Garfield-1-23-23 t1_iu5ao6n wrote on October 28, 2022 at 5:31 PM

Reply to comment by tezoatlipoca in When music stores were way more prominent, did you ever just ask an employee for a random recommendation that ended up blowing your mind? What did they recommend? by duomtl

It's surprising how many weren't, though, even progressive bands. Pink Floyd wasn't connected, nor The Who (they may be by now, or maybe I missed the connections back then).

tezoatlipoca t1_iu5cet1 wrote on October 28, 2022 at 5:43 PM

Pink Floyd -> David Gilmour -> Kate Bush -> Peter Gabriel. :)

Got nothing for The Who tho.

Garfield-1-23-23 t1_iu5d11u wrote on October 28, 2022 at 5:47 PM

Huh, I knew David Gilmour "discovered" and produced Kate Bush, but I didn't realize he sang backup on "Pull Out the Pin". You would have improved my teenage years!

Now do Tangerine Dream. I listened to them but for the life of me I can't remember what the connection was. Those guys just never played with anybody else.

tezoatlipoca t1_iu5e7vh wrote on October 28, 2022 at 5:55 PM

He also produced several tracks on her debut and plays guitar on a few including Rockets Tail (cmon you recognize that Gilmour guitar wail immediately) which happens to be my fav. KB song. I dunno if its Gilmour or that really phat Fairlight CMI sound. Urngh.

No musical connection but Froese was friends with Bowie and Iggy and Eno. Franke did the music for Babylon 5? Thats all I got. Naw, the Krautrocke scene tends to be fairly insultated.

Garfield-1-23-23 t1_iu62mgb wrote on October 28, 2022 at 8:41 PM

Everybody was friends with Eno - even me back in the '90s, briefly. I was writing a piece of music composition software and sent him a beta copy and we interacted via email for a while.

I love "Rockets Tail" but I'm ashamed to say I never noticed that it was Gilmour on guitar although you're right it's obviously him. I think I was too discombobulated by the shrieking Bulgarians.