Where are they now? - Jon Davison
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| Davison guests on 2 albums from In Continuum (Facebook;
Twitter;
YouTube),
a project by Dave
Kerzner (Sound of Contact,
worked with Jon Anderson, Steve Hackett, Steven Wilson, ex-Giraffe).
Acceleration Theory is a 2-part, science fiction,
concept album about a female alien named AlienA (Leticia
Wolf), who falls in love with a human, Kai (Gabriel Agudo).
She warns the Earth that we are in danger of being
annihilated by aliens who have been responsible for man's
evolution over millions of years. The project arose from
material by Kerzner had originally written for Sound of
Contact, including with Matt Dorsey, Simon Collins (son of Phil Collins) and Kelly
Nordstrom, before that band split up. Davison is on 3 tracks of the debut album, Acceleration Theory Part One, on which the core band was Kerzner (keys, vocals), Agudo (Steve Rothery Band; vocals), Randy McStine (The Fringe, Sound of Contact; guitar), Marco Minnemann (The Sea Within, Levin Minnemann Rudess, Steven Wilson, The Aristocrats, Mike Keneally, worked with Eddie Jobson, UK, Trey Gunn, Alex Lifeson, Joe Satriani; drums) and Dorsey (Sound of Contact; bass, guitar, vocals). Guests include Nick D'Virgilio (ex-Spock's Beard, Big Big Train, ex-Genesis, ex-Tears for Fears, worked with Chris Squire; drums), Steve Hackett (ex-Genesis, ex-GTR, ex-Squackett), Steve Rothery (Marillion; guitar on 1 track), Alex Cromarty (Mostly Autumn, Mantra Vega), Fernando Perdomo (Dave Kerzner Band, The New Empire), John Wesley (Porcupine Tree, Sound of Contact; guitar, vocals), Wes Dearth (worked with Porcupine Tree; guitar, vocals), and Wolf (Dead Deads; vocals). A debut single, "Be the Light", was released Dec 2018. There is a 4:33 single edit available on Amazon, or a more expensive 3-track release on Bandcamp:
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| "All That Is" is also on Kerzner's 2CD, 21
track (plus bonus track through Bandcamp), best-of Breakdown:
A Compilation 1995-2019, released 8 Nov 2019.
This also includes "Scavengers" and "Crash Landing" from Part
One: AlienA. "All That Is" is also on the Nov 2019 Prog
cover disc. The band played Cruise to the Edge 2019, with Kerzner (keys, vocals), Agudo (vocals), Dorsey (bass), McStine (guitar) and Minnemann (drums). Their first show had guests including Davison, Hackett and Thijs Van Leer (Focus). Dearth, Wolf, Perdomo, Celli and Joe Deninzon were also expected to guest at some point. The set list for the first show included the album in full; Kerzner also talked about playing material by Sound of Contact. Davison guested on additional vocals for at least "Scavengers", which also had Kerzner (keys, lead vocals) and Perdomo (guitar) on it. Davison also guested live, singing "Tom Sawyer", with the Dave Kerzner Band at the pre-cruise show. The cruise also included a show by Mike Portnoy & Friends (8 Feb, I think), which included a Transatlantic set by Portnoy, Neal Morse and Roine Stolt, with Ted Leonard, Randy George, Bill Hubauer and Davison. They performed "Suite Charlotte Pike/Abbey Road Medley", with Davison singing "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window". Kerzner said on ProgressiveEars.com late Nov 2018 that, "Jon Davison and I have talked about co-writing together and doing more (whether it's with/for IC or not I don't know yet)." Kerzner described on Instagram on 11 Jun 2019 about "an upcoming album I'm making with some of the guys from Yes this year [2019]! A cool collaboration with Jon D and friends using @ikmultimedia iRig PRO IO and AXE IO while Yes is on their Royal Affair Summer tour!" The project is also with Billy Sherwood. See on the main page for details. |
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Hawkins Get the Money (Shanabelle/RCA Records), released 8 Nov 2019, was the third album from Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders, the band led by Davison's childhood friend and the Foo Fighters drummer Hawkins (vocals, drums), with Chris Chaney (ex-Alanis Morissette; bass), Brent Woods and John Lousteau (The Birds of Satan). The opening track, "Crossed the Line" (audio), saw Davison (backing vocals) and Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters, ex-Nirvana) guest. Details in Yescography. In an Aug 2014 interview, Davison described how Hawkins had been working with Chris Squire and that the three had been considering a project together (see under Squire). Davison sang Queen's "Under Pressure" with Hawkins at a 21 Aug 2019 Foo Fighters show in Dublin, with Grohl on drums. Other projects Cov3r to Cov3r (Radiant Records) is the third in a series of covers albums by Neal Morse, Mike Portnoy and Randy George. It includes a cover of Yes's version of "No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed" with vocals from Davison. The album is due 24 Jul on CD, gatefold 2LP + CD, and digital download. Tracks: "No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed" (version by Yes), "Hymn 43" (Jethro Tull), "Life on Mars" (David Bowie), "Baker Street" (Gerry Rafferty), "It Don’t Come Easy" (Ringo Starr), "Baby Blue" (Badfinger), "One More Red Nightmare" (King Crimson), "Black Coffee in Bed" (Squeeze), "Tempted" (Squeeze), "Runnin' Down a Dream" (Tom Petty), "Let Love Rule" (Lenny Kravitz). The album is also included as part of Cover to Cover Anthology (Vol. 1-3), released the same day, which compiles all three albums. The first two have been re-sequenced and remastered, and there is new artwork. |
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