You host a Music Festival. Pick 6 bands for it.

[Thebobo]

Alive or dead. I am old, school, so here is my Festival line up. Whats yours?

The Bobopaluza tour

Hendrix
Allman Bros
Bob Marley
Traffic
Frank Zappa
Pink Floyd

 

[IronWing]

It's a dead concert!

 

[Guurn]

Pink Floyd
My Morning Jacket
Earth Wind and Fire
Radiohead
Muddy Waters
The Replacements

I'll let you pick the order.

 

[Humpy]

Snoop Dogg
Adele
Dead and Company
David Allen Coe
Iron Maiden
Alison Balsom

 

[lxskllr]

Ravi Shankar
Grateful Dead
Miles Davis
Duke Ellington
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Sigur Rós

in that order

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Riverside
Opeth
Porcupine Tree
Steven Wilson
Dream Theater (1992-2005)
Genesis (1970-1980)

 

[DeathReborn]

The Who
Queen
Led Zeppelin
Type O Negative
Iron Maiden
Nightwish (with Tarja Turunen)

I would have Pearl Jam as backup band

 

[IronWing]

Sufi Fest:
Niyaz
Nawal
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Qawwal
Dastan Ensemble
Mevlevi Dervishes
Baraka Moon

Or an early music fest:
Oni Wytars
Sequentia
Anonymous 4
Alia Mvsica
Heinavanker
La Rondinella

 

[Mayne]

Prism
Trooper
Rush
The Tragically Hip
The Band
Triump

 

[Chaotic42]

Assuming we're talking about in their prime:

Widespread Panic
Smashing Pumpkins
The Rolling Stones
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Deltron 3030 (Dan the Automator, Del the Funky Homosapien, Kid Koala)
The Gap Band

I generally don't like live music, but this would cover a wide range of tastes for the folks I invite.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

Metallica
Guns N Roses
Nirvana
Chris Cornell
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Tom Petty

Would easily trade out one of these for Jimi Hendrix but he was a little too dramatic on stage for me. Love the music though.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

ZZ Top
Allman Brothers
Led Zeppelin
Deep Purple
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
Janis Joplin and Big Brother and.the Holding Company.

 

[KMFJD]

Prodigy
Radiohead
Iron Maiden
Led Zeppelin
Pearl Jam
Pink Floyd

 

[DaveSimmons]

Singer-songwriter fest:

Tori Amos
Bruce Cockburn
Elvis Costello
Bryan Ferry / Roxy Music
Aimee Mann
Richard Thompson - solo, w/Linda, w/Fairport Convention

80s-90s fest

Concrete Blonde
Oingo Boingo
Thomas Dolby (still making good music)
Nik Kershaw (his 1999 CD 15 Minutes is great, his 00s stuff is decent too)
Matthew Sweet
Tears for Fears (Roland's solo 90s stuff like Elemental is good)

 

[Loop2kil]

Rock:
Metallica
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Dire Straits
Led Zeppelin
Tool
Blackberry Smoke

Jazz:
Kenny Burrell
Clark Terry
Oscar Peterson
Emily Remler
Joe Pass
Rodrigo y Gabriela ( not Jazz, but I'll allow it )

 

[x26]

Rock:
Metallica
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Dire Straits
Led Zeppelin
Tool
Blackberry Smoke

Jazz:
Kenny Burrell
Clark Terry
Oscar Peterson
Emily Remler
Joe Pass
Rodrigo y Gabriela ( not Jazz, but I'll allow it )

I'll buy a Ticket but add:
Jaco Pastorious
John Mcglachlin/Paco De Luca /Steve Morse
Oh Hell--Why not just bring back the Whole Mahavishnu Orchestra?

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Queen (of course with Freddie)
Sentenced
Skyclad (in the original lineup)
Within Temptation
My Dying Bride

The last pick would heavily depend on my mood at that time, Iron Maiden would be nice to see live again, but I can still see them if I want to. So I might go for Arkan (the French-Tunisian band, not the Serbian mass murderer) in the original lineup instead, or for another band that broke up.

 

[twinrider1]

Snoop Dogg
Adele
Dead and Company
David Allen Coe
Iron Maiden
Alison Balsom

lol, yea, that would go over well.

 

[zinfamous]

The Dead
Allman Brothers
Dylan w/ The Band (see how I did that?!)
Zeppelin
A Tribe Called Quest
CCR

 

[Thebobo]

The Dead
Allman Brothers
Dylan w/ The Band (see how I did that?!)
Zeppelin
A Tribe Called Quest
CCR

I would of picked the Dead to but they deserve their own concert. Also Pre-73 Dead.

 

[zinfamous]

I would of picked the Dead to but they deserve their own concert. Also Pre-73 Dead.

Heh, I was actually just going to put in The Dead and be done with it, but you know, they've done some awesome festivals in the past. It would be great to see the Allmans and The Band/Dylan over the same weekend though, wouldn't it?

and to the bolded: fucken aye, man!

 

[Thebobo]

I'll buy a Ticket but add:
Jaco Pastorious
John Mcglachlin/Paco De Luca /Steve Morse
Oh Hell--Why not just bring back the Whole Mahavishnu Orchestra?

Agree! Saw the Mahavishnu Orchestra at national theater in DC. Don't remember which iteration of the band though.

 

[Loop2kil]

I'll buy a Ticket but add:
Jaco Pastorious
John Mcglachlin/Paco De Luca /Steve Morse
Oh Hell--Why not just bring back the Whole Mahavishnu Orchestra?

Good stuff in your list as well, I would buy a ticket to that as well. I could have included De Lucia in my list as well...this is one of my favorites of all time.
https://www.discogs.com/John-McLaug...Friday-Night-In-San-Francisco/release/5862108

 

[CraKaJaX]

Derek and the Dominoes
The Allman Brothers Band
Led Zeppelin
Queen
ACDC

 

[soulcougher73]

The Doors
Janis Joplin
Jimi Hendrix
Nirvana
Grateful Dead
Canned Heat

going with the dead at 27 club lol