Guitar-less Prog Bands / Albums

[Zeuhlmate]

Egg & ELP were my first thoughts.

There are a whole bunch of Chamber Rock bands without guitar, Univers Zero - Ceux De Dehors is probably the best example

Univers Zero's 2 first albums and their last have a guitarist.

[Scrotum Scissor]

^
So does Heatwave.

Late 90s Swiss instrumental bands Thønk and Steamboat Switzerland both played without guitars. Great, powerful stuff from both.

[Zeuhlmate]

^^ right

Michel Delory – guitar, also on UZED

[NogbadTheBad]

Univers Zero's 2 first albums and their last have a guitarist.

That's why I picked Ceux De Dehors

[Zeuhlmate]

That's why I picked Ceux De Dehors

I will let this one pass - but I keep an eye on you !

[progholio]

i dig these guys a lot

[Calabasas_Trafalgar]

Rare Bird?

Absolutely! The first two albums were dual keyboards/bass/drums. Great stuff! After that there was a major personnel change, brought in dual guitars, etc. Pretty good, but not great.

[Calabasas_Trafalgar]

Manfred Mann Chapter Three

a couple from France:
Urban Sax
Human

[yoyiceu]

Supersister

[grego]

Clouds
Circus ( Swiss) - in my opinion, on the same level, as Island Pictures( and I think I like Circus a tad more, than Island)

[MJBrady]

Sledgehammer from Canada, and if you take a minute to listen to some music at the link provided, you might be amazed by what you are hearing, as the stuff that sounds like guitar is actually a piano and/or the Electric Marimba. Seriously, and they are a progband, and they are good.
https://sledgehammerband.bandcamp.co...t-equals-power

[MJBrady]

Violent Silence - Sweden
http://www.violentsilence.net/index.htm

Violent Silence are:
Martin Ahlquist, vocals
Hannes Ljunghall, keyboards
Björn Westén, keyboards
Johan Hedman, drums
Anders Lindskog, fretless bass

[Sonia_Mota]

It's true, ELP to me are brilliant but I have to admit for a 3 member band they did have limitations
Greg Lake did vocals, guitars, guitar leads and ontop of it he played bass. Live studio albums, always great but considering all that live they were brilliant too.
As 3 member band, between the greats especially, this is not enough and cannot be compared a 4 members band.
ELP had many great guest guitarists too. They were even negotiating to have Jimi Hendrix join the band, before he died.

[Scrotum Scissor]

Circus ( Swiss)

There's acoustic guitar all over Movin' On. No keys, though - and apparently that bass was their only electric ingredient at this point.

[Svetonio]

A guitar is very rare on this amazing keys driven symphonic rock album - GreyField s/t


http://grey-field.bandcamp.com/album/greyfield




Released January 8, 2014

[dgtlman]

Triumvirat? Don't recall them using guitars... maybe they did...

[Progbear]

Triumvirat? Don't recall them using guitars... maybe they did...

Helmut Köllen definitely played guitars on the albums on which he was a member. (“Lucky Girl” starts with the sound of a 12-string). There’s none on Pompeii, that’s for sure.

[Shadow]

Weather Report
Il Barcentro
Kyomi Otaka,Gary Willis,Dave Weckl
Hiromi 3 piece
WUME
Tunnels
Soft Machine
The Muffins

[spacefreak]

Let me add an oddity from the dutch scene. Elluffant and their Release Concert LP from 1972.

[Svetonio]

Yugo-prog band Opus were guitar-less and they released an album in 1975

[JKL2000]

Fonya

[regenerativemusic]

There might be some more in that Non-British Canterbury thread.

[Halmyre]

Synergy?

Of course I could add a whole lot of other synthesizer-stuff.

Larry Fast put "No Guitars" (or something similar) on the sleeve of at least one Synergy album in riposte to Queen's "No synthesisers" credits.

It's true, ELP to me are brilliant but I have to admit for a 3 member band they did have limitations
Greg Lake did vocals, guitars, guitar leads and ontop of it he played bass. Live studio albums, always great but considering all that live they were brilliant too.
As 3 member band, between the greats especially, this is not enough and cannot be compared a 4 members band.
ELP had many great guest guitarists too. They were even negotiating to have Jimi Hendrix join the band, before he died.

Guest guitarists? Not on the albums surely? The Hendrix thing is a bit of an urban myth I think.

[Rarebird]

Larry Fast put "No Guitars" (or something similar) on the sleeve of at least one Synergy album in riposte to Queen's "No synthesisers" credits.

I really liked that. I like Queen, but I never understood that whole 'No synthesisers' thing. What is the difference between using effects and studio-trickery and using synthesizers? Both can be considered the use of technology, to reach a certain effect.
But hey, I love synthesizers.

[Scrotum Scissor]

They were even negotiating to have Jimi Hendrix join the band, before he died.

Nah, intense negotiations took place right after he was gone.