I think betwee 70-77 was the best music had to offer as the melding of genres really gelled and was a short movement that will always be in the ears of the music students in the know.
Proof that fusion was NOT trash! This album is transcendental! 48 years after first hearing this song, I still never get tired of listening to this song-it’s timeless!!
Jazz Fusion during this era peaked in my opinion and I feel so blessed that I bore witnessed to it...and had the pleasure of experiencing the bands that made it great...the creativity in the compositions...the story telling..they took u on magical journeys...man I miss that period, man I missed the bands that made this genre great...so grateful for time defying recording.. 💖
First time I came across RTF was somewhere around 1974 on a PBS station called Soundstage. In NYC that was channel 13. Man, did they turn my head around! I've seen them perform twice and I also met Stanley Clarke at NYC's "Bottom Line" venue (now closed, so sad!) when Larry Coryell's Eleventh House band was tearing it up back in the day. Great stuff.
The "Communication" is what touches me the most.. And the responsiveness between one another...... It's all there within their playing ......... very much of an emotional high shall we say ................
4:27 Edward Van Halen's 1st "tremolo teacher". LOL! Al was already doing this in 1976, not to mention all the other amazing "shred guitar" 4:56 he was doing back then, way before Yngwie, MacAlpine, Moore, Becker, 5:37 Gilbert, etc.etc.
My first RTF album was Light as a Feather which has such a mellow, beautiful sound. I was completely blown away by Romantic Warrior with its ultra high energy and unbelievable musicianship. I love both equally but for different reasons and for different moods.
Four absolute geniuses on the same stage at once. Saw them at the Agora Theater in Ft. Worth almost 50 years ago. A night I will never forget. Thank you guys!
OMG that left hand comping chords while that hand simply killin it. I saw this at Jazz Alley in Seattle in 1990 still one of the best shows I have ever been to.
Saw them perform this in 1975 or 6 at the Berkeley Community Theater. It changed my musical mind. To watch this level of genius performed with only acoustic instruments with no dubbing was a moment in time. I was 7 r ows back in the middle so I can literally say that DiMeola's hands were a blur.
Have to comment further, teacher to teach. The delicacy of his trills, the shadings, the demand that we anticipate to the last possible second before we explode. It's exquisite beyond words. Beethoven does this for me. Ella does this for me. Previn does this for me. This is absolutely heart-stopping and heart-pounding in turns. Breathtakingly, achingly beautiful.
Yes indeed! Yes indeed! I should show this to more of my piano students. Thanks for the reminder. I can't believe that I don't listen to this at least 5 times a year. Hell, I just listened to another recording by him of this and I'm about to listen to this again. I bet I'll listen to it 3 more times before the night is out. You sound like a great teacher!
Me too. Saw them on the Old Grey Whistle Test and was completely transfixed. Still love this track 48 years later- in all its variations with different line-ups. Cream of the crop.
