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...treatment of a song called. "Your Mama Don't Dance (and Your Daddy Don't Rock and Roll)" that featured one perfect mid-chorus sax lick, a perfect maybe four note frill. This one also had a baritone sax solo, and a final chorus that couldn't be denied. "Vahevela," introduced as "the three day version," followed, song draws on the increasingly popular music of the West Indies. The considerably extended stage version exploits the rhythms of the West Indies in a long purely percussive break, anchored by Mexsina's chopped chords played through a wah-wah pedal, and numerous...

Author: By Frederick Boyd, | Title: Spirits in the Sky | 7/11/1972 | See Source »

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