You can read all about the guitarist's "Drive to 1981" here. He moved to NYC and collaborated with a range of performers. He envisioned himself as "a small intelligent mobile unit" -- a title somehow distinct from the role of a session musician.
The invention of a looping device (which allowed the guitarist to play with himself) opened the door to new creative possibilities. He used it in live performance, in session work and on a solo album that he began recording in 1977.
In 1980, he formed what he considered a dance band. And in 1981, he reformed the group that made him famous, which had disbanded in 1974.
Today's share features many of the mobile intelligent session musician's guest appearances on record and on stage (as "Dusty Rhodes" on Peter Gabriel's 1977 US tour, as part of a Hugh Cornwell benefit in 1980, and with Blondie). It includes some of his work as a producer (for The Roches and others). And it ends not in 1981 but in 1982.
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ReplyDeleteThere's more League o' Gents here:
https://dieordiy2.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20League%20Of%20Gentlemen
Nice one, thanks. Worth checking out is his appearance at Daryl's House, brilliant, they play Heroes too!!
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHs2S51OSh8
Yes, and a King Crimson song! Daryl and Bob seem genuinely happy to see each other again, and all the players are clearly enjoying themselves!
DeleteThanks for Boppin’ Bobby!
ReplyDeleteMan, do I love THE ROCHES. Great comp! - Stinky
ReplyDeleteI was familiar with "Hammond Song", but "Losing True" is equally lovely. Thanks!
DeleteThank you! I'm really no expert (dabbler and dilettante, more like) with respect to the work and career of the guitarist in question, but I can't help mentioning that I actually attended an early-ish demonstration -- of course by the intelligent mobile unit himself, in 1979, at the Tower Records store in Hollywood -- of the aforementioned "looping device."
ReplyDeleteThe unit himself, playing with himself! Did anyone call the LAPD?
DeleteFrippin’ riffing is flippin’ fantastic, thanks, J!
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome! He's a bit long in the tooth (judging from the picture above) -- but boy, can he play guitar.
DeleteProg Rockers for $100, Alex. Who is Adrian Belew?! Love his work with the Roches as well, especially the Hammond Song. Looks like a great comp -- thanks Jonder!
ReplyDeleteThanks for this neat compilation. RF has been responsible for some very good music in his time though I wouldn't want to be responsible for delivering his shopping and justifying the substitutions.
ReplyDeleteMe neither! These days he comes across like a jolly old elf (with a mohawk), but I don't doubt that he is still very exacting and probably less kind than his public persona would suggest.
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