Band Add-ons
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Topic: Band Add-ons
Posted By: Floydian42
Subject: Band Add-ons
Date Posted: August 05 2007 at 00:21
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Let's say you could add one person to any prog band. Not take away a member at all or create a new one. Who would you add to what band, and why? I would find it very interesting to have Gabriel not rejoin Genesis, but to join King Crimson as there line up is now. Why? Listen to "The Power to Believe" and "Up." Both are full of effects, complicated songs, a very dense sound with a dark feel. I think the combination of the two super powers combining together would work beautifully! I think in certain cases, there is a certain emotion in Apathetic instrumentals that Crimson has nailed, that Gabriel lacks. Plus, imagine up with terrific skill and complicated layering that King Crimson has placed in "Up". I think it'd work great! Also, as beautiful as "The Power to Believe" was, you can't deny it wasn't the most melodic album, which Gabriel is a master of. Although TPtB was magnificent, I think some of Gabriel's melodies and emotion he puts into his writing can work great! All in all, I think the addition would result in a masterpiece. |
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Posted By: puma
Date Posted: August 05 2007 at 01:13
| Ian McDonald on sax, electric piano, and mellotron on the next Tool album. It would be unlike anything we would ever be able to imagine. Just think if they covered Moonchild. |
Posted By: The Whistler
Date Posted: August 05 2007 at 01:16
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Ian Anderson into any band ever. There is no band that cannot be improved by the Minstrel. ------------- "There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: August 05 2007 at 01:28
well, I wouldn't want him in a band that already has a better flautist  -------------  A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
The Whistler wrote:Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: August 05 2007 at 01:33
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Bernard Paganotti to VdGG.... just picture the ultimate top-end band with the ultimate low-end man.....oh man.....
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Posted By: The Whistler
Date Posted: August 05 2007 at 01:34
...the Non-Existy Band? ------------- "There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: August 05 2007 at 01:36
no, Gong. who needs Ian Anderson when you have Didier Malherbe? ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: August 05 2007 at 01:38
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Yeah Whistler, you seemed to forget that it is Jean you are talking to. GonG has to get mentioned.
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Posted By: The Whistler
Date Posted: August 05 2007 at 01:42
Uh oh...why do I have the sudden feeling like no one is going to leave this thread alive?
Well, in all truth, I must say I haven't heard Gong yet. But I DO know that Ian's flute kicks all other flute ass to hell that I've heard so far. ------------- "There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: August 05 2007 at 01:43
lol, there are a lot of other bands I like. but when it comes to flute or drums Gong are unbeatable, in my opinion ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: The Whistler
Date Posted: August 05 2007 at 01:47
Well, I'm listening to Minstrel in the Gallery, so I'll have to disagree on both counts, but...like I said. Gong has always sounded intruiging (sic?) to me anyways, so if you don't mind highjacking the thread for a minute, any suggestions for a poor Tuller like me? ------------- "There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: August 05 2007 at 01:52
listen to the Mother Gong album "Fairy Tales" and you will get blown away by Didier Malherbe and forget about Ian Anderson. take my word for it. mark that it is not Gong but Mother Gong. in my opinion the masterpiece of Didier Malherbe; my sister (who plays flute herself) was really fascinated by that album ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: The Whistler
Date Posted: August 05 2007 at 01:57
Well, I somehow doubt that, but I want to get into Gong, not nessecarily be blown away by some fascinating flute playing. Shouldn't I start with something a little more classical...or available at Amazon-able? ------------- "There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: August 05 2007 at 02:02
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that Mother Gong album IS classical, in my opinion. but if you want to start with Gong, buy "You". fantastic drumming by Pierre Moerlen; he was never again as good as on that album, and he was always extremely good
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Posted By: The Whistler
Date Posted: August 05 2007 at 02:10
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Aha! That one seems more likely, and shall enter that long list of albums I promise myself I'll buy but never seem to.
And, I understand that Ian's flute is a leetle hard to get into, but give the poor lad a chance; he sneezed into that thing so that the children...might live. ------------- "There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson |
Posted By: Mikerinos
Date Posted: August 05 2007 at 02:12
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To add on to the off-topicness, I recently ordered Gong's Camembert Electrique album. For some reason, it's cheaper as a new reissue LP than as a new CD, go figure. Anyway, considering how much I love Radio Gnome-era Gong, it's surprising how long I waited to purchase this. ------------- 
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Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: August 05 2007 at 02:28
I know Ian Anderson very well, so I don't have to get into him; actually I knew him before Didier Malherbe. Ian can't shine a candle to Didier ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: The Whistler
Date Posted: August 05 2007 at 02:33
Okay, let's not get poisonal now...besides, can Diddler do this?
 Now THAT'S a show of talent.
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Posted By: febus
Date Posted: August 05 2007 at 07:17
Gabriel singing in a ''Nuevo Metal'' band as Fripp put it??? i don't think so!!!!
KC was never about a singer anyway!
Bring back WETTON, but please, no Gabriel
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Posted By: Floydian42
Date Posted: August 05 2007 at 11:31
One thing KC was always about was pushing the limits of music, and it's been a while since they've been particularly melodic. So I think Fripp might be open too a little messin around! And he'd have more opportunities with Gabriel since he's just a tad bit more talented as a vocalist. Plus, look at Gabriel's singing on "Darkness", he can pull off a heavier sound if he wanted too . And I doubt Gabriel would focus completely on vocal melodic parts, he;d no doubt had something to say regarding the instrumental breaks. IDK, I think it'd be great. Even just for one album. |
Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: August 05 2007 at 11:40
No, but can Ian Anderson do THIS? Hadouk Honoured Posted Sun 10 Jun'07 Thanks to Luc Pilmeyer I can pass on the happy news that Didier Malherbe and the Hadouk Trio have received a prestigious music award in France, the 'Victoire du Jazz' as http://www.lesvictoires.com/Victoires/jazz/laureats.html - 'Artists of the Year' , the ceremony was also broadcast on the FR3 TV channel. 
Loy, Dider, Steve Looks as if Didier is about to try and get a tune out of the award - he probably could. ------------- A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: August 05 2007 at 11:53
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This isn't exactly the question you asked, but I would like to see a collaboration between Brian May and Ronnie James Dio. It would be better than Rainbow!
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Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: August 05 2007 at 11:54
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can I add Fripp to Magma or is that just crazy talk? =) ------------- FREEDOM OF SPEECH GO TO HELL |
Posted By: jimmy_row
Date Posted: August 05 2007 at 12:21
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I wouldn't want to fool around with band lineups, but a Wakeman + Hackett album would be friggin great....what? they've played together before? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdYtihy5ljk - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdYtihy5ljk
I think their styles are perfectly complimentary.
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Posted By: toolis
Date Posted: August 05 2007 at 12:23
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bring Tommy Bolin back to life and put him in..oh, i don;t know, just bring him back, i miss him...  ------------- -music is like pornography... sometimes amateurs turn us on, even more... -sometimes you are the pigeon and sometimes you are the statue... |
Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: August 05 2007 at 13:44
That would be pretty awesome. And crazy. ------------- |
Posted By: ProgBagel
Date Posted: August 05 2007 at 20:22
| Jerry Goodman in Sleepytime Gorilla Museum. |
Posted By: ProgBagel
Date Posted: August 05 2007 at 20:23
Oh, and relax about the Tull/Gong argument. 
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Posted By: Hirgwath
Date Posted: August 05 2007 at 20:33
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I would add Frank Zappa to Pink Floyd. He would lend them a much-needed sense of humor. (Can you imagine "When the Tigers Broke Free" combined with "Drafted Again"? The ultimate anti-war song). I think of Pink Floyd's earlier stuff, and it seems more surreal than funny to me. And much of the latter (Rogers-dominated) stuff is just existentialist melancholy incarnate. |
Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: August 05 2007 at 21:31
That actually happened. Zappa jammed along with Interstellar Overdrive in a show somewhere. I used to have a recording of it, but it was of such low sound quality that I got rid of it. ------------- |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: August 06 2007 at 13:22
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Jimi Hendrix to Emerson Lake and Palmer so that they could be HELP. I'm not sure if the rumors that this might actual have happened were fact or fiction but I think it would certainly have made for an interesting collaboration. ------------- 
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Posted By: Proletariat
Date Posted: August 06 2007 at 13:29
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Sigur Ros + Brian Eno ------------- who hiccuped endlessly trying to giggle but wound up with a sob |