Qango (band)
Qango was a Progressive Rock-/AOR-Band, which arose from a failed reunion attempt by the band Asia and in the Asia- musician John Wetton, Carl Palmer and John Young played.
Posse Up
The renewed contact between the Asia- musician Geoff Downes (keyboards) and former Asia singer John Wetton in July 1998 and the resolution of Emerson, Lake & Palmer in December of the same year was for a short time a reunion of the four Asia- founder Dowens, Wetton, Carl Palmer (drums) and Steve Howe (guitar) seem possible. However, Steve Howe remained fixed Yes member and was not willing to join in Asia, so you turned on as a substitute Dave Kilminster. But Wetton drinking problem and the fact that Downes entered no other choice for the participation of its Asia- colleague, John Payne and the refusal Paynes to assign its rights to the name "Asia" to the three other musicians, led to Downes backed down, because to put it the risk that cooperation with Payne (and thus the band Asia) because of a few reunion concerts at risk was too great.
Palmer and Wetton then decided to start with Kilmister together his own band. They hired as the fourth member of the first keyboard player Keiran Twist, but was then replaced by the former Asia- member John Young, and named the new band Qango.
As managers were hired Stewart Young from the company Part rock.
Tour
First concerts of the band were already planned for November 1999, but Wetton broke his wrist, and the tour had to be postponed to spring 2000.
Qango played a series of concerts in England between February and May 2000. The band played a mixture of Asian ( Time Again, Sole Survivor, Heat Of The Moment, The Smile Has Left Your Eyes, Only Time Will Tell, Don ' t Cry ) and ELP- pieces ( Bitches Crystal, Hoedown, Fanfare For the Common Man ) that the cover versions ( including Bob Dylan's All Along the Watchtower ), original compositions ( the Last One Home by Wetton / Young, from the time when Young had been a member of Asia, Battle Lines of Wetton ) and various solos were combined. Walking On Air With a previously unreleased Asia- piece was first presented live.
At a concert on 4 February 2000 played Keith Emerson, former keyboardist for Emerson, Lake & Palmer, along with the band the piece Fanfare For The Common Man.
Album Live in the Hood
In the year 2000 appeared on ELPs Manticore label the album Live in the Hood, on the occasion of concerts at "The Robin Hood" in Birmingham (3 February 2000) and " The Brook " in Southampton (7 February ) was created. The album was mixed by Paul Kennedy in the Liscombe Park Studios in Soulbury.
A studio album was planned, but when the band broke up in 2000, still, no shots had yet taken place.
Resolution
More concerts in Europe, the United States ( in the halls chain " House of Blues " ) and Japan have been planned but fell out due to lack of demand. Then the band broke up in the summer of 2000.
Carl Palmer founded following the dissolution of Qango his own band, while John Wetton further pursue his solo career. Dave Kilminster closed between 2003 and 2005, the Keith Emerson Band at John Young joined Greenslade and gives concerts as a soloist or with his band John Young.
Swell
- Forrester, George / Martyn Hanson / Frank Askew: Emerson, Lake & Palmer. The show that never ends. A musical biography. London 2001. ISBN 1-900924-17- X.
- Gallant, David: Asia. Heat of the Moment. New York 2007 ISBN. 978-0-9796881-0-2.
- Edward Macan: Endless Enigma. A musical biography of Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Chicago, Illinois, 2006. ISBN 0-8126-9596-8.