toeknee4bz
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When I hear this album nowadays, I often wonder if Herb ever revisits his 80s material, specifically the early 80s stuff. Not that I can afford to go see one of his shows right now, but it would still be cool to find out (even on youtube or something) that he and the band just surprisingly launched into "Reach For The Stars" or "Kamali" or "The Continental" in concert, albeit in a different arrangement.
During medleys, the band does offer a rhythm prelude of "Push And Pull" from FANDANGO, but that's about all I've heard from this era.
Can you imagine a solo trumpet intro of "Beyond" played without accompaniment, arranged to segue into the band kicking in playing something else? Now THAT would be cool.
During medleys, the band does offer a rhythm prelude of "Push And Pull" from FANDANGO, but that's about all I've heard from this era.
Can you imagine a solo trumpet intro of "Beyond" played without accompaniment, arranged to segue into the band kicking in playing something else? Now THAT would be cool.
I was lucky to find a sealed copy a few years ago, since I had played my original copy a few too many times back in the day on lesser equipment and it had some wear to it. It does certainly fit into a "funk lite" or funk-jazz mode (the Earth Wind & Fire cover tune being a good representative of where the album was at), and certainly danceable at times. But that's what the Randy Badazz and Andy Armer sound was all about, very much tapped into that dance/club vibe at the time. In fact, the RandyAndy album makes a lot of sense in relation to this string of Herb's own albums--having read Randy's bio, he listened to a lot of the same music that I did back in those days, and a lot of that influence shows up in his and Andy Armer's tracks with Herb. 
