Your favourite Unsung Hero

There are plenty of musicians whom have done alot for the music buiz whom, in your opinion, does not gather the amount of attention as you would like, out of personal preferance.

To many it can be James Jamerson, or some might highlight Richard Carpenter, or some might even say Ant Phillips, the unsung hero of Genesis.

To me it will almost always circle back to the co-founding brain behind Toto, David Paich. The main songwrighter whom compared to Steve Lukather and Jeff Porcaro are the most important factors of one of my favourite bands. David is not a shy person but compared to the legendary status of Jeff and Steve Lukather boundery breaking guitar. David falls in an undeserved shadow. Though he have contributed alot in terms of arangements to music the last 45 years. Even Olympic games. Hes the core factor of the Dune soundtrack, he also released hes first solo album in 2022. Very good album.

Although he sings lead on Africa which have 1 billion plays on spotify. Nobody but muso heads are aware of that David Paich sings the lead. Hes my favourite person in Toto in whole.

Whos your unsung hero

Edited by Icarium - January 23 2023 at 15:17

Although not completely overloooked, my favorite guitarist, Terje Rypdal for sure.

Edited by Saperlipopette! - March 07 2023 at 08:00

For me, definitely, it would be the late Helmut Koellen of Triumvirat. He is hardly ever spoken of, around PA, or elsewhere, and he should be, for he was one of the main reasons Triumvirat garnered the attention they did. A great musician/singer/songwriter, he did not even know the English language at first when he joined Triumvirat, and as new lead vocalist in 1973, had to learn the lyrics to their songs phonetically, which must have been a real challenge. And to be a multi-instrumentalist on top of that, playing bass and 6 and 12 string guitar. Amazing! Sadly, he joined "the 27 club" and died at that age way back in 1977. His lovely solo album You Won't See Me was released posthumously in 1977, but has never seen the light of day on cd, which it really should.

Edited by presdoug - March 09 2023 at 18:16

Mike Keneally. All his albums on PA have a dismal amount of reviews/ratings. He is a critically overlooked multi-talented artist. His compositions are eclectic and playful. Side projects he contributed to have included... Zappa, Vai, Satch, Devin Townsend, and others. He is in my top ten guitarists of all time list, and he's a killer keyboard player also.

Here is a track from his new album.



Another tune...

Icarium wrote: There are plenty of musicians whom have done alot for the music buiz whom, in your opinion, does not gather the amount of attention as you would like, out of personal preferance. To many it can be James Jamerson, or some might highlight Richard Carpenter, or some might even say Ant Phillips, the unsung hero of Genesis. To me it will almost always circle back to the co-founding brain behind Toto, David Paich. The main songwrighter whom compared to Steve Lukather and Jeff Porcaro are the most important factors of one of my favourite bands. David is not a shy person but compared to the legendary status of Jeff and Steve Lukather boundery breaking guitar. David falls in an undeserved shadow. Though he have contributed alot in terms of arangements to music the last 45 years. Even Olympic games. Hes the core factor of the Dune soundtrack, he also released hes first solo album in 2022. Very good album. Although he sings lead on Africa which have 1 billion plays on spotify. Nobody but muso heads are aware of that David Paich sings the lead. Hes my favourite person in Toto in whole. Whos your unsung hero

Before Toto, was David Paich in Ambrosia?