Results: If You Want To Be In My Band, Listen To Music I Like!...Kind Of Like What Iggy Pop Did.

Have you ever aspired to start a music group?

As mentioned in this poll's title, I like the way Iggy Pop (born James Osterberg, Jr.) put together his most (in)famous band, The Stooges, in the late 1960's. He made his bandmates-to-be listen to the music he wanted reflected, however obtusely, in the group he was to lead. That music included works by microtonal classical composer/instrument inventor Harry Partch, free jazz saxophonist John Coltrane, funky soul music innovator James Brown, and much raw electric and acoustic blues, as it was Pop's ambition for The Stooges play a kind of blues divorced from the genre's precedents. Whether you like any of the artists to whom Pop exposed his fellow Stooges, do you liker, or at least appreciate, Pop's approach to creating his band's aesthetic approach?

A bond Pop had with his felllow Stooges was copious ingestion of apparently vast amounts of drugs--marijuana, hashish, LSD, eventually heroin, likely others--as they lived communally developing their artistry. For many reasons, I've no interest in psychochemically altering my consciousness, nor collaborating with anyone else who'd do so, for any reason, even artistic ends. Over a half-century has elapsed since the release of the first Stooges album, and many musical boundaries have been broken and expanded since then. But do you think truly innovative, original art can be made by people who don't indulge in mind-altering substances?

I've lately fantasized about getting together a group of younger guys with musical tastes of wide breadth, open to having them made even wider, and making a band out of them I'd lead...but not before exposing them to music that's shaped my tastes. I could list plenty of soloists, too, but in the interest of something approaching brevity, listed alphabetically are bands I'd force on these hypothetical dudes' ears. Which of the acts listed below do you like or would like to hear based on their names (or whatever else you may know of them)?

Anyone here who has answered even a smattering of my Tellwut contributions could likely testify to my musical taste not being anywhere near fully encompassed by the acts listed above. But, based alone on those listed as answer options for the previous question, would you be interested in hearing a band drawing from those influences?