One of my all-time favorite Toto grooves:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDzhAAgmqPU . . . . with Mike and Jeff, one of those big rhythms that makes me visualize a large ship engine, the huge visible crank and con rods . . . this just makes me sad to see these two wonderful players in their day, no longer with us.
Last week also saw the passing of Jimmy Greenspoon, longtime keyboard player for Three Dog Night, whose Wurlitzer and Hammond work drove those records. I've always felt they were utterly overlooked by being hung with that 'Pop' label. Three terrific singers, and that band, especially with Floyd Sneed's unique drumming are long past deserving their due. Somehow that they used the same pattern so many artists have used (great frontmen/singers, hot band, hand-picked big money songwriters with a hot producer) left them standing on the sidelines. And, they cut those records themselves, where lots of 70's records were the stomping grounds of the A-Team in those days, played all of it themselves when they cut. I've never understood it.
Here's 'FireEater', a rare TDN instrumental. It sounds very 'period correct', and I love this because of it: Go to see a hot band back in the day, and this sort of instrumentation, the whole way it sounds, is the way it was, if you were lucky.
Joey
(Message edited by bigredbass on March 16, 2015)
(Message edited by bigredbass on March 16, 2015)
