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    Posted: May 20 2008 at 21:36
Throughout the last 40 years or so.. of Prog, there have been tons of auditions that never materialized into hirings . At times, groups resembled sports team with constant personnel changes, shuffling for a multitude of reasons. Do you know of any potentially interesting hirings that didn't work out? Fish replacing Gabriel? Stuart Nicholson replacing Fish in Marillion? True or not true? Shocked
Elton John & Bryan Ferry allegedly tried out for ..... King Crimson , in the very early days (imagine that! or even better comment on it) . Vangelis almost joined Yes when Rick had to mend his cape for a while.
There was also a question of  Emerson, Wetton, Bruford and some famous guitarist (no, not Jimi Hendrix!!!!) , anyone remember?
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Vagelis almost was Yes's keyboardist after Wakeman's departure, but things didn't worked out between him and Anderson.

Also on Yes: on 70, when King Crimson was falling apart (after In the Wake of Poseidon release but before Lizard), Robert Fripp was called to play on Yes. However things did not worked out. So Fripp put a band together to record Lizard and, being thankful for the invitation to Yes, called Jon Anderson to sing on the song Lizard.
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Steve Walsh tried out on vocals when Jon Anderson split around the drama period (yes must of had progressive rocks in their heads hiring those buggles blokes instead)  walsh's voice was at its best around this period.  
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Originally posted by Yorkie X Yorkie X wrote:

Steve Walsh tried out on vocals when Jon Anderson split around the drama period (yes must of had progressive rocks in their heads hiring those buggles blokes instead)  walsh's voice was at its best around this period.  


Well, it didn't matter how hard they tried to find a substitute: they could not perform in UK and a significant part of Europe because of the audience reaction towards the new singer.In the UK, they cursed the new singer throughout the show wile throwing beer bottles and screaming: "we want Anderson!!!!!"


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Originally posted by CCVP CCVP wrote:

Originally posted by Yorkie X Yorkie X wrote:

Steve Walsh tried out on vocals when Jon Anderson split around the drama period (yes must of had progressive rocks in their heads hiring those buggles blokes instead)  walsh's voice was at its best around this period.  


Well, it didn't matter how hard they tried to find a substitute: they could not perform in UK and a significant part of Europe because of the audience reaction towards the new singer.In the UK, they cursed the new singer throughout the show wile throwing beer bottles and screaming: "we want Anderson!!!!!"
 
Poor Trevor Horn! Went on to produce The Art of Noise and Frankie Goes to Hollywood! Obviously traumatized! Its amazing what happens to you when you get conked by bottles!LOL
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Points: 825 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 21 2008 at 03:48
wOw, interesting topic! kudos!

i remember some sort of band situation having been discussed inbetween ian gillan
and keith emerson during the “rock aid armenia“ project in 1989. during the same
time roger hodgson, who is good mates with trevor rabin, was bandied about as
the new lead singer in YES and chris squire, of course, brought billy sherwood
into the equation as early as 1989. certainly a year of turmoil for YES (with
ABWH and everything) as well as many other bands.
progressive rock and rural tranquility don't match. true or false?
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Points: 11420 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 21 2008 at 04:56
Before Keith Emerson linked up with Greg Lake and Carl Palmer he auditioned (amongst others)
Mitch Mitchell, Jack Bruce and Chris Squire
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Emerson asked Steve Howe (Steve was not yet with YES) to join him after The Nice broke up and oddly enough Emerson was asked to join YES around the time of Moraz's departure from the band.
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Points: 16449 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 21 2008 at 06:14
I believe Tommy Iomi tried out for Yes before they settled on Howe. That could have been interesting.
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Points: 2815 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 21 2008 at 08:28
Originally posted by sleeper sleeper wrote:

I believe Tommy Iomi tried out for Yes before they settled on Howe. That could have been interesting.


Wasn't it Jethro Tull?
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Originally posted by tszirmay tszirmay wrote:

Originally posted by CCVP CCVP wrote:

Originally posted by Yorkie X Yorkie X wrote:

Steve Walsh tried out on vocals when Jon Anderson split around the drama period (yes must of had progressive rocks in their heads hiring those buggles blokes instead)  walsh's voice was at its best around this period.  


Well, it didn't matter how hard they tried to find a substitute: they could not perform in UK and a significant part of Europe because of the audience reaction towards the new singer.In the UK, they cursed the new singer throughout the show wile throwing beer bottles and screaming: "we want Anderson!!!!!"
 
Poor Trevor Horn! Went on to produce The Art of Noise and Frankie Goes to Hollywood! Obviously traumatized! Its amazing what happens to you when you get conked by bottles!LOL


True. What a waste of talent, i must say. He had good vocals, but try to substitute Anderson is a difficult task
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Originally posted by Kotro Kotro wrote:

Originally posted by sleeper sleeper wrote:

I believe Tommy Iomi tried out for Yes before they settled on Howe. That could have been interesting.


Wasn't it Jethro Tull?


Iommi replaced Mick Abrahams after This Was for a couple weeks before Barre joined.  However, Barre had auditioned to be in Sabbath.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIbI6Yl8J_U

The only other auditioning stories I know are the more obvious ones like Les Claypool trying out for Metallica after Cliff died. 

There are many stories about John Frusciante auditioning for Frank Zappa, but he has said that he chickened out and left the audition before his turn came.
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Originally posted by Kotro Kotro wrote:

Originally posted by sleeper sleeper wrote:

I believe Tommy Iomi tried out for Yes before they settled on Howe. That could have been interesting.


Wasn't it Jethro Tull?

It mentioned in the linner notes of the 2003(?) reissue of The Yes Album, as it was the first album without Banks. I think I might have read it in Q's prog rock special from three years ago as well.
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Fish was supposed to sing the part of Montresor in Peter Hammill's opera "The Fall of the House of Usher", but at the audition it turned out their voices were too similar, so Andy Bell of Eraser got the job

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I read somehwere that Gavin Harrison auditioned for AC/DC. Wacko
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Points: 8238 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 21 2008 at 16:42
Terry Reid was asked by Jimmy Page to sing lead vocals in the new band he was assembling.  Reid's career was just starting to gather momentum after some successful tours of the USA with the Stones and Cream so he declined but suggested that Page check out a guy named Robert Plant...
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Steve Gould of Rare Bird was a contender to replace Gabriel.  I almost replaced Tony Banks...but sadly I woke up.   
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Points: 4160 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 21 2008 at 17:03

We heard that before but...I'm really curious about how HELP would sound.

Iommy's guitar sound in Tull. Yummy!
 
BTW: did anyone heard Jimi Hendrix/Jim Morrison album? Any good?
 
 
Percussion, sir!
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This isn't so much early days but does anyone remember when Satriani was in Deep Purple for a short amount of time?
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Points: 7003 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 21 2008 at 18:06
Originally posted by clarke2001 clarke2001 wrote:

We heard that before but...I'm really curious about how HELP would sound.

Iommy's guitar sound in Tull. Yummy!
 
BTW: did anyone heard Jimi Hendrix/Jim Morrison album? Any good?
 
 
 
Iommi's brief spell in Tull included their appearance in the Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, if you're interested - I think it's available on DVD.
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