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I'm not positive if this qualifies as obscure enough, but Phil Collins plays drums on Howard Jones' 80's hit "No One Is To Blame."

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Augury and Beyond Creation bassist Dominic 'Forest' Lapointe plays in a Death tribute band called Symbolic.

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Don't know if anyone came across this tidbit of info yet - upon reading an interview with session-ace Mo Foster, bassist with Affinity (and many others....), he revealed that the flute featured early on in the track Cocoanut Grove, track 2, side 2 of the wonderful Affinty s/t album, was performed by VDGG's David Jackson !!

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ExittheLemming wrote:

If you play Jon Anderson's vocals backwards you won't hear any subliminal Satanic messages (they just make a lot more sense that way)

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True !

Bill Bruford's last known response to Jon Anderson before quitting Yes: "What?"

And while we're on the subject of PFM, there was a late '70s ad in a musician's magazine (can't remember the mag's name or what product was being advertised) where one of PFM's members was misidentified as belonging to "BFM". The lads and I had a good chuckle coming up with what that abbreviation stood for.

Scroll to about 0:16 in this Cheap Trick video, and Rick Wakeman's name appears. Looks like he played on the German show, Rockpop.

Edited by Metalmarsh89 - August 23 2014 at 09:54

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I didn't know that Renaissance opened for Steely Dan several times.

Originally posted by Renaissance on Facebook

Renaissance on Facebook wrote:

Something different for Saturday and some trivia you may not know. In the 70's Renaissance opened up for several Steely Dan shows, brilliant experience for all. Annie and John Tout did a press conference along with Donald Fagen to promote the shows, lots of press and camera's, exciting times. Then later in the 90's Annie Haslam saw this show in Philadelphia with The NY Rock and Soul review featuringDonald Fagen, Michael McDonald, Drew Zingg and Phoebe Snow who would later become a close friend. The guitarist in the revue was the amazing Drew Zingg who played in Annie's solo band for a time and toured Japan with her in 1991. This is great music with powerful voices and harmonies, please share and did anyone out there see Annie's band with Drew in it ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt2zKrx0iYE

Edited by Dayvenkirq - September 15 2014 at 21:09

Metalmarsh89 wrote:

Scroll to about 0:16 in this Cheap Trick video, and Rick Wakeman's name appears. Looks like he played on the German show, Rockpop.

Yes he did, performing Animal Showdown, where incidentally he played The Keytar, one of the very first keytars which was a prototype and never reached commercial production.

Well, at least the Drumitar never caught on so we can be thankful for small mercies.

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The beautiful piano intro to Genesis' Firth Of Fifth was normally omitted when they played the song live, and this may have led some people to speculate whether perhaps Tony Banks had any difficulty playing it live. Not at all, the reason was related to the limitations of the equipment of the time. They could not afford taking a real grand piano on tour, so Tony used the RMI Electra-Piano 368 electric piano, but this instrument had 2 important limitations, first of all it did not have a touch-sensitive keyboard, meaning that regardless of how soft or hard you hit the keys, the notes always sounded at a fixed volume. Using a volume pedal could mitigate a bit this problem but for such a dynamic section as that intro this was insufficient. The other problem was that it had a 68 notes keyboard instead of the 88 notes of a real piano, so the highest notes could not be played as they are in the studio recording. Tony had to transpose some sections to a lower octave, something he did not really like, and once while playing it at a gig he got carried away and forgot that he wasn't sitting at a real piano and suddenly ran out of notes and had to stop playing, to the amazement of the other band members.

Edited by Gerinski - November 02 2014 at 11:26