Originally Posted by
GuitarGeek
I'm not sure how he ended up playing on the Jeremy Steig session, but I seem to recall it was from that, that Hammer recommended Tommy to Cobham for the Spectrum sessions.
Well, I think it was less a matter of "progressing away from rock" (as if "rock music" were a bad thing) and more that he was just into all kinds of different things and didn't want to be pigeonholed in just one bag. Or maybe playing with Zephyr, The James Gang and Deep Purple was how he "paid the bills", ya know, like a day job. (shrug)
Certainly, on Teaser, there's some very good songs that don't sound to me like he was "moving away" from rock, but rather incorporating both things into his personal trip. I still think Wild Dogs is an amazing song.
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