10 Musicians I Want To Invite To My Holiday Party
- Leonard Cohen – Talk about intelligent cocktail conversation
- Ozzy Osbourne – Is it really a party without Ozzy?
- Ziggy Marley – Somebody has to bring the….
- Ray Lamontagne – I just want to try to make this guy smile
- Dr. John – To add a little New Orleans spice to the party gumbo
- Willie Nelson – Because he's so dang cool
- Prince – To get the dancing started
- Ringo Star – Every rock party should have a Beatle and Ringo seems like a lot more fun than Paul
- Robert Plant – Just so I can find out if Zep is really gonna tour or not
- Polyphonic Spree – There are like 30 people in this band so at least it'll make the room look full.
HONORABLE MENTIONS (as in I wish they were still around to invite…) TO: Janis Joplin, Rick Danko of The Band (I knew this gentle soul and I miss him) and John Lennon.
WHAT MUSICIANS WOULD YOU INVITE TO YOUR HOLIDAY PARTY AND WHY?
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Jeff Mangum (Neutral Milk Hotel)
Lou Reed
Jeff Tweedy
Howe Gelb (Giant Sand)
David Byrne
Thom Yorke
Chuck D
Danger Mouse
Zach de la Rocha
Gregg Gillis (Girl Talk)
Q-Tip
all of Broken Social Scene
Q-Tip, Danger Mouse and Gillis can fight it out for who’s doing the DJing, and BSS can improvise some good chill-out music into the wee hours. The rest, well, I just think it’d be interesting to put them all in a room together.
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Ian MacKaye – He’d make sure no gifts exchanged exceeded $6.
Steve Albini – He’s a great chef, although he prefers the term dinner engineer, if you insist on crediting him.
Mac and Laura – They’d work behind the scenes quietly for months to make sure the party was a huge success.
Thurston and Kim – They’d drill holes in the Christmas Tree, custom wire the lights, wrap it in duct tape, and somehow make it awesomer.
Josh Homme – He’d bring the ladies because he’s sick of every party being just another sausage fest.
Wayne Coyne – Dressed in a pink and yellow Santa suit, delivering gifts of cottage cheese, penguins, and motor oil out of a giant bubble.
Joanna Newsom – What’s a Christmas party without elves?
Andrew W.K. – What’s any party without Andrew W.K.?
Josh Groban and Muse were at my holiday party incidentally, but my ideal would be:
Brian Eno
Michael Stipe, Mike MIlls, Peter Buck
David Byrne
Patti Smith
Colin Newman (from Wire)
Rick Rubin
Danny Elfman
Grant Lee Phillips
That’d be a good party
lol cute list.