ARTIST WHO QUIT THEIR BAND TO MAKE SOLO ALBUMS

Bruce Dickinson's first few solo albums sound almost nothing like Iron Maiden.

Dio's solo material doesn't sound like either Rainbow or Black Sabbath.

From what i remember the Paul Stanley solo album wasn't a million miles away from what Kiss were doing at the time.

Runicen wrote:

Troublezone wrote:

Does Halford's band Fight count? It wasn't really a solo band per se...

Even if you wanted to count it, I don't really know if you could say Fight sounded like Priest.

With the first Fight album, I think Halford took the energy of Painkiller and molded it into a modern sound influenced by Pantera. Ironically, I don't think the Priest albums with Ripper sound much like traditional Priest either...

S.D. wrote:

Bruce Dickinson's first few solo albums sound almost nothing like Iron Maiden.
 

This

The name is Udo Dirkschneider.

Remember that.

Would UDO count?

Gilbert wrote:

Would UDO count?

Definitely, although it's a band the name of the band is a bit of a giveaway to who is in control.

Can't believe it's taken me so long to remember probably the best example of this



Okay so he didn't quit his band but I never could understand why he felt the need to be solo to record this.

Boris2008 wrote:

Gilbert wrote:

Would UDO count?

Definitely, although it's a band the name of the band is a bit of a giveaway to who is in control.

Can't believe it's taken me so long to remember probably the best example of this



Okay so he didn't quit his band but I never could understand why he felt the need to be solo to record this.

I think the reason he did it is because Emilio Estevez was a big fan of his Bon Jovi song Wanted Dead or Alive and personally asked him if he would be involved with writing the soundtrack for the Young Guns movie. I'm not sure why the other Bon Jovi guys didn't participate. I don't know... maybe Jon wanted "all the glory".

Lou Gramm of Foreigner who quit, more because Mick Jones was being a prick then artistic reasons made two successful solo albums that sound almost like Foreigner, not surprisingly since he was on the main songwriters in that band.

Troublezone wrote:

Boris2008 wrote:

Gilbert wrote:

Would UDO count?

Definitely, although it's a band the name of the band is a bit of a giveaway to who is in control.

Can't believe it's taken me so long to remember probably the best example of this



Okay so he didn't quit his band but I never could understand why he felt the need to be solo to record this.

I think the reason he did it is because Emilio Estevez was a big fan of his Bon Jovi song Wanted Dead or Alive and personally asked him if he would be involved with writing the soundtrack for the Young Guns movie. I'm not sure why the other Bon Jovi guys didn't participate. I don't know... maybe Jon wanted "all the glory".

Can that really be considered a true solo album, though, since it's a soundtrack?

Eyesore wrote:

Troublezone wrote:

Boris2008 wrote:

Gilbert wrote:

Would UDO count?

Definitely, although it's a band the name of the band is a bit of a giveaway to who is in control.

Can't believe it's taken me so long to remember probably the best example of this



Okay so he didn't quit his band but I never could understand why he felt the need to be solo to record this.

I think the reason he did it is because Emilio Estevez was a big fan of his Bon Jovi song Wanted Dead or Alive and personally asked him if he would be involved with writing the soundtrack for the Young Guns movie. I'm not sure why the other Bon Jovi guys didn't participate. I don't know... maybe Jon wanted "all the glory".

Can that really be considered a true solo album, though, since it's a soundtrack?

I think so, plus somehow Jon Bon Jovi got Jeff Beck to record most of the guitar solos on the disc, but yea I would count it as his debut solo disc

manny wrote:

Eyesore wrote:

Troublezone wrote:

Boris2008 wrote:

Gilbert wrote:

Would UDO count?

Definitely, although it's a band the name of the band is a bit of a giveaway to who is in control.

Can't believe it's taken me so long to remember probably the best example of this



Okay so he didn't quit his band but I never could understand why he felt the need to be solo to record this.

I think the reason he did it is because Emilio Estevez was a big fan of his Bon Jovi song Wanted Dead or Alive and personally asked him if he would be involved with writing the soundtrack for the Young Guns movie. I'm not sure why the other Bon Jovi guys didn't participate. I don't know... maybe Jon wanted "all the glory".

Can that really be considered a true solo album, though, since it's a soundtrack?

I think so, plus somehow Jon Bon Jovi got Jeff Beck to record most of the guitar solos on the disc, but yea I would count it as his debut solo disc

I've always considered it a Jon Bon Jovi album despite it essentially being a soundtrack, so I'm not suggesting it's not; the post just made me curious. Though I guess some might be inclined to say Destination Anywhere is his first true solo album.

Troublezone wrote:

Runicen wrote:

Troublezone wrote:

Does Halford's band Fight count? It wasn't really a solo band per se...

Even if you wanted to count it, I don't really know if you could say Fight sounded like Priest.

With the first Fight album, I think Halford took the energy of Painkiller and molded it into a modern sound influenced by Pantera. Ironically, I don't think the Priest albums with Ripper sound much like traditional Priest either...

I'd definitely second all of this. Even with the idea of Priest as a band that had a lot of "sounds," the Ripper years were kind of their "Hear in the Now Frontier," going off in a direction that didn't really connect back to anything they'd done before and abandoned as a blind alley as soon as it was done and over with.

John Norum's first couple of solo albums(Total Control, Face The Truth) could have been Europe albums.


After I heard that song I wondered why he even left after The Final Countdown since it sounds like a song that could have been on it.

To be fair, this does lack the big keyboards that were prominent on Europe's late '80s albums.

brokentulsa wrote:

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Really? OK, now I need to hear it. Is it that Billy Idol guy on guitar?

yes, Its Steve Stevens on guitar

I dismissed that solo album for years. Going back now and listening to it on YouTube, it doesn't sound half-bad. I wouldn't say it's better than any Crue album, but certainly not as bad as I thought at the time. I might have to investigate that one a little further. I like his Tattoos and Tequila album. Mostly covers, but still decent.

While he didn't officially quit, I don't think Warrel Dane's solo album, Praises to the War Machine, sounds all that radically different from the stuff he was doing with Nevermore at the time. Perhaps a bit more gothy and melancholy, but if you slipped that album into a playlist with Nevermore tunes, you'd hardly notice the difference.