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So does Heatwave.
Late 90s Swiss instrumental bands Thřnk and Steamboat Switzerland both played without guitars. Great, powerful stuff from both.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
^^ right
Michel Delory – guitar, also on UZED
Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-a...re-happy-hour/
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?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
Manfred Mann Chapter Three
a couple from France:
Urban Sax
Human
Supersister
Clouds
Circus ( Swiss) - in my opinion, on the same level, as Island Pictures( and I think I like Circus a tad more, than Island)
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
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
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.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
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
Triumvirat? Don't recall them using guitars... maybe they did...
Confirmed Bachelors: the dramedy hit of 1883...
Weather Report
Il Barcentro
Kyomi Otaka,Gary Willis,Dave Weckl
Hiromi 3 piece
WUME
Tunnels
Soft Machine
The Muffins
NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF STUPID PEOPLE IN LARGE GROUPS!
Let me add an oddity from the dutch scene. Elluffant and their Release Concert LP from 1972.
Yugo-prog band Opus were guitar-less and they released an album in 1975
There might be some more in that Non-British Canterbury thread.
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.
Guest guitarists? Not on the albums surely? The Hendrix thing is a bit of an urban myth I think.
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.
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