Favorite "They Played on THAT Tune?"

[gweimer]

I don't know if it was recorded, but Slash was the guitarist for Carole King's concert that aired on PBS a few years back.

 

[Thangfish]

Here's a weird one...
In 1980 teeny bopper kid Shaun Cassidy's album WASP featured
Todd Rundgren and the whole band Utopia.

As I remember, it wasn't as bad as you'd presume.
If I had a turntable handy, I'd refresh my memory.

 

[gweimer]

And then big brother, David Cassidy did an album that had Mick Ronson on it - The Higher They Climb.

 

[lowend1]

How about Joe Perry and Brad Whitford getting credit for "Train Kept A Rollin" - which was actually Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner?

Jimmy Page on Tom Jones' "It's Not Unusual" and The Kinks' "All Day And All Of The Night".

 

[Bassman822]

Sir Paul McCartney playing bass on James Taylors "Carolina on my Mind" (the original release on Apple records

 

[bassadicct]

Abe Laboriel Sr. and Jr. played on MMBop by hanson. When i asked Sr. what he thought about them all he said was
Abe also played on the ratatoille sound track and the most recent paul simon record.

 

[BurnBass57]

I once read somewhere in a magazine or something that Jimmy Page played on Joe Cocker's cover of "With A little Help From My Friends."

 

[blizzard]

Dave Grohl drummed on a lot of NIN's With Teeth album (but then again hes been on every record since 1994)

 

[sarcastro83]

The late, great Shannon Hoon from Blind Mellon singing backup on Guns n' Roses' "November Rain".

The News (Minus Huey Lewis) were the backup band on Elvis Costello's "My Aim Is True".

David Bowie's AMAZING backup vocals on Lou Reed's "Satelite of Love".

Also, I remember being kind of shocked when I heard that Prince wrote the Sinead O'Connor song "Nothing Compares 2 U". Speaking of Sinead, I heard she recenently cut a reggae album with Sly and Robbie... bizzare.

Also, in regards to Nine Inch Nails, I just emerged from the rock under which I live to hear that Justin Meldal-Johnsen is now playing bass. Neat!

 

[Twnty1inRF]

Flea on Bust A Move by Young MC

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bust_a_Move_(Young_MC_song)

 

[Rickett Customs]

steve vai did the theme song to "Ren and Stimpy"

Nope, that'd be Jim Smith, "Dog pound hop". He wrote and performed it. Nice try though.
Jim also wrote and performed the outtro "Bighouse blues".

Hows about Klaus Voormann on Carly Simon's "you're so vain".
Also, Klaus was in the movie "Popeye" as Von Schnitzel the conductor.

 

[unbasslichkeit]

On Warren Zevon's 'Sentimental Hygeine' he used REM as the backup band on about half the album.

 

[Rune Bivrin]

Flea on Bust A Move by Young MC

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bust_a_Move_(Young_MC_song)

Nice! It's only the fourth time in this thread that get told.

 

[Deacon_Blues]

When I heard that most of the Toto members (Steve Lukather, Jeff Porcaro, Steve Porcaro and David Paich) were playing on Michael Jackson's Thriller album. They played on a lot of other records as well, but this was the biggest surprise to me.

I checked out allmusic.com for the credit list. Seems that Mr. Lukather played bass on some track(s) as well.... So I had to check out on which track on my copy of the CD and it turns out to be on Beat It. Not very surprising actually... By the way, "Human Nature" is almost entirely Toto.

 

[RED5]

Check out the cast of characters on "Berlin" by Lou Reed. Jack Bruce being foremost.

 

[KenToby]

And most of the tracks of that Randy Newman album as well...

 

[Altitude]

Sting yelling the Miranda Rights in french on Miles Davis' tune "One Phone Call"/"Street Scenes" from the You're Under Arrest album.

Sting tells that story in his autobiography. Evidently he had no idea what Miles was trying to accomplish by asking him to act like a violent French cop. He left the session feeling like he had done nothing productive, and certainly had made no music, and was surprised to later hear his voice on the album.

In a story somewhat the opposite, I once played in an orchestra pit with a guy named Paul Bissell, who had laid percussion tracks on the title tune from the Eric Johnson CD "Ah Via Musicom". He got paid for the session and is credited on the CD's liner notes. But there is nothing in that track that Paul recognized as having played.

 

[ReidK]

Remember Cheech & Chong's Basketball Jones? Did you ever read the music credits for that one?

Cheech Marin - Tyrone Shoelaces (voice)
Darlene Love - Cheerleader (voice)
Michelle Phillips - Cheerleader (voice)
Ronnie Spector - Cheerleader (voice)
George Harrison - lead guitar
Klaus Voormann - bass
Jim Karsten - drums
Jim Keltner - percussion
Carole King - electric piano
Nicky Hopkins - piano
Tom Scott - saxophone
Billy Preston - organ

 

[JTE]

I did not know that was Felix on bass! Wow.

It wasn't. Felix played bass on Ginger Baker's "What A Bringdown" from the "Last Time Around" album, but the credtis on the recording have always listed Jack as playing bass on "Badge".

jte

 

[Altitude]

When I heard that most of the Toto members (Steve Lukather, Jeff Porcaro, Steve Porcaro and David Paich) were playing on Michael Jackson's Thriller album. They played on a lot of other records as well, but this was the biggest surprise to me.

I checked out allmusic.com for the credit list. Seems that Mr. Lukather played bass on some track(s) as well.... So I had to check out on which track on my copy of the CD and it turns out to be on Beat It. Not very surprising actually... By the way, "Human Nature" is almost entirely Toto.

As I understand it, Toto began as a group of session guys playing on a few of Boz Scaggs' 70s albums - before they began recording together as Toto. This may also explain why Toto's identity had relatively little to do, IMO, with their lead singer, who might have been the only hired gun in a group of guys who otherwise had grown to know and work with each other over a period of time.