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So Doc and I were talking about Living Colour, and how their Wikipedia entry says that:

Candidates for the bass player position vacated in 1992 by Muzz Skillings and eventually filled by Doug Wimbish included Melvin Gibbs (most known for having spent a long tenure with Rollins Band) and Me'shell Ndegeocello.

First of all, Wimbish is pretty freaking good. He also played with Seal on his first (and best) album. But the Weight version of Rollins Band is my favorite, and Gibbs was on board for that. And Ndegeocello's stuff, especially Plantation Lullabies, is awesome. So I wonder what Living Colour would have been like with either Gibbs or Ndegeocello on bass.

Which leads me to something I've thought of before: doing music-related alt-history stuff on Needcoffee. But problem is, since it is so audio-based, being music naturally, it really does lose something. Or DreamCovers, where you can have the ultimate Culture Club cover album, for example, and talk about what "Church of the Poison Mind" would sound like covered by Marilyn Manson, or what "I'll Tumble 4 Ya" would sound like covered by Fishbone. Don't ask me why Culture Club sprang to mind first. Could be any band.

Anyway, the Primus cover of Metallica up top is because Doc marvelled at what Metallica would be like if Les Claypool had replaced Cliff Burton. Faaaascinating.