Complex sentence: The band gathered and all members proposed several novels on which their next album would be based on, but it was bassist Doug Ferguson who recommended the group to have the next album based on Paul Gallico's novel "The Snow Goose".
Split into simpler sentences: The band gathered and all members proposed several novels on which their next album would be based on. Finally, bassist Doug Ferguson recommended the group to have the next album based on Paul Gallico's novel "The Snow Goose".