Just searched "Tony Newton Snake Oil" on YouTube. Very cool!
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Robert Cray, Eric Clapton, Stevie and Jimmie Vaughan.
That particular line-up, Williams, Newton, guitarist Allan Holdsworth, and keyboardist Alan Pasqua was very different from the original incarnation of the band(Williams, organist Larry Young, guitarist John McLaughlin, and eventually Jack Bruce on bass); not better, just different. The first band was a lot more experimental, but this stuff came out right at the pinnacle of the fusion era. To clear up any confusion, that piece initially appeared on Believe It, released in 1975, which was, overall, a solid album. That version of the band recorded a second title, Million Dollar Legs, the following year, which was a bit of a disappointment. When reissued on CD, both albums were run together as The Collection, but they used the same B&W shot of a shirtless Williams with drum sticks.Just searched "Tony Newton Snake Oil" on YouTube. Very cool!
Also, right around the same time period, Velvet Darkness, an album promoted as a Holdsworth solo, was released, featuring Pasqua, with Alphonso Johnson on bass and Narada Michael Walden on drums. Holdsworth disavowed that album, it was a rehearsal/demoing of material still being developed, recorded by Creed Taylor and Rudy Van Gelder and released without any of the musicians' consent(and of course they didn't get paid). It's worth checking out(barely)if you're interested, but don't have any high expectations. I would have thought that Taylor and Van Gelder would have had more class than that, but hey, what can you say, music business.
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