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Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 9 June 2013 CE
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Edited Jun 09, 2013, 11:50
Re: Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 9 June 2013 CE
Jun 09, 2013, 08:50
Nuclear Evolution: The Age Of Love (Deluxe Edition) - The Sa-Ra Creative Partners

The Complete Blue Note Sixties Sessions - Herbie Hancock

Person to Person - AWB

Live In Montreaux - AWB

The soul end of the pub rock and college circuit scene produced a sound that was nothing like the music coming out America adding an appreciation for rock dynamics that amounted to a lot more than the laying on of extended guitar wig-outs like say Mother's Finest. Listen to the AWB version of Work To Do next to the Isley's. Different worlds.

AWB were the superstars of this hybrid sound but there were a lot of other bands on the circuit in 76 covering the same territory with rock musicians finding their own way to play funk. These bands and that sound would have been hard to miss if you were going out to hear music in 75/76 and I think that they had a quiet say in how some of the more interesting Post Punk music developed. The problem with any cultural Year Zero is that people work overtime to forget things that they would benefit from keeping around. Inconveniently uncool chains of influence are erased. Did the likes of Donald Johnson listen closely to Steve Ferrone? I would have a decent sized wager that he did and he wouldn't have been alone.
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