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DiamondDog7
Mick Taylor had a role in the Jack Bruce Band in 1975. Unfortunately this band didn't survive. The music was ok and the musicians were good.
Does anyone know why the Jack Bruce Band split up in 1975? How was the relationship between Mick Taylor and Jack Bruce?
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Tseverin
Makes a bit of a nonsense of MT's claim that he had to leave the Stones as the smack was killing him then...
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Tseverin
If Taylor had wanted to escape smack, he probably would have had to left the business altogether.
which he basically did from 75 to 81 and 84 to 90....
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71Tele
Sure, Taylor's playing is great (when wasn't it?), but this music is horrid. 70s prog rock. He left the Stones so he could do this?
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Turd On The Run
Typical mid-70's bloated, pretentious, self-indulgent, over-intellectualized prog-rock tripe...Bruce is so full of himself and absolutely unsympathetic in his over-gesticulating the piffle that stand for lyrics...Taylor doodling in the background...sounds only a self-absorbed musician could relate to...the audience sitting in their chairs and politely clapping at the end of each song as if they were watching freaking Lawrence Welk.
I loved Yes, and even enjoyed early ELP (Brain Salad Surgery anyone?)...but this? Mick Taylor really miscalculated...this is the type of music that spawned the desperate need for the Punk manifesto...calling the Sex Pistols!!!
You have a point there. I'm a big fan of prog-rock personally, but the ones that I really appreciate are bands like Yes, Pink Floyd, Gentle Giant, Rush, etc. And they were bands that were basically prog-rock or art rock from the beginning (and they were also "top of the league"), and not old established musicians firmly rooted in an R & B tradition like Jack Bruce and Mick Taylor.Quote
71Tele
It may not have been prog-rock technically, but it carries the stink of fusion, which was all the rage at the time. Many musicians had developed an attitude that rock or r&b was somehow something to be "outgrown". This is where Jeff Beck, John McLaughlin and all those other guitar-hero types were headed. Mick T. was seduced by this as well to some extent. Hasn't aged very well, in my view.
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Turd On The Run
Typical mid-70's bloated, pretentious, self-indulgent, over-intellectualized prog-rock tripe...Bruce is so full of himself and absolutely unsympathetic in his over-gesticulating the piffle that stand for lyrics...Taylor doodling in the background...sounds only a self-absorbed musician could relate to...the audience sitting in their chairs and politely clapping at the end of each song as if they were watching freaking Lawrence Welk.
I loved Yes, and even enjoyed early ELP (Brain Salad Surgery anyone?)...but this? Mick Taylor really miscalculated...this is the type of music that spawned the desperate need for the Punk manifesto...calling the Sex Pistols!!!
Turd,
I'll come back on this - but just to say that Jack's stuff was NOT Prog-Rock. He'd done three solo albums since Cream (actually 4 if you include a Jazz collaboration called Things We Like). But the three others were released 1969, 1971(2?) and 1974. His stuff was all done with Pete Brown, Cream's main lyricist.
It's all pretty eclectic and an acquired taste - it follows its own path - and i think it would have existed as it does in the absence of the 'prog rock' movement/trend. Bruce and Brown weren't trend followers - I think they reather lead. It was what made Cream so interesting and different.
Anyway I'll come back to you on what I consider the mainstream Prog-Rock 'bandwagon' to be - while i consider Bruce/Brown to be travelling in their own quiet backwater.
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DandelionPowderman
<the music the Jack Bruce Band with Mick Taylor made was so ponderously self-important, masturbatory and humourless that it simply (and mercifully) sank under its own pretensions.>
Well said! And it was a drag. Boring!
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71Tele
It may not have been prog-rock technically, but it carries the stink of fusion, which was all the rage at the time. Many musicians had developed an attitude that rock or r&b was somehow something to be "outgrown". This is where Jeff Beck, John McLaughlin and all those other guitar-hero types were headed. Mick T. was seduced by this as well to some extent. Hasn't aged very well, in my view.