Great Players Who is it? Urgent

[spike]

Found this clip of "Urgent" live from 1993, the sax player is introduced after the his solo. It's an absolute cracker, a very strong version that I've never heard before. Anybody shed any light as to who this is. I won't mention the name cos maybe I'm not hearing it right.

Urgent - Foreigner

gruss - spike

 

[suethesax]

Scott Gilman is the soloist although Jr Walker was the original soloist on the album.

 

[spike]

Thankyou my dear I obviously wasn't hearing it right. The history of Urgent is well engraved in my brain but I've never come across this version before and "Scott Gilman" is a new one on me. On first watch I thought it was Marc Rivera but it's much stronger than any of his versions, and I'd go as far as to say it's stronger than the original cut and paste junior solo.

So I'll go off and google Scott Gilman now - thanks Sue.

gruss - spike

 

[AlbionLass]

Fantastic, have loved that song for ever. It was instrumental in my wanting to play sax.

 

[old_git]

Mr. Thomas,
Please stop this thread and warn the lass immediately. Just had to be defibrillated.

 

[AlbionLass]

Sorry. 🙁

 

[AlbionLass]

Sorry. 🙁



I'll edit my original post.


Still love that track though.


Sorry for the double post too.


(not my day today)

 

[spike]

Not quite up to your state of decomposure Old Gitters but I've got nothing against a bit of fibrillation in my threads every now and then.

gruss - spike

 

[old_git]

Just because I don't normally use smileys.

Realise that all Scots are still turned on for a month after Burns Night, all that skirl of the kilt and the swirl of the pipes thing.
Personally found the Burns TV shows rather boring and he never mentioned haggis.

Now restore your original post so they can all laugh at my misfortune, please.

 

[richard_perks]

Well it seems awhile that this thread started and thought someone else would pick up that the name of the sax player is Thom Gimbel 8| " If you look down the comments on the youtube page of "Urgent" you will see this mentioned as he is known to be multi talented.
http://www.4eigner.net/theband/members.html
Just to correct the record. 8)

 

[spike]

Hi Richard, are you sure that it's Tom Gimbel playing the solo on my link above, no disrespect intended but !!! Tom's a great player knock out, out of this world, love every note, but I do think it was Scott Gilman doing the honours on that gig. If you listen closely, Scott is a lot more individual with his interpretation of the solo, Tom Gimbel always stayed closer to the Junior Walker cut'n'paste version. And the Foreigner tour credits do say it was Scott on the job that night.
gruss - spike

 

[richard_perks]

I guess all I did was follow the comments and to the link.......... maybe I should look further :whistle: Thanks.
Of course the last sax player I listened to was Boots "the Great" Randolph 8)

 

[spike]

It's almost four in the morning and I'm an old on the other side of the moon resident. will rock sax question mark? I'm a one eye chief an a diggin it honey