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Poll Question: Which album do you prefer?
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    Posted: September 09 2010 at 16:43
OK, I think this will be interesting if sufficient people in the forum has listened to both.
 
Romantic Warrior for me sounds almost like a complete show-off, amazing musicians but the compositions are rather boring. Elegant Gypsy is quite different though, inspired by Santana's latin percussion I suppose, it has Jan Hammer dueling with Meola, always a blast.
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Points: 28772 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2010 at 16:49
I guess I prefer Elegant Gypsy, though I'm not a big fan of either one anymore. 
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i would prefer elegant gypsy if the whole album was just consisted by the song 'midnight tango'. elegant gypsy is one of my all time favorite fusion albums
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Points: 12818 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2010 at 05:14
At last a comparison that make some sense.



DiMeola's early solos seemed far more adventurous than the jazz rock meets Yes-influenced symphonic rock of RTF's RW  . Besides, as mentioned, Jan Hammer was really peaking here as a (fusion) keyboard monster and certain a major contributor to many of DiMeola's early records.

However, the suggestion of a Santana-influence is open to debate: Chick Corea's father lead a latin American dance band  so the Latin style was deeply enbedded in the RTF ethos, wasn't DiMeola from NYC rather than the westcoast so a whole variety of other Latin influences (eg. Salsa) , and Jan Hammer was working with David Earle Johnson the Latin percussion specialist during this period.
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both are 5 star albums for me
 
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