![]() I was just as blown away by that call as I was by the music. Needed was the call and I got one, coincidentally, just a few days later, from a friend asking me if I wanted to see Sonny Sharrock perform at the Knitting Factory. Back then, I didn't need weeks and months to decide if I wanted to go Record, which I dug, but had no idea what his own music sounded like, or that he had been recording on his own since the 60's. ![]() I knew Sharrock's name from Miles Davis' "Tribute To Jack Johnson" It was the Sonny Sharrock Band and their just released record, "Seize The Rainbow," which indeed had two drummers, Abe Speller and Pheeroan Aklaff. I was loving everything I was listening to. It was imprecise enough to notice, yet mind-blowing in its controlled sloppiness. There were two drummers, maybe three, or at least one drummer overdubbing many parts. ![]() As a drummer, I could not help notice what was going on behind it all. ![]() The guitar playing was obviously the centerpiece of the music, and in many ways reminded me of Jimmy Page, both in tone and attack, but this was not a straight hard rock record I was hearing. One summer afternoon in 1987, I was record shopping, and my friend Joe who had worked at Vinyl Mania and whose specialty was jazz, was listening to something that was unlike anything I had heard before. ![]()
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