Howard Roberts – Antelope Freeway
Label: | Impulse! – AS-9207, ABC Records – AS-9207 |
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Format: | Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo |
Country: | US |
Released: | |
Genre: | Jazz |
Style: | Contemporary Jazz, Fusion |
Tracklist
A1 | Antelope Freeway - Part 1 | 2:25 | |
A2 | That's America Fer Ya | 3:25 | |
A3 | Dark Ominous Clouds | 3:45 | |
A4 | De Blooz | 9:27 | |
A5 | Sixteen Track Firemen | 2:15 | |
C1 | Ballad Of Fazzio Needlepoint | 5:20 | |
C2 | Five Gallons Of Astral Flash Could Keep You Awake For Thirteen Weeks | 4:23 | |
C3 | Santa Clara River Bottom | 2:20 | |
C4 | Roadwork | 7:50 |
Companies, etc.
- Copyright © – ABC Records, Inc.
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – ABC Records, Inc.
- Recorded At – Record Plant, Los Angeles
- Pressed By – True Sound Manufacturing Corp.
- Published By – Guitar General
Credits
- Bass [Fender] – Brian Garofalo*, Max Bennett
- Design – Woody Woodward Grafix
- Drums – Bob Morin, John Guerin
- Electric Guitar – Mike Deasy
- Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar – Howard Roberts
- Engineer – Lee Kiefer, Phil Schier
- Keyboards – Larry Knechtel, Mike Wofford, Pete Robinson (2)
- Liner Notes – Frances Pares
- Photography By – Phil Melnick*, Woody Woodward
- Producer – Ed Michel
- Producer, Engineer – Bill Szymczyk
- Violin – Bobby Bruce
Notes
(C) 1971 ABC Records, Inc.
(P) 1972 ABC Records Inc
Printed in USA
Rec. December 17th 1970 and March 18th and 23rd, 1971 at The Record Plant, Los Angeles
"Side 3" instead Side 2 on Center label was intentional and not a misprint as previously reported here.
Published by:
A1 to A5, B1,B3, B4: Guitar General (BMI)
B2: Private Domain
(P) 1972 ABC Records Inc
Printed in USA
Rec. December 17th 1970 and March 18th and 23rd, 1971 at The Record Plant, Los Angeles
"Side 3" instead Side 2 on Center label was intentional and not a misprint as previously reported here.
Published by:
A1 to A5, B1,B3, B4: Guitar General (BMI)
B2: Private Domain
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Matrix / Runout (Print label A): AS 9207-A
- Matrix / Runout (Print label B): AS 9207-B
- Matrix / Runout (Runout A etched): AS 9207 A TSM
- Matrix / Runout (Runout B etched): AS 9207 C "with love from Jess I C A ?
- Rights Society: BMI
Other Versions (2)
View AllTitle (Format) | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | |||
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New Submission | Antelope Freeway (LP, Album, Stereo) | Impulse!, ABC Records | AS-9207 | Canada | 1971 | ||
New Submission | Antelope Freeway (LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo) | ABC Impulse! | AS-9207 | US | 1974 |
Recommendations
Reviews
- Edited one year agoLike Joel Dorn, Bill Szymcyzk was another crazy ass producer who ran away with the store. Howard Roberts plays a character actor on his own album. I dunno who the lead is. Is it Szymcyzk? I think Joe Walsh and the James Gang are on here somewhere, fresh from their bonkers turn with Elvin Jones on the Zachariah soundtrack .A great artifact from a time when nobody knew what would work and what would sell. I blame the drugs.
Weird fact: The cover features Roberts sitting on the section of the Antelope Valley Freeway (SR-14) that collapsed in the 1971 San Fernando quake. - If you grew up in the late 60s, especially in California, you know all about the LSD inspired jams of the Grateful Dead and the drug induced comedy of the Firesign Theater.
Howard Roberts was a mainstream, studio guitarist by day, but he really cut loose on this album with tributes to Firesign, the Dead, Pink Floyd and the long forgotten Appletree
Theater-now there's an obscure reference for ya. Imagine the Grateful Dead and Firesign Theater on the same stage at the same time. Like beautiful, man. - Touted as a "psychedelic" album, this release from the Ed Michel period at Impulse is probably one of the most bizarre items released on the label. Howard Roberts was up to then known as a fairly straight-ahead session musician rooted in the swing and hard bop traditions, and little could prepare listeners for what they are getting here:
Antelope Freeway is a road trip of sorts, where the nine tracks are embedded in a background of street noises, chatter, mock radio broadcasts and the like. Roberts' guitar work only loosely follows song or jazz tune structures; instead it's something of a soundtrack to whatever was going on in his or his producer's head.
Despite all this looseness and the bizarre framework, the guitar work is actually quite good. While avoiding the obvious fusion trap, Roberts delivers several solos that any psychedelic rock band could be proud of; indeed on one of the track he approaches much of a (Gilmour-era) Pink Floyd atmosphere.
Despite having probably been fuelled by massive amounts of marihuana and definitely being a product of its time, Antelope Freeway has aged remarkably well and still stands as one of the better (albeit strange) Impulse releases of the Ed Michel era. Sadly, it was never reissued on CD, but then the number of people who are into this kind of musical experience is probably not too large.
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