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Wayfarer
I thought it was good Glen. I like your fusion stuff better though. You've got this Brand X kind of thing going on which is right up my alley. I really like that one called The Real Thing.





Thanks Wayfarer!  Jazz/Rock/Fusion is more my forte. Funny you should mention Brand X. I've been playing my acoustic drums a lot lately to the song Disco Suicide (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUBB-3JXWnQ&t=1449s)
 
I bought this Jazz Bop kit at the beginning of the year, and am using them now for recording.
 

 
I used to use the V-Drums to the side of my mix desk, with Superior Drummer 2.  It's a drum room!
 

2017/12/19 21:48:52
Wayfarer
Hey, whatever works and keeps the neighbors happy. 
 
I never had that particular Brand X album. The ones I liked best were Unorthodox Behavior and Livestock. Most of my favorite fusion bands were out of England. UK, Buford, Soft Machine, Nucleous etc. I think Holdsworth was in all of them at one time or another. I also liked Gong, Michał Urbaniak, Gabor Szabo, Jean-Luc Ponty and several other European groups. I liked some of the more acoustic bands too though like Passport, Oregon, the Paul Winter Consort, Pat Metheny and so on. I liked Jeff Beck's fusion period a lot. For what it's worth, in my opinion the Dixie Dregs' What If album was the quintessential fusion recording.
Wayfarer
Hey, whatever works and keeps the neighbors happy. 
 
I never had that particular Brand X album. The ones I liked best were Unorthodox Behavior and Livestock. Most of my favorite fusion bands were out of England. UK, Buford, Soft Machine, Nucleous etc. I think Holdsworth was in all of them at one time or another. I also liked Gong, Michał Urbaniak, Gabor Szabo, Jean-Luc Ponty and several other European groups. I liked some of the more acoustic bands too though like Passport, Oregon, the Paul Winter Consort, Pat Metheny and so on. I liked Jeff Beck's fusion period a lot. For what it's worth, in my opinion the Dixie Dregs' What If album was the quintessential fusion recording.


All favorites of mine.  I used to go to concerts to see these type of musicians/bands, and would hang out back of the theater while they played their encore. I got to meet and hang out with Dixie Dreggs, Gentle Giant, Jean-Luc Ponty, and Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. Bill Bruford, Alan Holdsworth, Jeff Berlin, and Dave Stewart OTOH saw it coming, and had a waiting limo two blocks away. When they came out, they ran at full break neck speed, single file through the alley and around the corner. I did get to see their limo driving away though.   ;)
2017/12/20 22:42:19
Wayfarer
Holdsworth used to ride his bicycle around the neighborhood when I lived in Escondido during the early 90's. Never met him though. I saw him in concert once right after IOU came out. Saw the Dregs right after Mark O'Connor joined the group. Saw Jeff Beck with SRV two weeks before Stevie's plane went down. I used to know Phil Keaggy in passing but was never friends with him. I saw Eric Johnson when his first record came out and he couldn't even fill a 400 seat concert hall. It was plain to see he was going to be huge though.
 
My favorite guy to see in concert didn't play jazz at all though and that was Robin Trower. He's still mesmerizing.
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