Sorry for the double post, but speaking of Nicky Hopkins, it is generally thought to be him playing the honky-tonk piano on The Kinks’ B-side “Berkeley Mews.” I consider this to be one of their best records, and the piano playing is unbelievable! In the UK and Canada, it was the B-side of “Lola”, while it didn’t come out in the US until the LP “The Kink Kronikles.” Now it’s on several CDs as a bonus track. I think that’s a guest appearance worth noting, and definitely one of my all-time faves.
Yes, indeed, and one of my proudest possessions is a copy of Al Stewart’s 1969 LP “Love Chronicles,” which Page provided with wonderfully tasteful fills. Since the last verse of the title song contained the first use of the “f word” on a regular label released aboveground album, the version sent to radio stations also contained a letter from Epic Records which reads:
I was fortunate enough to catch Mr. Stewart at a small venue in Napa, Ca. a year ago February, and got him to autograph both the album and the enclosed letter.
It was a live show, but how about Bill Bruford drumming with Genesis on the *Seconds Out * album? Check out him and Phil Collins together on The Cinema Show
Thomas Dolby did a lot of the keyboards on “Foreigner 4”. However, I believe this was before he hit it big with “She Blinded Me With Science”, I don’t think he was famous.
Another one from the “before they were famous” file – Stevie Ray Vaughan was the guitarist on David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” album.
Surprised nobody has mentioned Robbie Robertson’s fun guitar guest appearance on Joni Mitchell’s “Raised on Robbery” off of Court and Spark. It’s my favorite song on the album in part because of his performance.
Duane Allman, guitar, Loan Me A Dime, Boz Scaggs, Boz Scaggs.
Does Cheech & Chongs’s “Basketball Jones” count?
Because then that whole band gets my vote…
oooohhhh babeeeee ooooh-ooooh-oooooooooh
Wayne Shorter on Steely Dan’s Aja. In fact, everyone who appeared on that album - Larry Carlton rules on that and all the drummers: Bernard Purdie, Paul Humphrey, etc.
For that matter Wayne Shorter ( and John McLaughlin ) on the underappreciated Santana album Welcome, in particular the instrumental track Mother Africa ( with Carlos Santana playing bass ).
McLaughlin and Carlos Santana, both at that time followers of guru Sri Chinmoy, had also teamed up to put out a very loud guitar-centered album, with a couple of John Coltrane covers including the great A Love Supreme ( the album also featured organ great Larry Young/Khalid Yasin and fusion drummer Billy Cobham among others ).
- Tamerlane
Agreed, but Steve Gadd’s drum work on the title track (supposedly recorded in one take) makes him first among equals on that album. Amazing work.
IMHO of course
Concur totally.
Paul McCartney on Donovan’s Mellow Yellow
The Hooters on Joan Osborne’s “One of Us”
Billy Preston on “Let It Be”
Two other great Pink Floyd guest spots: Dick Parry’s saxophone break on “Money,” and Claire Torry’s vocals on “The Great Gig in the Sky.”
Got another one:
Robert Fripp, Guitar, I Zimbra, Fear of Music, Talking Heads
And I’m jealous because I didn’t know this. Shotgun, anyone?
I’m gonna nitpick this one. SRV was HUGE in Texas at the time: the rest of the world may not have discovered him to that extent, but screw 'em for their ignorance. When I heard the album for the first time, my thought was that it would have tanked without him. When SRV subsequently bailed from the tour-in-support, my reaction was, “Fine, you Brit-Glam rocker, see what happens now.”
[IIRC, SRV felt like he wasn’t being the proper respect for carrying the album, and I don’t blame him one bit.]
p.s. Outstanding thread, by the way.
Roy Harper’s vocals on Pink Floyd’s “Have a Cigar” I think deserve an honorable mention.