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Jah Wobble with his Ovation Magnum

 

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I remember seeing his performance at Newport some years ago, when he spent an awful lot of time complaining about his placement on the bill, the dwindling audience (it was getting late in the day), etc., etc., etc. He came across as a spoiled brat that day.

The last time I saw him live was in 2008 on the Return To Forever 30th Anniversary Tour. I had a ticket in the sixth row. Was a wonderful experience. Not much energy from Al though. Stanley Clarke's bass solo was amazing (both AUB and electric long neck). Here's the show from San Sebastian, Spain. Clarke's solo in this isn't as good as the show I attended in Phoenix, but he's still amazing!

 

[badinage]

I got taken in initially by his flash, but soon got tired of his robot riffing, it was just so stiff, clinical, unemotional. Then I snuck in early to a hall where RTF were performing, and got to watch their soundcheck. The other three started to jam on "Green Dolphin Street", a classic jazz standard. He tried noodling around to catch up, but just dropped out, lost. That's when it hit me that he was something of a fraud. He was getting all these accolades from the jazz world, but he couldn't hang on something he should have known all along? Then about that time I read some interviews where he was quite full of himself, and I was done. Holdsworth's liquid style was far more enticing, surprising, and awe inspiring for that kind of stuff anyway.

Maybe RTF was doing a version of Green Dolphin Street that didn't 'Latin' the A section but rather kept it 'Swing' the entire song. Threw me the first time I encountered that and it still feels un-natural, but all-swing is the way I'm typically called on to play 'Green Dolphin Street' even now. Still feels weird.

 

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[Mosthigh]

Robert Plant 1967

 

[The Owl]

Narada Michael Walden and Jeff Beck

 

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[dave64o]

From Peter Gabriel's Facebook page ….

 

[Danny O Danny]

Queen Sylvia Embry

 

[roccobass]

Elton having an outdoor lunch with a friend at The Ranch.

 

[IMMusicRulz]

Me reading Thick as a Brick

 

[IMMusicRulz]

Nate Mendel of Foo Fighters

 

[IMMusicRulz]

Adele and Taylor Swift

 

[IMMusicRulz]

David Gilmour

 

[laristotle]

Me reading Thick as a Brick

I'd read the 12 page newspaper as well while listening to that album.
Here's the St Cleve Chronicle for TAAB II.
www.stcleve.com - Parish Newspaper for St. Cleve, Linwell, and Little Cruddock (formerly St. Cleve Chronicle)

And the show

 

[58kites]

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Me reading Thick as a Brick

When?
What year? ......what age?

 

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