Re: Re: Ritchie Blackmore looping

[Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com>]

On 7/22/64 11:59 AM, Art Simon wrote:
> Loved that Akkerman song when it came out in 1977, and I still do. 
> Great groove, great guitar. The live album at the Montreux Jazz 
> festival around that time is excellent as well.

There is a moment at 1:30 where Akkerman does a very hip harmonic 
thing.........and the bass player just
bursts out into a grin at how clever and unusual his phrasing is.

There are a few moments like this that I've seen (or experienced) where 
a musician is so into what
their compatriots are playing that they 'lose it'.

I think ,  particularly,   of  Jeff Beck's bassist, Tal Wikenfeld,  
losing it when Vinnie Coliauta plays a particularly
hip fill in "Since We've Ended as Lovers"  (at 0:34 in this vid clip,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejgqyEviSyk)

or when I saw the sax player in Brian Blade's Fellowship band start to 
cry in the middle of the
aching beauty of his fellow sax players solo at a recent phenomenal 
Kuumbwa Jazz Center show I saw.


This is when music really hits the highest of peaks and when I feel 
proud that we've all chosen
this particular path in the world.

Thanks for posting this.   Akkerman is amazing and to think I only knew 
of him, previously,
from "Hocus Pocus"  a particularly weird and funny moment from 
prog/fusion history.

Rick Walker