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Got to say, the stuff Slash has done with Myles Kennedy has been rather excellent.
The Chris Cornell Bond theme was also good.
Also, Peter Gabriel. I do like a bit of early Genesis, and his solo work always piqued my interest.
Ian Brown
Morrissey
Robert Plant
Nick Cave
Peter Tosh
Brian Eno. What? Too obvious?
Peter Gabriel is completely unsurprising as he was the genius behind Genesis who just became a dull pop group after he left.
Björk, Paul Simon, Wacko Jacko
Crikey,
Richard Thompson for the win.
Or, Jack Bruce
Robin Williamson
Richard Thompson for the win.
+1
Zappa.
Eno and Lou Reed for me.
Slash with Myles Kennedy excellent but not solo? Maybe I misinterpreted the title?
Go along with it though. Slash with Velvet Revolver, seen live many times, excellent as always.
I would put up Noel Gallagher as a solo performer. Have an acoustic bootleg and it is tremendous.
Chris Cornell with Audioslave, simply awesome. 'I am the Highway' played every time I pick up the acoustic.
Robbie Williams.
Zappa.
Well yes but Zappa WAS every band he was in. Or are you talking about his classical compositions?
Thom Yorke?
Fat Boy Slim.
Agree with most of the above but:
Paul Weller. And more than once.
Lionel Richie
er, aren't we forgetting a certain John Lennon?
McCartney also (if we consider 'Wings' as largely his project)
Ah Wings, the band The Beatles could have been.
Van Morrison, formerly of Them.
Sandy Denny
Bert Jansch
The beatles experimented with drugs till the found the exact quantities that made them think their wives were talented
stolen from Frankie Boyle
Gerry Rafferty.
😯Robert Plant
I doubt he thinks that tbh
Guilty pleasure. Gwen Stefani (that won't be the right spelling).
Van Morrison +1
This guy, epic band member, solo God.
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Bob Mould. End of.
John Lydon with PIL after shedding the Pistols.
Van Morrison +1
😯 Thought I'd been on my own with that, he's definitely an acquired taste!
er, aren't we forgetting a certain John Lennon?
Sorry, but no matter how much I want to like Lennon's work, I find him boring and rather self indulgent.
I have most of the Beatles recordings, but nothing of Lennon's, a couple of McCartney's, nothing of Harrison's, but most of an albums worth of Ringos stuff, he just writes great pop songs, without trying to stick some message into them.
Aimee Mann has done some superb stuff since she left 'Til Tuesday, one album led directly to a major movie while she was writing and recording it, the film producer involved being a friend of hers. The album - Bachelor No2, the film - Magnolia.
Eddi Reader has also recorded a load of beautiful albums since leaving Fairground Attraction, not a duff one among them.
Gary Moore
Gary Moore
+1
Simple. He was in the Stooges.
Neil Finn - Split Enz were not bad, Crowded House awesome and some of his solo stuff afterwards was still pretty good
Miles Davis was way better after leaving Charlie Parkers group 😉
Gary Moore
Good call.
Another Irishman for the win though - Rory Gallagher.
Ben Folds another one
Ian Brown
Richard Ashcroft
Paul Wellar
Honorary mention to Noel Gallagher
Define [i]BEST[/i] in strictly musical terms.
Rory Gallagher.
+1
oh and this will probably be mildly controversial but The Raconteurs were better than The White Stripes
and although they are going off the boil now, Dave Grohl has done pretty well over the course of a career, first Nirvana, then Foo Fighters did a fair few albums that were damn fine and QotSA and Them Crooked Vultures and all the other bits and pieces
[i]oh and this will probably be mildly controversial but The Raconteurs were better than The White Stripes[/i]
Bloody hilarious, not controversial 😆
Roger waters
Goo Fighters last album was one of their best. Hardly solo though is he, and solo is the question the OP posed. Not to nit-pick but jeez
Neil Young.
Mala