This monster fusion album features in Bradley's Billboard book, along with a few other Passport releases. I was grateful for the introduction at the time, and still am. This spring saw the ten-year anniversary of Mr. Smith's unfortunate passing. I still miss his friendship a great deal and will always admire his achievement, despite our occasional differences. After all, I am primarily a musician, not a critic. Brad had a great ear and a keen sense of aesthetic coherence, but was never trained on an instrument and never attempted to produce music himself. He did compose at least a few poems and produce what I thought were actually some pretty good abstract paintings. The latter's an area I've dabbled in also, but not for quite some time.
Perhaps I'll share a couple of examples in an upcoming post :)
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