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...great lewis, the best guitar album by Randy California, including those by Spirit. The best tribute to Lennon/Macca? We should ask them (too bad Lennon can’t answer) what they think, since Randy completely upends their work. After all, he was one of their admirers. It’s worth noting that just after this album he recorded another one with his stepfather under the name Kaptain Kopter And Commander Cassidy In Potato Land, but the record label refused to release it because they deemed that Zappa-style jumble commercially unviable...

Thank you all for the appreciation for my writing and the album. Everything started from a post by cptgaio, who with a bit of a polemic tone referred to Iggy the clown for the insurance advertisement. The response is this review because I believe that certain characters, for all that they have lived and experienced firsthand, are a bit like Colonel Kurtz from "Apocalypse Now," above common morality that dictates what is right and what is not, and therefore they are beyond any of our logical evaluations. The story is the one pointed out by michoos what; the concerts regarding the album are two, but I referred to what enters into legend as the concert of broken glass. Among others, I thank vivis for the honor given to the review, the duo dreamwarrior/donjunio clearly under the influence of drugs, and I send Alessio to hell ;-) for the Paramoretti reference to the splendid fifty-year-olds since I still have quite a way to go.

No, by 1976 the real Grand Funk Railroad was no longer there, and not just because they split up just as Uncle Frankie was fiddling with the freshly recorded tapes, but because they had abandoned the formula of the thunderous power trio, having long since brought in a keyboardist and steering towards radio-friendly rock. The combination of GFR and Zappa was hard to imagine, but the three were very eager for it despite the record executives' reservations about the mustachioed one's commercial antics. The fact is that even Zappa could not perform miracles, and a bit of his freakiness is felt only in the last track of the CD, which is a bonus compared to the LP. Just imagine that Frank tried Brewer as a drummer for his band but dismissed him because he was too fixated on the more creative drumming of Terry Bozzio.

no homonymy, it's clear that Six Pianos is by Steve Reich while I rewrote Terry Riley. I'd like to add that when talking about American minimalist composers, one should never omit the name of LaMonte Young. His two hours of music from "Young's Dorian Blues in G" from 1960 are pure hypnotism; the piano repeats five chords in the same order but of different durations to arrive at a blues progression. Sometimes to listen to an acid jam, you don't need to go as far as "Dark Star" by the Grateful Dead :-)

@piccolo you're right, but personally I don't consider Rod's first solo album on the same level as the next three, even though it's a good record (and if I remember correctly, Keith Emerson plays keyboards on it too). Rod's best work is in this triplet of 1970/71/72.

Well... Giovanni, to be honest, I would have preferred a piece that offered something personal from listening to this masterpiece that has also influenced rock music with the technique of the loop; the first that comes to mind is Fripp, but also a large part of the krautrock scene. In short, something felt and participatory rather than this Wikipedia-like approach. Of the many versions of "In C," I often revisit the one by Piano Circus (six pianists) made for the Argo label; on the same CD, they also perform "Six Pianos" by Terry Riley.

Each of Rod's three albums from 1970 to 1972 deserves a five. This one is perhaps the most "straightforward" compared to the more folk-oriented "Gasoline Alley" and the more varied "Never a Dull Moment." A step down? Not necessarily; the title track with Maggie Bell, a lively version of "That's All Right" with Ron Wood's slide guitar opening, an angry funk-Motown "I'm Losing You," and the stunning, poignant cover of Tim Hardin's piece are the gems for me. "Backdoor Man" has said everything there is to say, including Waller's great drumming, to which I would add the bass now in the hands of Danny Thompson, future member of Pentangle. And now we await the next Scaruffo to come and tell us that Rod Stewart is a rock star who has always aimed solely for the charts; they should listen again or listen for the first time (which is more likely) to these albums.

Wow, so many comments for the old Roddie, I'm surprised, I didn't expect this, I thank everyone who appreciated it and I'm responding to some comments retroactively. @ancorad'oro: "but Rod Stewart is a rock goat who has always aimed only for the charts" ... I think you haven't listened well to the records from 1970-1972, there's so much passion for rock and little regard for the charts, then what you say happened, but the review says that too... @geeno: I think you’re missing the point again... here, the "how-nice-when-I-was-16-and-so-in-l ove" effect has nothing to do with it, this is no Cindy Lauper, this is a bastard that makes you nostalgic for when albums were made with love for rock, r&b, soul, folk all together, and actually you appreciate these records more with age and not at 16. @imasoulman: you nailed the feeling, that's exactly it. :-) @whiterabbit: I know the TBT can be annoying but don’t get too worked up, I saw a documentary from the series "The Living Planet" (with the great Richard Attenborough) where they showed that small rodents under strong emotions can have a stroke :-( @alessioiride: I agree on everything, and then in the record department there's an idiot (just look at his face) who doesn’t understand a thing and only puts on Demis Roussos :D @ole: in the same basket at five ninety there was "Blue" by Joni Mitchell ;-). Again a salute to all the unexpected many who joined in.

"Letter from East Berlin"?!? ahahaha, Katarris, so you're the fake Starblazer, the connoisseur who puts Wolfsbane by Blaze ahead of Black Sabbath by Ozzy! As for good old Pi-Airot, the more I listen to things like "Animale senza respiro" by Osanna, "Paura di niente" by De De Lind, "Immagini sfuocate" by Quella Vecchia Locanda, "Superuomo" by Museo Rosenbach, just to name a few that come to mind, the more the tracks by Pooh seem like nonsense.