Boring day here at work. There are only about three of us here today, and my boss is cranking this Christian metal-rap stuff in his office. <\/p>\n
So, I'm going to play a round of one of my favorite games: given two arbitrary musicians, find a link between them, without using any kind of reference material<\/em>. Since I decided to do this while reading a review of a Primus record, while also a Fleetwood Mac song on the iPod, that that's what I'll attempt: Primus to Fleetwood Mac.<\/p>\n calculating.... Les Claypool <\/strong>of Primus played with Adrian Belew <\/strong>on Belew's last string of records. Wow. That one probably took 45 minutes. Easily the hardest one I've ever finished - some I've never finished.<\/p>\n I usually try to do these in my head, but this one just wasn't happening, so I started diagramming the relationships I was coming up with. See below, if you're interested.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n First, from the Primus side of things: +-- Robert Fripp +-- Tony Levin +-- David Bowie +-- Tom Tom Club +-- James Hetfield And now the Fleetwood Mac side: +-- Stevie Nicks +-- John McVie The key here was The Firm. Took me a long time to make that leap from Jimmy Page to Queen.<\/p>\n
\ncalculating....
\ncalculating....
\nDone.<\/p>\n
\nBelew played guitar on David Bowie'<\/strong>s Lodger<\/i>.
\nDavid Bowie teamed up with Queen <\/strong>for the song Under Pressure<\/i>.
\nQueen is currently working with former Bad Company singer, Paul Rodgers<\/strong>.
\nPaul Rodgers played in a band called The Firm<\/strong>, with Jimmy Page<\/strong>.
\nBefore Led Zeppelin, Jimmy Page was in The Yardbirds<\/strong>.
\nBefore Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton <\/strong>was in The Yardbirds.
\nEric Clapton played in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers<\/strong>, along with John McVie.
\nAnd John McVie<\/strong> is the bass player for Fleetwood Mac.<\/p>\n
\nPrimus
\n+-- Les Claypool
\n +-- Adrian Belew
\n +-- Bill Bruford
\n +--Yes
\n +--Asia<\/p>\n
\n +-- Greg (?) Lake
\n +-- ELP<\/p>\n
\n +-- Peter Gabriel
\n +-- Phil Collins
\n +-- Kate Bush
\n +-- Laurie Anderson<\/p>\n
\n +-- Bing Crosby
\n +-- Stevie Ray Vaughan
\n +-- Mick Jagger
\n +-- Keith Richards<\/p>\n
\n +-- Talking Heads
\n +-- Frank Zappa
\n +-- Steve Vai<\/p>\n
\n +-- Metallica
\n +-- Megadeth<\/p>\n
\nFleetwood Mac
\n+-- Mick Fleetwood
\n +-- Warren Zevon
\n +-- Jackson Browne<\/p>\n
\n +-- Sheryl Crow
\n +-- Tom Petty
\n +-- Don Henley
\n +-- Eagles
\n +-- Joe Walsh
\n +-- Glen Frey<\/p>\n
\n +-- Eric Clapton
\n +-- Duane Allman
\n +-- Yardbirds
\n +-- Jeff Beck
\n +-- Jimmy Page
\n +-- Robert Plant
\n +-- David Coverdale
\n +-- The Firm
\n +-- Paul Rodgers
\n +-- Queen
\n +-- David Bowie <\/p>\n