Echoes

Remember Robert Fripp? I mentioned him in the first post, along with the California Guitar Trio. And The Police? I just mentioned them above. Andy Summers was a guitarist with The Police. He was also a guitarist with Robert Fripp on two albums in the eighties: I Advance Masked and Bewitched.

From the 1982 album I Advance Masked, Here is Andy Summers and Robert Fripp with Hardy Country

[video=youtube;hbt50-kaQgI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbt50-kaQgI[/video]

If I mention Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins, you might think of the early years of Genesis. Gabriel was one of the founding members, and Collins joined in 1970. Both have had successful careers outside of Genesis too. Works from Genesis and from Gabriel and Collins' solo work have been posted in other threads.

With the departure of Gabriel in 1975, Phil Collins became the lead vocalist for Genesis. He also joined the Jazz Fusion band Brand X.

So, from the 1977 album Moroccan Roll, I wanted to post Sun in the Night which features Phil Collins on vocals, but I can't find it on YT. From the same Brand X album, here's Disco Suicide

[video=youtube;FdAPEEW-OUA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdAPEEW-OUA[/video]

The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway was the last album and tour with Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins together in Genesis. The band enlisted Brian Eno's work with them on the album in exchange for Phil Collins drums on Another Green World.

While this album never made any charts, Brian Eno's 1975 studio album is still highly acclaimed. With Phil Collins on drums and percussion, Percy Jones (also from Brand X) on fretless bass, and John Cale on viola, here is Brian Eno's Sky Saw

[video=youtube;KXDrTZMVINo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXDrTZMVINo[/video]

Peter Gabriel launched his solo career rights after leaving Genesis with his self-titled release in 1976. His next three studio albums were also self-titled. In 1986, Peter released his fifth studio album and the first one to be titled (world-wide): So. This album produced three top hits in the UK, including the duet with Kate Bush, Don't Give Up.

The song Red Rain was also on the 1986 So. Ten years later, in 1996, Peter Gabriel was joined on stage with Natalie Merchant (10,000 Maniacs) and Michael Stipe (REM) for this performance of Red Rain

[video=youtube;N2cdP14Idyw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2cdP14Idyw[/video]

Peter Gabriel often worked with Robert Fripp. Gabriel's first solo album includes the track Here Comes the Flood. Personally, I prefer the version on Robert Fripp's 1979 album Exposure. I might not be the only one – even Peter Gabriel considered the version on his solo album to be over produced.

Phil Collins also worked on some of Exposure, but not with his former Genesis band-mate.

From the 1979 release Exposure, Peter Gabriel and Robert Fripp with Here Comes the Flood

[video=youtube;MdwLhu9bZAE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdwLhu9bZAE[/video]

The only constant member of King Crimson, Robert Fripp has collaborated with an incredible amount of performers over many years in addition to a prolific amount of solo work.

In the late seventies, Fripp worked out of NYC, recording with Blondie, the Roches, and others while he continued to explore the Frippertronics techniques he had developed with Brian Eno.

Exposure was originally planned as a trilogy of albums from Robert Fripp, Daryl Hall (of Hall and Oates) and Peter Gabriel. While collaborative material appeared on albums from each artist, the trilogy did not work as planned – there was no continuity, timing of releases, and so on.

Many of the songs on Exposure were co-written by Robert Fripp, Daryl Hall, and Joanna Walton. Joanna was Robert Fripp's girlfriend at the time and died as a passenger on Pan Am Flight 102 when it was bombed in 1988.

So once again, from the 1979 release Exposure, here is Robert Fripp on guitar, Daryl Hall with vocals, Phil Collins on drums, Tony Levin on bass, Sid McGinnis on pedal steel guitar, and Brian Eno on synthesizer with North Star

[video=youtube;eeRJQ8T4r98]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeRJQ8T4r98[/video]

Lastly (for this session), I've mentioned Tony Levin a few times now. He is perhaps best known for his work with King Crimson and his use of the Chapman Stick. What's that, you ask? Well - if anyone actually asks, I'll do a posting session on that.

Here's an official music video for Speedbump from Tony Levin's 2007 solo album, Stick Man. (Yeah, that's Tony staring in the video.)

[video=youtube;8fuQBmi6Ca4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fuQBmi6Ca4[/video]

Beautify America: Decorate a tree branch with a politician today!

I mentioned this in another thread. Love Over Gold was the fourth album from Dire Straits. Mark Knopfler wrote a few songs for this album that did not make it - one, Private Dancer, he gave to Tina Turner for her return album of the same name.

This 1982 release saw a couple of hits with Industrial Disease and Private Investigations. However, Industrial Disease was the only track under six minutes. David Fricke, of Rolling Stone Magazine, gave the album a great review and praised the 14-plus minute centerpiece, Telegraph Road. Fricke concluded that "in a period when most pop music is conceived purely as product, Love Over Gold dares to put art before airplay."

If you heard Dire Straits only on the radio over the years, there's a good chance that you haven't heard this - 14 minute songs don't get much airplay. So, here is Dire Straits and Telegraph Road.

[video=youtube;dd3btVhwr48]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd3btVhwr48[/video]

One more from Phil Collins and Brand X. This is the last album from that combination, released in 1982. Brand X never achieved the popularity of Genesis. So, while this technically from the eighties, it doesn't "bring me back". I think the majority of Phil Collins through the eighties never even heard this. So, I'll post it here, continuing my "other works by Collins and Gabriel" theme...

[video=youtube;mPNHiJceeA0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPNHiJceeA0[/video]

OK, this will be a little more upbeat perhaps. I won't say much about these next few pieces. However, they have something in common. I'll reveal that later on.

[video=youtube;x_o_2P6TYAk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_o_2P6TYAk[/video]

Depeche Mode
[video=youtube;glh7ZqeGh6g]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glh7ZqeGh6g[/video]

James
[video=youtube;5yXqRiXMru0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yXqRiXMru0[/video]

Coldplay
[video=youtube;1bJMxhvVf0o]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bJMxhvVf0o[/video]

Live version because it is cool. But it is the original recording that fits the theme of these past few posts.[video=youtube;PIvn1oOVcVQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIvn1oOVcVQ[/video]

Well, if anyone reads this, all the above albums were produced by Brian Eno.
[video=youtube;LksaiscUm2U]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LksaiscUm2U[/video]

And now drums of a very different nature
[video=youtube;EJhO8iZaR1o]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJhO8iZaR1o[/video]

[video=youtube;Vi4LKplBMAw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi4LKplBMAw[/video]

[video=youtube;orbCZooMvQs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orbCZooMvQs[/video]

[video=youtube;R32JzPRKLaw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R32JzPRKLaw[/video]