Return to Forever
Chick Corea- keyboards
Al DiMeola- electric and acoustic guitar
Stanley Clarke- bass
Lenny White- drums
Curtis Hixon Hall
Tampa, Florida, U.S.A.
unknown date 1976
performance quality: very nice
recording quality: B (maybe close to a B+, pretty good)
source: audience tape (trade, unknown lineage,low generation)
Opener was Bachman/Turner Overdrive!
The tape begins with an audience comment of
how could anybody like this and BTO?
runtime: 77:39
setlist:
1: Lenny White introduces instruments and players and tuning 7:01
2: the romantic warrior 11:59
3: Corea piano jam 8:34
4: DiMeola jam 8:19
5: Clarke jam 7:24
6: Lenny White jam > drum solo > no mystery 7:22
7: the duel of the jester and the tyrant 14:34
8: the shadow of lo (end cuts) 12:27
comments:
I don't know how much of this is missing, I think the beginning is complete
and just a few seconds missing for tape flipping during one of these songs,
and the end of duel. It sounds like the last song cuts near the end. I think
they played more after that. I have heard a few Romantic Warrior shows but
haven't heard any of them in their entirety except a couple even shorter
than this is. I think a typical Romantic Warrior show runs about 2 hours,
but probably not if it's a double bill. Some places even got a triple bill
and you can't squeeze a whole Romantic Warrior show into a triple bill.
Maybe half of one (if they cut out all the older material).
It's like asking the Red Sox and Bluejays to play a tripleheader in 1 night.
this is also partly to say thanks to the last 2 RTF uploaders to add to my
collection (davmar77 for his NY 11/22/75 FM master and most recently mr. mags
for his post from Iowa 76 which appears to be close to a whole show).
there's a saying that once you return to forever there's no going back.
It must be true. After all these years I still consider the RW show I saw
in Boston 11/14/75 possibly the greatest concert I EVER saw (by anyone).
they just don't do 20 min. RW's very often. This includes the Romantic Warrior,
the acoustic jam set, duel of the jester and almost all the shadow of lo
which should make you feel a little less low if you are among the many feeling
lower than you'd like to be, like me. (lo is different from low, not a spelling
variation.)
Do not sell this recording.
Trade freely, losslessly and gaplessly.
there are far too many gaps
in our romantic relations
already.