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    Posted: June 24 2005 at 07:42
Who is the band with the biggfest output? As far as I know it is Hawkwind (the database lists 103 records! Many of them are samplers, but you easily land in the 50s or 60s with their whole offical and regular outputs). As a solo artist it must be Frank Zappa (he is listed with 88 albums, of whom a few are samplers too). Hawkwind are definitely the band with the most official live releases.


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Output and numbers of original recordings are likely to differ considerably. How many different greatest hits compilations can you find for the Beach Boys, Steely Dan etc. - there seems to be a surge of  new variants of a greatest hits or compilations issued for the Christmas market every year in this country? And then how many iterations of remastered recordings are there for bands - e.g. how many remaster variants are there now for King Crimson, Yes or Genesis? The blues artist Bo Diddley always visited record shops when he played outside the US to see what repackaging had occurred of his recordings without his approval and worse without receiving any royalties - and for sure he isn't the only one to suffer from this type of rip-off. So taking away repackaging with different track order or different combinations of tracks being included from other recordings, avoiding remasters, and also removing greatest hits compos, then I would suggest Zappa and King Crimson because both groups of artists have issued a number of live albums in an attempt 'to beat the boots'.

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Might be Tangerine Dream. I just checked their website and the LPs/CDs list had about 90 albums (+ / - 10 with my poor math ) . Well they've been around for 35 years now and quite a few of those albums are of course soundtracks but still.. that's a pretty huge amount.

EF is a pretty creative guy.

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Originally posted by Dick Heath Dick Heath wrote:

Output and numbers of original recordings are likely to differ considerably. How many different greatest hits compilations can you find for the Beach Boys, Steely Dan etc. - there seems to be a surge of  new variants of a greatest hits or compilations issued for the Christmas market every year in this country? And then how many iterations of remastered recordings are there for bands - e.g. how many remaster variants are there now for King Crimson, Yes or Genesis? The blues artist Bo Diddley always visited record shops when he played outside the US to see what repackaging had occurred of his recordings without his approval and worse without receiving any royalties - and for sure he isn't the only one to suffer from this type of rip-off. So taking away repackaging with different track order or different combinations of tracks being included from other recordings, avoiding remasters, and also removing greatest hits compos, then I would suggest Zappa and King Crimson because both groups of artists have issued a number of live albums in an attempt 'to beat the boots'.


I thought I made it clear that I meant "original output".


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Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

Originally posted by Dick Heath Dick Heath wrote:

Output and numbers of original recordings are likely to differ considerably. How many different greatest hits compilations can you find for the Beach Boys, Steely Dan etc. - there seems to be a surge of  new variants of a greatest hits or compilations issued for the Christmas market every year in this country? And then how many iterations of remastered recordings are there for bands - e.g. how many remaster variants are there now for King Crimson, Yes or Genesis? The blues artist Bo Diddley always visited record shops when he played outside the US to see what repackaging had occurred of his recordings without his approval and worse without receiving any royalties - and for sure he isn't the only one to suffer from this type of rip-off. So taking away repackaging with different track order or different combinations of tracks being included from other recordings, avoiding remasters, and also removing greatest hits compos, then I would suggest Zappa and King Crimson because both groups of artists have issued a number of live albums in an attempt 'to beat the boots'.


I thought I made it clear that I meant "original output".

Eventually ............................. but for clarity I felt my input would be helpful, you know how many threads veer off at tangents.

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Rick Wakeman has a lot contributed to him here. I dont know how much is orginal material though. But, yes, Zappa is another good chioce.
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Points: 19535 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 24 2005 at 15:28

Rick Wakeman has 135 releases until now, at least 100 are original.

Many are masterpieces but a lot are pure crap.

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