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Vignoble @ Co.
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Sat Feb 03, 2007 3:19 pm Herbie Hancock |
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I own Future Shock and I like it a lot 
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Mach die Fliege
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Sat Feb 03, 2007 3:20 pm (No subject) |
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I like some of the late 70's records from him. Like Sunlight and Feets don't fail me now. Also Mr. Hands and secrets are really good.
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Vignoble @ Co.
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Sat Feb 03, 2007 3:23 pm (No subject) |
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« Mach die Fliege » wrote:
I like some of the late 70's records from him. Like Sunlight and Feets don't fail me now. Also Mr. Hands and secrets are really good.
Let's shake hands man
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Sat Feb 03, 2007 11:24 pm (No subject) |
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I have Rocket too. He's pioneering with the Fairlight CMI beginning eighties.
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BillBinkelman
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Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:18 pm (No subject) |
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I'll tell you a great CD of his that gets overlooked...the slightly avant garde-like soundtrack to Death Wish. I had that on 8-track  and played it until I wore it out. Lots of cool Fender Rhodes electric piano! I gotta look into getting it on CD but I think it's only a collectable now on ebay and fetching really high prices 
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RemoteViewing81
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Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:44 pm (No subject) |
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Always loved Thrust and Headhunters... 
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Seeker_UK
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Wed Feb 07, 2007 12:30 am (No subject) |
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I've always been a big fan of Herbie. "Rockit" was one of the first singles I ever bought.
For me though, the real magic was discovering "Mwandishi", "Crossings" and the mighty "Sextant" real avant-garde electronic / jazz crossover and totally different from the stuff that he did with "Headhunters" onwards.
Oh yes. If you have a copy of "Sound System" (the excellent follow up to "Future Shock") and play "Metal Beat", has anyone else noticed a lot of the track is a cut up of Yes' "Leave It" from "90125"?
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Syn303
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Sat Feb 10, 2007 1:39 am (No subject) |
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Headhunters is another good album of Herbie's.
I once made a 15 minute cut-up remix version of Rockit.
Herbie made Rockit with dub-meister Bill Laswell (who often works with Pete Namlook on the Psychonavigation series on the FAX label) and Michael Bienhorn.
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Caustike
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Tue Feb 13, 2007 2:14 am (No subject) |
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Head Hunters is great. And I would also second S-e-x-t-a-n-t if it wouldn't be censored.
It's apparently so good that it's outright profane!
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ahem
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Early to mid 70s Hancock is classic EM/jazz funk. HEADHUNTERS is the peak, with the ARPs and Moogs.
I think ROCKITT is hopelessly, unfairly overpraised. It's just a jazzy, guideless rip off of the Trevor Horn production BUFFALO GALS. After about 30 seconds it is just tiresome. The far superior AXEL F was a thematic, melodic variation on the same thing and I think that's a much more satisfying listen. Amusingly, Hancock's score to the movie ACTION JACKSON is a painful rip off of Harold Faltermeyer meets Watermelon Man.
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solitaryzen
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Mon Apr 23, 2007 4:03 am (No subject) |
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« ahem » wrote:
I think ROCKITT is hopelessly, unfairly overpraised. It's just a jazzy, guideless rip off of the Trevor Horn production BUFFALO GALS. After about 30 seconds it is just tiresome. The far superior AXEL F was a thematic, melodic variation on the same thing and I think that's a much more satisfying listen.
Welcome aboard.... but, gotta say that I disagree completely
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ahem
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Mon May 14, 2007 8:12 pm (No subject) |
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I'm just playing PALM GREASE from the THRUST album right now and still have to say that IMO the funk period was Hancock's best. Then again, to me this was possibly the best era in music, period.
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jkn
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Tue May 15, 2007 3:08 pm (No subject) |
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I like pretty most of Herbie's releases, but my favorites tend toward the 60's era Blue Note stuff (both the quieter smaller group albums like Maiden Voyage/Empyrean Isles and the denser larger group later albums like Speak like a Child/The Prisoner) and Headhunters era. A lot of good stuff on the Mwandishi albums sandwiched in between.
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Getwired
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Sun Jun 10, 2007 7:05 am (No subject) |
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I'm not a huge Herbie fan, but I did see him in concert with Chick Corea (Elektric Band) back in like 1988/89 or so. Herbie nearly brought the house down, and Corea finished the job! It was a great show, and Herbie's Fairlight CMI was trumped only by Corea's Synclavier (DMS).
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Vignoble @ Co.
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Sat Jul 12, 2008 3:05 pm interview published in VPRO Gids July 12th, 2008 (in dutch) |
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