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The Outpost Cafe / Re: So, what have you been listening to lately?
« Last post by uwe on May 16, 2024, 06:05:48 AM »This here is one of the most beautiful and evocative sax lines for me (and, no, not because of the Purple connection, it's just a very beautiful song, Tommy was good at writing and singing those, I always say that without his drug habit and in the hands of a right management, he could have become another Peter Frampton) at 02:24:
Courtesy of Norma Jean Bell who came from Frank Zappa I believe to Tommy's band, becoming very much a focal point.
It's not technically awesome sax playing or anything, it's just a very pretty, even pastoral, doubletracked/harmonized melody, but (wo)man does it stick! If she came up with the melody, then she should have received a writer's co-credit for it.
That's Reggie McBride (ex-Rare Earth) on bass, the man oozed groove, he played on all songs of Private Eyes, Bolin's final (and best) solo album.
Courtesy of Norma Jean Bell who came from Frank Zappa I believe to Tommy's band, becoming very much a focal point.
It's not technically awesome sax playing or anything, it's just a very pretty, even pastoral, doubletracked/harmonized melody, but (wo)man does it stick! If she came up with the melody, then she should have received a writer's co-credit for it.
That's Reggie McBride (ex-Rare Earth) on bass, the man oozed groove, he played on all songs of Private Eyes, Bolin's final (and best) solo album.
