Best Impromptu/ odd member bands to record a great track . I.e Harper/ Pink Floyd "Have a Cigar"

I was thinking of Van Morrison on 4% Pantomime, but is was co-written with Robbie Robertson.

 

Well I never knew that. Fascinating.

 

Jeff Beck, led Zeppelin and the Who, 'the Nwho Yardbirds'

Beck's Bolero from 1967

The recording session brought together a group of musicians, including Jimmy Page, Keith Moon, John Paul Jones, and Nicky Hopkins

Love the song but Luckily for all concerned this band didnt stick around

 

Bruce Springsteen on the Dictators' Faster & Louder!!!

 

Yes, and arguably their parts had a lot to do with making that record a hit.

 

Joan Osborne (yes that one, If God Was One Of Us") on this underrated seldom heard Cracker tune.

 

I didn't know that about Roy Harper singing Have a Cigar. Thanks for educating me and I'm being serious.

 

The collaboration between Max Webster and Rush on Battle Scar (from MW album Universal Juveniles) is a cracker!!!

 

I always liked when JD Souther sat in with the Eagles. New Kid In Town is a good example.

 

Word Up!

 

What? Noboby mentioned the Gallagher brothers handclapping on The Verve's History yet? Wouldn't be the same song without 'm

 

You're So Vain.

jerol

 

Steve Howe playing the middle section of Queen's Innuendo.

 

Neil Young playing a stinging guitar solo on The Monkees song ‘You And I’ from their 1969 album ‘Instant Replay’.

 

David Crosby was supposedly wandering around near A&M's recording studio and Hillman grabbed him to sing high harmony on Do Right Woman by the Burritos. I also dig Cass Elliot's vocals on the Electric Flag's Grovin is Easy.

 

Revenge of Vera Gemini. Patti Smith with Blue Oyster Cult.

 

I'll add Roy Harper again - this time his BBC session singing "St Thomas" (Sonny Rollins tune) with The Nice.

 

Wouldn't say that was odd or impromptu - she was B.O.C. keyboardist Allen Lanier's girlfriend for several years before that, she had written lyrics for three other songs by the band at that point, and supposedly she'd been asked to join as a member before her own recording career launched.

 

Yeah, they added some trademark vocal parts.