Name your top players....musicians not celebrities....

[bender]

I'd have two lists- a straightahead one and an out there/heading towards jazz one
Drums: Clyde Stubblefield for raw groove or Billy Martin for something more left field.
Bass: Hagar Ben-Ari (AKA Foxy H - look her up) for groove or Paul Jackson for out there.
Guitar: Binky Graphite or Jim Campilongo
Horns: Fred Wesley (Bone), Neil Sugarman (Tenor) and Otis Youngblood (Baritone) or Benny Maupin for out there.
Vocals: Marvin Gaye, Sly Stone or maybe Sharon Jones.
Keys: John Medeski.

Basically a mashup of Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings and Medeski, Martin and Wood.

Here's Hagar Ben-Ari

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CNsMZGj1Sg[/youtube]

[Ironbird13]

heres a f'd up band for you...

Vocals - James Rivera (Helstar)
Lead Guitar - Luca Turilli (Rhapsody of Fire)
Rhythm Guitar - Me
Bass - Steve Harris
Drums - George Kollias (Nile)
Keyboard - Henrik Klingenberg (Sonata Artica)
Balalaika - Alexey Arkhipovsky
Hurdy Gurdy - Jiri Wehle

[druz15]

Drums: Dave Turncrantz (Russian Circles)

Shit yes.

Dream metal/prog/post-rock band (not all of these players are technically that but they could pull it off and I think a collaboration like this would sound amazing)

bass: Russian Circles Bassist
Guitar: Mike Einziger, John Frusciante, Mike Sullivan (Russian Circles)
keys/samples: Chris Kilmore (Incubus)
Drums: AGAIN Brann Dailor on drums, and Danny Carey doing percussion and weird worldly bongo stuff like that one song of 10,000 days.
Producer for the album: Trent Reznor

I think this would sound amazing with like Mike and John doing weird atmospheric pedal shit and Mike doing his signature tapping thing that has the melody and harmony all at once. Bassist from russian circles just cause of his fat fuzz tone that would make the big epic sections crushing. John and Brann would do some cool wordless vocal harmonisations on some songs too.

I would pay sooooo much money to see this live/hear an album by this group

[Conway]

All so predictable so far...

Drums - anyone who can hold a beat
Bass - Steve Hanley (The Fall)
Guitar - John McGeoch (Magazine, Siouxsie & the Banshees, PIL)
2nd Guitar - Will Sergeant - (Echo & the Bunnymen)
Vocals - Mark E Smith

OK, got a drummer now - Steve Morris (Joy Division, New Order).

Also realised and corrected bass to Steve Hanley. Of course his brother Paul is a drummer, and pretty handy too. Shame on me because I've met Steve and been out for a night on the piss with him in Manchester. But that's another story...

[Scooter13]

shit, at this rate I might as well have just listed all of Iron Maiden,.

Pretty much the conclusion I came to. All of Maiden. Period. So I had another go and came up with all of Zeppelin.

A 3rd attempt brought me a weird Ozzy era/ Black Sabbath combo: Iommi or Randy Rhoads for guitar, Bill Ward for drums, Ronnie James Dio for Vocals.
Bassists, apart from Steve Harris....hmm, Cliff Burton? I could of said Geezer Butler here of course too. Always had a soft spot for David Ellefson too, but I think it's more his bass tone and how he fits in to the Megadeth sound.

Ok, thought of a drummer I've always loved but I'd never bothered to look him up. Scott Travis (Racer X, Judas Priest). I remember hearing Painkiller for the first time and then replaying it probably over 100 times over the next few days.