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Originally posted by Larry: If you haven't listened to Gino Vanelli, you've missed the boat. The best album - Storm at Sunup. Smokin.
He had several mainstream hits here in Canada in the seventies("People Gotta Move" being the most memorable one for me). Seen him several times in concert in his early career. as the Montreal native toured Canada extensively in the early going. I once read in an interview with his brother and keyboardist, Joe Vanelli, in Keyboard Magazine that the lush synth chords which became their trademark sound from the get-go were a tedious feat before the advent of polyphonic synthisizers, and before they were rich enough to afford quality studio time. They used to record each tone individually on two tracks of their own (I think 8 track) recording studio, then overdubb the next. The tape noise got to a point where they would have to master half the notes before the tones were lost in the tape hiss from repeated overdubbing. Interesting. He still records and tours alot, but I think his genre has changed to a more jazz style, and I think he's even dappled in opera a bit. You need a little "funk in your trunk". Nobody did funk like "Tower of Power". Also I remember listening to "Parliament" in my High School years. Incidently, this year's Grammy Broadcast Lineup are scheduled to have a tribute to funk. I still regularly play a compliation CD in my car of old funk hits, including Wild Cheery, The Commodores (before they became commercial), Tower of Power, Average White Band, Earth Wind & Fire etc. Great Stuff. Jamie PS Reading these posts jogged my memory on a couple of more - someone mentioned The Strawbs before, I found the painting of the andles on "Burning for You" fascinating. Another gem is an album which came out in the mid 1970's. The Moody Blues, after seven successful albums, took a hiatus, during which Justin Hayward and John Lodge collaborated on an album entitled Blue Jays. It's my favourite Moodies recording. Cool cover art, too.
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Anything by: Dave Bromberg Mason Proffit Loudon Wainwright III Dick Dale Guy van Duser
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I must admit, I was a BIG Gino Vanelli fan.
Gryphon, Nilsson might (aaaarguably) be considered mainstream, the the Sings Newman album sure wasn't. Oh another of my faves in the same category - well known performer/obscure album is Friends by Elton John. I never saw the movie which I imagine was very sappy about two teens in love. But the songs were quite beautiful.
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Mega sap. Mondo sap. Insulin-coma-inducing sap. But I agree with you about the music! :p
Another fun bizarro is Cat Stevens' album, "Numbers." That guy had some weird moments.
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Then there was Barry and the Remains from Boston, a perfect garage band. They actually opened for the Beatles at Shea.
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Leslie Howard's "Rare Piano Encores" - available from Musical Heritage Society. Definitely not mainstream!
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Who else has this little gem in their collection? It remains one of my all time favorites. A group of Juilliard grads got together in the late '60s and early '70s and made some interesting music. I heard them perform at Fillmore East and even caught one of the drumsticks that Marty Fulterman threw into the audience at the end of their set. Some of the members of this group went on to much bigger and better things. Fulterman is now Mark Snow of X-Files fame and the group founder and keyboardist, the late Michael Kamen, is a famous composer, arranger and director. He wrote the scores for and directed many movie soundtracks for which he won numerous awards. Some of his music for feature films included Lethal Weapon, Die Hard and many others including Robin Hood." He has arranged and directed for artists such as Bowie, Clapton and others.
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Don't know if this one will pass Gryphon's "mainstream" test, but as a devoted fan of Eddie Jobson's keyboard work and Bill Bruford's drum wizardry, I was, apparently, the target demographic for this album: Fortunately for me, the musicianship on this album is impeccable. Unfortunately, though, Bruford went his own way after this, U.K.'s first album, and the band's subsequent releases were OK, but nowhere near as good.
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Gino Vannelli? Wasn't he the guy with the black bear rug taped to his chest?
Sacred cows make the best hamburger. - Clemens
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Yep, Matt, I have that album as well. But I would consider it mainstream, espeically since "In The Dead of Night" was in radio rotation.
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Here's a few that stand out although there are a lot more: Lucifer's Friend Sparks: Perhaps mainstream in the UK but not in North America Nina Hagen Band It's a Beautiful Day Rory Gallagher: virtually everything he recorded Alan Stivell
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