Yes, but they all figured with my "surf rock" band I'd be irrelevent.
However, with the final pick of the first rock band draft, I select as my Vocalist:
Eddie Van ...
I kid, I kid
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Bradley Nowell - Lead Vocals/back-up guitar (Associated with Sublime)
Aside from the Beach Boys, Jan & Dean and maybe a handful of others, surf rock bands are traditionally considered to be purely instrumental, and I didn't want that for my band, so I had to get a little creative.
The challenge was truly to find a singer who could express both the "chill-out" and high energy extremes of surf rock instrumentals while being able to harmonize vocally with Frusciante and B. Wilson. No easy task, but if Nowell isn't exactly on the mark, he's as close as I was ever going to find.
Sublime quite possibly is the quintessential SoCal beach rock band, getting their start at Cal State Long Beach, playing house parties and clubs in the area and eventually being voted by LA's KROQ as the second most influential radio band in the station's history (Behind only Nirvana)
Nowell himself was inspired musically by all the genres he grew up with in Long Beach including punk, hip hop, alternative rock, surf culture, reggae and even Jimmy Buffett
Sublime co-headlined the Warped Tour in '95, were kicked off the tour because of drug issues, until Vans was forced to bring them back due to overwhelming demand. So I feel I'm covered in the live performance aspect.
And unlike as many of my fellow drafters were saying in which a vocalist's career was carried by his/her band who marched on without missing a beat (ba dum dum) with a new singer, Nowell was Sublime.
Oh, and you all may have Groupies, but with this pick I get Lou Dog as a mascot and I have an affinity for Dalmations.