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Doug Wimbish
Re-Release Date: 9/21/1999
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| 10/08/2003 (4 out of 5 stars) So it s not what many of us were expecting, but it is no doubt the album he wanted to make. Being on On-U records there were no commercial pressures to make this some hi-falutin affair. Yes, it caught me off guard too. Yes, it takes a little while to fully appreciate. But if one takes it for what it is, it s very enjoyable. There are some really stand-out tracks Glorification Chant is probably my favorite. There is alot of ambience and slow grooves, with some very beautiful melodic lines. Let s not dis it for not being what we wanted to hear from the man. It would be easy for Mr. Wimbish to just play fast riffs all over the place but evidently he wanted to express a different side of himself. I m glad he did. The production of Misters Sherwood & Wimbish is clean and tight and there are numerous guests to keep it interesting throughout. It is very innovative and unique, even amidst the
Rolling Stone Menu Drummer Simon Phillips on His Years With the Who, Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page, and Toto
The journeyman drummer has also played with Judas Priest, Jeff Beck, and Jack Bruce, and appeared on Pete Townshend’s “Let My Love Open the Door”
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Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well known to the general public. Here, these artists tell their complete stories, giving an up-close look at life on music’s A list. This edition features drummer Simon Phillips.
Was Mick Jagger’s ‘Primitive Cool’ Tour Just a Ruse?
Simon Phillips, who played drums on Mick Jagger’s 1987 solo album
Primitive Cool and was a member of the band he took on tour the following year, suggested that the road trip was just a ruse to get the Rolling Stones into Japan.
Jagger booked shows in only Japan and Australia, seemingly as a result of the lukewarm response to the album. But in a new interview with
Rolling Stone, Phillips said he wondered if there was another reason for the way things worked out on the 1988 road trip.
“When we started playing shows in Japan, half the set was Stones songs,” he said. “I felt, ‘What’s the point? Why do that? This is a chance for you to do something different, a solo project. . Unless, of course, this was part of a master plan to get the Stones into Japan. The problem was, the Stones could not enter Japan because of their drug convictions. … Mr. Udo of Udo Artists had to pull so many strings to get the gover
A FUNKY Bradford musician has claimed one of the top prizes in the world of guitars after providing the best performance of the last 12 months. Danny Sapko, from Saltaire, wowed judges, the public and staff at top music website Guitar World to take the crown as Bassist of the Year. The 27-year-old played a funk-filled piece featuring intricate finger work on his classy Chowny NT4 bass guitar through an Aguilar head and cab in his video submission. Mr Sapko, who runs a successful YouTube channel as well as teaching music and playing in his band Vonderplanetz, said the win was a moment of light amongst the gloom of 2020.