Obscure Prog Facts

Re EJ, he did not "fail" the "audition" for Gentle Giant.  As one person noted, EJ played part of a tour with Derek and Ray Schulman's first band.  And he did audition for what became Gentle Giant.  But he wanted to add his own songs as well, and the band was not interested.  Re Crimson, many were called, one was chosen.

TODDLER wrote: Dean wrote: octopus-4 wrote: On the cover of my vinyl copy of Lord of the Rings it's written that Jimi Hendrix was used to jam with Bo Hansson and he's likely playing uncredited on this album. Hansson did once admit that he owned tapes of them jamming together but refused ever to release them. I would imagine that those tapes are now lost forever. Any truth to Bo Hansson writing the instrumental "Tax Free" for Hendrix?

I don't know if it was written for Hendrix, but on "Live at Winterland" Jimi makes specific note about the Swedish guys who wrote the tune.


Edited by WalterDigsTunes - December 12 2010 at 16:47

Dean wrote: octopus-4 wrote: On the cover of my vinyl copy of Lord of the Rings it's written that Jimi Hendrix was used to jam with Bo Hansson and he's likely playing uncredited on this album. Hansson did once admit that he owned tapes of them jamming together but refused ever to release them. I would imagine that those tapes are now lost forever.

EnderEd wrote: Not too obscure, but Randy Jackson of "American Idol" fame did bass & backing vocals on Journey's 1986 "Raised on Radio".

Gerinski wrote: Great topic although at the same time it's frustrating to realise how little I know...

Indeed. 

But think of how much more you know now.





Edited by ergaster - December 12 2010 at 09:47

ExittheLemming wrote: Lake's resistance to Tarkus was based on hearing Emerson play him Eruption on a piano in Keith's London flat (he had not heard the remainder of the suite at that point and suggested Keith confine such music to a solo album!?) You have to remember that of the three, Greg's gifts were more melodic than technical, and judging by his solo material, undoubtedly had the most conservative tastes of the trio.

And we haven't heard what it was that Keith actually played to Greg. We only have the end result, which Greg produced and contributed to.

Anyway, here's an obscure fact from the time of early Pink Floyd: Syd Barrett had a Jimmy Page complex of sorts so he wanted David Gilmour to join the band, to take on the solo guitar duties. He never asked though, because David already had his own band, Joker's Wild.

Source: a letter Syd wrote to his girl friend Libby Gausden, cited in Mark Blake's book Pigs might fly.

Ivan_Melgar_M wrote: Lozlan wrote: Most everyone knows the sordid tale of the breakup of Kansas.  Following the incredibly divided recording of 1981's Audio-Visions, Steve Walsh told Kerry Livgren to stick the Christianity up his arse and departed.  Kerry would carry on for a brief while with stand-in John Elfante, then dissolve the group following the nadir album of their career, Drastic Measures. That's not too accurate either, the radical Christian musicians  (Livegren,  and Dave Hope) left the band after the New Year''s final presentation on December 31, 1983. They didn't dissolved Kansas, simply left because Kerry believed that Kansas didn't represented his Christian world viewand  he formed AD With contracts to honour, Kansas had to follow, so .Elefante, Ehart, and Williams recorded one more song called "Perfect Lover" that appeared in the 1984 retrospective album "The Best of Kansas" and John left. The problem is that  only Phil Ehart and Rich Williams stayed as members of the band, so instead of quiting, Ehart  started the resurrection of Kansas in 1985, he searched for Walsh, who accepted to come back  being that Livegren wasn't in the band, but he came with a surprise, the bassist of "Street" Billy Greer and they recruited Steve Morse to release the "Power" album in 1986. Iván

Gracias for the clarification.  I was obviously much more excited about conveying the info concerning their 'lost' record...amusing that I would gloss over the known info instead.

When Freddie Mercury first grew his mustache at the onset of the 80s, the band's fan club was bombarded with fan letters accompanied by black nail polish and razor blades.

octopus-4 wrote: On the cover of my vinyl copy of Lord of the Rings it's written that Jimi Hendrix was used to jam with Bo Hansson and he's likely playing uncredited on this album.

Hansson did once admit that he owned tapes of them jamming together but refused ever to release them. I would imagine that those tapes are now lost forever.

harmonium.ro wrote: Is there any band/artist that Phil Collins hasn't played for?

Lake's resistance to Tarkus was based on hearing Emerson play him Eruption on a piano in Keith's London flat (he had not heard the remainder of the suite at that point and suggested Keith confine such music to a solo album!?)
You have to remember that of the three, Greg's gifts were more melodic than technical, and judging by his solo material, undoubtedly had the most conservative tastes of the trio.


Edited by ExittheLemming - December 11 2010 at 08:24