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Terry Bozzio | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 1, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Magna Carta
• ASIN: B00076QG3W
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #313,259 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

About the Artist

You could say that Terry Bozzio and Magna Carta go way back. Their decade plus relationship yields this diverse and provocative collection—these prime cuts—from the Magna Carta vault. When you’re listening, don’t look so much for signposts in a musician’s development. It’s more as if you’re witnessing concepts come to fruition. And for that thing to happen, that goal of all serious musicians, there must be a forum. Magna Carta has provided that forum. After all, it’s not just any record company that’ll stick its neck out for such daring tracks as some that you will find in this collection of Bozzio drum treasures. Enjoy this "Terry Bozzio retrospective", which consists of Terry solo and Terry in the best of possible company.

Product Description

Newly recorded especially for this album, "Sick Jazz Surgery" . The "surgery" begins when that triplet-based vamp changes to straight ahead rock. Orchestral bells solo and chime uncannily. "Dangerous" (Bozzio Levin Stevens’ "Situation Dangerous"). Immediately we launch into a rollicking Zeppelin-ish vamp. Respite comes with a half-time groove, during which Terry and Tony nail it down while Stevens spins triplets over top. "Dreaming in Titanium" (Jordan Rudess’ "Feeding The Wheel"). There is a bright sheen hovering over this lithe bit of funk, with its percolating bells and synth. Before long it yields to lush piano, the soundtrack to a forties movie. "Last Call" (Explorers Club’s "Age Of Impact" ) An all-star cast on this album includes Billy Sheehan, John Petrucci, Steve Howe, James Murphy, Matt Guillory, and Derek Sherinian; vocals courtesy of Dream Theatre’s James LaBrie. An unreleased gem, recorded during the sessions for Bozzio Levin Stevens’ "Blacklight Syndrome": "Walking Dream". "A Glimpse into a Deeply Disturbed Mind" (Drum Nation Volume 1) calls up memories of Terry with Missing Persons and Zappa, yet derives equally from Terry’s solo work. In "Edge of a Circle" (Bozzio and Sheehan’s "Nine Short Films") we witness Terry on all manner of drums, percussion, and synth, to boot, while Sheehan has his hands full with bass, baritone and lead guitar. "Melt": Re-mix wizard Mark Gage assembles and convolutes sonic bits ("Sonic Residue From Vapourspace"), recreating a compelling mix of Bozzio Levin and Stevens. It’s effective in preserving the essential melodic components of the original, yet allows Gage to "paint" in the manner of Salvador Dali, creating lumpy forms, soft transitions, and segues where none hitherto existed.

Computer Bonus Video: Terry Bozzio interview.

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Out of this world playing, July 2, 2009

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Ratzo Rizo (England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Prime Cuts (Audio CD)

This album is not the run of the mill, its just so very diffrent I have seen and meet this great musician and he has to be one of the best drummers around (and a very nice guy) buy this if you love lots of precussion and heavy guitar and jammed so very well, where`s Steve Vai?
also check out Terry on "ZAPPA plays ZAPPA" only get the "5" disc set see that mascive drumkit play so well.
don`t wait a second more go buy worth every sent