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Originally Posted by Trollheart
You didn't like the Fergie album? It totally blew me away, especially as I wasn't expecting much. Yeah, Wetton's (woops, nearly said Wettin!)  solo stuff doesn't seem to be that great. Wonder if John Payne did anything on his own?
There was an interesting article about JW in one of the issues of "CRpP" (such an unfortunate acronym!) which I was quite surprised to see: would really never have considered him, or Asia (or Icon) prog really... |
I haven't yet heard that album by Fergie, but just saying I'm surprised that it would be that good, so will check it out.
Well John Wetton was a prog icon quite simply from his time with King Crimson, in probably their best ever line-up and kept his prog connections going with Uriah Heep and UK. By the time he was in Asia though, just he and the others had prog credentials and that was about as far as prog they went along with the album covers. They were basically prog musicians doing AOR, AOR was in and prog was out at that time. Asia were a band completely motivated by money, so AOR was the way they went.
I agree now, that Asia became far more interesting when John Payne was on vocals.