I will guess on # 2, Dick, as I am only familiar with the great Phillips:

Double bass drums

Re # 3, editor of Life magazine.

Did you see sonny boy, of "Dead Skunk" fame, in recent Tim Burton flick "Big Fish?"

Great movie, good role! LW3 rocks! (in a folky, acerbic way....)

#1. Force Majeure

Danbo, you know too much........................ There was a slight panic when it was remembered Simon Phillips had an album called "Force Majeure" but on checking it was realised this was a album title not the group's name, as in Husband's recent line-up.

#2. (maybe I need my wrists slapped for not double checking) but Simon Phillips, Rick Parnell  and Michael Shrieve had professional musicians as fathers (and I think at least two if not all three,  had dads who were drummers and certainly successful band leaders - Syd Phillips, Jack Parnell); my details on Michael Shrieve's biog as much vaguer.

I have the live "Force Majeure" album released by the Anglo-Swiss label B&W (same company who make loud speakers); here with Anthony Jackson, Ray Russell and others with Phillips (not having the CD here doesn't help). Let me be honest, I haven't played it much after obtaining the CD, although I listened to it a lot when it was first  released. That is, I guess I only had short term affection for it!! Vertu is another example. And my worst case of mind changing: getting a promo of the first Transatlantic album, loving it the first play but very soon into the second play finding it extremely tendious/cliched/irrevelant to my music needs - it provided ammunition to the punks who asked "why can't tunes be done in 3 minutes or less"?.

That takes us off at a tangent: how do you measure the importance of an album to you personally? I'm looking for something new, exciting and what will stand the test of continual play/replay - this week and regularly for probably the next ten years without me getting tired of it, the real challenge. To this end and for the last 10 years only I can only nominate Conrad Schrenk's Extravaganza's "Save The Robots" - Danbo, as a jazz rock fan I urge to find a copy. In part this reaction may be  old age, and so more favourites were available when I was younger, hence more open minded  (which can also mean I was less picky) - but also could mean there was more innovative prog and jazz rock in the early 70's than nowadays too.

I can't count the number of albums/discs I've purchased listened to a few times and either put in the CD rack and forgot or sold to the Used-CD store. It never fails that I search it out AGAIN after someone makes a comment about the band or the recording and I re-discover it. Usually, though, it's right back in the rack.

I guess, for me, it's the reason I like Allan's music so much, I always come back to it. I hear something new with each listen. Secrets is the one I normally return to. It's so emotional. Not just dark emotions, either. Peril Premonition is the ride of a lifetime, for me. Cracks me up, power and grace... oh yeah, awestruck too.

  Conrad Schrenk, eh? http://eer-music.com/reviews/Conrad_Schrenk.html - http://eer-music.com/reviews/Conrad_Schrenk.html

We'll see. Tower of Power meets Mike Stern, they say. Could be interesting.

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We'll see. Tower of Power meets Mike Stern, they say. Could be interesting.

The jazz rock fraternity who have the album have a slightly different version:

Steve Vai doing jazz-chords and brass rock backing (I would say somewhere between TOP and Chase)