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    Styx & REO....... you don't have to watch it all, i don't wanna be responsible for a member pulling their eyes out of their sockets.


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    The Beach Boys and the Four Seasons did an ultra obscure single, "East Meets West", in 1984.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ12pAM9Ujc

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    Chicago have toured on a double-bill with Earth, Wind, and Fire, and the finale puts most or all of both bands onstage together for a few big hits. But from what I recall hearing, they don't really take advantage of that - the horns, for example, just double the same three parts instead of figuring out full six-part lines, and the vocalists trade off, but again, don't build the huge harmony sound they could.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rarebird View Post
    How about 3 bands at the same time?
    Rocklegenden (Karat, City and Puhdys) - Sternenstunden.
    I never heard of any of these bands.

    They seem like they must be arena acts in Germany, but not all that many other places.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rarebird View Post
    Rocklegenden (Karat, City and Puhdys) - Sternenstunden.
    There’s also the Sachsendreier (Electra, Lift & Stern-Combo Meissen).

    And how about City Boy and Van der Graaf Generator?



    EDIT: Oops! Looks like someone did mention it. Just vocals except for Jaxon, who plays the sax solo.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Baribrotzer View Post
    I never heard of any of these bands.

    They seem like they must be arena acts in Germany, but not all that many other places.
    No they were 3 bands from the DDR, which were quite big there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Progbear View Post
    There’s also the Sachsendreier (Electra, Lift & Stern-Combo Meissen).
    Yes, they performed together, but just like Rocklegenden, they mostly played their own show and then something together. I have to look for one song they do together.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rarebird View Post
    No they were 3 bands from the DDR, which were quite big there.
    They were effectively the biggest bands of the GDR.

    Less interesting from a "prog" perspective than Bayon, Stern Meissen or Lift, although the forerunners of Karat, Panta Rhei, were actually quite good.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BravadoNJ View Post
    Styx & REO....... you don't have to watch it all, i don't wanna be responsible for a member pulling their eyes out of their sockets.

    Great version!

    Also recorded a song together called Can't Stop Rockin', co-written by Cronin & Shaw - a different tune from REO's Building A Bridge opening track.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scrotum Scissor View Post
    They were effectively the biggest bands of the GDR.

    Less interesting from a "prog" perspective than Bayon, Stern Meissen or Lift, although the forerunners of Karat, Panta Rhei, were actually quite good.
    I don't care if it's prog or not. Besides REO Speedwagen isn't prog as well.

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    ^ I never insinuated any significance as to whether anything was/wasn't "prog".
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    Quote Originally Posted by Baribrotzer View Post
    Chicago have toured on a double-bill with Earth, Wind, and Fire, and the finale puts most or all of both bands onstage together for a few big hits. But from what I recall hearing, they don't really take advantage of that - the horns, for example, just double the same three parts instead of figuring out full six-part lines, and the vocalists trade off, but again, don't build the huge harmony sound they could.
    They also released a digital EP with each group doing one of the other's songs, plus a new song with both groups. Was quite good and has since disappeared.

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    Maybe not fully what the OP means, but what about:

    Eddie Howell: The Man From Manhattan, featuring Freddy Mercury and Brian May:



    and the Back Again version:


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    Gallagher & Lyle were part of McGuinness Flint broke away to become a duo act - then later joined Ronnie Lane's Slim Chance.

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    Quote Originally Posted by interbellum View Post
    Maybe not fully what the OP means, but what about:

    Eddie Howell: The Man From Manhattan, featuring Freddy Mercury and Brian May:



    and the Back Again version:

    Wow, that's definitely an example of guest artists turning a tune into way more than it would have been without them.

    There's been lots in this thread though that captured the spirit of what I was asking. The REO/Styx Can't Stop Rockin' is exactly the kind of thing I'm thinking of. Also Sternenstunden (I found a studio version), East Meets West and the Motorhead/Girlschool. The Corea/Vai thing is incredible as is PinioL!

    Still, it looks pretty rare. Considering the countles bands and long history of rock it's a little surprising more haven't tried this. The results tend to be as good or better than what the bands normally do apart, although it doesn't seem to have produced big hits. The little musical details they end up coordinating between themselves for backing vox, rhythm section accents and things like that tend to be unexpected and ear-tickling. Although the Max Webster/Rush example is a song by Mitchell/Dubois that they invited Rush along for, the egos seem to have been completely set aside and both bands conspired to make a powerful recording.

    You'd think a record company would have pushed for a U2/Coldplay single or something like that by now, but there just doesn't seem to have been much of it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Baribrotzer View Post
    Chicago have toured on a double-bill with Earth, Wind, and Fire, and the finale puts most or all of both bands onstage together for a few big hits. But from what I recall hearing, they don't really take advantage of that - the horns, for example, just double the same three parts instead of figuring out full six-part lines, and the vocalists trade off, but again, don't build the huge harmony sound they could.
    The thread specified studio recordings but if we're branching out into live shows, then Chicago did the same thing with The Beach Boys on their summer '75 tour. Unrelated, but metal band Manowar also did a show a few years back with all of the past and current members together on stage for one song - three guitarists and three drummers!
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    The Fucking Champs and Trans Am combined to form The Fucking Am, and the amazing album "Gold" was released. They actually did another album under the name The Trans Champs, but that was less good.

    Melvins did an album with Lustmord which was great, but then, there have been thousands of "collaboration" albums. But speaking of Melvins, the duo Big Business became absorbed into their line-up for a while.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BravadoNJ View Post
    Styx & REO....... you don't have to watch it all, i don't wanna be responsible for a member pulling their eyes out of their sockets.
    I'd be too busy jamming screwdrivers into my ears.

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    There’s also this monstrosity: Golden Earring, Earth & Fire, Shoes, Dizzy Man’s Band, Ekseption, Tee Set, probably a couple of other bands, all playing at the same time:

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    This isn't quite what the OP meant, but Hoketus, a modern-classical Minimalist piece by Louis Andriessen, requires two identically-configured bands to play. Each consists of panpipes, alto sax, Rhodes, piano, electric bass, and congas. And they don't play the same part at all - almost, but not quite, which is the whole point of the piece.
    Each band is set up on the opposite side of a room, and the result sounds like this:



    It's simultaneously amazing as f*** and annoying as f***. If you want them to get to the point, skip to 22:30, and you'll hear something that sounds a little like Red-era Crimson, played by classical musicians with peculiar spacial panning. Incidentally, the sax player with the bald forehead and glasses is Ken Thompson, who was or is in the Cuneiform band Gutbucket. He's now in the Bang-on-a-Can All-Stars, and is leading a band of students for this piece.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Baribrotzer View Post
    This isn't quite what the OP meant, but Hoketus, a modern-classical Minimalist piece by Louis Andriessen, requires two identically-configured bands to play. Each consists of panpipes, alto sax, Rhodes, piano, electric bass, and congas. And they don't play the same part at all - almost, but not quite, which is the whole point of the piece.
    Each band is set up on the opposite side of a room, and the result sounds like this:



    It's simultaneously amazing as f*** and annoying as f***. If you want them to get to the point, skip to 22:30, and you'll hear something that sounds a little like Red-era Crimson, played by classical musicians with peculiar spacial panning. Incidentally, the sax player with the bald forehead and glasses is Ken Thompson, who was or is in the Cuneiform band Gutbucket. He's now in the Bang-on-a-Can All-Stars, and is leading a band of students for this piece.
    Along the same lines - Darius Milhaud's String Quartets #s 14 & 15 can be played simultaneously as the String Octet #1. So here are the University of Missouri Graduate String Quartet and the Esterhazy String Quartet playing together:


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    Quote Originally Posted by jake View Post
    Along the same lines - Darius Milhaud's String Quartets #s 14 & 15 can be played simultaneously as the String Octet #1. So here are the University of Missouri Graduate String Quartet and the Esterhazy String Quartet playing together:

    Wim Mertens did a whole box of pieces, that could be combined, which someone did:

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    It ("Hoketus") is indeed both as amazing and as annoying as, uh, all get-out. I don't really see anything Red-era-KC-ish about it, but it's very cool. But then, I'm a big fan of hocketing.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sturgeon's Lawyer View Post
    It ("Hoketus") is indeed both as amazing and as annoying as, uh, all get-out. I don't really see anything Red-era-KC-ish about it, but it's very cool. But then, I'm a big fan of hocketing.
    The part at the very end, where Andriessen sums the whole thing up over the last three or four minutes, can be heard as a similar changing series of dissonant hard rock riffs. Think of "Larks' Tongues Pt. II", or the tune "Red". Andriessen probably thought of it as blues licks of a sort - he's evidently a big R&B and jazz nut, not so much a rock fan - but to me there's a resemblance to Crimson. Andriessen's original Seventies performances by his original ensemble, of which only a few short filmed snippets seem to exist, absolutely kicked ass - they attacked that back-and-forth like a punk band.
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