Originally Posted by
splanky
I liked Phil's "Wall of Sound" concept for the most part but I have to agree with smark on River Deep Mountain High. That
was overkill x 10. By contrast The Long and Winding Road didn't bother me too much because the melody was too gorgeous.
Robert Bell has said he thinks several Kool and The Gang albums, particularily with Deodato if I remember correctly, were
overproduced and though I wasn't sure I agreed with at the time, as I look back over their work on youtube I have to say
he was not just right but brutally honest. Open Sesame certainly was. I might catch a smack for this but I can think of at
least two EWF albums that I felt the same way about as well as my man George Clinton's later material. It's an easy trap to
fall into, believing your own hype, caught up in the moment in the studio...
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