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Fake computer kids should pack it in.
Seriously, isn't it fascinating that one approach can yield such differing results? It's all about the players indeed (or, rather, about the interaction between a given group of players): How well do they listen to each other? Are they willing to take chances, to abandon tried & true licks in favor of things they haven't played before. This, to me, is where music becomes truly exciting.
Miles Davis famously once asked McLaughlin to play as though he had never touched a guitar (for the Silent Way session IIRC) and the resultant sound has a searching quality that (to me) transcends a lot of rehearsal intensive music.
SOE is the direction that I wish Traffic would have gone. Some of it actually reminds me of Traffic a la "Low Spark of High Healed Boys". Steve Winwood played organ on several songs on the previous TT album Colour of Spring.
Yes on both. Especially if one thinks in terms of Traffic tunes like "Low Spark" and "Dream Gerrard"; the latter in particular searches for a boundless form of sorts, something TT would trace to perfection on the final two records - although most things happening on Laughing Stock leave fairly little to chance and were all part of the coordinates. This differs a bit from SoE in that respect.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
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^I meant he left his more conventional vocalizing behind. I should have been clearer.
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Only listened to it a few times, I'll probably end up buying it. Seems like its a grower for me.
Ian
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Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
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I prefer Laughing Stock but Spirit Of Eden is righteous too.
What a great band!!!
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I found Laughing Stock too dissonant for me to keep but still have Spirit of Eden. Colour of Spring was a great transition album of their style change and the easiest of those three for me to listen to.
"Dem Glücklichen legt auch der Hahn ein Ei."
I'm still trying to decipher the printed and sung lyrics on SOE ;-)
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