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Return to Forever Live in New York August 8th, 2008
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I'll have to pull out my LP of "Romantic Warrior". It's been a while. Fun stuff; quick, clean playing.

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I was there too! and I had an amazing time. I had seen RTF a year before with an earlier line-up: Chick, Airto, and Flora (Eddie Gomez was standing in for Stanley Clarke), and it was good, but nowhere near as exciting as this show was.

I didn't ever think I would get to see this line-up. "Where Have I Known You Before" is one of my all-time favorite albums, and I was jumping out of my seat with the version of "Song to the Pharaoh Kings" that night. Aw man. I'm getting exciting just thinking about it. That floating keyboard intro...so beautiful.

Chick, despite his scientology, has an incredibly knack for interesting, pensive, and beautiful harmony.

Of course Al was great. At first when I saw him changing guitars, I thought he was just being a rockstar, but there was a remarkable difference amongst all three. The Les Paul had of course, the rounder, fuller, thicker, and maybe grittier/darker tone. His PRS "rainbow" guitar (the most fruit-tastic thing I've ever seen a musician play) was undoubtedly the best sounding: thick, loud, clean, with smooth movement. The zebra PRS was punchier. These changes could've probably been made with some sort of pedal, but hey, Al's a rockstar.

What could you gather from the band member's personality's at the meet and greet?

I'm jealous.

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