get this cd!

[marklucas]

For those of you out there that do not have the Hermanators cd "Twisted", you need to get it! Rodney Holmes is one bad cat! I have a bootleg with him playing with the Steve Kimock Band in Charlotte,NC too! This guy can flat get it!

[Derek DeFields]

nice! For those not hip to Rodney, he is absolutely fantastic. Great funky, fusion guy. Had the Santana gig for a number of years.

Steve Kimock has about 10 albums worth of free road mp3's on his site all with Rodney. GREAT stuff!

[Clintuplet]

I got 'Twisted' not too long after it came out. It is bad!!! Rodney Holmes is a madman. He has said before that Allan Holdsworth is an influence, and it shows in his solo phrasing. Excellent stuff.

[no_bells]

I saw him with the Brecker Brothers in '94. He played great. He soloed on "Above and Below". He soloed over a vamp andseemed really free and intuitive, like he did'nt have anything restricting him. Lots of chops!

I have a Jane Getter cd with him and Victor Bailey on it, mostly groove stuff. He's on 4 or 5 tracks from a David Gilmore (Steve Coleman) cd. That one is more "progressive" sounding.

Peace

[FuseU1]

Funny story [posted this a while back]...
I was doing a gig at a fair in Jacksonville, FL in Oct '96. On 1 of our 2+1/2 breaks between shows, we drove over to "The [Jax] Landing" to have a late lunch. The Jax Jazz Fest was going on there @ the same time, & we were sitting on the outside deck of the Hooters[!] there. A soundcheck was going on, & I could see the drummer & bassist tearin it up. I walked over & asked the soundguy who the band was; it was Larry Coryell's son Julian's group. I watched the soundcheck 4 about 10 min, then they quit & i went back over & sat w/ my bandmates. Then I see the drummer come down off the riser, & walk right in our direction - he ends up walking right by our table, so I struck up a conversation w/ him. Turns out it was Rodney Holmes. I'd seen ads in Mod Drummer w/ him prior, so i pretty much recognized him at that point. VERY nice guy; gave me his home ph # in the NYC area at the time. [This was some yrs b4 the Santana gig]...& I'll just say this - he was making that bass player SWEAT - faces I've only seen a few times from bassists [caused by a @#$%& good drummer]... Rodney was playing some twisted, blazing, latin-jazz-fusion groove [of which I've long 4gotten what it was because i didnt jot the @#$&% thing down!!], & he had been saying to the bassist - "No -no - HERE'S where the '1' is [img]wink.gif[/img] ....]