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Thread: Surprising Prog 'song writing' collaborations?

  1. #26
    Quote Originally Posted by Progbear View Post
    Has anyone mentioned the Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. songwriting credit on Ambrosia’s “Nice, Nice, Very Nice”? It doesn’t really count as a “collaboration,” though, since apparently the band just asked for his permission to use the poem from Cat’s Cradle as the basis for a song, with Joe Puerta padding it out with extra lyrics.

    Makes me think of some of the funny songwriting credits found on the Solar Plexus albums, though (Norman Mailer, Lawrence Ferlenghetti).



    Lawton was in LF and LHS at the same time. I don’t think LF was anyone’s main/only gig, as they were all doing lots of sessions at the time, the band did lots of exploitation records for dodgy labels under fake band names (Pink Mice, Hell Preachers Inc., The Fantastic Pikes, etc.) and some of them (for sure keyboardist Peter Hecht) were also in James Last’s orchestra!
    I remember at the time Hell Preachers Inc was rumoured to include some members of Deep Purple.

  2. #27
    Peter Hamill and Herbert Grönemeyer.

    And Heinz Rudolf Kunze had some prog keyboard-players, like Hendrik Schaper and Matthias Ulmer, who also wrote songs with him.

  3. #28
    Quote Originally Posted by Rarebird View Post
    Peter Hamill and Herbert Grönemeyer.
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  4. #29
    Quote Originally Posted by GuitarGeek View Post
    So are the "exploitation" records worth looking into?
    Pink Mice is fun if you don’t mind some pretty cheesy classical rock (seriously, I used some tracks off of In Synthesizer Sound as ringtones, and people thought they were stock ringtones that came with the phone!). The Fantastic Pikes albums throw in pop song interpretations and are even cheesier! (The second even recycles a couple of Pink Mice tracks.) If you liked the Asterix album, at least the songs with Georg Mavros singing (John Lawton isn’t on it), you may also like the Electric Food album. It and most of the other exploito albums they did or were involved with (Hell Preachers Inc., Bokaj Retsiem) are rather “psych-sploitation.” The Children of Quechua is “folk-sploitation.” The Brother T. & the Family album is blues-rock. They also did several cheap knock-off cover albums as the Air Mail.
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  5. #30
    Wetton and Downes for (but not with) Agnetha Fältskog.

    Henry
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  6. #31
    As far as Peter Hammill collaborating with Herbert Gronemeyer and Alice (pronounced, so I'm told, A-lee-chay), that probably wouldn't mean anything to most people on this board. But Herbert G is a major pop star in Germany and sold several million units there; he's also popular in other European countries. So, yeah, him collaborating with PH would probably seem a bit off-the-wall to Europeans. I have to say that I was shocked to see Herbert G on a PBS-broadcasted concert here in the states about five or six years ago. Bono walked out at one stage and the two did a duet. The music was beyond cheesy. Herbert G played the Chicago Theater around that time and I was stunned as it's a huge four - five thousand seat venue. But there is a huge German population in Chi-town so maybe that's what they were counting on to fill it.

    Alice (an Italian artist), likewise, might have seemed an odd pairing for PH (but probably not really as PH himself had some major mainstream success in that country). She had a pretty varied career but she certainly experienced major pop success in the 80s in Italy.

    More surprising (and I'm not joking here) is the collaboration between PH and Jo Bogaert a few years ago (which has yet to see the light of day). JB was the mastermind behind Technotronic, who had hits with Get Your Booty On The Floor and Pump Up The Jams.

  7. #32
    Chris Squire and Phil Lynott wrote a song together (since lost to the world).

    Henry
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  8. #33
    Quote Originally Posted by bondegezou View Post
    Chris Squire and Phil Lynott wrote a song together (since lost to the world).

    Henry
    Seriously?!

  9. #34
    Quote Originally Posted by GuitarGeek View Post
    Seriously?!
    Yes. Squire told the story. They met. Got drunk. Wrote a song together.

    Henry
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