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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)

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Dick Heath Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Jazz-Rock Specialist Joined: April 19 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 12813	Topic: Drummers Posted: May 11 2004 at 04:51
	Quote: 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)

Dan Bobrowski Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: February 02 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 5243	Posted: May 10 2004 at 13:18
	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 We'll see. Tower of Power meets Mike Stern, they say. Could be interesting.

Dick Heath Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Jazz-Rock Specialist Joined: April 19 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 12813	Posted: May 10 2004 at 12:42
	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.

Dan Bobrowski Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: February 02 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 5243	Posted: May 10 2004 at 12:06
	Dick, What did you think of Protocol from Phillips? I have the original with Phillips playing ALL the instruments. It was latter released with other musicians, I believe.

Dick Heath Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Jazz-Rock Specialist Joined: April 19 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 12813	Posted: May 10 2004 at 11:49
	Whoops and there was part 3 - yes editor of Life magazine (you must be dipping into the same mine of useless facts as I do!). The living was so good that the Wainwrights lived nextdoor to the Minellis in Hollywood. LWIII wrote a song about playing with Lisa when children.

Dick Heath Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Jazz-Rock Specialist Joined: April 19 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 12813	Posted: May 10 2004 at 11:45
	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.

Dan Bobrowski Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: February 02 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 5243	Posted: May 07 2004 at 11:56
	#1. Force Majeure

Peter Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: January 31 2004 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 9669	Posted: May 06 2004 at 21:55
	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....) Edited by Peter Rideout
	"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy.

Dick Heath Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Jazz-Rock Specialist Joined: April 19 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 12813	Posted: May 06 2004 at 19:04
	1. What French term connects independent projects by drummers Simon Phillips and Gary Husband? 2. Apart from their drumming skills what is similar about Simon Phillips, Rick Parnell (Atomic Rooster, Ibis) and Michael Shrieve? (And if you are bothered, a tough one as a bonus, pushing beyond the prog boundaries 3. Loudan Wainwright III has been around quite some years on both US and UK the comedy/folk circuits. What was Loudan Wainwright II claim to fame?)