Hi all,
I especially liked his playing with John Etheridge and rate Live 1990 highly in terms of musicianship - well worth bearing with the low quality of the recording to hear some inspirational solos from both of them, including Dick playing a small home-made horn that I still have. He made it using the wooden body of something like a whistle, a goat/sheep horn, I think, and a soprano sax mouthpiece, and it had entirely it's own scale, so he would bend the notes pretty strongly and make it produce what for me were some quite haunting sounds.
Going back, one of my very favourite albums which features a lot of his playing is Things We Like, with Jack Bruce, Jon Hiseman and John McLaughlin recorded in 1968 but not released until 1971, I think it was.
I would also add Colosseum's Valentyne Suite from 1969, their last album with James Litherland on vocals and guitar.
Great to read this thread!
Arthur
Ta... the splendidly titled 'You Don't Know Dick' is a classic, if only for Aquamarine, a standard of his live set but only available on this disc as far as I know. Never knew 'Waza Nazu' was an album, but the track is a corker...
'Blues and Beyond' was my prime offender, picked it up a while ago hoping for much tenor action.... sadly disappointed
