This album (Electric City) had me sommersaulting and cartwheeling in my mind - ecstasy - and THEN some! I was travelling then and took it everywhere - Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Mexico - and turn it UP. It put others through changes too!
1:50 to 2:09 is probably the most epic thing I have ever seen in my life. By far one of the best moments in jazz history that I can think of. The Elektric Band rules
I never realized Scott toured with Chick. I thought Chick and Scott parted ways after the first album before any touring. Scott was stellar and fit the band far better than Gambale. And what do you say about Dave Weckl, he was 26 years old here and blowing like a seasoned pro. But then again, he was playing like this at 20!
Chick Corea helped to bring a new era to electric Jazz Fusion in the mid 80's, this video is a good example of some of that new sound. Also, check out Weather Report, Miles Davis and Spyro Gyra from this time period.
Chick is the man. Arguably the best remote keyboard player out there, unlike the pretty chicks strapped with Casio AZ-1 who were just posting instead of playing the instrument live.
I love the KX5 more than any guitar, but I must say that this guy on the guitar is pretty damn impressive! I mean, this music is so NOT written for a guitar, and this guy plays it like it's a walk in a park. Love it.
Listen to him and the great Nick Maroch on the Lenny White “Streamline” recording!! You’ll hear a very young Marcus Miller!! All of them play fantastic!!!!!!
This MIAMI VICE version is the best of all their performances of this tune. Also love how JP is feelin it at 2:04. Chick looks like he's missing a front tooth at 1:54
Does anybody have whole "Live Under The Sky '86" DVD? At the beginning of it, during the introduction of musicians, a crazy solo from "King Cockroach" is heard. I think it is breath-taking but can't find the whole song anywhere. You know something about this?
Anybody know why so many keyboard players in the 80's adopted the KX5 as their sling-on of choice with it's mini keys instead of the KX1 which is as far as I can make out identical but with full sized keys? Seems odd to me.
Yeah, he make look like a nerd, but keep in mind this was the 80's. Also, he had paid his dues to look as nerdy as he wanted. Eighteen years before this he replaced Herbie Hancock as the piano player for the one and only Miles Davis.
Chicks a REAL freak when it comes to the beautiful jazz fusion stuff but he needs a makeover lols !!!! Seriously tho, Amazing work !!!! Go Johnny Go !!!
HA! It says, "Ramble" when it should say "City Gate." I'm sure they got it confused with "Rumble." The Japanese are saying, "Ah, Ramble, Rumble, what's the difference?" I love Japanese ppl by the way.
Ramble...Rumble...incorrectly titled or not...great music. Jeez...I remember just getting into drums at this time and everyone was making a fuss over this Dave Weckl kid...whatever happened to him? ;)
Dude, I know the music is great - Chick is a great musician and that was never really the issue that created tension between him and Henderson. Even the 'douchy dance' wasn't really the 'big' reason. Scientology was.
I don't really understaand that side of Chick and ,as a musician,I know that in a band tensions can be generated and get really important for other reasons than music.I also find the ''dancing/moving'' parts really hilarious now as at that time.But ...i just take it as an unimportant side of Chick.Great time for music.The fusion years.
Jamie Glaser is playing wrong notes all over those main figures lol. I wonder if this was right after Scott Henderson quit and before they got Frank Gambale and had to find someone who could fill in on the tour?
@senna01 amazing musicians, but they got sucked into making shit music for a while because of the trendiness of 80's techno...the wasted potential here is astounding. And I am a child of the 80's and even I dont get what this music was about.
I think the problem for some of the CCEB stuff was (especially on the first album) that it sounds just terrible because of the synth sounds going on. You can't get it more dated like this. Sounds literally like something which would come out of your nintendo game console. BUT, if you start analysing this then you will find that City Gate/Rumble is an amazing composition and f*cking difficult too. It really is a great study on motif development, voicings, voice leading, and counterpart. I think the tunes with the CCEB are really a hit and miss. Some are good, some are excellent, some are not so great. The band is always great in any formation and they actually covered a lot of territory in their shows by playing other things too. They did some of the RTF stuff, which was great. And the Elektric Band II (from the Paint the World album) even played standards from Coltrane etc.
