{"id":3458,"date":"2021-09-14T14:04:25","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T14:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=3458"},"modified":"2022-12-18T12:14:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T12:14:10","slug":"music-brand-x-unorthodox-behaviour-1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=3458","title":{"rendered":"MUSiC: Brand X, Unorthodox Behaviour, 1976"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/img_1308-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3457\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/img_1308-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/img_1308-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/img_1308-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/img_1308-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/img_1308-100x100.jpg 100w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/img_1308.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"155\" height=\"30\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/stars_09_fourhalf-12.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3486\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/stars_09_fourhalf-12.jpg 155w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/stars_09_fourhalf-12-150x30.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Phil Collins was a busy little body in 1976! <em>Trick Of The Tail<\/em> and <em>Wind &amp; Wuthering<\/em> with Genesis, and this opus de fusion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s funny, because, apart from Phil Collins the other players &#8211; John Goodsall (guitar), Robin Lumley (keys) and Percy Jones (bass) &#8211; aren\u2019t exactly household names. And yet they play with the fire, chops and intensity of jazz-rock-fusionistas of the first rank. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps the biggest and most obvious potential criticism might be that at numerous points the influences are very transparent. It\u2019s a heady mix of Weather Report, Mahavishnu and suchlike. The thing is, it\u2019s so well done, that I don\u2019t frankly care about this. It simply means if you like that other stuff &#8211; and I do &#8211; here\u2019s more, in a similar vein. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fairness to these guys, however, I should add that despite wearing their inspirations on their sleeves, this still remains a unique, or rather, more accurately, a spirited enough combination to stand on its own. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The intensity levels are sky high, stratus-pheric, one might even say. Part of me feels, listening to it now, aged 49, that this level of energy really makes this young man\u2019s type music. And I think to some degree that holds. But then again, Brand X are <em>still going<\/em>! And they &#8211; any surviving original members, that is &#8211; must all be late 60s, early 70s?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Collins was a busy little body in 1976! Trick Of The Tail and Wind &amp; Wuthering with Genesis, and this opus de fusion. It\u2019s funny, because, apart from Phil Collins the other players &#8211; John Goodsall (guitar), Robin Lumley (keys) and Percy Jones (bass) &#8211; aren\u2019t exactly household names. And yet they play with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=3458\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MUSiC: Brand X, Unorthodox Behaviour, 1976&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-TM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3458"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7632,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458\/revisions\/7632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}