Fire Wire

Artist: Larry Carlton
Label: Bmg Japan
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 4988017632529
ASIN: B0009S8ET2

Release Date: 2005-07-28

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Tracks:

Inkblot 11
Double Cross
Naked Truth
Surrender
Big Trouble
Goodbye
Dirty Donna's House Party
Prince
Sunrise
Mean Street

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Customer Reviews:

Fire Wire.......2007-01-21

I don't understand the negative reviews of this CD. If you like Larry's mellow side and smooth jazz, this is not it. If you like harder rock and edgy guitar this is excellent. Make sure you listen to this CD before passing judgement. If you like instrumental blues/rock/fusion this will probably suit your tastes.

dont go there.......2006-12-26

I just dont like it ,its a different kind of larry Carlton sound ; there are a few nice bits, but everytime I try to give it another spin ( thinking just maybe it will grow on me ?)...it doesnt! it just gives me a headache! What was Larry thinking? maybe he was a little bored with all that country air hes been getting since he moved from LA and just wanted to rock-out or something.Anyhow its a shocker from someone who is awesome.

Another Side of Larry.......2006-04-02

One of the reasons I've become a Larry Carlton fan is his versatility. As you listen to his music over the years you see that this man has many sides to him. This latest release obviously leans more to his rock side. I've read some of the more negative reviews and really don't get them. Larry's too good to be pinned down to one style. Give the guy a break and let him stretch out! This album reminds me of his 93 release, "Renegade Gentleman" a little bit. "Fire Wire" is tastier though in my opinion. With all the styles he has played in over the years one thing remains true about Larry Carlton, he's consistently great in whatever musical genre he's playing in. Do yourself a favor and don't fall prey to the musical snobbery of some and get this CD.

Dissapointing.......2006-03-26

Boy am I glad I waited for the U.S. release of this CD ($13) and didn't pay $47 for it.

I am an avid Larry Carlton fan and this was purported to be Larry's Rock Album With Maverick Producer -- enough to make a Carlton's fan's day or week. It had me excited to the point that I inquired anxiously in Larry's Web Site's forum when it would be released in the U.S. and I waited and waited with bated breath. I bought "Firewire" even after reading the unfavorable reviews here, thinking that it was a matter of taste and that Larry was incapable of putting out a CD like... well... Firewire.

How can this possibly be the same man who played, "Don't Take Me Alive"?

The CD has a good number of guitar licks but that's it. Larry seems obsessed with not indulging in rock's inherent simplicity. Some of the best rock songs are three-chord productions, or variations on an interesting but simple theme. Apparenly he has forgotten that satisfying tension-release melodies sustained by a catchy riff are what rock is all about.

The first six tracks are completely forgettable. "Sunrise" is a pleasant acoustic number, but saved rather by the lovely clean tone of the guitar than the quality of the composition. "The Prince" and "Mean Street" are supposed to be heavy rock numbers, with greasy wah-wah syncopations, but again the call/response licks try to avoid simplicity and be too clever and go nowhere.

Larry's best solo effort remains Saphire Blue, which is truly inspired. While Larry Carlton is great at complementing good rock composers with his comping and soloing, Firewire shows that as rock composer Larry is no Becker or Fagen.

How can this possibly be the man who played "Josie"?

Beware of Fire Wire.......2006-03-14

As a long-time Carlton fan - starting with his early work with the Crusaders and Steely Dan - I've been excited and rewarded with every one of his new releases during the last 20-plus years. That's why I snatched this CD up in an instant without the slightest need to preview any of the tracks. My mistake.

If you enjoy Larry's usual breezy, melodic, thoughful jazz style, whether in his solo endeavors or with the group Fourplay, you'll be greatly disappointed with this effort.

An uninspired, unfocused, unpolished mix of rough rock riffs, white-boy blues and very little jazz, this CD comes accross as a practice session from a group of musicians lost in a maze with no way out. Poorly engineered and lacking any decent production value, Fire Wire sounds like low-grade sandpaper scratching on vinyl. The back-up musicians are mediocre at best, with a drummer and bass player that rarely stray from a repetitive, simplistic and boring style.

Larry highly praises his newly discovered producer in Svengali-like terms on the linear notes, which is a mystery to me. Where he found the idiot, I don't know. But the guy should be fired and wired to a post as far away from a music studio as possible.

I never though I'd say this about a Larry Carlton CD ... but a big two-thumbs-down YUK!

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