only on a prog forum....
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only on a prog forum....
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my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
Uh, no go on the sequel...
The final RTF studio album was Musicmagic from 1977, which was Chick and Stanley doing a sort of funky thing with a huge horn section and Chick's wife Gayle Moran on vocals. Most hate it, but a few of us intrepid folks love it.
I love Romantic Warrior as much as any of the other RTF albums, but it's a very different beast from the earlier ones.
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
There is no other track title that screams 80s neo-prog as much as Duel of the Jester and the Tyrant (Part I & Part II). Thankfully, it's actually kick-ass fusion.
Love that funky riff !
Chick's work is awesome
I love this album.
It is definitely standing right next to Prog.....and by that I mean "programmatic." Much of the music on this thing sounds almost like a soundtrack to some weird blaxploitation medieval Knights flick. You know what I mean?
Seriously, though, Chick has a fondness for these sorts of programmatic vignette-type pieces. This thing is way more through-composed and calculated than the earlier RTF albums. It's also less "jazzy." Thus, it gets lots of love from symphonic prog fans, and that's not a bad thing.
These days, though, I tend to listen to the compilation Return to the Seventh Galaxy, which has some live radio broadcast tracks from the transitional, Brasilian/acoustic-meets-rock-and-loud-guitars band. Don't get me wrong, I love all this stuff, and even Musicmagic, and even (gasp!) have soft spot fog Gayle's vocals.
Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?
Me too... and me neither. She did a decent job playing keyboards for the Mahavishnu Orchestra Mk II, but her operatic vocals never worked for me.
But Chick is one of my all time favorite improvisers AND composers. I've heard some pretty weird stories about him as a person, but I don't care; the man is a genius! He's written all kinds of different stuff, from short-form jazz tunes to small and large ensemble classical pieces and the majority of all of it is brilliant imho.
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