Heading out tonight to see Return to Forever IV - Chick Corea, Stanley Clark, Lenny White, Jean Luc-Ponty and Frank Gambale - all of them long time masters of their craft. I think I saw Chick Corea once about 25 or 30 years ago. Opening act is Zappa Plays Zappa. I've heard that Dweezil has a pretty good band.
This should be good.
Return to Forever IV
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Well, if you’re going to follow Screwball’s logic, you’ll be fondling your old lady’s marble bag.
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Sam, I've still got that album too. Bought it when it came out and used to play it all the time. I've got lots of old RTF and some of Chick Coreas old solo efforts too.
As far as the concert goes, Zappa Plays Zappa was awesome. Dweezil is an excellent guitar player and the rest of the band (8 total) was really good at playing some very difficult stuff. All young players, most of them multi-instrumental and all excellent musicians. The woman that played sax and keyboards was a real surprise. Very dynamic soloist on tenor and soprano.
Check out "City of Tiny Lights"...
And Return to Forever...what can you say? These guys are all legends and they've all been playing together for decades in one form or another. We were sitting in the 8th row, off to the right of the stage. The stage setup was sort of strange. Chick Corea was on the left with all this keyboards. Lenny White was set up on the right side, near the front and facing the center of the stage. The others were in the middle.
So basically we could see everybody fine but we had an angle on the drummer from behind and to his left. I was very interested watching him play the whole time. What an awesome drummer. Most of the time he hardly seems to be putting any effort into it but he's always dead on playing some very intricate rhythms and his changes seemed almost to magically anticipate what the other guys were doing.
They all played both electric and acoustic instruments. Stanley Clarke can make sounds come out of a double bass that you wouldn't think possible. I had never seen Frank Gambale before but he was excellent too. A great show all around. The highlights were probably Romantic Warrior and Spain, and also a song called Renaissance that was written by Jean-Luc Ponty and featured his violin.
"School Days"
As far as the concert goes, Zappa Plays Zappa was awesome. Dweezil is an excellent guitar player and the rest of the band (8 total) was really good at playing some very difficult stuff. All young players, most of them multi-instrumental and all excellent musicians. The woman that played sax and keyboards was a real surprise. Very dynamic soloist on tenor and soprano.
Check out "City of Tiny Lights"...
And Return to Forever...what can you say? These guys are all legends and they've all been playing together for decades in one form or another. We were sitting in the 8th row, off to the right of the stage. The stage setup was sort of strange. Chick Corea was on the left with all this keyboards. Lenny White was set up on the right side, near the front and facing the center of the stage. The others were in the middle.
So basically we could see everybody fine but we had an angle on the drummer from behind and to his left. I was very interested watching him play the whole time. What an awesome drummer. Most of the time he hardly seems to be putting any effort into it but he's always dead on playing some very intricate rhythms and his changes seemed almost to magically anticipate what the other guys were doing.
They all played both electric and acoustic instruments. Stanley Clarke can make sounds come out of a double bass that you wouldn't think possible. I had never seen Frank Gambale before but he was excellent too. A great show all around. The highlights were probably Romantic Warrior and Spain, and also a song called Renaissance that was written by Jean-Luc Ponty and featured his violin.
"School Days"
Last edited by Mikey on Wed Sep 21, 2011 3:36 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Mikey wrote:Dweezil is an excellent guitar player
Count me out.
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Funny, I'm always bitching the LA gets better concerts than we do in San Diego.
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I wouldn't know. I'm still trying to nurse my ear drums after those first hauntingly awful 30 seconds. EGADS.Dinsdale wrote:Count me out.
I'll go ahead and assume he's a skilled guitar player, and that nobody except dorks and rough looking 40 somethings in mom jeans trying to appease said dorks will reach a second time for his music.