed!

one word.
5 letters.
starts with p.

:cool:

Mmmmm ... pizza.

Man, I know I'm old. I just watched Bon Jovi's Livin' on a Prayer video and someone was holding up a Slippery When Wet Record. Not a CD. Not a cassette. An LP.

I didn't know that. We came really close to losing a great talent that day.

I think they prefer to be called Paraplegics.


And of course, Axl. I wanna live in that insanity, it appeals to me.

Sing with Ozzy in the 80's, there would have to be some way to make money of that in 2006.