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Conference mr1pst::music

Title:MUSIC V4
Notice:New Noters please read Note 1.*, Mod = someone else
Moderator:KDX200::COOPER
Created:Wed Oct 09 1991
Last Modified:Tue Mar 12 1996
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:762
Total number of notes:18706

751.0. "Chester Thompson" by MXOC00::CSILVA () Thu Dec 28 1995 14:38

    
    Hi folks!
    
    As a Genesis fan I love the double live album "Seconds out".
    
    OK, I know there was no more Peter Gabriel, but that forced to
    the apearence of 2 great drummers : Chester Thompson and
    Bill Bruford. Phill has a preference for Chester and
    Bruford appeared in just one song "Cinema show" in a great
    duo with Phill. Since then, Chester is the drummer in all
    the Genesis tours.
    
    One year ago I took a magazine about Midi music and was
    a great interview with keyboardist "Chester Thompson",
    and noticed that the "Santana live in Sudamerica" was
    coproduced among Carlos Santana and Ch. Thompson who
    also plays the keys.
    
    Are we talking about the same Chester Thompson?
    
    If not, wich is the one who played with Frank Zappa?
    	(I could make this question in the ::ZAPPA conference
    	but no one posts there anymore!)
    
    Happy '96 !!
    
    Carlos 
    
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751.1PIET01::DESROCHERSpsdv.pko.dec.com/tomd/home.htmlThu Dec 28 1995 15:376
    
    	And is he the same Chester as the one on Weather Report's
    	"Black Market" ??   
    
    	Tom
    
751.2MPGS::MARKEYI'm feeling ANSI and ISOlatedThu Dec 28 1995 15:4410
    
    There are two Chester Thompsons.
    
    One is a keyboard (primarily Hammond B3 organ) player, who is
    the one who played with Santana.
    
    The other is the drummer, who also played with Power Station
    (among others).
    
    -b
751.3BUSY::SLABOUNTYTo the Batmobile ... let's go!!!Thu Dec 28 1995 15:544
    
    	Wasn't it Tony Thompson who played with Power Station, and
    	maybe Chic as well?
    
751.4REMQHI::NICHOLSThu Dec 28 1995 17:491
    Did Chester Thompson, the organist, ever play with Tower of Power?
751.5No Power ThompsonMXOC00::CSILVAFri Dec 29 1995 19:359
    
    
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    I am not sure the name of the guy with Power Station, but
    mentioned
    almost sure that is not any of the Chester Thompson's
     
751.6MPGS::MARKEYI'm feeling ANSI and ISOlatedSat Dec 30 1995 15:024
    
    You're right... and I think it is Tony Thompson...
    
    -b
751.7WILLEE::OSTIGUYthe eyes of man have not set footMon Jan 01 1996 20:4526
    The drummer Chester Thompson played with Weather Report and Frank Zappa
    before his association with Genesis...Chet's 1st gig with Genesis was
    Jan 1, 1977, Rainbow Theatre, London, the 1st show of the Wind &
    Wuthering tour...Phil C enjoyed playing with Bill Bruford, but I think
    Phil felt more comfortable with Chester's playing...
    
    fwiw, the Seconds Out album was recorded in PAris in June '77, Genesis
    played 5 sold out nights in the 18,000 seat Palais des Sports, and most
    of the album is from the 4th night...'cept for Cinema Show which is
    Bruford (from the '76 Trick of the Tail tour)
    
    on seconds Out at the end of Afterglow, there is a Chester riff that he
    played lick for lick on FZ's Roxy & Elsewhere album, and I think the
    riff is at the end of Penguin in Bondage, or....mm, Cheepness maybe?
    long time since I've heard Roxy...interesting how he used the same riff
    years after Zappa...
    
    Chester was playing with Genesis in Europe when he ran into a friend,
    Daryl Stuermer, who was playing guitar with Jean-Luc Ponty at the time,
    Daryl later became the guitarist for Genesis tours since And Then There
    Were Three...
    
    I've seen Genesis 7 times, and Chester also played with PC the 2 times
    I've seen him, and Chester Rooolz
    
    Wes