Tuesday, September 27, 2005
along with Santana's "Welcome" from the same year 1976's 801 Live represents for me the high water mark of rock and jazz's brief rapprochement (the term "fusion" rightly appropriated by cooking in the intervening decades). The rock guys get the dynamics right--the Weather Report and Return to Forever albums from the same time just don't let up, hot in the McLuhan sense, closer to metal's parched planetarium than 801's suave, bee-floating "Tomorrow Never Knows" which is to this day Eno's finest vocal. Keyboardist Francis Monkman went on to compose the theme to "The Long Good Friday"--Bob Hoskins, shot from below, striding through Heathrow...