Best Jeff Grooves

Hi Guys

Happy New Year!

I'm interested to find out what your favourite Jeff Porcarro grooves are. I'm trying to buy as much stuff on as I can.

I've got all the well known stuff (Toto, Boz Scaggs etc.)but what else should I be looking out for?

Thanks

Jackson Browne - The Pretender
Bruce Springsteen - Human Touch
Michael McDonald - If That's What It Takes + No Looking Back
Valerie Carter - Just A Stones Throw Away
David Lasley - Soldiers On The Moon
Randy Crawford - Wind Song + Secret Combination
Michael Jackson - Thriller

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Katy Lied-Steely Dan
Jarreau-Al Jarreau
RadioActive-Tommy Denander
Black Forrest-Luis Conte
Nightfly-Donald Fagen
Other Roads-Boz Scaggs
Kingdom of Desire-TOTO
Magazine-Rickie Lee Jones
Any Les Dudek
Friends-Larry Carlton

Start the Car(Open road - Tell the truth) and View From 3rd Street (Compared to nothing) -Jude Cole.....great discs

On Every Street-Dire Straits...must have
About Face-David Gilmour
New York Minute-Don Henley

That's a start

here's a decent discography online
http://www.frontiernet.net/~cybraria/jp-ag.htm

Check my site:
http://jeffporcaro.blogspot.com

Email me for a year-by-year session list ('72-'92)

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ January 02, 2004 12:20 AM: Message edited by: PocketPlayer ]</font>

Good ones, guys...
There are SO many, but...
Also don't 4get -

Mushanga [studio & live versions]
Jake to the Bone [Kingdom of Desire]
Rosanna [goes w/out saying, really]
Out of Love [Past To Present '77-90]

etc etc etc, on & on....

Wow Pocket! Your favorite Jeff picks from Toto are almost identical to mine!

The stuff he did with Larry Carlton was great too, especially Song For Katie. It's one of my favorite Jeff grooves. So simple but impossible to make FEEL that way.

Danny

The entire Kingdom of Desire recording is classic Jeff. There are some raw grooves on there you won't hear recorded anywhere. His pocket on the title cut is vintage.

Here's my take on Jeff--when I listen to Kingdom, there are tunes I immediately want to sit and play along with. The eighth note pulse seems so easy...yet it doesn't "feel" right when I play along. I'm playing the notes, but the feel isn't quite there. I find myself analyzing some of the simplest beats like one would break down a Vinnie solo. He just sounds so good all the time, know what to play and more improtantly, what not to play. Just a good musician playing drums.

The sound on that recording is epic. Perfect blend of BD, SD, and Hats.

Some of my favorite TOTO cuts are as follows;
I -Hold the Line
Hydra -Mama
Turn Back -Turn Back
IV -Waiting for Your Love
Isolation -Isolation
Fahrenheit -Till the End
The Seventh One -These Chains
Past-to-Present -Out of Love
XX -Tale of a Man
In a Word
Last Night

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ January 03, 2004 12:26 AM: Message edited by: PocketPlayer ]</font>

Thanks for your input so far guys!

I've been told that Jeff's playing with Larry Carlton is worth checking out.

What should I look out for?

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Also;
Carlton, Larry / Sleepwalk (Warner, 1982) 5 tracks
Blues bird - Song for Katie - Frenchman's flat - Upper Kern - 10:00 P.M.

Carlton, Larry / Friends (Warner, 1983) 8 tracks
Breaking ground - South Town - Tequila - Blues for T.J. - Song in the 5th grade - Cruisin' - L.A., N.Y. - Friends

Carlton, Larry /Christmas at My House (MCA, 1989) 3 tracks
Silent night/It came upon a midnight clear - My favorite things/We three kings of Orient are - The Christmas song