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[Quinto]

 

[DLeeWebb]

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[finbad]

Review of interest: Blue Cheer
1968 ( at the birth of LOUD Heavy Metal ) Actually well recorded Island Mercury

Review "The Musician"

 

[ZCrow]

Black Pumas - Angel



Common Saints - Idol Eyes



SAULT - Glory

 

[LarsMan]

After post #132,362 .... something more 'gutbucket' while fulfilling ... [Columbia: compilation released January, 2002.] Oh yes! ..... HIGHLIGHT ..... "It's My Own Fault" (track 12) ..... what a rendition!

Laurel Pop Festival, Laurel, MD, 1969....

Review of interest: Blue Cheer
1968 ( at the birth of LOUD Heavy Metal ) Actually well recorded Island Mercury



Review "The Musician"

Blue Cheer's version of 'Summertime Blues' was a big hit in the DC area in psychedelic '67 or whenever that came out. In fact, their version was the first of many I've heard of that song....

 

[iampidugu]

 

[BobSmith8901]

Patrice Rushen - Prelusion (1974) / Before the Dawn (1975). This two on one CD (Prestige 1998) represents her first two releases...



This is Patrice Rushen doing fusion jazz - before she went R&B/Soul/Disco. I think many will be surprised. I have 8 of her albums to include the first 6 releases. Prelusion / Before the Dawn is the only jazz/fusion jazz album there.

That said, she did form a collaboration group called "The Meeting" which features Alphonse Johnson (bass), Ernie Watts (Sax), Leon "Ndugu" Chancler (drum) and her (Patrice) on keyboards. I have it, but never took to it. It's modern contemporary jazz, but I'm just not a big fan of it.

I was introduced to her incredible playing on Jean Luc Ponty's Aurora. Amazing musician. I didn't follow her much in her later stuff but I could listen to her on that JLP album all day. I'll definitely be checking out those records you mentioned as I've never heard them.

 

[David A Silva]

Review of interest: Blue Cheer
1968 ( at the birth of LOUD Heavy Metal ) Actually well recorded Island Mercury



Review "The Musician"

A treasure trove of early fusion reviews! Thanks!

 

[finbad]

A treasure trove of early fusion reviews! Thanks!

Yep, that man does some in depth research, with the meat being delivered in succinctly easy to consume bites' - As you said a nice go to source for the niche Rock/Jazz fusion genre, now with a longstanding comprehensive index - enjoy the rabbit hole, David as I know I will also

Oh yeah @LarsMan , although perhaps only a couple of years younger I too remember Blue Cheer on the airwaves in rotation with "our" new music of the generation - Good Stuff lol ( I'm bad, I'll see myself out )lol

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[Elegiac]

 

[barbazz]

 

[David A Silva]

The album Birds of Fire has been posted many times, here is my all time favorite #1 MVO song. The interplay jamming between McLaughlin, Hammer, and Goodman is the stuff of 70s legends!

 

[LarsMan]

The album Birds of Fire has been posted many times, here is my all time favorite #1 MVO song. The interplay jamming between McLaughlin, Hammer, and Goodman is the stuff of 70s legends!

Great record, David - I was introduced to 'Inner Mounting Flame' when it came out by the same dorm jazz guys who turned me on to Bitches Brew and Crossings.... I posted this picture once, but it was the one time I saw Mahavishnu Orchestra when they were co-headlining a tour with Jeff Beck....

 

[GlenAppleton]

Porcupine Tree | Signify (Remaster)