tacts. I don’t think we ever managed to reach out to an instrumentalist or performer without
some kind of contact. Of course,
most of the Project albums were
made before the Internet, so it
would be easier now! If we wanted to get a hold of Elton John, I
dare say we could through the
Internet.”
How Pilot’s members -- David
Paton, Ian Bairnson, Stuart Tosh,
and briefly Billy Lyall -- came to
be the cornerstone of the ProjNew Jersey Stage
ect was, according to Parsons, a
matter of convenience. “At the
beginning, when I just had Pilot
in the studio for their first album,
it seemed like a good choice to
get players who played together
all the time, and that I knew. I
knew the guys well, knew their
strengths and limitations, and
so on.” It did not last long. Lyall
died after Tales of Mystery and
Imagination was released. Tosh,
Bairnson, and Paton stayed on as
Woolfson took on the majority of
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