Name your fave solo album from the big 5 !

[Facelift]

I agree that the Bruford albums are not solo albums. Bruford was a band. With that in mind, I'd go:

Squire - Fish Out of Water
Peter Gabriel - II
Fripp - Exposure
Syd - Madcap Laughs
No ELP.

[Progbear]

• Rick Wakeman: Six Wives of Henry VIII
• Peter Gabriel: I
• Keith Emerson: Inferno
• Does McDonald & Giles count? If not: Exposure.
• Nick Mason’s Fictitious Sports

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MIKE (a.k.a. "Progbear")

"'Thin Thighs For Your Man.' But I don't *like* men with thin thighs" --Daria

N.P.:“Register Magister”-Fish/Glory of the Inner Force

[Adrian]

Chris Squire - Fish Out of Water
Peter Gabriel - So
Adrian Belew - Mr. Music Head
David Gilmour - On an Island

I've never heard any ELP solo albums.

[Reid]

Bruford was a band, not solo projects.

The Steve Howe Album

[Digital_Man]

Bruford was a band, not solo projects.

The Steve Howe Album

Very under rated. I like the variety of styles on here and Steve seems to play almost everything that has strings on it. In particular I like "Pennants" and "All's a chord." I would say over all I prefer this to Beginnings.

[Dodie]

Steve Hackett - Please Don't Touch
Peter Gabriel - Secret World Live (I assume we're allowed live albums)
David Gilmour - Live in Gdansk
Roger Waters - Amused to Death
Steve Howe - The Steve Howe Album

Much as though I'm fond of ELP and King Crimson (and for that matter, Rick Wakeman, Chris Squire, Tony Banks, etc.), I can't think of any relevant solo albums that I prize all that highly.
However, I really must listen to Bruford's albums one of these days. I've only got a compilation. Yes, Bruford was like a band, but then so was Steve Hackett in the late 70s/early 80s (and again now).
Does ABWH count as a solo album that happens to be by 4/5 of the best line-up Yes ever had?

[No Pride]

I'm not sure if the Bruford band albums should count- it was a band, just led and named after Bill.

It's my impression that "Feels Good to Me" was a solo project and after that, it became a band. FGtM is credited to Bill Bruford, One of a Kind and Gradually Going Tornado are by Bruford (the band). So even though OoaK is my fave out of those three, I'll list:

Bill Bruford - Feels Good to Me

runners up:

Mike Rutherford - Smallcreep's Day
Peter Gabriel - So
Trevor Rabin - Can't Look Away
Adrian Belew - Twang Bar King

[No Pride]

I have named the big 5 bands from the mid 70's period..i.e. Yes , Genesis , ELP , KC & PF.

We never have and never will come to a universal agreement on who the "Big 5" were, but yours comes pretty close to mine, except I'd relace PF with GG. I'm not basing my criteria on who was most popular, in case that isn't obvious.

[simon moon]

Hackett - Voyage of the Acolyte
Squire - Fish Out of Water
Buford - Feels Good to Me
Emerson - Inferno

I don't put PF any where close to my top 5.

[itserik]

KC - Bruford's One of a Kind - way out in front.
Yes - tough one. Probably Fish Out of Water followed closely by Olias of Sunhillow
Genesis - Hackett's Voyage of the Acolyte and Spectral Mornings tied. Actually, Beyond the Shrouded Horizon is way up there too. Following a handful of Hackett album's would by Tony Banks' A Curious Feeling.
PF - Gilmour's s/t
ELP - not a fan

[rapidfirerob]

Out of those five, About Face.

[MYSTERIOUS TRAVELLER]

I have named the big 5 bands from the mid 70's period

You have named *your* "Big 5" and everyone has *their* "Big 5" of the classic Prog era. Some of us who were there in the late 60s-mid 70s consider Mahavishnu and Return To Forever and other Prog that's not Symph to be a vital part of that worldwide musical phenomenon. There truly is no 'one and only' Big 5

My 'Big 5' of the classic era Prog music are PF, MO, KC, RTF and PFM so the best solos from those are:
DG - s/t
Billy Cobham - Spectrum
BB - OoaK
Stanley Clarke - s/t
Mauro Pagani - s/t

My 'Big 5' of Symph or any other particular style of Prog would be different of course.

[wideopenears]

Going with your Big 5, I'll say, in order of my preference:
Fish Out of Water
Twang Bar King
Security
Gilmour S/T
for ELP, I'm gonna say Emerson's latest album.

[Dave (in MA)]

It's my impression that "Feels Good to Me" was a solo project and after that, it became a band.

That said, I'm sticking with FGTM as best solo album from an ex-Yes guy and OOAK as best solo album from an ex-KC. So there.

[MysteryChallenger]

Jon Anderson - Olias of Sunhillow
Anthony Phillips - Wise After the Event
Robert Fripp - Exposure
Dave Gilmour - s/t
...
The original definition of The Big Five (as far as I knew), ie from Progression magazine/ John Collinge back in the mid-90s, included JT and not PF.

[Rufus]

[QUOTE)
The original definition of The Big Five (as far as I knew), ie from Progression magazine/ John Collinge back in the mid-90s, included JT and not PF.[/QUOTE]

Unbelievable!

[Dave (in MA)]

The original definition of The Big Five (as far as I knew), ie from Progression magazine/ John Collinge back in the mid-90s, included JT and not PF.

As it should.

[trurl]

I shall name my fave solo album Ignatius, Barer of the Eternal Flame. I just like the sound of it. Or, Bill.

[Jon]

I thought Jethro Tull would be in the BIG FIVE rather than ELP.

[Progatron]

I shall name my fave solo album Ignatius, Barer of the Eternal Flame. I just like the sound of it. Or, Bill.

I'd go with Ignatius, Barer of the Eternal Flame. It rolls off the tongue easier.

[Finn_McCool]

Olias
Smallcreep
Here
On An Island
Side One of Works Vol. 1 (Emerson solo)

[trurl]

Olias, Small Creep Here on an Island has a good ring too.

[Rufus]

I thought Jethro Tull would be in the BIG FIVE rather than ELP.

ELP was the biggest of the 5 when prog was at it's peak ! If there`s an argument for JT replacing anyone it would be Genesis !

[gregory]

Jon Anderson Olias of Sunhillow
Robert Fripp Let The Power Fall
Keith Emerson Band s/t
Syd Barrett Barrett
Steve Hackett Please Don't Touch

[NogbadTheBad]

With 20:20 hindsight my big 5 is Genesis, Yes, PF, KC, & JT.

Of course my real Big 5 is Univers Zero, Present, Henry Cow, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum & Thinking Plague but that's just me.