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Hi,
Who played the sax solo on Dominion? And of course also presumably also on Sandstorm and Untitled.
Am I completely off thinking - just by the sound of it - that it might have been William Gregory, who played a lot with Tears for Fears (notably solo on The Working Hour) and later was half of Goldfrapp.
There must be someone here who knows, no?

Cheers.

Lenny Pickett: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_Pickett

The Floodland credits are on the inner sleeve, in the "thank you" section, but it doesn't say who did what so it takes some Googling of each name. Not everybody listed there necessarily played on it either, they may have made some other contribution (e.g. Jez Webb). Ann Rainone is Patricia Morrison.

Thanks so much! And honestly the name sounds familiar. I must have already chased this info up and forgot. Thanks a ton.

Hello @cheetah.eater & welcome to

Currently still obsessing with that sax sound

And his [=Jim Steinman's] other main contributions to Sisters songs in your view?

He got a fantastic saxophone player in for Dominion. I adored those saxophone tracks – backward as much as forwards.

https://www.loudersound.com/features/an ... as-present

mh wrote: ↑06 Aug 2023, 06:51 Lenny Pickett: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_Pickett

It surely was him. A great saxophonist, who collaborated with a plethora of other bands from all genres like David Bowie (repeatedly), Laurie Anderson, Bonnie Taylor, Grace Jones, Talking Heads, John Lee Hooker, Peter Frampton, Elton John, Heart, Madonna, Little Feat, Rod Stewart, Germaine Jackson and La Toya Jackson, Joe Cocker, Paul McCartney, Marianne Faithful and many, many, many more... a saxophon hero obviously ... ...

mh wrote: ↑06 Aug 2023, 06:51 Lenny Pickett: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_Pickett

The Floodland credits are on the inner sleeve, in the "thank you" section, but it doesn't say who did what so it takes some Googling of each name. Not everybody listed there necessarily played on it either, they may have made some other contribution (e.g. Jez Webb). Ann Rainone is Patricia Morrison.

That's interesting to know. I'd generally just presumed that they were largely generic credits as in thanking friends and family etc. rather than individual musicians that appeared on the lp as well. Thanks

Damaged+Done wrote: ↑15 Aug 2023, 22:57

mh wrote: ↑06 Aug 2023, 06:51 Lenny Pickett: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_Pickett

The Floodland credits are on the inner sleeve, in the "thank you" section, but it doesn't say who did what so it takes some Googling of each name. Not everybody listed there necessarily played on it either, they may have made some other contribution (e.g. Jez Webb). Ann Rainone is Patricia Morrison.

That's interesting to know. I'd generally just presumed that they were largely generic credits as in thanking friends and family etc. rather than individual musicians that appeared on the lp as well. Thanks

Speaking of "friends and family", an anonymous person passing through once stated quite strongly that the Gina Taylor in this list is not related to Von.

Wasn't the consensus on the recent podcast that this was a midi sax, not an actual human player?

alanm wrote: ↑16 Aug 2023, 13:13 Wasn't the consensus on the recent podcast that this was a midi sax, not an actual human player?

I'd swear there was an interview at some point where Von suggested that this was the case.

Von has suggested lots of things in the past.

I'd say (my opinion by ear only) that in Dominion, there's no way this is a midi sax. In 1986.
In Sandstorm there is a lot of editing. That was the point and the result was great regardless of what was thrown in to the mix. But I'd say that live sax recordings are in the mix as well.
Now about Untitled I am not so sure. But honestly I just can care about this track at all because of how dull the sax part is.

And just to sort one thing out: midi sax of course can be played by flash-and-blood human saxophonist through sax-midi controller. So midi does not mean no sax human player.

I checked the podcast (thanks for the link!). I did not hear much consensus there to be honest