 Vanilla Thunder - Body Heat Activated
Can't get enough funk? Look no further than Jim's Music, where this album is exclusively available. The sessions on this album took place between March and July of 1999. This is a nine-piece band that was short-lived and produced an absolute masterpiece that blends funk and blues. The bass lines are completely "in the pocket" from start to finish. Add the wailing guitar leads and funky rhythms that often utilize envelope filter and wah effects, and we have the basic ingredients of a killer funk/blues band. Incorporate the saxophone, trumpet, trombone and Rhodes piano and we now have a bad-ass funk/blues band on our hands. It's not just the instrumentation that does it. The vocals are blended perfectly to fit the various styles of play. Each member has an important part at all times, just the same as the rest of the band, or else this simply would not work. Vanilla Thunder was, at one time, a very beautiful thing. It's a shame when a band puts something like this together and we never here from them again. At least that brief period in time was captured on the album, for us all to enjoy for a lifetime.
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