SEALED '73 ORIG "SPECTRUM" Billy Cobham, Tommy BOLIN BURNING JAZZROCK FUSION
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$ 65
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Jan 21, 2018
Sold Date
Jan 18, 2018
Start Date
$ 10
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Description
ORIGINAL FIRST PRESS
FACTORY SEALED ... 1973 FUSION BURNER!
ORIGINAL PRESSING ..|/\|...............................................|/\|..
~SPECTRUM~
Billy Cobham
..|/\|...............................................|/\|.. USA - Atlantic Records - SD 7268FACTORY SEALED 1973 ORIGINAL...NO BAR CODE
TOP COPY .... extremely hard to find a NEVER OPENED 1973 original without ANY cover wear ... near impossible to find THIS clean... This THICK gatefold is special as it contains NO cover wear as most surviving copies do ... with that in mind, makes for a final collection copy
Spectrum was the album that presented hard-rock-fusion jazz and funk in a form that young rock record buyers could immediately relate to. The door was thrown open for other fusion acts such as guitar superstar Jeff Beck who after hearing these jams almost immediately went into an intense fusion foray that lasted for many years. Today, as then, Spectrum looms over the rest with it’s incredible blend of chops, power and hooks.A large part of why Spectrum works so well has to do with Cobham’s choice of Tommy Bolin for the guitar spot. John McLaughlin is rightfully considered to be one of the best guitarists in history, but Tommy’s electric tone was consistently superior, dripping with danger, sex and gut-level impact. Although not as much of a technically studied player as McLaughlin, Tommy still had immense and authoritative technical ability and hung tight to and charged ahead of everything that Cobham’s band of seasoned professionals could throw at him. Throughout the rest of era of fusion’s popularity, heavyweight jazz players would be looking for guitarists who could rock out over funky jazz grooves, in a direct effort to replicate Tommy.
Cobham had first heard Tommy when he was playing with Zephyr at a festival that also had Cobham’s band "Dreams" on the bill. He then met Tommy in person for the first time on a Jeremy Steig session in early 1971 at Electric Lady Studios in New York City. Tommy had been in town since September of 1970 recording the "Going Back to Colorado" album with Zephyr at Electric Lady, and was quickly meeting and jamming with some of the names in jazz and impressed Cobham immensely. Soon after the session Tommy would soon return to Colorado and form "Energy", but would be called in to work on Spectrum in 1973.
The sessions for Spectrum began with one day of rehearsals, then all the tracks were recorded at Electric Lady Studios in New York City on May 14 and 15, 1973, except “Le Lis” (with John Tropea on guitar) and “Spectrum” which were recorded on May 16. What is heard on the album is almost entirely live without overdubs. Tommy plays all the guitar except “Le Lis,” which has John Tropea on guitar.
Cobham’s ideas going into the album were to simplify the material compared to what he had been playing in the Mahavishnu Orchestra, material that could be enjoyed more directly rather than requiring analytical dissection. The musicians involved were used to reading charts, except for Tommy. Though he didn’t read music Tommy had played lots of jazz standards and progressive jazz during his learning days and especially in Zephyr, so he understood the form well. His phenomenal ear also let him quickly pick up how the material worked, and since the requirement was for him to improvise rock solos there was no problem.
Where a more traditional jazz guitarist would have played flurries of complex lines with mathematical intentions and dizzying arrays of dissonant “out” passages, Tommy laid out raw fire with precision and authority. The chops were there, but he was looking for a smile from your girlfriend too. The style was called jazz-rock fusion, and Tommy was undeniably the godfather of the rock side of it.
Spectrum was released in October, 1973, and immediately hit the music industry like a storm with impressive sales and influential impact on musicians in both jazz and rock. While much of the music of that period has gathered some dust and in some cases sounds wildly out of date, Spectrum transcends its time and is still as impressive to listen to as it was on the day of it’s release. The bass line for “Stratus,” for example, was sampled by Massive Attack for "Safe" from their hit 1991 album Blue Lines.
After the Tommy completed the sessions he returned to Colorado, but his reputation was growing by the day as word about Spectrum got around, and he was soon offered a spot in the James Gang, after Joe Walsh quit the band, establishing the rock band a much needed star-power guitarist.
1a. Quadrant 4
2a. Searching for the Right Door
2b. Spectrum
3a. Anxiety
3b. Taurian Matador
4. Stratus
5a. To The Women In My Life
5b. Le Lis
6a. Snoopy's Search
6b. Red Baron
CONDITION: rated: STILL FACTORY SEALED ... NEVER OPENED THICK gatefold cover with black that is like NEVER without shelf wear -- here' that 44 year old survivor!! NO WEAR! No split seams, no bends, no writing and no delete marks...original price sticker still in tact on outer cello ...sealed/never opened
A cool addition to anyone's music library!
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