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I slept on Stankey Clark WAY too long

#42
sunbeast said:
My intro to Mr Clarke was the Chick Corea/ Return To Forever album "Light as a Feather" that a housemate of mine had on LP that got pinned a bunch in our living room back when I was mostly immersed in metal, prog, and lots of sludgy loud stuff. His playing definitely made a huge impression on me and though it didn't guide me to upright bass, that record did influence me to pick up my first fretless shortly after (an Ampeg AUB-1 that I definitely shouldn't have sold!) and brought my interests back to more melodic-centric music again.
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I read an interview with him years ago in some guitar mag where he talked about the Light as a Feather, Chick Corea album. He stated that Corea pushed him real hard to get him to do what he accomplished there and that it was not fun for him. Note his stuff in the years after that does not have those extreme lines and arpeggios.
My current band wants to do Spain… I am feelin it… ouch.
The pain in Spain falls mainly on that effen chorus!!
 
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Andychn said:
I read an interview with him years ago in some guitar mag where he talked about the Light as a Feather, Chick Corea album. He stated that Corea pushed him real hard to get him to do what he accomplished there and that it was not fun for him. Note his stuff in the years after that does not have those extreme lines and arpeggios.
My current band wants to do Spain… I am feelin it… ouch.
The pain in Spain falls mainly on that effen chorus!!
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I believe that! I appreciate the album immensely but have never tried to actually play it!
 
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Peak Stanley for me was 2000 through 2010. 'Night School' back in 2003, which was a phenomenal show, and 'The Toys of Men', his strongest solo album by a long way.

Stanley is a fantastic player but his biggest weakest IMO is one that he admits, his solo material has been inconsistent and some of it has been pretty weak. I don't rate him as a terrific writer and arranger, but when he gets it right he really nails it.
 
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jerry said:
Another short lived side project with Lenny & Richie Kotzen:

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This should have been so much better IMO. Kotzen and Clarke should be a killer duo, as Richie's fusion playing is insane (wish he were still doing that rather than the tired classic rock style he's settled into for the past twenty years or so). However, Vertu just never had the music for me and the addition of a violin player made it just something I didn't want to listen to.
 
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VicDiesel said:
No one mentioned Animal Logic yet? I'm not sure what the thinking behind it was, but it's solid pop. So he does know how to keep the ego-trippery in check.

No one mentioned Rock Pebbles & Sand? Some great jazz rock on that.

RTF: I like their RTF Live. Great band with lots of horns.
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I dug the Musicmagic version of RTF, but I remember at the time a lot of people were not crazy about that change.............guitar players!😁
 
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Passinwind said:
My roomie at the time that album came out adored it, including the vocals. I was much more of a Flora Purim fan myself, and would still rather listen to Light As A Feather than any later RTF sides, cool as many of them are.
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Flora is at the top of my list too, the first two RTF albums were my introduction to that band. Her solo albums are on my death bed playlist. I saw her a bunch and one show at the Bottom Line is in the too five of concerts I ever witnessed I dug the horns on Musicmagic and Stanley and Gerry Brown, I was a little use to Moran's voice from Mahavishnu markII.😎
 
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