From: Roy DeRousse <>
> Berry released "Pilgrimmage to a Point" in 1995 I think, which was a
collaborative album between himself, Emerson, Palmer and Steve Howe.
True in the writing sense but not in the performing sense of
collaboration. The album features songs co-written with those folks, and
Berry does an incredible job of immitating their playing, but there are no
musician credits in the liner notes. I asked Berry about during one of the
Progfests, and he told me that he played all of the instruments himself! He
didn't want to sound too pretentious by listing, "Robert Berry - drums,
Robert Berry - guitar, etc." Some of my friends absolutely wouldn't believe
that it wasn't Emerson et al on the album, but Berry's statement to me has
been verified elsewhere. Personally, I like the album a lot. There are
actually two versions - the one the Berry pressed on a private label and the
later one distributed by Cyclops or whomever it was. Each has a track or so
that the other doesn't. The reissue is missing one of my favorite tracks from
the original!
From: "upnsm0ke" <>
As for other probably replacements (for Greg Lake), hear me, Keith & Carl:
DON'T, please don't give Robert Berry a ring. The guy's not bad, it's just
that I don't feel prog-rock is his forte. He was just filling a void on
'Three...' (Don't even get me started on that atrocious pop debacle of an
album...).
> Well, Berry has been doing a LOT of production and keyboard work for
prog bands and the tribute albums on Magna Carta. He does a very interesting
version of
> "Roundabout" on the Yes tribute.
I haven't heard the Yes or Genesis tributes. But maybe I'm being too
hard on Berry, considering he did one of the two or three tracks I DID like
on Magna Carta's Rush tribute, that being "Mission." Rob played guitar, bass
and keys, while Eric Martin sang (I forget the drummer, since I no longer own
that release). It's one of the few good moments on the tribute, which
unfortunately dissolved into a shred-fest (Rush was always about composition,
NOT shredding).