Weirdest Albums Proggers Appear On

Look up Gavin Harrison over Wikipedia
Quite the studio musician that has played with all kinds of artists..literally!

Then again a lot of the musicians we know from prog and fusion bands probably makes a living playing alongside big pop stars, when they aren’t involved in a feisty solo in front of a bearded crowd of 50

IF PA JRF counts, the weirdest in my collection is probably Space Jazz: The soundtrack of the book Battlefield Earth which features Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke. It's not strange that those Scientologists would appear on such an album, Return to Forever having Scientology themes (including in the same itself), but I find Scientology to be very strange and I do find the album itself strange.



Chick Corea was also involved with L. Ron Hubbard's The Road to Freedom album, and the, I'd say, Prog related artist Edgar Winter produced, arranged and performed on Hubbard's Mission Earth (released after LRH's death following details written out by LRH for the album). To the Stars is another Scientology album from the Chick Corea Elektric Band.


Edited by Logan - August 28 2019 at 11:54

I've read before that Stanley Clarke left Scientology in the 80s, and was going to say that I'm fairly confident that he remains an ex-Scientologist, but I looked it up and now I'm not so sure. https://tonyortega.org/2018/08/16/stanley-clarke-turns-out-to-be-as-deep-into-scientology-as-we-feared-all-these-years-later/   I think Corea is still a Scientologist, but maybe not so involved now.   In the late 90s he was still very involved.

And yes, Scientology is very bad (I got very into researching that org at one time). A while ago I went to a night market and they offered auditing there.

That said, this Scientology produced video is very entertaining in a creepy as f*** way:



Getting more off-topic, but the Dan Jones soundtrack for Louis Theroux's My Scientology Movie is a modern, if rather retro, fave of mine.

Edited by Logan - August 28 2019 at 13:28

So who was worse L. Ron Hubbard or Ayn Rand? At least Ayn Rand influenced Rush.  

Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - August 28 2019 at 14:06

Logan wrote: "I've read before that Stanley Clarke left Scientology in the 80s," ...

Good thing, too. I saw that one documentary on the "religion" (can't remember its title) and got spooked pretty good.

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Hi,

Cristi wrote: Jon Anderson did some vocals on a Toto song on their 1988 album The Seventh One.

That same year, Anderson's In the City of Angels had Toto's Lukather, Paich, and the Porcaro brothers as supporting players.

Rednight wrote: Cristi wrote: Jon Anderson did some vocals on a Toto song on their 1988 album The Seventh One. That same year, Anderson's In the City of Angels had Toto's Lukather, Paich, and the Porcaro brothers as supporting players.

Funny enough, a couple of weeks ago I was listening to Spotify radio and they played Stop Loving You by Toto.  It was one of those songs that I knew I had heard before but I couldn't place who the artist was.  I was trying to figure out who it was when it was like "hey, I think that is Jon Anderson singing background vocals".  At which point, I thought it might be Toto.  I checked my Spotify playlist, and sure enough that is who it was.