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Streetwise - The Sands of Time
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Streetwise - The Sands of Time
by Frank Dunnigan
September 2009
There was a time, not all that long ago, when sand dunes still covered most of the Outside Lands. Even today, I can recall the massive expanse of sand that once covered the corner of 17th Avenue & Vicente Street where St. Cecilia s Church now stands. There was an even bigger area at the Sunset Reservoir near my grandmother s house on 21st Avenue near Quintara, plus any number of corner lots on Taraval, Vicente, and Noriega, from 19th Avenue all the way out to the beach. But the biggest sand dune that I remember, and the one that had the biggest impact on my life stretched from 37th Avenue to 39th Avenue, and from Pacheco to Rivera.
His connection to the genre, however, went much deeper – and continued for many years.
Davis began adding electric instruments and other sounds more associated with rock n roll early as the
Circle in the Round sessions from 1967. Over the next decade, he d continue to radically re-envision his music, adding elements of funk, world music, R&B and ambient while pulling off one genre-bending, mind-blowing experiment after another. Everything was experimentation, drummer Billy Cobham later told
Jazzwise. There was not one moment that whatever was put on a piece of paper would not be changed.
Rock musicians met him halfway, sitting in on sessions with Davis, sharing huge concert stages and grafting his risk-taking approach into their own projects. Davis played the Isle of Wight Festival, for instance, on a bill that included the Who, the Doors, Chicago and Jimi Hendrix, among others. Cobham later collaborated with Deep Purple guitarist Tommy Bolin.
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