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The Python Band
Posted by Graeme Thomson on 9 July 2009 - 6:44pm.
OK, so Graham Nash just *is* Eric Idle (I will brook no argument on this one).
Which musicians do we need to draft in to make up the rest of Monty Python? Mick Fleetwood as Cleese...?
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I've thought this for years
Brian Auger is Terry Jones:
Nah
Dudley Moore as Jones, surely? Take 'em on a jazz odyssey.
I think ex-Nirvana 'sticksman' Kris Novoselic could handle Cleese. Has to be a drummer, doesn't it?
Off bass
Didn't the Foos' David Grohl bang the tubs for the In Utero hitmakers?
Gah!
I stand corrected and duly humbled.
Novoselic
Although, KitKat's right - the erstwhile Bleach hitmakers' bassist turned local politician would make a great Cleese circa Flying Circus
Paul McCartney
As all around Mr Nice Guy Michael Palin. He could travel to, as long as it´s not to Japan.
Brian Wilson
as Terry Gilliam - if only for a similar hairline and a shared penchant for Hawaiian shirts...
Also as the only one who could be represented by an American.
... and is slightly mad
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I carefully refrained from that one
and it's also true of both that when they're good they're very very good, but when they're bad...
Neil Hannon...
...as Graham Chapman.
Hats Off
I think Roy Harper would make a fine Graham Chapman.
I did wonder about Vivian
I did wonder about Vivian Stanshall as Graham Chapman, as he shares an important criteria for authenticity and we are in the realm of the absurd here.