Bizarre but true musical collaborations?

[MacDaddy]

I'll start:

Elton John played piano for Saxon, on the Rock the Nations album. 

[BigRedX]

Before anyone else mentions it:

Scott Walker and Sunn 0)))

[radiophonic]

I didn't think the Scott Walker / Sunn O))) one was weird at all. Good album. Metallica and Lou Reed on the other hand... 

[TheGreek]

Everybody knows this but it's still hard to believe...

Brian Cox played keys on D-ream's "Things can only get better.."

[TheGreek]

Mark King with Mass Mental (Trujillo project)

 

[radiophonic]

PiL's 'Album' was a bit of a shocker when it was released. Rotten fronting a band comprising various permutations of Steve Vai, Bill Laswell, Jonas Hellborg, Tony Williams and Ginger Baker. Tremendous in every respect of course, but unexpected.

[jensenmann]

Jaco Pastorius playing on Ian Hunter´s (Mott the Hoople) solo record: 

 

[casapete]

Keith Richards has recorded with some maybe unlikely artists, including Feargal Sharkey, Max Romeo and Tom Waits.

Keith also played bass on Billy Preston's album 'That's the way God planned it'.

[paul_5]

Anthrax and Public Enemy isn’t something I expected in the late 80s / early 90s but it’s a great record!

 

[casapete]

Elton John and Eminem - Stan

KLF and Tammy Wynette -Justified and ancient

David Bowie and Bing Crosby - Little drummer boy

[Groove Harder]

KLF and Extreme Noise Terror at the Brit Awards '92 

 

 

[bartelby]

1 hour ago, TheGreek said:

Mark King with Mass Mental (Trujillo project)

 

Is that Benji Webb too?

[Monkey Steve]

Tom Jones and New Model Army - Gimme Shelter.  Admittedly it was a deliberately strange mix for a charity single - I seem to remember Sam Fox with Hawkwind also doing a cover of the song.  But the Tom Jones/NMA version is an absolute cracker

[EliasMooseblaster]

2 hours ago, BigRedX said:

Before anyone else mentions it:

Scott Walker and Sunn 0)))

 

2 hours ago, radiophonic said:

I didn't think the Scott Walker / Sunn O))) one was weird at all. Good album. Metallica and Lou Reed on the other hand... 

It's probably weird if you only know Scott Walker from his days with the Walker Brothers. If you're familiar the three or four albums he released before the Sunn O))) collaboration, then it just seems like a perfectly logical progression!

I still think it's one of the best new albums I've heard in the last few years.

[bartelby]

2 hours ago, BigRedX said:

Before anyone else mentions it:

Scott Walker and Sunn 0)))

 

2 hours ago, radiophonic said:

I didn't think the Scott Walker / Sunn O))) one was weird at all. Good album. Metallica and Lou Reed on the other hand... 

 

1 minute ago, EliasMooseblaster said:

 

It's probably weird if you only know Scott Walker from his days with the Walker Brothers. If you're familiar the three or four albums he released before the Sunn O))) collaboration, then it just seems like a perfectly logical progression!

I still think it's one of the best new albums I've heard in the last few years.

IIRC the Scott Walker/Sunn O))) colab was meant to be some the Monoliths and Dimensions album. But ended up doing a whole, different, album. 

I still can't decide if I like Soused or not. I definitely need to be in the right mood for it.

[TheGreek]

One of the most talented with one of the least...

 

[SteveK]

Thin Lizzy - Midge Ure

[Doctor J]

Elton also played on Black Gives Way To Blue by Alice in Chains

[Cato]

 

[DaveFry]

 

[wateroftyne]

Charlie Drake, Peter Gabriel, Robert Fripp, Phil Collins & Sandy Denny.

What do I win?

[Dom in Dorset]

The Scaffold's Lily the Pink "Backing vocalists on the recording included Graham Nash (of The Hollies), Elton John (then Reg Dwight), and Tim Rice;^[1] while Jack Bruce (of Cream) played thebass guitar"
The band have also said that a little known guitarist called Jimi Hendrix did some session work for them around that time and that he might well have also been on that record.

[discreet]

Rick Wakeman played keys on Bowie's Space Oddity.

Jimmy Page played guitar on Tom Jones' It's Not Unusual.

[Cato]

Not to speak ill of the dead, but I'm not sure this was anybody's finest hour.

Although, listening to it again for the first time in a long time, it does have an almost Jim-Morrison-going-off-on-one Doors like quality.

Not sure if that's a positive or not.

Edited February 20, 2018 by Cato

[Cato]

John Paul Jones played on and did arrangements on recordings for an absolute shedload of bands and solo performers during the 60s, from the Shadows to Donovan to Dusty Springfield via the Rolling Stones.

He also wrote the strings arrangement for REM's 'Everybody Hurts'.