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The Owl 
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Posted: March 06 2004 at 13:44 |
WHo do you feel made some of the best and worst solo discs in the prog realm?
The Brilliant:
Robert Fripp: Exposure, League of Gentlemen and the various Frippertronics outings
Peter Hammill: Silent Corner and the EMpty Stage, Chameleon In The Shadow of Night, Black Box, Fools Mate, Fall of the House of Usher and so many more
Chris Squire: Fish Out of Water
Jon Anderson: Olias of Sunhillow
Patrick Moraz: The Story of i
The Horror, The Horror!!:
Alan White: Ramshackled
Phil Collins: anything at all
Greg Lake: Extremely Lame Product!
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Posted: March 06 2004 at 13:45 |
Easy :
Peter Hammill: Silent Corner and the EMpty Stage, Chameleon In The Shadow of Night, Black Box, Fools Mate, Fall of the House of Usher and so many more
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lucas
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Posted: March 06 2004 at 18:35 |
What about Anthony Phillips who released some of the best symphonic prog records of all times ?
I think 'Olias of sunhillow' is the best solo effort of all you cited. Beautiful vocals and instrumentation. ['Fish out of water' is a close second].
Phil Collins released some good stuff within his solo career, especially on 'face value' and his drumming is great on 'no jacket required'. I also like the jazz versions of songs he played with Genesis on the CD 'a hot night in Paris'.
Greg Lake released some good songs in the seventies.
Robert Fripp : the soundscapes he improvised on 'Blessing of tears' are beautiful and far more fascinating than the boring stuff he released with the league of Gentleman or in the Frippertronics.
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Dan Bobrowski
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Posted: March 06 2004 at 23:36 |
BRILLIANT
Peter Gabriel?
Most of his solo work is unique and progressive, as in, his not sitting on his arse writing radio music like Phil Collins.
Lame
Phil Collins - Susudio (Whatever)
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richardh
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Posted: March 07 2004 at 05:56 |
Greg Lake recorded some good AOR stuff with Gary Moore.It wasn't prog though.
Can I count Vangelis as he was a member of Aphrodite's Child? If so then Spiral
Also Rick Wakeman's Six Wives Of Henry VIII, is that one allowed ??
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Vibrationbaby
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Posted: March 07 2004 at 10:10 |
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How about Peter Banks the original Yes guitarist who went on to form Flash. He did a great solo album in 1973 called The Two Sides Of Peter Banks with Jan Akkerman, Steve Hackett, John Wetton and Phil Collins as guests.
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Posted: August 25 2004 at 20:41 |
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greenback
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Posted: August 25 2004 at 21:46 |
There are tons of good records:
Rick Wakeman, Tony Phillips, Fonya (Chros Fournier), Cyan (Robert Reed), Steve Hackett, Ian Anderson, Eddie Jobson, ...
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Posted: August 25 2004 at 22:05 |
The Great Works.
Rick Wakeman: At least until he entered to the New Age land.
Steve Howe: Beginnings is a masterpiece. If he only could avoid singing
Steve Hackett: Voyages of the Acolyte, Midsummer's Night Dream, Tokyo Tapes, Genesis Revisited, To Watch the Storms. Is that enough?
Vangelis: Heaven & Hell is a masterpiece.
Anthony Phillips: The Geese and the Ghost is better than his already great work with Genesis in Trespass.
Peter Gabriel: I, II and II are amazing, the rest is different but still very good.
The Cheese
Phil Collins: Not a single good note, everything he released is crap.
Jon Anderson: Simply makes me sleep.
Alan Parsons: Without Andrew Powell his work is simply mediocre.
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Bryan
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Posted: August 25 2004 at 23:10 |
 ivan_2068 wrote:
Steve Howe: Beginnings is a masterpiece. If he only could avoid singing |
I think Steve's not a bad singer at all. I mean, he's no Jon Anderson, but I've heard MUCH worse.
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threefates
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Posted: August 25 2004 at 23:38 |
Great solo efforts:
Richard is right about Greg Lake.. his solo albums were good.. just not prog at all.
But there was also:
- Keith Emerson - Emerson Plays Emerson
- Carl Palmer - Working Live
- Dave Gilmour - Dave Gilmour
- Dave Gilmour - About Face
- Rick Wright - Broken Glass
- Jon Anderson - Olias of Sunhillow
- Michael Giles and Ian McDonald had a great solo release after they left KC
The Worst..
Roger Waters - Radio Kaos
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gdub411
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Posted: August 26 2004 at 00:23 |
Radio Kaos was mediocre but not horrible. I saw the Radio Kaos concert however and it was brilliant. Roger sure knows how to put on a quality theatrical show. It gave me a sort of an appreciation for that album
Best solo effort:
Peter Hammill., Nadir's Big Chance
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Dick Heath
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Posted: August 26 2004 at 07:27 |
danbo wrote:
Lame
Phil Collins - Susudio (Whatever)
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I'm amazed Prince didn't sue him for plaguarism.
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The Hemulen
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Posted: August 26 2004 at 09:00 |
You can't go wrong with Wakey's Wives, can you? And do we count Kevin Ayers' albums as solo efforts? Admittedly, apart from his connection with early Soft Machine he's never been tied to a band as such but oh how I love his work! No one ever discusses it...
More recently I think Tomas Bodin's Sonic Boulevard is a charmingly understated album that has been somewhat overlooked as a result of it's unimposing nature. It makes a great piece of post-dinner tribal-african-tinted-jazz-rock-prog-affair... -thing. Or at least that's what I think, anyway.
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Posted: August 26 2004 at 09:11 |
My all time 3 fave prog solo albums are: STEVE HACKETT's Darktown, PETER HAMMILL's In Camera, and MIKE OLDFIELD's Amarok.
Special mentions go to some of Rick Wakeman's, Anthony Phillips's, Peter Gabriel's, Zappa's and Vangelis' works.
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Jim Garten
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Posted: August 26 2004 at 15:24 |
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For sheer lameness, go no further than Howe & Hackett's 'GTR' - what should have been sublime progressive rock (and, let's face it, that's what we all expected), ended up as....... well ........... Poo!
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richardh
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Posted: August 26 2004 at 16:43 |
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I forgot to mention Martin Orford (keyboard player with IQ) did a solo album called 'Classical Music And Popular Songs'.It's a rubbish title but the music is brilliant.One of my all time favourites by anyone.
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Paco Fox
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Posted: August 27 2004 at 08:53 |
Useful_Idiot wrote:
ivan_2068 wrote:
Steve Howe: Beginnings is a masterpiece. If he only could avoid singing |
I think Steve's not a bad singer at all. I mean, he's no Jon Anderson, but I've heard MUCH worse.
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Ufff... the vocals in 'Australia' are terrible. It's a great record musically, but I agree the vocals ruin the whole thing...
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Posted: August 27 2004 at 21:54 |
Jim Garten wrote:
| For sheer lameness, go no further than Howe & Hackett's 'GTR' - what should have been sublime progressive rock (and, let's face it, that's what we all expected), ended up as....... well ........... Poo! |
Have to agree, GTR sux!!!!!
I bought the video cassette before ever listening the DVD because I read Hackett and Howe, only listened it twice (The second time only because I couldn't believe that was possible). Today the vhs is all covered with moth and to be honest I don't want to waste alcohol in cleaning it.
It's a shame because they did such great albums with Yes, Genesis and even in their solo projects.
Paco Fox wrote:
| Ufff... the vocals in 'Australia' are terrible. It's a great record musically, but I agree the vocals ruin the whole thing... |
You're so right, the first time I heard it I thought it was a joke, nobody can sing so horrible and dare to record it.
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Bryan
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Posted: August 28 2004 at 12:31 |
Paco Fox wrote:
Useful_Idiot wrote:
ivan_2068 wrote:
Steve Howe: Beginnings is a masterpiece. If he only could avoid singing |
I think Steve's not a bad singer at all. I mean, he's no Jon Anderson, but I've heard MUCH worse.
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Ufff... the vocals in 'Australia' are terrible. It's a great record musically, but I agree the vocals ruin the whole thing...
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Well I've only heard The Steve Howe Album, on which he only sings on one track, so maybe I haven't been exposed to the horrors of his singing enough...
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