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An interesting guest appearance was Jimmy Jackson, an American keyboard player who played the bizarre "choir organ" on Amon Duul ii "Wolf City!" Jackson was apparently the only person alive who could play the choir-organ!
Lemmings did, however, introduce a couple of important new players to the group's complex sound tapestry: Alois Gromer (an old boyfriend of Renate's) on sitar, and an American ex-GI and jazz keyboard player called Jimmy Jackson, whose contribution to Lemmings and the three Amon Duul-related records that followed involved him playing an extraordinary church organ that would become a crucial component in defining the group's sound.
"It was a large, ancient Mellotron-type instrument that had been designed by some crazy instrument builder," Renate explains. "For every key on the keyboard he had made a tape of that note which had been sung by a real choir. It wasn't sampled or anything."
At the time Fricke lend his moog to Amon Düül II for ‘Wolf City’, it was possibly through this connection that Fricke discovered the ‘choir-organ’. As a guestplayer, Jimmy Jackson plays choir-organ and piano on ‘Wolf City’, an album recorded in july 1972. He plays choir organ on the following tracks: "Surrounded By The Stars", "Green-Bubble-Raincoated-Man", "Jail-House Frog" and "Deutsch Nepal".
David Longdon (from the Big Big Train station in Nottingham) guesting on Steve Hackett's Spectral Mornings with Welsh songstress Christina Booth & Magenta.
Magnificent!
The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"
Colin Scot, Colin Scot (1971) – provided backing vocals on several tracks
That Colin Scot lp has a whole plethora of Prog greats guesting on it, some credited, some not. Including, Rick Wakeman, Jon Anderson, Robert Fripp, various members of VDGG, members of Brinsley Schwartz, Peter Gabriel, Jane Relf, Steve Gadd (Rare Bird), Phil Collins, Annie Haslam.. Pretty amazing list to support an otherwise pretty much unknown singer-songwriter.
The late, great John Tout on Wishbone Ash's "Throw Down the Sword" (organ).
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That's interesting...I did not know that he was briefly a member of Wishbone Ash. That's an interesting connection and thanks for posting this!
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vocals on "Killing to Survive"<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Tim Bowness & Peter Chilvers, Modern Ruins (May 2020) – stealth guitar on "Blog Remember Me"<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Jakko Jakszyk, Secrets & Lies (October 2020) – vocals, guitar and co-wrote one song<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">The Amorphous Androgynous, We Persuade Ourselves We Are Immortal (2020) – co-writer; lead vocals<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Lush Fresh Handmade Sound, Tales of Bath (19 March 2021) – vocals on Track 6 "The Cutty Wren"; voice on Track 10 "In a Bath Teashop"<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Tim Bowness, Butterfly Mind (2022) – vocals, guitar on "Say Your Goodbyes", "We Feel"<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Saro Cosentino, The Road To Now (2022) – vocals, guitar on "The Joke", "November", "Time to Go", "When Your Parents Danced"
two more recent collaborations with Isildur's Bane : In desequilibrium in 2021 In Amazonia in 2019
Colin Scot, Colin Scot (1971) – provided backing vocals on several tracks
Le Orme, Felona and Sorona (1974) – wrote English language lyrics for the Charisma Records UK release of the Italian album Felona e Sorona (1973)
Robert Fripp, Exposure (June 1979) – co-wrote and sang lead vocals on "Disengage", sang lead vocals on "Chicago", and duetted with Terre Roche on "I May Not Have Had Enough of Me but I've Had Enough of You"
Ludus, The Visit (1980, 12 inch) – provided "attention and advice"
Lush Fresh Handmade Sound, Tales of Bath (19 March 2021) – vocals on Track 6 "The Cutty Wren"; voice on Track 10 "In a Bath Teashop"
Tim Bowness, Butterfly Mind (2022) – vocals, guitar on "Say Your Goodbyes", "We Feel"
Saro Cosentino, The Road To Now (2022) – vocals, guitar on "The Joke", "November", "Time to Go", "When Your Parents Danced"
No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man.
David Longdon (from the Big Big Train station in Nottingham) guesting on Steve Hackett's Spectral Mornings with Welsh songstress Christina Booth & Magenta.
From Steve Hackett's first solo album, Voyage Of The Acolyte, on the song "Star Of Sirius", the guest on bass guitar, none other than John Gustafson! (RIP)
The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"
Once you leave the 1970s, guest performers are rather more prevalent, particularly on avant prog albums, and later with projects like Ayreon. Some guests in recent years appear on several albums each year, like Steve Hackett and Marco Minnemann as good examples.
Thanks! I believe that in the 1970s, record labels were more restrictive of where their signed artists could perform or record.
I guess one has to differentiate between "solo" projects and "band" projects. I was originally interested in guests artists on "band" projects, ie. Jon Anderson on "Prince Rupert Awakes."
Eno's albums were essentially solo projects, so nearly all artists appeared as guests.
Another favorite of mine is "Two Sides of Peter Banks!" His guests included Jan Akkerman, John Wetton, Phil Collins, Steve Hackett, and some of his Flash bandmates! I imagine they had a good party!
The late, great John Tout on Wishbone Ash's "Throw Down the Sword" (organ).
Keyboardist and songwriter, died on May 1, 2015 in London, England. John Tout is best known for his role in Renaissance between 1970 and 1980 and again from 2000 to 2002. Prior to joining Renaissance he was briefly a member of Wishbone Ash. He also was part of Renaissance drummer Terry Sullivan's band Renaissant which released one album in 2005.
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From the top of my head: Randy California (from Spirit) on guitar for Peter Hammill's Red Shift. A perfect match! (the remaster is from 2006, but the track is from 1974)
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