The 1986 Listening Post - Gone - Let's Get Real, Real Gone for a Change

Gone - Let's Get Real, Real Gone for a Change

#304/1429   LISTENING POST DISCOVERY

July 1986

Gone

Let’s Get Real, Real Gone for a Change

Genre: Jazz Rock

4.75 out of 5

Highlights:

Peter Gone

Climbing Rat’s Wall

Watch the Tractor

Lawndale Rock City

As much as a surprise that first Gone record was, this is ljust as good. 

We did these out of order and I kind of wish we hadn’t. In fact, I wish we just listened to them back to back. Now I’m not sure which one is better. 

 It sounds like what happens when you own a recording studio and have a LOT of free time and know a ton of fantastic musicians. 

When it kicks it’s monstrous (ala the Highlights above) but when it doesn’t it’s only slightly self-indulgent, like, “Hey! I have a riff, let’s play it to death!”. An example of my frustration is “Rosanne”. A series of riffs, played in a row but it never takes off and just ends up sounding like a soundtrack to a skateboard video. 

I had to give myself over to it and, after I did, it rocketed up my spine in great ways. 

https://music.apple.com/us/album/lets-get-real-real-gone-for-a-change/115820406