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I've never read that Fripp producing Gabriel (P.G. 2) was a good idea. Have seen a few articles where Gabriel is said to have been generally unhappy with the album. IMO, 2 gets ignored for the most part.

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Jaketejas wrote:

I have them both. Huge Andy Summers fan!

Heck ... you need to get TRANCEFORMATION by Eberhard Schoenner ... all the members of THE POLICE play/song with him, more than once! And "Tranceformation" is a massively GREAT album, that will turn your head inside out about a few Gregorian Chants!

I like to joke ... in the opening of that album ... here comes the screaming preacher!

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octopus-4 wrote:

Mascodagama wrote:

Meltdowner wrote:

Quinino wrote:

Brian Eno: The startup sound used on Windows 95 (but not later versions of Windows) LOL

Yes, it's true !

Don't forget Robert Fripp and Windows Vista's startup sound, although that OS was forgettable by itself LOL

Now we just need them to get together and do a Fripp & Eno startup sound for the next crappy version of Windows MS comes out with. Preferably an ambient one that lasts for fifteen minutes.

Are you sure that 15 minutes are enough for the booting time?

With the sh*tty Lenovo laptop I am currently using, it'd be about right.

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Mascodagama wrote:

Meltdowner wrote:

Quinino wrote:

Brian Eno: The startup sound used on Windows 95 (but not later versions of Windows) LOL

Yes, it's true !

Don't forget Robert Fripp and Windows Vista's startup sound, although that OS was forgettable by itself LOL

Now we just need them to get together and do a Fripp & Eno startup sound for the next crappy version of Windows MS comes out with. Preferably an ambient one that lasts for fifteen minutes.

Are you sure that 15 minutes are enough for the booting time?

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This was bad enough, isn't it?

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Right-on ! LOL

Grumpyprogfan wrote:

Phil Collins with Brand X.

or Phil Collins with Genesis (post Hackett and Gabriel)

Phil Collins with Brand X.

Brian Eno: The startup sound used on Windows 95 (but not later versions of Windows) LOL

Yes, it's true !

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Jaketejas wrote:

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

What do you think of Synaesthesia? It's the only solo album by him I have heard(or have). I like it except for that one track which is nothing but him banging on the piano or something.

The "Alex Lifeson chord" is often mentioned which is essentially an F# major adding the open strings at the top but how about the "Andy Summers Wobbly Chord" in the middle of Message in a Bottle. Brilliant! I love how he drew from jazz chords and applied them in rock, such as the maj 7 chords in Roxanne. He also used a lot of nice suspended chords and was a master of effects. After The Police he toured the talk shows and they were always trying to get him to do fast solos but that was not really his style. More of a chord maestro, and some intricate arpeggiated riffs like Secret Journey. That was such a great era for music. I miss it.

I think it's no secret that Alex borrowed heavily from Summers style. You can especially hear it on Grace Under Pressure(not so much before that). I think it's interesting that he went in a more jazzy direction after the Police. I think Sting did too to some degree actually. Not sure what happened with Stewart Copeland other than he was in Oysterhead and maybe some other projects.

They definitely both liked to use Sus2 chords of various forms (Da Doo Doo Doo Da Dah Dah Dah, Every Breath You Take, Message in a Bottle, etc. etc. …. and Distant Early Warning, Mystic Rhythms, etc.). I love those various rich chords, but Andy was probably better at stretching his fingers. :-) In contrast, Andy Summers uses some interesting but simpler chords with short stretches in Bring on the Night, Walking On the Moon, as well as Ms. Gradenko. I love their B side songs, too, like the trance-like Voices Inside My Head. I remember being mesmerized by his performance with Fripp on I Advance Masked.

I know that, like many of our beloved prog and prog-related musicians (Jimmy Page, Trevor Rabin, Andy Summers, etc.), SC worked on a number of movie soundtracks (mid-80s onwards) like Highlander 2 and Me, Myself, and Irene. Andy Summers was on the Down and Out in Beverly Hills soundtrack, which I always thought sounded interesting. Jimmy Page shows up on a Death Wish soundtrack. Even Rik Emmett of Triumph gave it a go, and was on the Problem Child 2 soundtrack. Trevor Rabin, like, SC, has been prolific in that area, really getting going in the mid-1990s.

In the early to mid-1990s, I saw SC provide percussion to a ballet performance where the dancers mimicked predator/prey relationships, and it was aptly entitled "Prey". My bandmate and I didn't know who to watch, the dancers or Stewart Copeland, so I remember ending up with a sore neck afterwards (it was like watching tennis). SC flew in on a helicopter and had a bottle of some alcoholic beverage. He gave his amazing backing performance, and no sooner had he arrived then he was off again.

I was being silly, but if Steve Howe and Trevor Rabin could put their differences aside, I always wondered what such an album might sound like. Face it. We'll never know!