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From the Music Memoirs

Top 5 artists you wish would record a new album. (Tell us a bit about why you want them to go back into the studio too)

Well... Obviously the main one is Queen, but with Freddie gone, that ain't gonna happen so the top two will be:

Brian May.
Queens guitarist, and has done two solo albums, that I really love. May is one of the main reasons I like Queen. A long time ago I made a "greatest hits" tape of my own, and I was writing down the song names and writing credits, and all but 2 of them were Brian May songs. His solo albums are amazing, and I like them as much (if not more) that all but the best couple from Queen themselves. I wish he would go back into the studio and do another one. It's been 10 years since his last one.

Roger Taylor
Now I may not like his solo stuff as much as Brian's but I do really like it.

Rocket Scientists
From '93 to '06 they only put out 4 CDs. And with Eric Norlander one of the main creative members of the band producing his wife's stuff, and having recently joining Asia (the second version) as a Keyboardist, it's less than likely we will get a new one soon. One hopes.

Shaw / Blades
2 CDs in how many years, and the second is a cover album? I love the stuff, but I want more more more. Another Proggish band (Styx) where I really loved the stuff the guitarist did. I love the Shaw solo but, these two guys harmonize like you wouldn't believe and have a really great songwriting vibe. I want more from them.

Star One
This is one of Arjen Lucassen's side projects (he's the force behind Ayreon and founded Stream of Passion). Now I love the Ayreon stuff (and we just had a new CD there very recently) but Star One has a more solid sound (it could be said to be a bit samey actually) but I really like the sound on that album - there is obvious Arjen sound to it, but it has a different flavor than Ayreon and is overall a heavier sound. Fun fun stuff.

Edit - After reading Mike's Blog it reminded me of another one - only this is more a "do a first album together" than another one. Mark Knopfler and John Fogerty. They do one song together on Fogerty's last album (Nobody's Here Anymore off of Deja Vu all Over Again) and their guitar styles melded so well, and I can just imagine what kind of songs we'd get if the wrote songs together, as well as vocals.