I've recently pulled down a bunch more of these records. A few reactions:
That vocoder duet between Herbie and Patrice Rushen on Lite Me Up is pretty great.
That last cut on Sunlight is very experimental indeed. The idea that the same person who would like "I Thought It Was You" would like this crazy dissonnt, modal jam ("Good Question") is crazy.
Incidentally, tho it's technically outside of the purview of this thread, the "Cantaloupe Island" on Dedication from 1974 w/ the ARP bassline and space keyboards is amazing, as is "Nobu" which features him jamming on Rhodes over a sample-and-hold riff on the 2600.
Monster, I forgot, is his first "rock" record -- but it's only rock insofar as those early 80's records Giorgio Moroder produced for Donna Summer are rock. They have guitars, that's about it. I like some of it, tho...
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 21 May 2008 03:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Stars in Your Eyes is the absolute shit (the extended mix especially). I hadn't thought of it as a rock album, apart from the opening and closing tracks.
― Andy K, Wednesday, 21 May 2008 14:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Also, "Getting to the Good Part" on Lite Me Up is another gem, with its vocoder goodness.
Overall tho, it's amazing how utterly trashed these records were by critics in their day -- to these ears, they're a pretty solid collection of electro funk records, hardly anything worth getting angry about, with some moments that are downright exceptional.
― Naive Teen Idol, Friday, 23 May 2008 12:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Fuckin’ a, I just saw Herbie in Portsmouth and the guy played songs from Sunlight and Thrust like he just wrote them, did a deep space vocoder a capella solo for five minutes, and concluded things on a ridiculously funky keytar “Chameleon” jam. Dude is utterly undiminished at 82.
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 19 June 2022 00:24 (one year ago) link
oh he’s still so goddamn amazing live
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 19 June 2022 01:00 (one year ago) link
imagine how fun it is to play if it's that much fun to watch.
― I'm ANTIFA and I vote. (Austin), Sunday, 19 June 2022 03:30 (one year ago) link
All I want in life is more songs that sound like Stars In Your Eyes. Amazing vibe on that one.
― OneSecondBefore, Sunday, 19 June 2022 23:19 (one year ago) link
Dude jumped in the air with his keytar at the Kennedy Center
― Antifa Sandwich Artist (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 19 June 2022 23:25 (one year ago) link
!
― Ride into the Sunship (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 19 June 2022 23:37 (one year ago) link
Any excuse...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-NgnympxAE
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 20 June 2022 00:08 (one year ago) link
Xpost not very high admittedly but for his age pretty respectable.
― Antifa Sandwich Artist (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 20 June 2022 17:04 (one year ago) link
did the same in Central Park last week. Great set with Terence Blanchard and Lionel Loueke.
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 21 June 2022 06:26 (one year ago) link
This is one I found on Youtube a couple years ago that I have listened to a few times. Good sound for a radio broadcast.
I think I remember that Jaco did some playing with Herbie, but I did not know this existed until a couple years ago.
Herbie Hancock w/ Jaco Pastorius on bass - Live in Chicago 1977
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUaws6zjWZY
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Tuesday, 21 June 2022 21:59 (one year ago) link
Herbie is on Jaco's debut too, that I know.
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Tuesday, 21 June 2022 22:02 (one year ago) link
yep, this is awesome. thanks for posting!
― I'm ANTIFA and I vote. (Austin), Tuesday, 21 June 2022 22:47 (one year ago) link
Oh well then, this thing is just ridiculous how good it is. Herbie, Ron Carter and Tony Williams with a whole slew of all stars. Japan loves some jazz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZwHYX7_fgA
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 01:30 (one year ago) link
It's awesome that Herbie was doing stuff like Rockit and then going over to Japan and just blowing the hell out of some postbop jazz. Bad MF'er.
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 01:32 (one year ago) link
that's fantastic, thanks for sharing
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Wednesday, 22 June 2022 02:11 (one year ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 11:48 (one year ago) link