The Dance Of Life. A great example of late 70s jazz fusion guitar playing.

equalsql

Such a wonderful track By Narada Michael Walden with guitarist Corrado "Pat" Rustici absolutely knocking it out the park.
An incredible player.
I've always found this track so inspiring. 

joeW

Holy damn - I love this tune and didn’t know what it was.  Back in 1990 it was on a skating video H-Street’s Hokus Pokus.  The entire soundtrack was brilliant but this song stood out due the amazing technical skill.  

Thanks for sharing this - properly made my day. 

equalsql

joeW said:

Holy damn - I love this tune and didn’t know what it was.  Back in 1990 it was on a skating video H-Street’s Hokus Pokus.  The entire soundtrack was brilliant but this song stood out due the amazing technical skill.  

Thanks for sharing this - properly made my day. 

I only discovered it when my brother bought Narada Michael Walden's disco song "I Shoulda Loved Ya" back in 79. I hated disco at the time but was blown away by this track when he put the b-side of the single on. Couldn't believe it was the same artist.   

Woodandwires

Fantastic love that, the beginning motif/Riff may have inspired “the first picture of you” either way both fantastic tracks and NMW’s drumming is off the scale, he didn’t/doesn’t get the respect he should have.

Kebabkid

Oh man. I have that on 45 and what a track and playing and like you, I discovered it on the back of 'I shoulda loved you'
@equalsql - going by this and your other posts in the past, we have very similar tastes in music and guitar players

Although NMW went down the commercial route and produced R n' B artists, people forget that he's an incredible drummer and his legacy.

Here's an article which mentions who was at the University of Miami when he was studying there - Steve Morse and some of the other Dixie Dregs guys, Jaco Pastorious, Will Lee, Hiram Bullock, Pat Metheny and he was also on Journey's last tour as one of their 2 drummers.

Cheers for reminding me of this one

 Edit: looking at his Wiki page, he would've been 22 when he recorded this.

duotone

Found it @joeW ;

https://youtu.be/zuI1WXehpvE?feature=shared

sweepy

Corrado `Rustici is a monster player, well worth checking out  

joeW

duotone said:

Found it @joeW ;

https://youtu.be/zuI1WXehpvE?feature=shared

Thanks @duotone thats it - basically my (wasted)  years as a youth.  Man that’s a proper blast from the past. Love it.  Might even have a go a lot transcribing it, but it sounds really technical 

Kebabkid

Other guitarists from that period that had a fusion-edge and aren't household names are Carlos Rios - listen to Gino Vanelli's 'Brother to Brother' album and he went on to be Lionel Richie's guitarist.

Jorge Strunz of the band Caldera and later of acoustic duo Strunz and Farah is closer in style to Rustici on this track.

Power_Freak

Kebabkid said:

Other guitarists from that period that had a fusion-edge and aren't household names are Carlos Rios - listen to Gino Vanelli's 'Brother to Brother' album and he went on to be Lionel Richie's guitarist.

Jorge Strunz of the band Caldera and later of acoustic duo Strunz and Farah is closer in style to Rustici on this track.

Rios has more than an "edge" of fusion - he was on Chick Corea's Elektric Band album (sharing the guitar spot with Scott Henderson). He's more known for his session work, but he has appeared on a few "proper" fusion recordings too.