― Haikunym (Haikunym), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 16:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 16:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 16:50 (eighteen years ago) link
As an instrumentalist, Belew is a good pick. So is Mitchell Froom. But once we start talking about instrumentalists, we get into the "great sidemen" topic--Steve Gadd, etc.--whereas I wanted to focus on people who were official band members.
― The Mad Puffin, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 16:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Not Thaat Chuck, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 16:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― yr mom (yr mom), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 17:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 17:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 17:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 17:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 17:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 17:12 (eighteen years ago) link
Instrumentalists are likelier to band-hop. Like it or not, vocalists are more likely to personify a band and thus do less hopping. There are exceptions, of course, like Santana, but mostly, band and vocalist are closely linked in the public mind (you don't love or hate U2 without having your opinion of Bono figure heavily into it) for better or worse.
Successful vocalists tend to go solo, like McDonald and Morrissey, rather than entering other bands.
Winwood is a good comparison (though his solo work is now more well known than his work in bands).
― The Mad Puffin, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 17:13 (eighteen years ago) link
John Waite did both ...
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 17:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 17:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 17:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Mad Puffin, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 17:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 18:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 18:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 26 May 2005 02:14 (eighteen years ago) link
Various subsectors of the population would have it differently; how much overlap would there be in a Venn diagram of Squeeze fans v. Ace fans v. Mike + the Mechanics fans?
― The Mad Puffin, Thursday, 26 May 2005 11:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Not Thaat Chuck, Thursday, 26 May 2005 12:42 (eighteen years ago) link
And maybe Dave Edmunds?
― diedre mousedropping and a quarter (Dave225), Thursday, 26 May 2005 12:53 (eighteen years ago) link
The Brotherhood of Man ('United We Stand')White Plains ('My Baby Loves Loving')Edison Lighthouse ('Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes')The Pipkins ('Gimme Dat Ding')First Class ('Beach Baby')
― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Thursday, 26 May 2005 13:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Mad Puffin, Thursday, 26 May 2005 13:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 26 May 2005 13:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 26 May 2005 14:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Moosie Grosvenor (Arthur), Thursday, 26 May 2005 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link
ouch!
― Marco Damiani (Marco D.), Thursday, 26 May 2005 15:07 (eighteen years ago) link
Also, anyone who owns 21 Good Reasons wouldn't have to read liner notes to associate his voice with those songs. Of course, when I first saw this CD, just like most other people I know, the first words out of my mouth were "he sang on THAT?"
― billstevejim (billstevejim), Thursday, 26 May 2005 17:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Curt (cgould), Thursday, 26 May 2005 17:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― brianiac (briania), Thursday, 26 May 2005 18:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 26 May 2005 18:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sean Howe (seanmhowe), Thursday, 26 May 2005 18:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― brianiac (briania), Thursday, 26 May 2005 18:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 26 May 2005 18:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 26 May 2005 18:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 26 May 2005 21:09 (eighteen years ago) link
So then I noticed this thread came up, and I was determined to find out what awful, awful song that really was that I heard that day: give it a name, right? And I have succeeded. It is Mike & The Mechanics "The Living Years" and I want to invite you all to the bonfire that is going to take place, we are going to burn every single copy of this song we can find. It's going to be a blast. Join me at the end of October.
― The Silent Disco of Glastonbury (Bimble...), Friday, 27 May 2005 04:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 27 May 2005 05:45 (eighteen years ago) link
On the masterful How Long, etc.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 July 2018 01:19 (five years ago) link
Huh, apparently Carrack also played keys on The Smiths debut album. That's kinda like learning that Phil Collins played drums on Another Green World.
― enochroot, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 15:17 (five years ago) link
Is Jim Peterik one of these? How about Jim Messina?
― Lee626, Thursday, 12 July 2018 07:39 (five years ago) link
Carrack's on Michael Shelley's show right now, https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/93195 , and said that "How Long" was more or less his first lead vocal. Just backing vocals here and there prior to that. Amazing.
― herds of unmasked cletuses (WmC), Saturday, 16 May 2020 16:09 (three years ago) link