trust me on this one: Trip Wamsley's latest band project, "The Power Triplets" is breaking some new ground.
I was 6 when rockabilly hit, 14 when the British invaded, 17 when acid rock blew in, 24 when Stanley Clarke, Jaco and jazz fusion exploded, so I've heard some music in my time.
This is kind of hard to express in words, but I saw The Power Triplets last night and kinda got shook up.
And for those of you who've done psychedelics this might make more sense.
At times during the show last night, and particulary during a tune called "Art Deco Clock", I realized I was beginning to feel "uneasy", for lack of a better word.
Once I became aware of it, it wasn't anything to really be concerned with, but they were going to some musical places that caused me to become kind of tense and tight.
You know when you've tripped (no pun intended) and you realize your chest is getting kind of tight and your breathing is no longer relaxed? It was kind of like that, as in the "mild paranoia" level you go through and have no idea why. Gnome sayin'?
I mean, they were playing so fast and intense, (remember seeing The Mahavishnu Orchestra when McLaughlin was at his "Marshall stack" loudest and most intense?) that my body was responding like a fear response!
Hooly moooly! If ever I heard "Badass" performers, it was last night. I realized they were actually scaring me. Imagine that.
They were going to places that I was unfamiliar with and, like most people, I tend to fear what I don't understand.
Guys, I only had one beer, but I gotta tell you this latest band project by the Tripster is unfukkinbelievable. No, I mean, it was like I was hearing something new for the first time, kind of like my first jazz concert when I smoked Oaxacan and was led like a lamb to the slaughter by Tony Williams, Ron Carter, Freddie Hubbard, George Benson, Hubert Laws, Stanley Turentine, and Herbie Hancock. "What the hell is going on
WITH THIS?", I remember thinking at the time.
If you even get the CHANCE to see these guys live, just do it. And if you're not moved by what they do, I'll mail back to you the cover charge.
I'm still not sure exactly
what I heard last night, but I do know this, I heard Trip go some places on bass guitar that I've never heard
anyone go,
anyone. He's taken his game to a whole new level.
Trip, i love you, man, and you just keep right on taking those chances and pushing the envelope. I'm behind you 100 f'in percent.
Oh, and one more precautionary note: this band is one of those that really needs to be experienced live. I don't know that I'd have the patience for their recorded music. Live they just go to some other dimension (and at times I was even reluctant to follow them).
http://thepowertriplets.com/
(edited)
http://www.myspace.com/thepowertriplets
It's quite possible that 10 years from now we'll be looking back and saying, "I saw those guys when there were first getting together!".
