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    Posted: July 16 2015 at 22:12

Al Di Meola, Elegant Gypsy.
When he rides, my fears subside.
For darkness turns once more to light.
Through the skies, his white horse flies.
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The Mediterranean Sundance piece is pretty good. Paco De Lucia is a fine guitarist and they've certainly got the compas down. Kind of just highlights the barrenness of the electric playing here. His sidemen are really top-notch players but there's nothing that really grips me here. I kind of feel like Steve Hackett's recentish stuff has bridged that virtuoso guitarist multi-genre rock/world/flamenco/blues/jazz fusion with far more personality. Incidentally, The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady which is the best jazz album ever made has a load of flamenco on it.

Lady of Rome etc. was very nice but kind of ended nowhere. I actually quite like Di Meola's playing on Romantic Warrior, IIRC, and the best bits of the final suite reminded me a little of that. Oh, it's over now. I didn't really notice.

Anyway, if Palepoli is a tenth of the mindblowing sh*t I remember it being it's definitely getting my vote.
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YAAAYYYY!!!! Palepoli! Fuje a chistu paese!
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just give Palepoli the vote Rob LOL.. it smokes most well rounded prog albums.. to saying nothing of sh*tting all over instrumental noodling ie.. fusion.


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Some of these fusion guitarists man... Reinhardt did more substantial playing with two working fingers. Hell, listen to Lauderic Caton on this:


More mood and daring on that than the seven minutes of Flight Over Rio. I mean, McLaughlin was very much a blow-your-socks-off shred guitarist but at least he got something out of it. A few hints of Latin rhythm do not innovation make. Listening to the rest of Al Di Meola album. He can be pretty good on acoustic but I'm not enjoying this much so far.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVhNeVMq-K8


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Okay, giving the brilliant Palepoli a vote.
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LOL fat chance of that
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Tried to like Elegant Gypsy but it never sunk it's hooks into me. Now if only forty year old Alfa Romeos held together as well as Polepoli does.
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Ok, it's a tibute to my city but Di Meola's "Flight over Rio" fits better another city... don't know which.

The real 'flight over Rio' must be like this:


Palepoli gets my vote!
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don't shoot on me Micky. ... ahhhhhhh
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Need to relisten to both
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hmm.. that is hard.. ok.. but damn myself for making me choose.

Palepoli over yet another souless fusion album...
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Points: 1036 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 11 2015 at 12:48
RPI gets my vote most times and so it goes here.
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