Unlikely Guest Spots
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Topic: Unlikely Guest Spots
Posted By: Rednight
Subject: Unlikely Guest Spots
Date Posted: March 02 2015 at 22:37
| Know any prog celebrities who guest starred on something a little out of their line? Examples: Steve Howe on Frankie Goes To Hollywood's Welcome to the Pleasure Dome. And Chris Squire a member of Sam Kinison's backing band on a few occasions. |
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Posted By: Littlecarrots
Date Posted: March 02 2015 at 22:55
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Not completely out of his line, but Ian Anderson plays flute in a song by the Young Dubliners, a celtic rock/pop band from the US. It's a haunting beautiful instrumental track aptly titled Banshee. It might not be really a detour for him, but still, a completely different band -though the Young Dubliners opened for Jethro Tull on some occasions. And here it is: |
Posted By: KingCrInuYasha
Date Posted: March 02 2015 at 22:56
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Steve Howe and Rick Wakeman playing on Lou Reed's self-titled debut. Robert Fripp guest staring on Blondie's "Fade Away And Radiate". ------------- He looks at this world and wants it all... so he strikes, like Thunderball! |
Posted By: Raccoon
Date Posted: March 02 2015 at 23:05
I've heard that song "Fade Away And Radiate" and joked with my friend, saying 'This is such a rip-off of Fripp!!' What a discovery, makes almost too much sense. Perhaps Steve Hackett playing on the unknown-and-unreleased (until 2007) album Sacred Scenes and Characters by Canterbury Glass. ------------- Check out my FREE album: A one-man project The Distant Dynasty |
KingCrInuYasha wrote:Posted By: jude111
Date Posted: March 02 2015 at 23:17
| David Gilmour doing vocals on Kate Bush's "The Dreaming." I know Gilmour was instrumental in the discovery of Bush, but still... How about Brian Eno on "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway." Again, Eno and Collins worked together, but still... |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: March 02 2015 at 23:50
| I always found this curious - Adrian Belew and Tony Levin (half of 80's model King Crimson) on Joan Armatrading's 'Call Me Names' track..........Levin the Stick-Master and a rather unconventional lead solo from Belew. Really puts a spin on top-40 Pop. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: March 03 2015 at 01:32
Steve Howe also played on Propaganda - A Secret Wish in the eighties , just how many favours did he owe Trevor Horn?  Keith Emerson played on a Rod Stewart album in the early seventies ( not sure which track or album) Pete Sinfield wrote the lyrics for Bucks Fizz - Land Of Make Believe Slightly off topic , Jem Godfrey of Frost was not always a 'proggie' . He produced the all girl pop group Atomic Kitten for his sins ( and he will never be forgiven  ). |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: March 03 2015 at 03:58
| Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes used to be members of Tina Charles' backing band. |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: March 03 2015 at 04:36
| Trevor Horn and Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Pet Shop Boys and Seal. There's no denying someone who has an 'ear' for this sort of stuff............a decent bassist and a member of Yes..........what a guy....... |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: March 03 2015 at 06:29
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The Enid were Kim Wilde's backing band for Kids In America Not exactly a guest spots, but Steve Stewart of The Enid engineered parts of Porcupine Tree's Signify while he was employed at Katrina and the Waves recording studio and John Foxx of Ultravox! did the album cover for Lightbulb Sun. Jakko Jakszyk (King Crimson), Gavin Harrison (Porcupine Tree) and Pip Pyle, Dave Stewart & Barbara Haskin (Hatfield and the North) all played on Nigel Planer's comedy album 'Neil's Heavy Concept Album' ------------- What? |
Posted By: progmatic
Date Posted: March 03 2015 at 06:50
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Peter Gabriel played flute on Cat Stevens' "Mona Bone Jakon" ------------- PROGMATIC |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: March 03 2015 at 07:15
| I recall reading in Tony Levin's biography that he played with the Carpenters back in the 70s. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: March 03 2015 at 09:39
 Wow
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Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: March 03 2015 at 10:13
| Let's not forget Fripp producing and playing on Daryl Hall's Sacred Songs (which introduced Frippertronics to a whole army of Hall & Oates fans). Then there's David Gilmour lending his guitar to a few tracks of Peter Cetera's One More Story, although he's done a lot of other work for non-prog artists. |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: March 03 2015 at 10:14
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Nick Mason producing the Damned's second album "Music for Pleasure" was an odd matchup. I read that the band really wanted Syd Barrett to produce, but settled for Nick instead (close enough, I guess). ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: March 03 2015 at 10:27
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Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: March 03 2015 at 10:34
And Blondie's Chris Stein photographed Fripp for the cover of the latter's Exposure. |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: March 03 2015 at 11:42
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Ian Anderson plays guest flute on a song called Passions to Ignite from Face the Fire, an album by Native American flautist Mary Youngblood. David Gilmour got around a lot in the 80s. He plays on one track of Paul McCartney's Flowers in the Dirt and on Pete Townshend's White City. Al di Meola plays on Allergies by Paul Simon. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: March 03 2015 at 13:30
Ian also played on Men Without Hats hit single "On Tuesday". MWH leader Ivan stated it was an awesome experience!  ------------- I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth. |
Posted By: Michael678
Date Posted: March 03 2015 at 13:52
let's not forget the title track to Supertramp's Brother Where You Bound ------------- Progrockdude |
Posted By: sublime220
Date Posted: March 03 2015 at 14:06
Beat me to it  ------------- There is no dark side in the moon, really... Matter of fact, it's all dark... |
Posted By: 33rpm
Date Posted: March 03 2015 at 15:14
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Tony Levin played on and was a member of the band in the movie "One Trick Pony" by Paul Simon. ------------- Vinyl just sounds better!! |
Posted By: CryoftheCarrots
Date Posted: March 03 2015 at 15:20
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Steven Wilson guest sang on the Pendulum album Immersion on the track "The Fountain."
ps why is this in prog polls? ------------- "There is a lot in this world to be tense and intense about" MJK |
Posted By: dave-the-rave
Date Posted: March 03 2015 at 15:42
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Rick Wakeman contributed keyboard work to Black Sabbath's 'Sabbath Bloody Sabbath' album. Rick also played the memorable piano on Cat Stevens' hit, "Morning has Broken." |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: March 03 2015 at 16:08
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I was always partial to Chris Squire, Tony Kaye, Alan White, Albert Lee and Stevie Winwood playing together on that album by jazz saxophonist Eddie Harris. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: sublime220
Date Posted: March 03 2015 at 16:45
WHUT?? TIL my knowledge for DnB is fading. ------------- There is no dark side in the moon, really... Matter of fact, it's all dark... |
Posted By: tdfloyd
Date Posted: March 04 2015 at 04:02
| Rick Wakeman played on Elton John's Madman Across the Water |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: March 04 2015 at 07:39
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Steven Wilson also produced most songs on marillion.com. Before that, he also played guitar and produced two Fish albums. |
Posted By: silverpot
Date Posted: March 04 2015 at 10:02
Gilmour not only played guitar on White City Fighting, he also wrote the music for that song. |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: March 04 2015 at 13:17
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Alex Lifeson played guitar solos on "Crying Over You" and "Holy Water" from [Canadian new wave band] Platinum Blonde's sophomore album, released in 1985. The title of that album, interestingly, is Alien Shores. "Alien Shore" is the title of a song on the 1993 album by Rush, Counterparts. Alien Shores was produced by a name well-known to Yes fans: Eddy Offord. ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Floyd Steely
Date Posted: March 04 2015 at 13:53
Did we really get this far into the thread without mentioning Geddy Lee's classic vocal on the Bob & Doug McKenzie record? That was formative stuff for some of us.  ------------- And if you can't be with the prog you love, honey, love the prog you're with. |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: March 04 2015 at 21:29
| Hey, how about Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford, and Phil Collins playing on that pop band from the 80's? |
Posted By: KingCrInuYasha
Date Posted: March 04 2015 at 22:25
Did he play studio or live? Speaking of Levin, he played bass on John and Yoko's Double Fantasy album. ------------- He looks at this world and wants it all... so he strikes, like Thunderball! |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: March 05 2015 at 08:51
Hah! I like you - you're silly. Then there's Phil Collins producing Adam Ant! |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: March 05 2015 at 10:55
| For that matter, Collins also produced Phillip Bailey and that broad from ABBA, Frida! |
Posted By: Enchant X
Date Posted: March 05 2015 at 15:59
I don't understand the question ? but steve howe played with Dream Theater .. I saw him !  |
Posted By: Bitterblogger
Date Posted: March 05 2015 at 19:12
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John Goodsall in one-hit wonder Tony Basil's "Mickey"--and the video as well. Jon Anderson on the "St. Elmo's Fire" soundtrack.
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: March 06 2015 at 00:44
| ^ Maybe already mentioned, but John Goodsall played guitars on Atomic Rooster's Nice and Greasy album under the pseudonym of Johnny Mandala. I never picked it, and still find it hard to tell. |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: March 06 2015 at 10:35
Jon Anderson on the Legend soundtrack, but that was pretty proggy so it doesn't count. |
Posted By: Bitterblogger
Date Posted: March 06 2015 at 14:46
I excluded mentioning it because it wasn't unlikely.
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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: March 08 2015 at 13:35
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David Gilmour on some Roy Harper albums (duet with Chris Spedding in "The Game). David Gilmour also on many shows with Unicorn, and Sutherland Brothers and Quiver Paul McCartney in at least one Roy Harper album (One of these days in England) George Harrison in many Monty Python skits. (and songs more than likely!) Jimi Hendrix has a massive version of DayTripper with the Beatles ... it was on a bootleg many times! Pete Townsend in both Roger Ruskin Spear albums as producer, player and bum! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |