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| 1. | Rock Island Rocket
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| 2. | Tom Cat
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| 3. | Day Way
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| 4. | Keep on Doin' It
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| 5. | Love Poem
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| 6. | Good Evening Mr. & Mrs. America & All the Ships
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| 7. | Backfence Cattin'
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| 8. | Mondo
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| 9. | Refried
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Jazz
Lightning in a bottle
As the previous reviewer has described nicely, this was just how it sounded if you could hear the L.A. Express live. I have fond memories of back-to-back weekends they played at the Roxy on the Sunset Strip, and their energy was something that's still with me 30+ years later. Listening to "Rock Island Rocket" brings it all back, that's the beauty of great music. This was one of Robben Ford's first appearances on a major label record, and his solo on Guerin's "Good Evening Mr. & Mrs. America..." perfectly captures his earlier, youthful soloing style when he seemed constantly to teeter on the edge of "out". It's like listening to a thrill ride. The rhythm team of Guerin-Bennett is telekinetic; Tom Scott never had a better group. I wish they had made more, but at least this one time someone got it right.
70's Fusion at it's finest.
While doing a search in iTunes for something else altogether I stumbled upon this gem, immediately downloaded the entire CD and proceeded to jam. The memories came flooding back as I listened to Rock Island Rocket, and drummer John Guerin's single headed toms, a sound he was almost singularly responsible for making popular. It was that distinctive dry tone that attracted me to his playing along with an awesome sense of changing direction at a moments notice. Max Bennett on bass rounded out one of the best studio rhythm sections in Los Angeles in the 70's. Robben Ford's acoustic solo on Refried is one of the best and ranks right up there with anything Larry Carlton did without 110 volts. It was a complete package with great cover art and some of the best fusion of the 70's. You won't be dissapointed.
EXCELLENT FRONT TO BACK
I first heard the track 'Rock Island Rocket' back in the 70's and this has been one of my favorite albums since then. I recently got it on CD and it was worth the wait. While I am a fan of Tom Scott I am not crazy about all his releases but this is a gem. Well crafted tunes and top notch musicianship make this CD totally enjoyable. John Guerin's drumming is funky, jazzy, and super tight. His solo on 'Mondo' reamins a favorite. And great guitarist, Robben Ford, is also on this disc. Not one bad track on this disc. Simply put, it's a no-brainer!!
Tom Cat is the cat's meow!
Tom Scott is a versatile musician who played with dozens of bands and soloists but was rarely a headliner. His talent, however, is evident in this jazz fusion CD from the 80's. Lots of keen riffs, instruments that really sing, and just plain fun. Here, kitty, kitty, kitty!!
The Real 1970s
At age twelve, I heard them sing of stars alligning in the age of Aquarius. By the time I reached high school, I believed them. I was a musician, and there was no better alligned time & place than to be a talented musician growing up in Los Angeles during the early 1970s. My band played the homecoming dance 1974, and we were a horn band playing a lot of Tower of Power, Chicago etc. But the music I most admired at the time was Tom Scott's LA Express, who played down the street at The Baked Potato.
They say the music of your adolescence speaks most sentimental at older age, and they're right. Recently re-listening on CD to all the old records we listened to, this one's my favorite. The main reason: it's like sitting front row at the Baked. Complete with drum solo on the last tune of the set, it's like a burning live show at the famed intimate Jazz club. Better. Drummer Guerin is simply at his peak best in these studio performances. That up-beat high-hat stuff, his trademark, never sounded better (thanks to Scott's talented production ear, one of the most musical producers-arrangers to ever man the boards-etc., as exemplified on Joni Mitchell's Court & Spark).
Because the real thing that was happening at the time was: Fender Rhodes. The "West Coast Sound" depended upon it. There were many ways (tones, ranges, memorable figures etc.) the Rhodes was being used at the time and most were regarded as innovative, or at least "innovative sounding" - spacey-sounding studio production was being discovered-exploited, the disco-space-cadet was in fashion.
As it turned out, this record showcases many of the various Rhodes sounds of that period, Nash being a fine example of combining the Gospel flair of Preston with Herbie+ Jazz chops. And more. Nash is literally all over the instrument: I remember seeing him do live the famous top-off fingers dampening the tines while playing, which results a unique staccatto sound. All the funky Rhodes parts here on Tom's groovy little Pop-Jazz figures become immediate classics, while Nash's solos friggin soar well beyond the call of duty. Indeed many of the solos on this record are classics, as in the written out kind, ala Larry Carlton's solos on Steely Dan's Royal Scam. Hummable solos is about the best compliment I can think of given to a Jazz musician.
Ditto on choice of master guitar bluesman Robben Ford. Again with extra thanks to the engineering-mixing, Robben's parts stand out with a verve and conviction; no rhythm figure is too small. Simple funk grooves are given meticulous treatment. And bassist Max Bennett seems to be having the most fun, bringing an almost Led Zepplin-ish feeling to some of the tunes that experiment the most with Jazz-Rock fusion style (what some today would refer to as Acid-Jazz).
Can't pick any favs. Because every single cut on this record freakin burns. Awesome. Simple. Burnin Jazz-Funk-Pop fusion, done in the studio live with only a couple dubs, making it end up sounding like a live freaking Jazz festival show with virtuosos. Recorded so cleanly, you can hear the 70s mixer, the sound of a real, dry Rhodes with stereo effect only. Oh, the tones! Burnin Blues-Jazz-Rock guitarist through a Mesa Boogie. Tom with his Lyricon. Live, raw drum sound. Nothing like it. This is the real 1970s. This is exactly how I remember it, from the keyboard stand. |
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