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babyblue
OT: Where is Supertramp
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Fernandobsas
Breakfast in America was so famous not for Rick songs but for Roger ones. I think this big difference in success was the begining of the end of their partnership.
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SomeGuy
Again, I feel it's necessary to point out that Rick Davies was an important member. In my opinion he was the one that could play really well (piano). Roger played keyboards (often that same kind of repetitive wurlitzer chords, not piano) and a little guitar, he was proficient enough in both but nowhere near a virtuoso in anything really. Yes he had the 'hits' (they never had many or big hits so that term is relative), but who wants hits anyway. The term 'deep cuts' springs to mind and that is certainly what Rick was all about. Also I think that Rick was at least as good a singer as Roger. I admit that Rick 'didn't have the tunes in the end' (the Free As A Bird lp was really bad and the later ones didn't bring back the sound of the 70s, but hey, does this remind us of another band perhaps?) but then Roger certainly didnt have 'the tunes' either. Nobody I knew that liked Supertramp liked Rogers first solo record when it came out in 1984 and his second one 'Hai Hai' I found really awful. I think he did one other album or so and no one bought that one either.
This opinion from a guy who has all Supertramp records (I even play them at times lol), so I really dont hate them, but I do admit that I was glad that Roger left the band at the time. Pity that the band didnt survive in a better way than it did.
PS Supertramp did have a separate guitar player at one time btw, Richard Palmer was his name or so. Now HE was a pretty good player, who not only played a lot of guitar (Roger was still a bassist at that time) but also wrote all their lyrics. That was in 1970 on their superb first album. Nobody seems to like it but I do, a lot.
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Roger Hodgson has been touring solo from time to time. When I don't follow the Stones, and he is coming to Norway, it is great to see him around. He has got great songs, for me Roger Hodgson is Supertramp and I will probably see him as long as he is around.
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Fernandobsas
Breakfast in America was so famous not for Rick songs but for Roger ones. I think this big difference in success was the begining of the end of their partnership.
Interesting take on things, Rick couldnt cope with Rogers success when Breakfast In America became such a huge album. Rick's Goodbye Stranger was a single that got some airplay in the US I think (featuring a cool guitar solo from Roger btw, I give you that), but it wasn't a hit really. The rest of his songs on that album were mostly kind of inconspicuous, although I prefer them to most of Rogers songs (but thats me).
I do recall an interview from around 1983 in which Roger said that, in hindsight, he should have quit the band in 1974 already. Probably the problem was there already back then, but it got more pressing with the increased success that they enjoyed in 1979.