What's your latest "Discovery"

Speaking of guitar fusion music -- a genre I'm not generally all that big on myself -- recently I got acquainted with one of the founding fathers, Sonny Sharrock, when I picked up his swan song "Ask The Ages" (Axiom '91, with Elvin Jones and Pharoah Sanders) because I spotted it cheap at a thrift store. It grew on me steadily and now I'm glad to have belatedly discovered a guy whose name I'd only read in passing before. Sharrock's compositions and playing seem to inhabit a space of their own, conforming neither to usual rock nor jazz conventions, but one of the neat things about this disk is that the backing group is most definitely post-bop acoustic jazz in spirit, instead of the funkified electric rock-based excesses typical of the 70's fusion heyday. Sharrock himself is 100% electric of course but no avatar of soulless technique, calling to mind Neil Young and The Allman Brothers as much as Hendrix and Coltrane. Spiritually way beyond mere grooving and wanking (and assiduously avoiding overt references to the blues), this stuff is highly thematic and uniquely personal, clearly intended to be transcendent and succeeding at almost every turn. (Here's a link to the Allmusic review I read for the first time just now; they rate this album as Sharrock's masterwork.)

Zaikesman you probably have heard Sharrock a bunch of times and didn't realize it. He played the theme song from Space Ghost Coast To Coast.

Synthfreek: Unless I've seen "Space Ghost Coast To Coast" -- whatever that is -- and don't know it, I'm afraid you misoverestimate me...

Zaikes, it's a cartoon. I watched it with my kid and actually laughed at a lot of the stuff they do.

Or maybe it was just because I saw my kid enjoying himself :^).

http://www.adultswim.com/shows/spaceghost/

Sorry. It ran for over 10 years. I thought you had probably seen it at some point.