For me, I  guess I'd do the obvious one:

Peter Gabriel returning to Genesis in the studio to do another studio album with all of the original members (except the drummer on Trespass) including Anthony Phillips.

Gabriel, Banks, Hackett, Rutherford, Phillips and Collins.

I would not want the music to sound like their album Congo.  They'd have to make sure they used all of the same instruments they used in 1972.

Personally I wouldn't mind seeing either the Lizard or Islands lineups of King Crimson get back together to work out something new, with collaboration from Sinfield and Tippett on lyrics and keys being mandatory.

 

Triumvirat!

  Though for various reasons, it won't really happen, but if I could make it work;

        Jurgen Fritz in Germany reuniting with Hans Bathelt and Barry Palmer would do just fine as they are all still living. They could also get Dieter Petereit to do bass/guitar duties.

             And it would be really cool if they would do a tour where they would play their classic progressive material, like the suites from Illusions and some material from Spartacus and Old Loves. 

                  Saddest thing of all is that Helmut Koellen is not around to join in on things but the reunion could be dedicated to him.

               This will never actually happen but, hey, we are free to dream!

Their music is timeless to me.

None for me. 

It's not the same, and it's a different time, and the chance of being able to redo what happened many years ago, is not the same, and neither is everyone's feelings about it all. These tend to water down and hurt the whole thing, even if there is some care and love about it.

As an example, I saw GONG with 3 different drummers ... and it was jazz'y with Pip, it had a very nice pounding bottom with Pierre, and it was very disco'ey with the kid from Soul2Soul. All three very nice, but not the same.

I would rather spend an evening with one of the folks ... for example, when Daevid did the original "divided alien" he was in Santa Barbara and it was just him and his amp and his tapes, and it was kinda nice and fun, and it was a very nice "friends" kind of evening. 

That makes sense for me. I imagine that Jon Anderson could do that, so could Peter Gabriel, but I think they are too tied up to their myths, to be able to be a regular person talking to his "friends".

That's just me. I would rather "meet" and "know" the artist as a friend, as their music has been for many years, than hope to stop time, and try to make it live again ... it never does! 

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Pikapika Teart (was really upset when I heard they had broken up)

Shub Niggurath

I think you'll find that Wright & Squire are dead

Civilian wasn't even that bad!

Ooh, I'd definitely be down for a Maneige reunion.

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Sadly, Edgar passed away in January 2015.

 

Edgar and Chris had not spoken for many years, and apparently were still not on speaking terms at the time of Edgar's death.

 

Edgar and Johannes had not spoken either for some time, I can only assume. Johannes formed a new band with Edgar's son Jerome (who himself had exited TD around ten years back). Their new trio LOOM is, ironically, the next-best-thing to a Froese-Franke-Schmoelling reunion.

Some quick research suggests that they're all still alive and involved with music, so maybe this wouldn't be too far out of the question. The drummer, Gilles Schetagne, has some contact information on his website, so I'm actually quite tempted to ask if a Maneige reunion is something that's been considered.

 

That original Genesis line up mentioned above would also be fantastic.

So, Fripp-Wetton-Bruford-Muir-Cross it is for me without a doubt.

Also, 3-guitar Wishbone Ash with Andy Powell, Laurie Wisefield, Steve Upton, Ted & Martin Turner.

And one day in heaven Hugh Hopper, Elton Dean & Pip Pyle teaming up with Keith Emerson.

Well, I'd love to hear what would happen. Hopper and Dean also had their moments of powerful fuzz bass and crazy free jazz solos, while Keith had quite an amount of relaxed solo stuff. I guess that Emerson's dense organ and Hopper's dense bass might create a foundation for very powerful jams.

 

I wish the original band had done another album or two....many complain that the first sounds dated or whatever,  but I think they would have evolved into an even more formidable group over time.

McDonald, Giles , and Lake left far too soon imo for the band to really develop musically among themselves.

 

You wouldn't get Andy Powell to join with the others, sadly - too much enmity nowadays. But a line up featuring the other four has been mooted by some fans. The only problem would be that Steve Upton hasn't played drums in years, and he has a dodgy back.

Thanks.

For me, PF, if I knew they would get rid of all the lights and whatever and just play and jam their way into a 25 minute version of "Set the controls... " and the like ... that would be fun, to listen to, and close your eyes and trip with.

However, and you can take the King Crimson even recently, when Robert is just asking people to close their eyes and enjoy the music ... that is exactly what we have become afraid to do ... and realize how important the music is to our life. We've lost that feeling, and try to use words and comfort zones, like this place, to help us create a feeling of "being in it" and "being with it" and when the moment was there ... we cop'd out.

This was the case when I saw YES at the Long Beach Arena, do their TFTO tour ... and when I came out, I was crying. I knew, that rock music could elevate itself to and beyond classical music ... but it was going to die a sad death ... because all the folks wanted was "Roundabout" and "CTTE" ... and screw the new piece, and it was the most brilliant and incredible moment in rock music ... that was going to be murdered ... by an empty audience.

Today, many of these feelings are vindicated. Many folks now appreciate the work, despite not really knowing what the words mean, and such, but then, that's like saying we know what all of one of Shakespeare's plays is all about, isn't it? Or Milton? Or Goethe? ... you see? ... we lose the perspective.

There are 5 concerts in my life ... that are bigger than life for me. PF at the Hollywood Bowl in 1972 when I had a cold and tasted the Quadraphonic thing. YES at the Long Beach Arena doing TFTO in 1972 (have to check for sure!). Tangerine Dream at the Greek Theater (74 or 75) with the pictures on the Live Album of the trees on fire. RTF in Eugene with Jean Luc Ponty for a magical evening. And lastly KC in Seattle with 3 drummers.

But I did one thing in all of these shows ... more than half the time, my eyes were closed, and I was loving the trip, and I have never, even made it to a Grateful Dead concert! Or Hot Tuna!

The experience, lives forever and never dies. I can't help thinking that some folks missed out on their own experienced, by being there, but not being there ... like so ripped or stoned, that they would not have remembered the difference?

Now you know why I write these things all the time ... trying to help folks relate and experience the work itself ... it doesn't really matter who the artist is ... but do allow that work to live ... and you will never again need to "relive" it again ... because you know it is impossible!

Heck ... I could easily tell you that if I was a billionaire, I would have a big bunch of channels on the Sirius/FM thing ... and that Guy Guden and his Space Pirate Radio would still be on ... and hopefully some folks would know how good radio could be that it will never be, and die instead ... buried in the confined and smelly poop of folks wanting to control the population and what you listen to, because you can not have different anything!

Yes, sadly, I knew that Andy Powell these days has quite harsh opinion on Martin Turner doing WA stuff with his mates, while I've never heard the other one bitching about the original band like Nik Turner. But I didn't know about Steve Upton really.

A second album featuring all the original members would have been fascinating, no doubt.