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Garfield-1-23-23 t1_iu594mp wrote

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

As a teen in the early '80s I was so into Yes that I refused to listen to any other band unless they were connected a la six degrees of Kevin Bacon to Yes via common musicians. So King Crimson was OK because of Bill Bruford, Peter Gabriel was OK because of his bassist Tony Levin who was also in King Crimson, Vangelis was OK because of Jon and Vangelis etc. etc.

My local record store owner knew about this fetish and one day called me out for it, saying I was fucking stupid and missing out on a lot of great music because of it. He was of course totally right.

Edit: I just remembered that one of the bands he turned me on to was Big Country, which at the time had no connection at all to Yes. Ironically enough, they later did a collab with Kate Bush who had later on sung on a Peter Gabriel song.

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tezoatlipoca t1_iu5a6i5 wrote

Having said that, Six Degrees of Yes kinda covers most bands from the 70s and 80s.

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Garfield-1-23-23 t1_iu5ao6n wrote

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).

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tezoatlipoca t1_iu5cet1 wrote

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

Got nothing for The Who tho.

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Garfield-1-23-23 t1_iu5d11u wrote

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.

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tezoatlipoca t1_iu5e7vh wrote

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.

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Garfield-1-23-23 t1_iu62mgb wrote

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.

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