Great interview, so candid, and the “trip down memory lane” of your concert experiences is sending me to the record shelf. Heard RTF in Grand Rapids, MI, in ‘76 following “Romantic Warrior,” and they opened with “Hymn If the Seventh Galaxy.” The upperclassman we went with, who played jazz, were flummoxed. My best friend and went bonkers. His brother played in a local fusion band and had opened for Weather Report locally and owned all of RTF’s records, so my friend and I knew and loved what we were getting into. At The Aquinas College Field house. Chick’s rig was insane: two giant metal frame speaker racks divided into quadrants that held these clear acrylic domes cover with various size tweeters.
Seeing Return To Forever live twice in 1975 & 1976 at Seattle's Paramount Theatre was absolutely incredible. Talk about communication! They did a showy bit where each member played an improvised lick in turn, gradually increasing tempo from slow to breakneck - absolutely mind-blowing. And Stanley's solo turn equally so - thanks for posting the interview. Fun (and not surprising) to learn that he was a fan of Hendrix!
A soundtrack to my teenage years!
Great interview, so candid, and the “trip down memory lane” of your concert experiences is sending me to the record shelf. Heard RTF in Grand Rapids, MI, in ‘76 following “Romantic Warrior,” and they opened with “Hymn If the Seventh Galaxy.” The upperclassman we went with, who played jazz, were flummoxed. My best friend and went bonkers. His brother played in a local fusion band and had opened for Weather Report locally and owned all of RTF’s records, so my friend and I knew and loved what we were getting into. At The Aquinas College Field house. Chick’s rig was insane: two giant metal frame speaker racks divided into quadrants that held these clear acrylic domes cover with various size tweeters.
“My best friend and I went bonkers” is the edit.
Seeing Return To Forever live twice in 1975 & 1976 at Seattle's Paramount Theatre was absolutely incredible. Talk about communication! They did a showy bit where each member played an improvised lick in turn, gradually increasing tempo from slow to breakneck - absolutely mind-blowing. And Stanley's solo turn equally so - thanks for posting the interview. Fun (and not surprising) to learn that he was a fan of Hendrix!
I know in the 70s there were two reining bass players jaco pastorius and stanley Clarke