Traffic Shoot Out Fantasy Factory MFSL Gold CD UDCD 669 mit J-Card NEU OVP Sealed

Erscheinungsdatum: 1. Mai 1996
Label: Mfsl 
Format: Audio CD (CD-Anzahl: 1)

           Tracks

1. Shoot Out At The Fantasy Factory (6:09) 
2. Roll Right Stones (11:49) 
3. Evening Blue (5:20) 
4. Tragic Magic (6:44) 
5. (Sometimes I Feel So) Uninspired (7:24)


Rezensionen

Audio
Ansteckend munter, aber nicht in Topform tummelten sich Traffic '76 auf "Shoot Out At The Fantasy Factory". Die Rock-Jazz-Folk-Rezeptur gibt sich betont groovy, eher Session- als Song-orientiert - und tönt erstaunlich klar. ** Klang: 03-04

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Stereoplay
Viele Fans meinen, daß Traffic nach der Reunion 1970 ohne Dave Mason nur noch halb so gut waren. Ohne seinen kreativen Widerpart Mason mußte Steve Winwood mehr oder weniger den Alleinunterhalter spielen. Doch der Gitarrist, Keyboarder und begnadete Sänger lieferte mit seinem alten Kumpanen Jim Capaldi 1973 manierliche Arbeit für "Shoot out ..." ab - gar nicht "Uninspired" (Titel 5). Der Melange aus Soul, Blues und Rock mischte Winwood einen Hauch Latin unter. Die fünf zeittypisch, langgezogenen Titel klingen auf der Gold-CD ziemlich dicht. Dafür pumpt der Baß mächtig.

Review by William Ruhlmann
After two exemplary releases, Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory marked a fall-off in quality for Traffic. The problems lay in both composition and performance. Beginning with the title track, based on a guitar riff reminiscent of the recent Deep Purple hit "Smoke on the Water," and continuing through the lengthy "Roll Right Stones," the folkish ballad "Evening Blue," reed player Chris Wood's instrumental "Tragic Magic," and the uncertain self-help song "(Sometimes I Feel So) Uninspired," the material was far from the group's best. Lyricist Jim Capaldi was co-credited with Steve Winwood as the album's producer, and he may have contributed to the cleaner mix that made his words easier to understand. Easier, that is, in the technical sense, since the musing about a sort of minor-league Stonehenge "Roll Right Stones" didn't do much with the image, and, though it struggled for a more positive outlook, "(Sometimes I Feel So) Uninspired" seemed to come out on the side of despair. Winwood's music seemed to recycle his own ideas when it didn't borrow from others. Meanwhile, the rhythm section had been replaced by Muscle Shoals studio aces David Hood and Roger Hawkins, who proved proficient but not as kinetic as their predecessors, so that the playing often seemed mechanical. Capaldi sang no songs here, and Wood's flute and saxophone, so often the flavoring of Traffic songs, were largely absent. What was left was a competent, if perfunctory effort in the band's familiar style. They had built up enough of a following through touring that the album was a commercial success, but it sounds like an imitation of earlier triumphs.
 

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