Return to Forever is: Chick Corea - Piano, Synthesizer Stanley Clarke - Double Bass and Bass Guitar Lenny White - Drums, Percussion Al Di Meola - Guitar
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!
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.
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.
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 ................
In Chicago in 1976 I saw a double bill with Weather Report and Return to Forever. WR just released "Black Market" and RTF "Romantic Warrior . . . one of the greatest concerts I ever attended!
I can only imagine, I saw Weather Report in Hawaii, while on Acid and I almost lost it. What Harvey Masn did to those drums is nothing short of a miracle. Damage control!!!
Cuatro jóvenes en ese entonces cuyo cerebro e inteligencia estaba a miles de años de luz de lo comprensible para los jovenes de hoy, el resultado es la armonía perfecta para estructurar la canción, la melodía más bella,.....Corea, Di Meola, Clarke y White genios del ayer, del hoy y para la eternidad
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.
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.
No doubt one of the greatest fusion jazz tunes ever. But, are you kidding with the video-?? No straight shots of Lenny White killing it on the drum kit? The video quality is pure 1970’s, but the lack of more scenes of White’s drumming is unforgivable!
Saw them at The Community Concourse in Downtown San Diego with my girlfriend Susan. We were 18 😎 FANTASTIC! Acoustics then All Electric after Intermission 😎😎😎
One of the greatest songs ever recorded! Here they do it justice--with Al staying most true to the studio version, the other three taking way more liberties.
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.
En los 70' Return To Forever dirigido por Chick Corea amplió los horizontes de la música... Qué música? Pues, como era una mezcolanza de géneros y formas de composición e improvisación, lo llamaron por conveniencia "Música de Fusión"... Aquí Al Di Meola en guitarra acústica y Stanley Clarke en el contrabajo... Corea y su hermosa 'Romantic Warrior' en el piano... Stanley aquí con el arco para el double bass... El comping o selección de acordes y tiempos para el acompañamiento del solo de Stanley es muy hermoso ❤❤🎹🎹🎻🎸🎶🎶🎶
Comping que es tan llamativo como el mismo solo del colega.... Pero está en segundo plano en volumen y no está haciendo una interferencia con el solista... Se puede percibir como un solo arriba en primer plano melódico, como en este caso Stanley... Pero es tan llamativo este acompañamiento 'comoing' que también capta la atención... Oros expertos pianistas para eso Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock y Keith Jarrett ❤❤
