Favorite "They Played on THAT Tune?"

[Richland123]

Nile Rodgers (Guitar), Stevie Ray Vaughan (Guitar), & Carmine Rojas (Bass) all played on David Bowie's Let's Dance album including the hit songs "Let's Dance", "China Girl", & "Modern Love".

 

[LordRyan]

Jimmy Page played guitar as a session musician on The Nashville Teens cover of "Tobacco Road", which became a hit for them. The band was from Jimmy's hometown of Surrey, England.

I know John Hawken, pianist on "Tobacco Road", and told him Jimmy Page was getting credited with playing guitar on it. He said it was their guitarist John Allen and definitely not Page.

 

[LordRyan]

I was surprised when I recently found out that Donovan co-sings with Alice Cooper on "Billion Dollar Babies".



Canned Heat Bassist Larry "The Mole" Taylor played on several Monkees songs from their first two albums including "Last Train to Clarksville" and "(I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone".

 

[StudioStuntz]

Dave Mason played the shehnai (an oboe-like instrument from India) and the bass drum, on the Rolling Stone's "Street Fighting Man" ditty.

 

[Kenova]

Jonas Hellborg played bass on "Rise" by Public Image Ltd. As well a Steve Vai on guitar and Ginger Baker on drums...

WHAT!?!?! MIND F..... BLOWN!!!

 

[Richland123]

Ronnie Montrose played guitar and Bill Church played bass on Van Morrison's "Wild Night" and "Tupelo Honey". Ted Templeman played organ on "Tupelo Honey".

 

[Slade N]

crowed house sang back up on satriani tune

 

[Richland123]

Al Jardine, Carl Wilson, and Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys sang backup on Chicago's "Wishing You Were Here".

 

[GoLeafsGo]

Just found out about this from my neighbor yesterday. Had to look it up.

Thought The Myna Birds were out of the Toronto Yorkville scene...

 

[StudioStuntz]

Walter Egan (w/ Stevie Nicks on backup vocals) - Magnet And Steel

 

[StudioStuntz]

Written by Paul McCartney (but credited to Lennon–McCartney)

The recording was Apple's first official double-A-side, and the first Apple record to feature a full-fledged picture sleeve (not pictured in the YouTube link).

For the recording, Hopkin sang and performed acoustic guitar, while McCartney played bass guitar, an acoustic guitar introduction and solo, along with lap-slapping percussion and drums.

 

[Richland123]

Walter Egan (w/ Stevie Nicks on backup vocals) - Magnet And Steel

Lindsey Buckingham also sang backup on that song.

 

[Clark Dark]

When this movie came out I couldn't understand why I didn't just grow to dislike this song as much as it was played on radio and my daughter running it on youtube, something about it was right...

Abraham Laboriel on bass

 

[Richland123]

Jeff Beck played guitar on Jon Bon Jovi's "Blaze Of Glory".

 

[knumbskull]

WHAT!?!?! MIND F..... BLOWN!!!

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Vai - guitar
Bill Laswell - bass
Tony Williams - drums

it was Vai on guitar – which is pretty amazing – but not the others... Bill Laswell gets everywhere! weirdly I was wondering just the other day who played fretless on that song:

Rise (Public Image Ltd song) - Wikipedia

EDIT although Jonas Helloborg and Ginger Baker did play on other songs on the album... interesting. did not know that!

 

[Richland123]

Jeff Beck played guitar on Rod Stewart's "Infatuation".

 

[Richland123]

Roy Bittan of The E Street Band played keyboards on "Runaway" before Jon put the band Bon Jovi together.

 

[Richland123]

John Paul Jones played bass guitar and John McLaughlin played rhythm guitar on Donovan's "Mellow Yellow".

 

[Bob_Ross]

John Paul Jones played bass guitar and John McLaughlin played rhythm guitar on Donovan's "Mellow Yellow".

Wow. I've known about Jones' involvement with Donovan for decades, but I'd never heard about McLaughlin doing pop sessions that early in his career!

 

[Richland123]

Linda Ronstadt sang on The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band song "An American Dream".