jookeyman wrote:
I like your old fusion stuff a lot. Full of piss & vinegar!! Knockin' it out, man!!
Edgy, In your face, butt-kicking stuff!! Me likes!!
Upload some of that min.6#9 stuff you have in the vault!!
well, since you and the schmedster have both requested some more of that...i'll get some more instrumental stuff up from PENTAZZ. give me a sec or two cos' i really wanna find some of the (slightly) earlier recordings from when we had this absolutely RIDICULOUS sax player in the lineup.
we were all in our late 20's and early 30's and Todd the sax man was the youngster at about 20. this guy was maybe THE best MUSICIAN i've ever worked with. he had THE best tone on alto, tenor, and penny whistle (yeah, PENNY whistle! he made that thing sound like $10K flute...w a tone that was a cross between Hubert Laws and Herbie Mann!)
Todd's intonation from the bottom of the horns to way up in the stratosphere was ALWAYS spot on. then there was his ideas, phrasing, and BALLS! this from a tall, gangly, quiet, and laid back super white looking midwesterner! he always sounded like some 70 yr old black man who'd seen much and let it come out thru his horn. i'd often scratch my head at the disconnect!
he was with us a little over a yr from when i joined the band before he graduated and split. we worked quite a bit and prct'd weekly. in all that time i never..not ONCE heard him miss a note or hit a clam!