Powerhouse heavy metal Rush’s grand symphonies

Rush’s grand symphonies

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and their influences on each other can be heard in the recordings

heavy on nostalgia and even heavier on imagination

it evoked a world precisely even as that world seemed to disappear

Powerhouse heavy metal Rush’s grand symphoniesWith long standing stints in Tower of Power and Santana, Chester Thompson just might be the most decorated and distinguished keyboardist in all of rock and R&B, let alone of the Bay Area musical scene. It's little wonder that this 1971 album, then, is one of the rarest and most coveted albums on the highly collectible Black Jazz Records labelit's Thompson's debut record, cut a couple of years before he joined Tower of Power, with a smokin' band