Tournament Suggestion Thread

Yah, right.

Seriously, start thinking of tv shows, because I hope to start a nomination thread this week.

 

Hey, how about putting the Mod Squad up for the tourney

 

What do you think about doing the "Songs of the Beatles" again with different matchups? Maybe it's too soon, but I was thinking it would be kind of cool if it was an annual event.

 

Anything involving the Beatles is all good with me.

 

Maybe Movies of the '80s would be a pretty cool tourney. Of course, you'd have to exclude the SW movies, but it would be really cool for those of us who want '80s nostalgia.

 

How 'bout, best guitarist(s) of the 20'th century?

Jimi Hendrix
Marc Ribot (then, far behind)
Robert Quine
Steve Morse
Caspar Brötzmann
Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top)
Duane Allman (Allman Brothers)
Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin)
Adrian Legg
Gary Lucas
Joe Baiza (Saccharine Trust, Universal Congress)
Keith Richards (Rolling Stones)
Steve Cropper (Mar Keys)
Keiji Haino
Doug Martsch (Built To Spill)
Chuck Berry
Kirk Hammet (Metallica)
Greg Ginn (Black Flag)
Munehiro Narita (High Rise)
Duane Denison (Jesus Lizard)
Link Wray
Tom Verlaine (Television)
Buckethead
Richard Lloyd
Peter Green (Fleetwood Mac)
Gayle Ellett (Djam Karet)
Nicky Skopelitis
Helios Creed (Chrome)
Sandy Bull
Robert Fripp (King Crimson)
Blixa Bargeld (Einsturzende Neubaten)
Eddie VanHalen (Van Halen)
Wayne Rogers (Magic Hour)
Jody Harris (Raybeats)
Ian Williams (Don Caballero, Storm & Stress)
Eric Clapton (Cream)
Nels Cline (Geraldine Fibbers)
Steve Vai
Arto Lindsay (Ambitious Lovers)
Joe Satriani
Jeff Beck (Yardbirds)
Alan Licht (Run On)
Hank Marvin (Shadows)
Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead)
Mike Mcready (Pearl Jam)
Roy Montgomery
Andy Hawkins (Blind Idiot God)
Duan Eddy
Karl Precoda (Dream Syndicate)
Allan Holdsworth
Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth)
Dave Pajo (Slint, For Carnation, Tortoise, Aerial M)
John Strohm (Blake Babies)
Tara Key (Antietam)
Carl Hultgren (Windy & Carl)
Page Hamilton (Band Of Susans, Helmet)
John Petkovic (Death Of Samantha, Cobra Verde)
Mick Jones (Clash)
Kim Thayil (Soundgarden)
Jeff Parker (Tortoise)
Slash (Guns And Roses)
Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits)
Jeff Cotton (Captain Beefheart)
Richard Thompson (Fairport Convention)
Andy Summers (Police)
Yngwie Malmsteen
The Edge (U2)
Tom Morello (Rage Against The Machine)
Norman Westberg (Swans)
Neil Hagerty (Royal Trux)
Lowell George (Little Feat)
Sterling Morrison (Velvet Underground)
Fred Frith (Henry Cow)
John Frusciante (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Dave Alvin (Blasters)
Adrian Belew
David Grubbs (Squirrel Bait, Bastro, Gastr Del Sol)
Craig Chaquico (Starship)
Neal Schon (Journey)
Carlo Santana
Jeff Healey
Pete Townshend (Who)
Brian McMahan (Squirrel Bait, Slint)
Peter Buck (REM)
Thurstone Moore (Sonic Youth)
Judah Bauer (J. Spencer Blues Explosion)
Josh Homme (Kyuss)
Justin Trosper (Unwound)
Justin Chearno (Unrest, Pitchblende, Rake, Doldrums)
John Petrucci (Dream Theater)
Chris Haskett (Rollins Band)
Billy Dolan (5ive Style)
Roger Miller (Mission Of Burma)
Gary Chester (Ed Hall)
Roger McGuinn (Byrds)
Billy Cote' (Madder Rose)
Alvin Lee (Ten Years After)
Dick Dale
Leslie West (Mountain)
Chris Brokaw (Come, Codeine)
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Phil Manzanera (Roxy Music)
Ry Cooder
Mark Shippy (US Maple)
Kevin Shields (My Bloody Valentine)
Dave Navarro (Jane's Addiction, Red Hot Chili Peppers)
William Reid (Jesus & Mary Chain)
Johnny Marr (Smiths)
Thor Eisentrager (Cows)
Jeff Mueller (Rodan)
Brian Setzer (Stray Cats)
Rick Rizzo (Eleventh Dream Day)
Dave Schramm
Stone Gossard (Pearl Jam)
Jim Thomas (Mermen)
Tommy Bolin
Randy Rhoads (Ozzy Osbourne)
David Roback (Rain Parade, Opal, Mazzy Star)
Ash Bowie (Polvo)
Mike Bloomfield
Johnny Ramone (Ramones)
Midge Ure (Ultravox)
Ed Mundell (Monster Magnet)
Joe Walsh
Trey Anastasio (Phish)
Robin Trower
"Buck Dharma" (Blue Oyster Cult)
Joe Perry (Aerosmith)
Scotty Moore (Elvis Presley)
Kevin Cadagan (Third Eye Blind)
John Kimbrough (Walt Mink)
Ben Harper
Leo Kottke
David Gilmour (Pink Floyd)
Carl Perkins
J Mascis
Bert Jansch
Steve Howe
Jorma Kaukonen
Eric Johnson
Vernon Reid
Wayne Kramer
Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple, Rainbow)

We could make it an extra long tournament.

 

That would be cool, but you should narrow that down to your top 16 or 24 so that other people can make some nominations.

 

64 is a good number to start with, but we could make it 128.

 

Yeah I know, I was just throwing some names out there. I'm sure most people don't even know half of the names I just listed.

 

That's a pretty huge list. I think if we did guitarists that a "mini-tournament" format would work better (i.e. 16 or 32).

Actually, I was thinking of a mini-tournament for the next one, no matter what the subject. Movies of the 1980s sounds cool, but would that mean including ESB & ROTJ? Also, remember that Raiders won the overall film tourney last year.

I wonder if we could do something SW-releated, like droids or vehicles? Favorite space vehicle, perhaps?

 

Well for movies of the '80s, you have such a widelist, even if you include Indy, it'll produce some kind of different result. And yes, I would exclude SW movies if that tournament were to be done.


I'd have no problem doing a SW vehicles/ships mini-tourney, that would be cool.

 

OK, any ideas for a summer tournament?

Should it be SW-related?

Movies again, perhaps by era or genre?

Music? Best song or album of the 20th century?

 

My suggestion is to do another "characters" tournament. You've already done SW characters... How about a comic book character tournament? Or maybe a TV character tournament? Or how about a non-SW movie characters tourney? Any one of these would do pretty well, I suspect.

 

I still like my guitarists idea.

 

I really like the idea for a tourney of Beatles' songs.

 

Well, it's been a year and a half since we did the Beatles tourney.

Maybe a Beatles album mini-tourney?

 

Well, that could have been fun for a short little tourney, but now I think it's been so long that everyone's probably ready for a full tournament. I'm still pushing for Beatles songs again, with different brackets than last time. But Gabe's guitarists idea could be fun too. Maybe start a poll to decide, you could throw in a couple other options as well (villains, comic book characters, novels of the 20th century, etc...).

 

I talked to Raven and he said something about an EU competition in the Literature thread.

 

Greatest advertising icon characters . . . not endorsers, but characters. For instance, you wouldn't do Jordan representing Nike, but you could use Mars Blackman for Nike.

Geico Gecko
Mr. Clean
Mr. Whipple
"Where the Beef?" Lady
Budweiser Frogs
"I've Fallen and I can't Get Up" Lady
Snap, Crackle, Pop
Bartyles and James boys
Ronald McDonald

I'm sure we could come up with enough for at least a mini-tourney.

 

i think gabe's 'best guitarists' idea is excellent...

a couple small omissions, which i am sure were unintentional... Marc Bolan (T.Rex) and Alex Lifeson (RUSH).

 

How about a new Beatles song tourney with a twist -- we'll include any solo songs from John, Paul, George or Ringo?

You know, throw in "Imagine" and "My Sweet Lord" and "Temporary Secretary"?









OK, I'm kidding about "Temporary Secretary" (found on the McCartney II album). But maybe "Band On The Run".


Heck, we could easily run one of just the solo songs.

 

I love the idea of including post-Beatles stuff. If we're going to do that, perhaps we could expand the field to 128 songs and do four matchups per day for the first round? Or is that too ambitious?

 

i cannot believe that i overlooked the fact that Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath) also is not on that list of best guitarists ever...



i feel like i've failed myself in some way.

 

I copied and pasted that list, I had a few broken fingers at the time, didn't feel like typing too much.

Anyways, looks like a Beatles tourney's been set on, let's get cooking.

 

i'm all for not against a beatles song tournament! and i think throwing in solo stuff is excellent - it'll only prove what i've thought all along... RINGO is the superior song writer!!! ha ha!



yay!