Favorite guest appearance on a prog album? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Grumpyprogfan wrote:

^Fripp's guitar solo on Eno's "Baby's On Fire" is notable.

Personally my favorite guitar solo of all time, fiery.

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Grumpyprogfan wrote:

^Fripp's guitar solo on Eno's "Baby's On Fire" is notable.

Another favorite of mine!! He also did amazing solos on "Another Green World," "Before & After Science" etc.

Fripp's solo on Bowie's "Heroes" is another classic! I saw the David Bowie Tribute show in Tucson a few months ago, and Adrian Belew played that solo perfectly!!

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Peter Hammill's appearance on Robert Fripp's "Exposure". His performance in "Disengage", "Chicago" and "I May Not Have Had Enough of Me but I've Had Enough of You" are the high points of the album for me.

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Steve Wyzard wrote:

1. EWF horns on "No Reply at All": Genesis - Abacab

2. Ben Mink, electric violin on "Losing It": Rush - Signals

3. Eddie Jobson, electric violin on "Forever Until Sunday": Bill Bruford - One of a Kind

4. Mike Oldfield, guitar on "Downwind": Gong - Downwind

5. Phil Collins, drums on 2 tracks: Mike Oldfield - QE2

6. David Gilmour, guitar on "Brother Where You Bound": Supertramp - Brother Where You Bound

7. Anthony Phillips, guitar on 2 tracks: Camel - The Single Factor

8. Adrian Belew, Max Bacon, and Chris Thompson's guest vocals: Mike Oldfield - Earth Moving

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Saperlipopette! wrote:

From the top of my head: Randy California (from Spirit) on guitar for Peter Hammill's Red Shift. A perfect match! (the remaster is from 2006, but the track is from 1974)

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The late, great John Tout on Wishbone Ash's "Throw Down the Sword" (organ).

Keyboardist and songwriter, died on May 1, 2015 in London, England. John Tout is best known for his role in Renaissance between 1970 and 1980 and again from 2000 to 2002. Prior to joining Renaissance he was briefly a member of Wishbone Ash. He also was part of Renaissance drummer Terry Sullivan's band Renaissant which released one album in 2005.

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progaardvark wrote:

I don't think these were mentioned yet...

Mark Bolan in ELO's On the Third Day album.

Roy Harper on Pink Floyd's Have a Cigar.

Once you leave the 1970s, guest performers are rather more prevalent, particularly on avant prog albums, and later with projects like Ayreon. Some guests in recent years appear on several albums each year, like Steve Hackett and Marco Minnemann as good examples.

Thanks! I believe that in the 1970s, record labels were more restrictive of where their signed artists could perform or record.

I guess one has to differentiate between "solo" projects and "band" projects. I was originally interested in guests artists on "band" projects, ie. Jon Anderson on "Prince Rupert Awakes."

Eno's albums were essentially solo projects, so nearly all artists appeared as guests.

Another favorite of mine is "Two Sides of Peter Banks!" His guests included Jan Akkerman, John Wetton, Phil Collins, Steve Hackett, and some of his Flash bandmates! I imagine they had a good party!

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Jade Warrior's Jon Field on Tubular Bells.

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PFM and Peter Hammill : The sea of memory ( live in Japan 2002)
Amorphous Androgynous & Peter Hammill : We persuade ourselves we are immortal (2020)

David Longdon (from the Big Big Train station in Nottingham) guesting on Steve Hackett's Spectral Mornings with Welsh songstress Christina Booth & Magenta.