The Pilgrim's Progress of John Wetton

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Roxy Music > King Crimson > Uriah Heep > Asia. Ahem...
Has their ever been a more bizarre career path in rock?
Or are critics all out-of-touch elitists, and musician really are the best and final judges of their own product, however mystifying it may appear to the rest of us? ('Critic' in the broadest sense of the term - anybody who forms an opinion on anything they listen to, and tells other people about it.)
"Fuck King Crimson fans" - JW, 1984

― tarden, Thursday, 21 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Roxy Music > King Crimson > Uriah Heep > Asia. Ahem... Has their ever been a more bizarre career path in rock?

Sure there has - Midge Ure. Check it - Slik (Bay City Rollers knock-off), Rich Kids (punky-power-pop), brief tenure as 2nd guitarist in Thin Lizzy (whuh?), & of course the post-exclamation- mark Ultravox. Then presumably a solo career of some sort, one can only hazard a guess what kind of evil shit that would've involved.

― duane, Thursday, 21 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Guys like that, there's no point in wondering who's best suited to judge their output - they're just fuckin hacks anyway. Like John Wetton or Midge Ure themselves could seriously see what they did as their "art", jesus you gotta hope not anyway.

― duane, Thursday, 21 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Phil Collins' career path equals John Wetton's, fer sublimeness -> ridiculousness. I'm sure he must have played on at least one record w/wetton. flaming youth -> early genesis -> weird/interesting guest appearances (eg eno, peter banks) -> brand x -> late genesis -> solo

It just gets worse & worse, doesn't it?

xoxo

― Norman Fay, Thursday, 21 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Full majestic trajectory = Palmer James Group, Tetrad, Mogul Thrash, Family, King Crimson, Roxy Music, Uriah Heep, UK, Jack- Knife (= Tetrad), Wishbone Ash, Asia, Atoll, Genesis (reformed version): must be some kind of medal for this!!

Important news = Qango!!!!

― mark s, Thursday, 21 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Don't forget the fact that he played bass on Eno's "Here Come the Warm Jets"! So maybe that makes him a "Warm Jet" or something.

― Tim Baier, Thursday, 21 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'Warm Jet' = streak of piss (cue tarden with a list of other pissing related songs...)

― Andrew L, Thursday, 21 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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