Alternate History Prog

The Bearded Bard wrote: Progmind wrote: Anopther good option would be Hendrix joining force with  ELP to form HELP Had it been an option, most definitely this!

oh yeah.. that is has and always be the #1 prog alt history winner...  perhaps we could have saved Hendrix from himself if he had been turned into a wine swilling vegan asexual  wimps like many prog musos hahahha..

No JD pussy or herion  for you blokes .. only real rock and roll musicians get that stuff. Perhaps then we could have had Hendrix for a another decade ... or most of one.. until he finally ditched ELP and prog and got into Disco and made it onto the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.. 

oh what could have been with Hendrix and prog...

Had Bonzo not died might then the  - it is prog related is it not? style of musics Zeppelin performed is another interesting basis for alt history.

Hendrix on SNF. And the rest, Sgt Pepper, Grease. Mind boggles. "Strange, and uh, mysterious. Grease Is the word."

My real favourite is if Bowie had joined Crimson in the mid 80s. It's a real favourite because Bonzo and Hendrix died (same way too) and these guys Bowie, Belew, Bruford, Levin and wossisname were still alive and well and merely subject to the whims and fancies of the Heinrich Himmler of Heavy Metal.

I only find a couple of these option interesting enough to want to have possibly seen them happen.  One is Floyd's Household Objects.  Unfortunately, it seems like one of those albums that sound best on paper and worst in actuality; the decision to abandon it was wise.  Wyatt has turned his accident to his benefit, blessings in disguise and all that.  I like a lot of what Yes has done since Relayer, so no to there.  A double album of Tull with four tracks just seems superfluous to me.  I am just fine with the output of all the other bands mentioned.  The most intriguing one, then, the one I voted for, would be the Zappa/Vander collaboration.  Even if it did not work out, possibly due to conflicting visions and/or egos, it still would be incredibly interesting.  Zander?  Zapper?  Vappa?  Vaza?  Zava?

(Not that I dislike 80s Yes, but) XYZ happened throughout the 80s, with a line-up of Jimmy Page, Chris Squire, John Paul Jones (on keyboards), Alan White and Trevor Horn, and they did music that really seemed like a combo of Yes and Zeppelin material, and with a hint of then-contemporary pop sensibilities.

In the 90s, both Yes and Zeppelin regroup instead, with an Anderson/Squire/Howe/Wakeman (or Moraz)/White line-up for Yes, and a Plant/Page/Jones/Jason Bonham line-up for Zeppelin.

(on the poll, though, I picked Zappa working with Vander)


Edited by Terrapin Station - September 25 2016 at 16:07

I picked the Zappa/Vander option. To me it would be like a cross between MDK and Thing-Fish.

Definitely Wyatt. The loss of high quality drumming after that fall from the window is one of the saddest things in prog IMHO.