List of musicians changed career with better success...
The recordings of LZ, Procol Harum and the Beatles are hard to beat.That’s very general and trivial statement. Hard to beat commercially -- true; Hard to beat in terms of musical complexity and creativity -- not true at all. Agree that Neil Young became better commercially than with CSNY, but in terms of music and creativity not. To me he's perfect rectangle with no curves or mis-shapes. Longer story short -- boring. |
David Sylvian solo albums are almost all with Japan members so it seems he never left Japan only changed everything to his name. Japan as band had a few mishaps releasing some pop rock cuap. tostadosunidos, Clapton's "Cream" career is the best and his solo album live "Rainbow Concert" revealed his best qualities. Also "Slowhand" album can get kinda similar attention. Diana Ross had larger commercial success, but with Supremes the material was substantially more creative and interesting. She downgraded her music to become more pop and make more money. |
Members of CAN, Japan and King Crimson are very creative by nature. They had equally successful times within and outside their bands. Robert Fripp, Bill Brufford (Earthworks) Steve Jensen Richard Barbieri David Sylvian Ruichi Sakamoto Mick Karn Mark Isham Holger Czukai Irmin Schmidt Michael Karoli Rebop Kwaku Bah Damo Suzuki Check their solo albums. They've been also collaborating tight with Brian Eno as well. Another genius outside of Roxy Music is actually Phil Manzanera who's skills are far beyond the qualities of Roxy Music. He also formed his own band "Explorers". None mentioned Pat Metheny and Mike Brecker who started with Joni Mitchel... |
sbank1,413 posts09-17-2016 10:51am@czarivey Really? He never got radio airplay, not even on college radio. sbank, His (Dave Sylvian’s) music was never radioplay standard. The venues he booked were always full EVERY time I purchased ticket for his live performance. Similar to David Sylvian, I went to Nina Hagen who performed at substantially smaller venue Joe's pub and another time Coney Island High in NYC. Both of these standing venues were full of people... I remember her lipstick smooch on my cheek after flowers and signature on my records :-) This under-appreciation than is I guess typical for all obscure bands. I might not disagree, but perhaps lost in definition. Now I know that bands or artists that never got into radio play are all UNDER-appreciated right? |
