Draft a band.

[Michael Heide]

Draft a band: At least one singer, one drummer, one lead guitar, one bass. A fifth member of your choice.

But here's the catch: You can only draft from fiction. Comics, movies, video games, tv shows... Which means that you can draft B Rabbit from 8Mile, but not Eminem. Then of course, there are the Beatles, which played themselves. Which means that you can draft Ringo from Hard Day's Night.

Snaking draft, four hours between picks, same rules as always.

We can do this incognito like the Hottie drafts, or we just pick as ourselves, your choice.




Darth Primus:

Scott Pilgrim and the 80's Sound Machine.

• Bass: Scott Pilgrim (from Scott Pilgrim vs the World, movie)
• Guitar: Theodore "Ted" Logan (from the Bill & Ted movies)
• Drums: Watts (from Some Kind of Wonderful, movie)
• Lead Vocals: Robbie Hart (from The Wedding Singer, movie)
• Lead electric violin: Arnold Poindexter (from Revenge of the Nerds, movie)

kazzar:

Mass Effect

• Lead singer: Yuna (from Final Fantasy X-2, video game)
• Lead guitar, backing vocals: Mikau (from The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, video game)
• Bass: Eddie Riggs (from Brütal Legend, video game)
• Keyboard, backing vocals: Tifa Lockheart (from Final Fantasy VII, video game)
• Drums: Luigi (from Luigi's Mansion, video game)

Kuhan:

Aldous Snow and the Rockin' Teens.

• Lead guitar, backup vocals: Marty McFly (from Back to the Future, movie series)
• Drums: Nick Andopolis (from Freaks and Geeks, tv show)
• Lead singer: Aldous Snow (from Forgetting Sarah Marshalland Get Him to the Greek, movies)
• Raps: Bartholomew "Bartman" Simpson (from The Simpsons, cartoon)
• Bass guitar: Neil "Young Neil" Nordegraf (from Scott Pilgrim, comic books and movie)

Godmera:

Gene's Mean Machine

• Lead vocals: Sir Krauser (from DMC, comic book and movie)
• Lead guitar: Lars Ümlaut (from Guitar Hero, video game)
• Drums: Spider Webb (from The Comic Strip Presents...., tv show)
• Bass guitar: Floyd Pepper (from The Muppet Show, tv show)
• Evil Gene Simmons (from KISS meets the Phantom of the Park, movie)

W. West:

pink with ENVY

• Lead Singer, Keyboard: Envy Adams (from Scott Pilgrim vs the World, comic book and movie)
• Bass, vocals: Monroe Yoder (from Doug, cartoon)
• Drums: Melody Valentine (from Josie and the Pussycats, comic book and cartoon)
• Guitar: Lucas "Crash" Wilson (from Scott Pilgrim vs the World, comic book and movie)
• Background vocals: Pebbles Flintstone (from The Flintstones, cartoon)

Abin Surly:

Forbidden Breakfast.

• Lead guitar: Nigel Tuffnel (from This is Spinal Tap, mockumentary)
• Bass guitar: William Murderface (from Metalocalypse, cartoon)
• Keyboards: Dr. Sidney Zwiebel (from Buckaroo Banzai, movie)
• Drums: Robert "Fish" Fishman (from The Rocker, movie)
• Keyboard, vocals: Local Lad (from Tommy, movie)

Michael Heide:

Awesome Sauce.

• Guitar, vocals: JB with the Pick of Destiny (from Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny, movie)
• Drums: Animal (from The Muppet Show, tv show)
• Lead Vocals, keyboards: Barney Stinson (from How I Met Your Mother, tv show)
• Bass: Murdoc Niccals (from Gorillaz, a real band with fictional band members)
• Guitar, backing vocals, keyboard: Gregory House (from House MD, tv show)

Bruce Castle:

Timmy & The Christ Punchers

• Bass, vocals: Derek Smalls (from This is Spinal Tap, mockumentary)
• Drums, vocals: Satan (from Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny, movie)
• Lead singer: Timmy (from South Park, animated series)
• Guitar, vocals: Homer Simpson (from The Simpsons, cartoon)
• Lead guitar: Val Hallen (from Dexter's Laboratory, cartoon)

[Bruce Castle]

I'm in. Why draft incognito? Cowards!

A few questions about this whole fiction/reality thing. Let's use Ray Charles as an example.

So, it'd be ok to draft Jamie Fox as Ray Charles, and that wouldn't be Ray Charles, but Jamie Fox as Ray Charles?

And then you could also draft Ray Charles from Blues Brothers? He's playing himself, but in character. Technically just credited as just Ray.

Both of those are acceptable? And, if they are, you could probably end up drafting an all real band. Quite a few band members have been in movies playing themselves.

Should that rule be changed?

Also:

Can one member fill two quotas? Like, a Jack White could fill your singer and lead quitar quotas, leaving an extra opening for a zany instrument?

[kazzar]

I'm in

[Darth_Primus]

I'll play along.

[Dr. Naysay]

Unless Darth Primus is running it I'm out.

[kazzar]

Originally Posted by Dr. Naysay

Unless Darth Primus is running it I'm out.

I agree with you, Naysay. It wouldn't really be any fun otherwise

[Darth_Primus]

Wow! I'm flattered.

[kazzar]

Originally Posted by Darth_Primus

Wow! I'm flattered.

You should be. And what with our mutual interests, It will be fun seeing who picks what

[Kuhan]

I'm in.

EDIT: Now, the people we draft would have to play that instrument in their respective works of fiction, correct?

[fearless2814.1]

Someone would have no problem drafting KISS.

[Caleb Lancaster]

I think I'll stay outta this one.
Not because Darth Primus isn't doing it, that would be a Plus, but because I'd rather just Draft my Favourite Band.

[Abin Surly]

I'm in if you've got room.

[Kuhan]

btw, you COULD draft Eminem from his cameo in "Funny People"

[Michael Heide]

If Darth Primus would like to take over this draft, I wouldn't mind. But I don't have a problem with organizing it myself. If Naysay doesn't wanna play with me, then I don't give a shit.

Originally Posted by Bruce Castle

A few questions about this whole fiction/reality thing. Let's use Ray Charles as an example.

So, it'd be ok to draft Jamie Fox as Ray Charles, and that wouldn't be Ray Charles, but Jamie Fox as Ray Charles?

That would be possible, yeah. It might be a bio-pic, but it's still a movie, not a documentary or a live concert.
In other words: You can pick Tommy Walker from Tommy, but not Roger Daltrey from "The Who: Live at the Isle of Wight". You can pick Gene Simmons from Detroit Rock City, but not from Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

And then you could also draft Ray Charles from Blues Brothers? He's playing himself, but in character. Technically just credited as just Ray.

Since Blues Brothers is a work of fiction, yes, Ray Charles from Blues Brothers is eligible.

Both of those are acceptable? And, if they are, you could probably end up drafting an all real band. Quite a few band members have been in movies playing themselves.

Yes, that would be possible.

Should that rule be changed?

I don't see why it should be. We'd just rob ourselves of possibilities.

Also:

Can one member fill two quotas? Like, a Jack White could fill your singer and lead quitar quotas, leaving an extra opening for a zany instrument?

If you have a movie (or comic book, or tv show, etc) in which Jack White sings and plays lead guitar (not just on the soundtrack, by the way, he'd have to be a character in the story), then you can use him for both at once and leave a slot open for, I don't know, background dancer or whatever.

Originally Posted by Kuhan

EDIT: Now, the people we draft would have to play that instrument in their respective works of fiction, correct?

Yes. You can't draft Barry Allen, the Flash, as your drummer - unless you can present an actual story in which he plays the drums.

[Kuhan]

Can I choose Joaquin Phoenix from real life February 2009 to September 2010, because that was fictional.

Also, can we draft a band Manager? Maybe separate from the rest?

[Michael Heide]

If Casey Affleck's Joaquin Phoenix Fakomentary ever comes out, you can draft Joaquin.

And band manager actually sounds cool.

[Kuhan]

It did come out...

[Maverick_GL]

If we could just draft the actual people, I would play. I would also lose, because I'm pretty sure most of the people I would draft are unknown to all of you.


Have fun though.

[Kuhan]

so, wait, was that a yes or no on a sixth slot for band manager?

[Darth_Primus]

This is Michael Heide's brain child. I have every confidence he'll do a great job running this draft.

[Dr. Naysay]

It's already way too fucking complicated.

[Kuhan]

We could have two running concurrently. One for Real People Bands and one for Fictional People Bands.


btw, I've got my whole band ready. Let's do this.

[Michael Heide]

Originally Posted by Kuhan

It did come out...

Ah, alright. Didn't know that.

Originally Posted by Kuhan

so, wait, was that a yes or no on a sixth slot for band manager?

I'd say it's optional, kinda like the alternates in the Hottie drafts.

Originally Posted by Darth_Primus

This is Michael Heide's brain child. I have every confidence he'll do a great job running this draft.

I really appreciate that. Thank you.

Originally Posted by Kuhan

We could have two running concurrently. One for Real People Bands and one for Fictional People Bands.

We have plenty of drafts running concurrently as it is. I'd say let's make three drafts, one after another:

• Fictional (or fictionalized) people
• Real people (still alive)
• Real people (dead)

btw, I've got my whole band ready. Let's do this.

Sounds like a plan.

[Michael Heide]

Draft 1: Fictional Characters.

Draft order:

1. Darth_Primus
2. kazzar
3. Kuhan
4. Slot still open for whoever wants to join
5. Slot still open for whoever wants to join
6. Abin Surly
7. Michael Heide
8. Bruce Castle

Draft starts 36 hours from now.

[Bruce Castle]

Originally Posted by Michael Heide

I don't see why it should be. We'd just rob ourselves of possibilities.

It mocks the concept of the draft a bit, especially if we'll soon have one specifically for actual band members.