From rock band to solo project

[philosophical]

Robert Plant has had a reasonable and extended solo career after Led Zeppelin, sometimes in close collaboration with others such as the work with Alison Krauss.
He doesn’t seem desperately interested in money and fame after Zeppelin, he comes across as a person who wants to spend his life doing music one way or another.
I do admit to being a massive Led Zeppelin fan, and was devastated when John Bonham died, and realise their lifestyle and excesses were questionable. Great artists with feet of clay.

 

[Derek S-H]

Robert Plant has had a reasonable and extended solo career after Led Zeppelin, sometimes in close collaboration with others such as the work with Alison Krauss.
He doesn’t seem desperately interested in money and fame after Zeppelin, he comes across as a person who wants to spend his life doing music one way or another.
I do admit to being a massive Led Zeppelin fan, and was devastated when John Bonham died, and realise their lifestyle and excesses were questionable. Great artists with feet of clay.

If you're going to mention Rock gods, I suppose Cream > Eric Clapton follows in the same category?

 

[Mattym]

Jello's had some decent solo albums but idk if any are as good as the DK ones...Danzig? I don't really care about Danzig but someone must, right?

Maybe as Lard and certainly not on a par with the earlier DK LPs.

 

[Derek S-H]

A couple more, looking through my music collection:

The Czars > John Grant
The Bible > Boo Hewerdine
Fairground Attraction > Eddi Reader
Bronski Beat > Jimmy Somerville
Martin Stephenson & The Daintees > Martin Stephenson
Yazoo > Alison Moyet

Don't know if this one counts: Above & Beyond > Oceanlab. And maybe someone else can confirm this as I'm not familiar with his solo stuff at all: The Jam > Paul Weller?

 

[mx wcfc]

And maybe someone else can confirm this as I'm not familiar with his solo stuff at all: The Jam > Paul Weller?

The Jam>The Style Council>Paul Weller, wasn't it?

 

[Derek S-H]

The Jam>The Style Council>Paul Weller, wasn't it?

Ah, I know about the middle one and they weren't very good (though it could be argued that he was ahead of his time with the whole Lounge thing).

 

[Dr. Furface]

Dr. Dre

 

[planetgeli]

The Jam>The Style Council>Paul Weller, wasn't it?

"Kick out the Style, bring back the Jam" - the best lyric Tears for Fears ever wrote. (Sowing the Seeds of Love)

 

[Dr. Furface]

Lætitia Sadier, post Stereolab

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Ah, I know about the middle one and they weren't very good (though it could be argued that he was ahead of his time with the whole Lounge thing).

The Style Council are better than the Jam for me, but I think Weller's work is patchy across his whole career. He is quite capable of writing great songs, but settles for a lot of filler.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

There's some dubious definitions of rock band on this thread.

 

[mojo pixy]

Also a lot of Old Band -> Solo Project New Band.

On that though, Gamma Ray are what Helloween could have been, and Rainbow at their best were better than Deep Purple at theirs.

Travelling Wilburys?

 

[Siouxsie]

Top of my head.....
Rainbow _ Dio
Generation X - Billy Idol
Deep Purple - Gillan
Deep Purple - David Coverdale
The Runaways - Both Lita Ford & Joan Jett
Van Halen - David Lee Roth
Montrose - Sammy Hagar

There's a lot more but I'm waiting to saddle up and have to go

 

[Nanker Phelge]

The Faces (and others) - Rod Stewart

Rod had a solo career prior to and alongside his time in The Faces.

The Jeff Beck Group was his last band job before going proper solo. I think he might have even released a couple of solo flops prior to being in The Jeff Beck Group. He was in Steampacket before that.

 

[Dystopiary]

No Doubt - Gwen Stefani

Not necessarily "great" but certainly very successful.

 

[hash tag]

Still prefer Hawkwind though by a country mile.

But you can totally understand why Lemmy moved on though.

 

[hash tag]

Ringo read Thomas the Tank Engine all by himself iirc

Well that's that then. Nobody could equal Ringo reading Thomas; brilliant.

 

[savoloysam]

But you can totally understand why Lemmy moved on though.

Yea of course. Did you see the documentary on Hawkwind that was on the BBC?

He definitely carved out his own niche. Top marks for that.

 

[hash tag]

Eric Clapton

He may have been god but a right fascist one at that. Even though I saw him donkeys years ago I was never in to his solo stuff. I remember my parents hating I shit the sheriff

 

[hash tag]

Robert Plant has had a reasonable and extended solo career after Led Zeppelin, sometimes in close collaboration with others such as the work with Alison Krauss.

He certainly does love his music and went off doing his own thing. I quite liked his shapeshifters stuff but he was never going to equal the mighty zeppelin.

 

[hash tag]

Yea of course. Did you see the documentary on Hawkwind that was on the BBC?

He definitely carved out his own niche. Top marks for that.

I don't recall seeing it and have made a mental note to see it. They were one of the few bands I was lucky enough to see very early on and quite recently. They are the lords of time

 

[starfish]

The Police -> Sting

 

[hash tag]

The Police -> Sting

The police were of their time and today it's really not hard to improve on them. Not my cuppa but an Englishman is ok.

 

[savoloysam]

I don't recall seeing it and have made a mental note to see it. They were one of the few bands I was lucky enough to see very early on and quite recently. They are the lords of time

Seen them a few times. One of my best ever gigs was when they played a small stage at Slough University which was literally a five minute walk from my where I was living at the time. I remember walking out pissed as fuck shouting "How fucking good was that"

They did a full on heavy 10 minute version of Hasan I Sabah that blew me away. When I have seen them more recently it's been a bit disappointing as they don't play enough back catalogue stuff but they have a massive archive now and it must be a nightmare trying to pick a set list.

 

[Derek S-H]

The police were of their time and today it's really not hard to improve on them. Not my cuppa but an Englishman is ok.

I've got a soft spot for "Fields Of Gold" as an ex liked him and that song in particular.

 

[Derek S-H]

Zero 7 > Sia.

 

[Hollis]

But you can totally understand why Lemmy moved on though.

Unlike the usual 'musical differences' my understanding is that it was because he liked Speed and the rest of them Acid, with the incident at the Canadian boarder being the trigger for Dave Brock booting him out.

Either way wish he'd stuck around for a few more albums..

 

[rubbershoes]

Beatles>Yoko Ono

 

[Dystopiary]

The Teardrop Explodes - Julian Cope

 

[Voley]

Queen > Saving Badgers