100 most interesting artist CVs

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Just watching an Ankst DVD of the Fflaps and it said that someone called Dave Anderson produced some of their stuff and that he was also in Hawkwind.

Looked him up on AMG and he's also down as:

David Gray Century Ends (1993) Piano, Organ (Hammond), Producer, Wurlitzer
David Gray EP's 92-94 (2001) Producer

and:

My Bloody Valentine Isn't Anything (1988) Engineer

So he's number one.
Who else has a surprsingly diverse or interesting CV?

― mei (mei), Sunday, 31 August 2003 09:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Jannick Top to thread

― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Sunday, 31 August 2003 11:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Rick Wakeman and Jimmy Page to thread

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 31 August 2003 12:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Just watching an Ankst DVD of the Fflaps and it said that someone called Dave Anderson produced some of their stuff and that he was also in Hawkwind.

Even better than that, he was in Amon Duul II - on "Phallus Dei" and "Yeti"!!!!!!!!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Sunday, 31 August 2003 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)

AMG just seems to be a boring old online rock encyclopaedia. In fact, it's an absurdist 'reality accelerator', a time-chewer, a 'speculative fiction engine', a huge and outrageous 'what if?' machine. It takes any two people from any two decades in the history of popular music, and, if they have even remotely similar names, decides that they are the same person.

For instance, John Smith, born 1938, according to AMG worked with both Blur and Chu Berry (one of the top tenor saxophonists of the 1930s). Intergalactic! Planetary!

― Momus (Momus), Sunday, 31 August 2003 13:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Then there's John 'BJ John' Smith (don't ask), whose AMG credits range outrageously: this distinctively-named fellow was apparently a remixer to Hall and Oates, a marketing promoter on an album of harp music, played guitar on 'Birth of Bebop, 1937-1945', engineered Skunk Anansie's 1995 album, and played banjo on 'Uproarious 20s in Dixieland'.

Pleased to meet you, BJ, um, what was your name again?

― Momus (Momus), Sunday, 31 August 2003 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)

... hmmmmmmmmm but Dave Anderson was in Hawkwind and Amon Duul II and DID work with My Bloody Valentine as well as on lotsa cool Rough Trade records - as to whether he worked with David Gray, who cares?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Sunday, 31 August 2003 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Howard Devoto:

15+ years, to this day as far as I know, as a photo archivist, doing the incredibly tedious-sounding work of scanning and labelling old photos.

― Lucas R., Monday, 1 September 2003 06:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Al Kooper owns this thread

― doo doo smak, Monday, 1 September 2003 12:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Tony Levin: Bass on three or more albums for Joan Armatrading, Alice Cooper, Peter Gabriel, King Crimson, John Lennon, Herbie Mann, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Yoko Ono, Lou Reed, Carly Simon, Paul Simon, James Taylor, Warren Zevon

And also an album or two for: Bozzio Levin Stevens, Tracy Chapman, Cher, Dire Straits, Brian Ferry, Tim Finn, Nancy Griffith, Maria McKee, Don McLean, Stevie Nicks, Pink Floyd, Andy Pratt, Robbie Robertson, Ringo Starr, Yes

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 1 September 2003 13:15 (twenty-two years ago)

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