Music isn't about chops, or even about talent - it's about sound and the way that sound communicates to people. Mike Keneally
More nitpicking. Wright was fired towards the end of making The Wall album. He was hired as a side musician for The Wall shows. He was gone after the shows and wasn't on The Final Cut. He came very late in the recording of AMLOR and again not a as PF member but as a sideman. There was also contract language prohibiting his return to PF as a full timer. Wright started the tour still as a sideman. He was a full fledged PF member for the The Division Bell. I don't know when he came back onboard, during one of the legs of the AMLOR tour or during the recording of TDB.
Paul Cook of IQ was mentioned, so I'm surprised no one mentioned Peter Nicholls, though I'm not sure how many years Nicholls was away.
I always thought it was funny how often ads for albums or stickers on the albums would say something like "The Amazing Comeback Album..." or "The reunion fans were waiting for..." when it didn't even seem like there was any really noticeable breakup or hiatus. I can't think of any examples, but I feel like you used to see that a lot.
How long was Echolyn's breakup?
Not just a Genesis fanboy.
It always amuses/amazes me when people get cranky about artists making a living. "I remember them when nobody knew them." Yes, they may well have been edgy and "uncommercial" (whatever that means), but if you talk to most musicians, they would very much like to be able to make a decent living; decent not being millions, but to be able to do the same things to which most of us aspire: a roof over our heads, food on the table, a family, etc. Bruford has always been both a tremendously creative and pragmatic musician, as his autobiography makes clear.
When you get past the sex, drugs and rock 'n roll, few musicians want to spend their lives struggling for no recompense; they want to make a living, and it's one of the reasons I am so down on streaming services - someone is making money, but it ain't the musicians, and that's just wrong.
Who is a band member and who is a session player is complicated. In the case of Floyd, those complexities were played out in a public way. With other bands, it's hard to come up with a sensible match between who fans perceive as a member and the contractual relationships different people had. Take Yes: Patrick Moraz was a member of Yes, wasn't he? AIUI, he was never accepted into the partnership that owns the band and was paid as a session player.
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Emerson, Lake and Palmer 1987 between ELPowell and 3. A couple of festival dates were advertised but didn't get beyond a handful of rehearsals
Maybe someone else can provide the particulars, but I remember reading somewhere where Dennis DeYoung was fired from Styx and management insisted/brought him back just hours later or maybe it was a couple of weeks. Me thinks that wins the prize.
Billy Sherwood broke up with himself, but got back together with himself 3 months later. The rest is history.
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I think it was Ringo Starr who quit the Beatles during the white album sessions then returned one or two weeks later. That's why you hear Paul playing drums on "Back in the USSR" and not Ringo. Not sure if that is the only track on that album featuring Paul's drumming though.
As was mentioned some bands go on hiatus without ever actually breaking up. Porcupine Tree are currently still officially on hiatus and the Flower Kings were on hiatus from 2007 until 2012.
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The hiatus was in fact shorter than that - they toured the USA in August 2008 then played Scandinavian shows until early 2009.
The band got back together (with a new drummer) in late 2011 to work on "Banks Of Eden".
So, less than 3 years.
It is true, though, that they didn't release an album between 2007 and 2012.
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Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
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^ You guys only joke like that because you know he's not here to see it or defend himself.
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Peter Baumann left Tangerine Dream while Green Desert was being worked on, and he rejoined for Phaedra. Then he left again and Michael Hoenig filled in for a tour of Australia. Baumann returned for Stratosfear, the US tour that gave us Encore, and the Sorcerer album before bailing again permanently.
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Helmut Koellen of Triumvirat left the band at the end of 1975; he returned and left again before the release of their 1977 album Pompeii. He died on May 3rd, 1977.
"and what music unites, man should not take apart"-Helmut Koellen
Didn't Wright rejoin(although not officially) at the end of the recording of MLOR? I believe he's only on two tracks.
That reminds me of the '98 breakup of Genesis. Tony Banks that was the perfect time for the band to break up, because they record/concert sales were dull and he want to have to start over at his age.
There were something like 9 months between the two Pros & Cons tours. I imagine Eric wanted to get on with his own career, as I'm sure he still owed Warners some albums. And he hijacked two of the musicians from Roger's band too, namely Tim Renwick and Chris Stainton. I would bet he was only contracted to do the one tour in the first place. And given the reports of Roger's "tyrannical" behavior at the time (Renwick said that Roger was easy to work with in the early rehearsals, but by the time they got to doing the dress rehearsals, that changed) , I wouldn't be surprised if Eric said "I'm not doing that again".
I think one of the problems Roger had was he played severely altered arrangements of the songs on those early solo tours. There was a comment in the Nicholas Schaeffner book about how Scott Page, who was the sax player on Pink Floyd's 87-89 era tours, went to see Roger when he came to whichever city it was in Canada where Pink Floyd were rehearsing for their tour. He said that Roger had a good band, and the new songs sounded good, but the Floyd material "sounded like funk songs". And I've heard a few bootlegs where he certainly was playing stuff that I'm sure made a lot of fans say "Wait, I want to hear the song I know from the record, not some revised arrangement". At least Pink Floyd (for better or worse) played the songs the way the fans knew them and love them (personally, I prefer their approach during their first decade, where there was a high degree of jamming and improvisation during the shows...that kinda went away when Roger decided he literally wanted to play from behind a wall...).
Music isn't about chops, or even about talent - it's about sound and the way that sound communicates to people. Mike Keneally
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