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Peter Gabriel, Secret World Live

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"Long held as a talisman by Santana fans, who had to buy it as a triple-LP Japanese import before Columbia finally issued it on CD in 1991, Lotus is a live album that finds Carlos Santana and his octet (a.k.a. the New Santana Band) at a nexus between rock, Latin music, jazz fusion, and spiritually driven communiqués to the gods. Some of the early hits are performed, such as "Black Magic Woman" and "Oye Como Va," but long, intense instrumentals are the order of the day, as on the breathtaking "Incident at Neshabur," "Every Step of the Way," and "Toussaint L'Overture."

New old vinyl.

I've loved this recording since its release in 1973. An extended medley, songs segue into one another. The medley, I'm So Proud / Ooh Baby Baby / La La Means I Love You / Cool Jerk, on side two (and side two in its entirety, actually) always merited playing through more than once. This vinyl edition is better than the CD issue. The last song, Just One Victory, is as relevant today as at the time of its release.

Spied this as just it was just getting put out at the vinyl shop: The Time, Ice-cream Castles. "The 'Minneapolis sound', a hybrid mixture of funk, rock, pop, synthpop and new wave pioneered by Prince, had some distinguishing characteristics: Synthesizers generally replaced horns, and were used more as accent than as fill or background. The rhythm was often faster and less syncopated than traditional funk, and owed much to new wave pop music. Guitars, while usually (but not always) played 'clean' for rhythm parts, were frequently much louder and more aggressively processed during solos than in most traditional funk. The 'bottom' of the sound was less bass-heavy than traditional funk; drums and keyboards filled more of the 'bottom'. The drums were more highly processed than in traditional funk." Ah, yes, Purple Rain.

After listening to a dozen or so LPs, this is one I came away with from one of the local vinyl shops, Mobius Records. More to post later.

Grocery shopping at Trader Joe's this morning, Grateful Dead was being piped through the store. Not having any in my library, this is as close as I can get.

Percy Faith for me, too.

EvilM, your mailbox is full.

Just a note to say I enjoy the posts, I follow along & find new music for listening. Eclectic, electric & eccentric...enjoyable. Keeping with alliteration, Emma.

A good introduction you've made, thanks, and you now just might have a new favorite site, it's like that for many of us. Keep us posted !

Steve Wilson, Hand. Cannot. Erase.

Those Polks were my wife's b-day present years ago when they came out, replacing a pair of Silver ALS in oak that went awry, smoke wafting out the back. A trade-in to the dealer (brothers, good guys) landed the Polks. Awesome speakers, she would give you two thumbs up!