Obscure Prog Facts

I am told that Can took a while more than they had to making Ege Bamyasi only because Damo Suzuki and Irmin Schmidt just plain couldn't stop playing chess. LOL

Is that Rick Derringer?

Gerinski wrote:

timothy leary wrote:

Is that Rick Derringer?

Nope, that's a bass player, Rick played guitar with Winter.

The bassist looks like Kasim Sulton (from Utopia/Rundgren etc.) but I could be wrong.....

Unsung Heroes

Genesis classic formation was so brilliant, that few even know some members

Before John Mayhew there were two more drummers

a) Chris Stewart (1967 - 1968)

b) John Silver (1968 - 1969)

Steve Hackett was not the second Genesis guitar player, as a fact Anthony Phillips was replaced by Mick Barnard, who played between Trespass (1970) and Nursery Cryme (1971)

Even more, Mick appears on the first TV presentation for the BBC called Disco 2 and was responsible for some parts in The Musical Box. This presentation is lost, I heard somewhere they have found this video and will be released soon, but there's no confirmation.

Tony Banks said about him:

He was OK, but not really forceful enough. I remember when we had already auditioned Steve but were still rehearsing with Mick which wasn't a very nice thing to do, we were doing the end part of "The Musical Box" and he was playing this little guitar phrase over the top of it and we thought this was really good. So just as we were about to boot him out he did something quite good.

Iván

Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - November 15 2014 at 10:05

I just learned this. Jon Davison of Yes and Taylor Hawkins of The Foo Fighters were best friends growing up, and even played in an acid metal band together called Anyone.

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Dellinger wrote:

Actually, I believe there was something about Chris Squire knowing Taylor Hawkins, and him being the one that made the contact between Squire and Davison.

I checked a couple sources, this might be the most credible.

http://glasshammer.com/pages/features/JonDavison.html

An interview describing his early music influences. According to this one, he had never heard of Yes until after he had become friends with Taylor.

Still, it's crazy that Yes was his biggest influence, and 20 years later, he ends up becoming their lead singer. That's pretty wild.

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When Tony Banks was wavering about Genesis in the late 60s, he heard that Harry Williamson was waiting in the wings to take over on keyboards, so that made him stick with the band. Harry Williamson went on to work with Mother Gong and Anthony Phillips...

While with Gong, which ex-member of Gong appeared with the Rolling Stones on their tour last year?

For it was he, Mick Taylor!

The German girl with a missing toe in this scene from The Big Lebowski is the same lady who sings backing vocals on Rush's 'Time Stand Still' and 'Open Secrets'. Aimee Mann, also notably of the new wave band 'Til Tuesday.

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twosteves wrote:

Phil always said besides Bruford--Bonham was his fav drummer---I think he was the wrong choice for the job-but as he said he was there and a big deal at the time----I doubt that he intentionally had any interest in sabotaging the reunion---as he loved the band---but it is a train wreak but all of Zeps attempts after Bonham died were not that good except maybe the last attempt.

Phil and Robert Plant were friends, after all Phil played drums on two pf Plant's albums.
I saw a documentary about Plant and apparently, getting Phil to jam with him early 80s was the reason he started making music again. Robert was most affected by Bonzo's death, being friends for a very long time and Plant was considering giving up music after Bonham's death. As he changed his mind and wanted to make some new music, Robert was desperately looking for a drummer for quite a while, and as he ran into Phil Collins, Phil gladly accepted to play drums for Plant.

Don’t know, but another Stones/Gong connection is that Mick Taylor played on “Downwind” and “Expresso II” and Pierre Moerlen produced Mick’s first solo album.

Not obscure, but worth a mention: Two days ago, on NPR’s All Things Considered, they ran down a list of the latest R & R Hall of Fame inductees, and another list of acts that haven’t been inducted yet but should (via musical snippets), including Tull, Yes, KC and Roxy Music.