Thanks for sharing that bio., Frogman. You have my admiration.
Thanks also for getting me to listen to the Herbie Hancock. I've known of Headhunters for years but never owned it or listened to it recently. '73 would have been junior year in college. I do recall it made some waves.
His solo is fantastic. Just amazing. It really soars. The drumming and bass work are great too. So precise. I can't imagine how complex the times are on this stuff.
One fly in the ointment...more of an oddity, maybe. There is a repeating riff under Hancock's Rhoads solo. Clavinet, possibly. It actually starts right after the first break at the 2:00 mark and accompanies that reedy sounding soloing instrument (can't decide if that's a sax of some sort or something electronic/synth). Hancock's solo starts after the second break at 5:20 or so. That same riff is non stop in the right channel (listening to headphones) and much lower volume than the Rhoads. Sounds like a chicken squawking in a barnyard. What's weird to me - it doesn't always seem in time with anything else! Like it's a tape loop running fixed to one (time signature?) and doesn't keep up. THAT was a curiosity to me. What's up with that? Let me know if you can interpret!
From the sublime to the ridiculous maybe...this was pretty fun.
(though I think they got it wrong about that track by The Band)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlLxAULuq9Y&ab_channel=PhunkyPhil
Thanks also for getting me to listen to the Herbie Hancock. I've known of Headhunters for years but never owned it or listened to it recently. '73 would have been junior year in college. I do recall it made some waves.
His solo is fantastic. Just amazing. It really soars. The drumming and bass work are great too. So precise. I can't imagine how complex the times are on this stuff.
One fly in the ointment...more of an oddity, maybe. There is a repeating riff under Hancock's Rhoads solo. Clavinet, possibly. It actually starts right after the first break at the 2:00 mark and accompanies that reedy sounding soloing instrument (can't decide if that's a sax of some sort or something electronic/synth). Hancock's solo starts after the second break at 5:20 or so. That same riff is non stop in the right channel (listening to headphones) and much lower volume than the Rhoads. Sounds like a chicken squawking in a barnyard. What's weird to me - it doesn't always seem in time with anything else! Like it's a tape loop running fixed to one (time signature?) and doesn't keep up. THAT was a curiosity to me. What's up with that? Let me know if you can interpret!
From the sublime to the ridiculous maybe...this was pretty fun.
(though I think they got it wrong about that track by The Band)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlLxAULuq9Y&ab_channel=PhunkyPhil