musicians who share the same name

some musicians share the same name and hence are often confused with each other. a good example is Hawkwind's singer Robert Calvert, who is sometimes confused with the sax player of the same name who played for Catapilla and Mother Gong. this one is especially confusing because Mother Gong is a spin-off of Gong, and Gong and Hawkwind are befriended bands and exchanged a lot of musicians (just think of synth player Tim Blake, who even was a member of both bands at the same time at some point in his career), so it seems logical. Hawkwind's Robert Calvert did however die Aug 14th 1988; Mother Gong's Robert Calvert joined them in 1988 and played on all their albums from then on.

Hawkwind's Robert Calvert: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Calvert

Catapilla's Robert Calvert: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Calvert_(saxophonist)

Dave Stewart, keyboarder of Arzachel, Egg, Khan, Hatfield and the North, National Health and Bruford, must not be confused with Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics (not a prog band though).

what other musicians who share names can you think of?


Edited by BaldJean - July 06 2016 at 08:05

Dave Stewart of Egg, HatN, National Health
Dave A. Stewart of Eurythmics
Dave Stewart of Camel (drums)
Dave Stewart of Steve Hillage's band (guitar)

How about that?

There was a Prog and Jazz-fusion drummer who shares his name with a guy who sang in a Pop band and had solo Pop hits  ... I think their name is Bill Collins or something...

Steven Wilson,
Damian Wilson,
Kenneth Wilson (Abigail's Ghost).

Bill Evans the pianist and Bill Evans the saxophone player, who both played with Miles Davis.

I believe there is another Jon Anderson, some country singer who spells his name as John with an H

Not both musicians, but David Cross of Crimson shares his name with a comedic actor

Don Preston of the Mothers of Invention and this guy:

I got all excited when I saw Jon McLaughlin was coming to a local theater, but when I clicked on the advert to buy tickets, I was taken to a photo of a haircut......didn't notice the missing "h" in the first name. 

AlanB wrote: Peter Banks former guitarist of Yes and Peter Banks keyboard player of After The Fire