List of musicians changed career with better success...


Hi I followed musicians from certain bands that were much higher class and caliber than the band they used to play and here’s my nominees:

1. Mike Stern -- Blood Sweat and Tears reached his prime as virtuoso fusion guitarist and set up quite a few interesting projects
2. John Paul Jones -- Led Zeppelin. He can play various instruments and created great projects especially one with Diamanda Galas which is far more creative than his carreer in Led Zeppelin.
3. Andy Summers -- Police became jazz guitarist and created great albums in 90’s
4. Gary Brooker -- Procol Harum -- pianist and vocal of Procol Harum. His solo albums are more interesting than ones with Procol Harum
5. Colin James Hay -- Men At Work -- multi-instrumentalist, bassist and vocal released very few albums that are definitely beyond the class of Man At Work
6. Steve Stevens -- guitarist who performed with Billy Idol created great solo albums...
7. Finally among the Beatles, I believe the most successful solo career that goes beyond the Beatles I believe belongs to George Harrison.

Welcome to chip-in...
czarivey

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Klaus Schulze became an icon of Electronic Music once he left Tangerine Dream, for me he is on the same level as Mike Oldfield in terms of never quite breaking into "mainstream" (thanks God!) but opening new ways for the youngsters who did.
David Sylvian since he left (or disbanded?) Japan.
Phil Collins post Genesis is a good  example of commercial success and (for my tastes) musical degradation...
@czarivey thank you for clearing my brain. I "discovered" Japan long after falling in love with Sylvian and never paid attention that his bandmates are still with him and that I actually hunt down their solo efforts as well. Thanks again!!!
@bondmanp No, I do not have Japan first three albums, but I really love how Sylvian is evolving. Just hope he wont "evolve" as far as Bjork did! ;-(
Love Peter Gabriel, have all his albums in heavy rotation! I was talking about Phil Collins whom I love as part of Genesis but not as a solo money-making machine.
@folkfreak thats how I personally "discovered" Sylvian: thru his collaborations w/Fripp and Czukay! Good call!!! His last efforts are sublime!!!!

@jmcgrogan2  I totally and fully-absolutely agree with you! But what exactly r u talking about?!