People who like trippy 60s music like Quicksilver & The Doors and DON'T know about Gabor Szabo...

[Amerigo Vespucci]

...are REALLY missing something.

I'm listening to his CD "Dreams" right now and I'm thinking "OH...the first Quicksilver album. OH...The Doors, weird scenes inside the goldmine..."

In his lifetime, he was more influential when it came to guitarists than he was to the general music-buying public.

He also did "Breezin', " the MEGA-HOT for George Benson, before George did it.

"Dreams" is a great album by a gifted guitarist, but it is moody and laid back...don;t expect a Joe Satriani album. That's not what he was about.

Here's "Breezin'"... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz0zYA_12og

...and he's also the source of "Gypsy Queen," the on-fire coda Carlos Santana attached to his version of "Black Magic Woman."

:toast:

[Telly Savalas]

1. Never knew that Breezin' wasn't a Benson original

thanks for today's installment of "ya learn something every day."

[Amerigo Vespucci]

4. It was written by Bobby Womack...

...George released his version in 1976, Szabo's was in 1969.

Gabor felt he was never fully accepted as a jazz artist in the US. During a 1977 engagement at the Catamaran Hotel in San Diego, he complained to the audience about George Benson's success with "Breezin'" (composer, Bobby Womack). He indicated that he had recorded that song before Benson and that Benson had basically stolen the arrangement from him. His version can be heard on the High Contrast album with Bobby Womack.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A1bor_Szab%C3%B3

[r54w32]

2. I'll just leave this here

Fleetwood Mac,enjoy...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWkqACt1Xi8

[Tikki]

3. I know Gabor Szabo....

that brings back an excellent memory...:)



Tikki

[MiddleFingerMom]

5. I was checking out his "Gypsy Queen" video & realized it had the best picture of a pomegranate EVER!

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