Great 'solo' albums when the artist was still in a band!

[NogbadTheBad]

Wanted to add Thymme Jones - Stopped Clocks and Fripp - Repercussions Of Angelic Behavior but I don't think either are technically solo albums.

[NogbadTheBad]

Trey Gunn - The Joy Of Molybdenum

[Yves]

and all of these are "great" or are we just naming any album by anyone as a solo artist, while he/she was in a band ? If it's the latter then:

KISS- all 4 solo records

Geddy Lee- My Favorite Headache

[JJ88]

Mick Jagger. I seem to be one of the few people who preferred most of his solo work to the Stones' contemporary output.

Dennis Wilson.

My knowledge of Jagger's solo work suggests work that is too heavy on 'trendy' production techniques for my taste. And this solo career was a major cause of the so-called 'world war 3' within The Rolling Stones camp in the mid-late 80s...the band almost fell apart completely at the time.

There was crossover between Rod Stewart's and The Faces' albums- many would say his best stuff came out in this period. Again this later caused friction, in this case as Stewart's solo career gained much more fame.

I nominate Voyage Of The Acolyte and Face Value.

[Shadow]

You can make a list a mile long:

Ben Sherman
John G. Perry
Al DiMeola
Jean Luc Ponty
Stanley Clarke
Akira Wada
Steve Lukather
Steve Weingart
Tetsuo Sakurai
Didier Malherbe
Lenny White
Chick Corea
Scott Henderson
Koichi Yabori
Peter Baumann
Gary Willis
Scott Kinsey

Just a start

[Scrotum Scissor]

Chris Squire-Fish out of Water
Jon Anderson-Olias and Song of Seven
Rick Wakeman-Six Wives
Pete Townsend-All Cowboy's have Chinese Eyes

Am sure there's more ???

No, those are obviously it.

Jose F. Kristos

[PeterG]

Crazy Horse - (st) - hey, this does kind of work...

Clever, I see the way you are thinking, it's a great album and I'd agree if it werent for the fact that Neil is credited on the album as songwriter, and was involved (uncredited) in the making of the album. Their first "solo" album truly independent from Neil was the next one, "Loose" in 72.

[A. Scherze]

ELP - Works

[Progbear]

Pekka Pohjola: Pihkasilmä kaarnakorva
Grace Slick: Dreams

Was John G. Perry a member of any bands when Sunset Wading came out? Because I was just listening to it last week, and I really adore it!

ELP - Works

Discounted for the use of Comic Sans. And for the fact that the solo stuff on Works 1 (especially Lake’s stuff) and everything on 2 is a steaming pile of elephant dung.

Patrick Moraz-i. The John Lodge album was Natural Avenue(never heard it),and the Hayward/Lodge is Blue Jays and it is as good as anything the band put out.

Second vote for i, and Fish Out of Water, come to think of it. Still have not heard Blue Jays, but the band had effectively broken up after Seventh Sojourn. At the very least, they were inactive at the time, so it probably does not count.

[NogbadTheBad]

Was John G. Perry a member of any bands when Sunset Wading came out? Because I was just listening to it last week, and I really adore it!

He was a member of Quantum Jump (74-79) when he released Sunset Wading, good call.

[SteveSly]

A few that come to mind off the top of my head:

Steve Walsh – Glossolalia
Lindsey Buckingham – From The Cradle (I think he was still in FM at that time?)
Ryo Okomoto – Coming Through

[Shadow]

He was a member of Quantum Jump (74-79) when he released Sunset Wading, good call.

That's why I listed him

[Shadow]

Robert Calvert

[Dave (in MA)]

Pekka Pohjola: Pihkasilmä kaarnakorva
Grace Slick: Dreams

Was John G. Perry a member of any bands when Sunset Wading came out? Because I was just listening to it last week, and I really adore it!



Discounted for the use of Comic Sans. And for the fact that the solo stuff on Works 1 (especially Lake’s stuff) and everything on 2 is a steaming pile of elephant dung.



Second vote for i, and Fish Out of Water, come to think of it. Still have not heard Blue Jays, but the band had effectively broken up after Seventh Sojourn. At the very least, they were inactive at the time, so it probably does not count.

With the exception of Side 2, everything on Works is better than that Moraz piece of crap.

[yamishogun]

Just out of curiosity, was Trevor Rabin actually in Yes when he wrote Can't Look Away?

[NogbadTheBad]

That's why I listed him

Then well done sir.

Robert Calvert

Good pick.

[MJBrady]

Hasse Bruniusson - Flying Food Circus/Flowerkings
Bodin, Tomas - 2002 - Pin Up Guru/Flowerkings
Derek Sherinian solo cds while in Planet X

[Shadow]

Gavin Harrison

[Rarebird]

Wolfgang Niedecken - Niedecken Köln and Zosamme alt

[bob_32_116]

My knowledge of Jagger's solo work suggests work that is too heavy on 'trendy' production techniques for my taste. And this solo career was a major cause of the so-called 'world war 3' within The Rolling Stones camp in the mid-late 80s...the band almost fell apart completely at the time.

(Sigh) One can only dream of what might have been.

Did I ever mention that I have not liked the Stones at all since sometime in the late 1970's?

[bob_32_116]

Lindsey Buckingham – From The Cradle (I think he was still in FM at that time?)

I thought he had at least two, maybe three. What about the album that contained his big hit, "Trouble"?

[Shadow]

Curt Cress?
Wolfgang Schmid?

[Garden Dreamer]

Mick Jagger.

Keith Richards and Bill Wyman too.

[Garden Dreamer]

Geddy Lee- My Favorite Headache

And Alex Lifeson - Victor

[pete100ca]

David Gilmour's 1st solo record.

First thing that came to my mind. Great album. Also votes for Steve Hackett and Tony Banks.