Greg Lake with ELP (Lucky Man), KC (Court), and solo (Father Xmas)
Greg Lake with ELP (Lucky Man), KC (Court), and solo (Father Xmas)
Oh, absolutely - not disputing that at all. The public ultimately makes it happen or not happen. But the public can only choose from the songs that they actually hear. The public will get enough of a chance to hear the songs that the promo guy you referenced "can get to No. 1 on modern rock;" songs that, in his own words would be from "known bands that we promote a lot." Bands that don't have these kinds of advantages from the outset have a much tougher time of it.
As far as arena rock, Neal Schon has been on hits with Santana, Journey and Bad English.
Same with Jonathan Cain except the Babys rather than Santana.
Hmm....did Schon chart at all with "No More Lies," which was played to death on MTV (with Jan Hammer) or with HSAS?
Music isn't about chops, or even about talent - it's about sound and the way that sound communicates to people. Mike Keneally
Phil Collins was barely on All Things Must Pass at all. He was of course on Philip Bailey's 'Easy Lover' but maybe as he was co-credited I don't know if it counts.
Along with Gregg Philligaines, Nathan East, and all the other A Team session guys.
I think there was a stretch in the early 80's where just about every record made in LA had at least one guy from Toto on it.
As for C-Lo Green, I must be the only person on the planet (besides my mom and my dad) who never heard that Fuck You song.
"Henry Cow always wanted to push itself, so sometimes we would write music that we couldn't actually play – I found that very encouraging." - Lindsay Cooper, 1998
"I have nothing to do with Endless River. Phew! This is not rocket science people, get a grip." - Roger Waters, 2014
"I'm a collector. And I've always just seemed to collect personalities." - David Bowie, 1973
Neil Young also had a US top 20 hit with Buffalo Springfield.
Music isn't about chops, or even about talent - it's about sound and the way that sound communicates to people. Mike Keneally
I woudn't say much more so than anybody else on a major label. Of the two, Danger Mouse was the hotter quantity at the time, but he nevertheless wasn't a mainstream "name."
Cee-Lo was a guy from an influential southern rap band which was known the mainstream as basically being a one-hit wonder. According to Wikipedia, the success of "Crazy" started when someone on the BBC began using it.
If you mean the clip MTV used to show on Closet Classics, that's actually from a German TV show called Beat Club. That particular clip I think was from around the time of Santana III. The "hit version" of Black Magic Woman is from Abraxas, which Herr Neal most definitely didn't play on. As far as I know, there wasn't an actual video shot for Black Magic Woman (or any other early Santana song, I think all the clips that exist are taken from TV programs or films like Woodstock or Last Days Of The Fillmore).
I forgot about that. But he was a studio musician for quite a few years before that. if I remember correctly he played in Eric Clapton's backup band for quite a few years, and he also toured with Micheal Jackson.Phillinganes was actually a member of Toto for an album.
alan white on imagine all things must pass and owner of a lonely heart.
don't suppose run with the fox made it anywhere near the charts though...
also if we wanna give steve howe some more props he is on Frankie goes to Hollywood welcome to the pleasuredome
That's PG's quote about "third tambourine" but it was actually bongos Phil played on the track "The Art Of Dying" (a killer track)... but his parts didn't actually make it to the finished album. He goes into great detail about it in his new autobiography, it's quite an interesting story actually!
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