>you have Deep Purple who on their early records were led by >organist Jon Lord and sounded like a bootleg Vanilla Fudge and >it's like ''You have Ritchie Blackmore in the band and your'e >barely allowing him to write riffs or play much''.
I think it was very much a similar situation. There's another band like this that comes to mind, but I can't recall it right off the bat... it boiled down to one (or two very talented) band member(s) not given much of any input...
once that happened, the whole feel of the band changed.
I almost kind of feel much of Steely Dan records where Donald Fagen isn't singing... a "singer" like him would usually ruin the records they're on, but none of those songs have that snarky feeling they're supposed to if he doesn't (and Walter Becker should never be allowed near a microphone unless it's recording his guitar, LOL)