"Love Beads" and "Together" are basically funk tracks; you can't really compare them to what was on Acid or before. Hards Hands and Together just sound like smaller, looser records.
This is a fair point, but Acid is still corny
I was told just today that the sessions for those records were all around the same (damn) time
I don't think this is actually true - unless you mean within a year or so. There was a different vocalist on the later two albums.
This is an astounding album and I don't think it can really be described as a boogaloo album - Love Beads is far closer cheesy boogaloo.
The band is incredible - I was lucky enough to get some of the instrumentals of this - and what you get sounds like a top notch latin jazz group.
I've started playing Mercy Mercy Baby out again. Works every time.
When I opened the shop in 1990 I was stocking Latin titles, new and reissues.
I soon found out there were only 4 maybe 5 people in Portland who cared, but they were passionate.
Acid and Hard Hands were 2 of the most requested titles. Dealing with Fania was near impossible.
I still think "Nuevo Barretto" is pretty sick. And have witnessed that boogaloo/soul stuff pack dance floors enough to deem it worthy in some sense. Not to mentin it has that whole crate digger historical aura behind it. I mean, no duh you could pull 100 crazier latin records out of your butthole in like 5 seconds, but why would you put some obscure colombian 45 or a minor NYC LP that only hardened collectors care about ahead of something like this?
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I don't think this is actually true - unless you mean within a year or so. There was a different vocalist on the later two albums.
This is an astounding album and I don't think it can really be described as a boogaloo album - Love Beads is far closer cheesy boogaloo.
The band is incredible - I was lucky enough to get some of the instrumentals of this - and what you get sounds like a top notch latin jazz group.
I've started playing Mercy Mercy Baby out again. Works every time.
I didn't say the same session, just around the same time. Whether it was within the span of a few months or whatever, I don't know.
I soon found out there were only 4 maybe 5 people in Portland who cared, but they were passionate.
Acid and Hard Hands were 2 of the most requested titles. Dealing with Fania was near impossible.