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LEE RITENOUR  
Aw man , just found this footage . Had the "Rit" album for years , including so many great performers & songs like "Is It You" , "You Got Me Smiling" . Presenting : Mr. Briefcase ( featuring Eric Tagg ) http://www.youtube.com/wa...20ritenour   
 
Okay , i've played the albums from this group many times , and here's a result how good they sounded live . Together with Lee performing & solo-ing : - Don Grusin - piano , keyboards ( intro ) - Ernie Watts - saxophones - Abe Laboriel ( Koinonia ) - bass - Alex Acuna ( Weather Report / Koinonia ) - drums & percussion - Steve Forman- percussion Here Today Here Tomorrow ( live @ Montreux - 1979 ) http://www.youtube.com/wa...20ritenour    [Edited 6/11/06 10:41am] | |
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Were you watching me on youtube? I just watched the video for Mr Briefcase this morning.  | |
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RipHer2Shreds said: Were you watching me on youtube? I just watched the video for Mr Briefcase this morning.
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Rit & the irrepressible Luke...
http://www.youtube.com/wa...20ritenour ...doing the Jeff Beck version of Stevie Wonder's Cause We've Ended As Lovers. 
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theAudience said: Rit & the irrepressible Luke...
http://www.youtube.com/wa...20ritenour ...doing the Jeff Beck version of Stevie Wonder's Cause We've Ended As Lovers.
Luke's the DUDE ! 
Saw him recently doing a solo-gig ... dude's hilarious ! Great jokes onstage . Yeah , i got this on dvd . Didn't play it in a while tho . RESPEK ! | |
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"Is It You" (1981) 
several years ago,I did a thread about this song. | |
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DavidEye said: "Is It You" (1981)
several years ago,I did a thread about this song. This was a great song that Lee had written for George Benson. For some reason, he turned it down. Good thing for Lee. "Love is like peeing in your pants, everyone sees it but only you feel its warmth" | |
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Great player, though I can never get that diss of Barry White's records out of my head. In a guitar magazine interview a while back, Ritenour gave Ray Parker Jr. props on his rhythm guitar chops as he recounted some of his studio sessions laying down cool tracks on those horrible Barry White disco records...
Cool performanc with "Luke"! My author page: https://www.amazon.com/au...eretttruth | |
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shorttrini said: DavidEye said: "Is It You" (1981)
several years ago,I did a thread about this song. This was a great song that Lee had written for George Benson. For some reason, he turned it down. Good thing for Lee. Wow,George is crazy for turning down that song! | |
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Great solo by Rit on "Strawberry Letter 23".
To throw Luke in there my favorite solos are "Hot Mama" by The Brothers Johnson There's this chromatic lick he does that always brings me to the woodshed. The line where George sings "I heard something something something you can dance every night and day" (right here) He also does one in "You Went Away" by Earth Wind And Fire. On the second solo he plays a melody twice then a straight up bebop lick. Ray Parker is another great one. Now I'm not into his "My Ghost Wants A New Drug and an issue of GQ stuff" but his guitar playing is tasteful. He doesn't get enough credit as a multi-instrumentalist either. He has this new song "Mismaloya Beach" with really tasteful playing. "The first time I saw the cover of Dirty Mind in the early 80s I thought, 'Is this some drag queen ripping on Freddie Prinze?'" - Some guy on The Gear Page | |
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Lee's firing his axxe on this album , together with Tommy Bolin . _____ And his debut is classic stuff ! "3 Days Of The Condor" 
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Some of my favorites from Lee:
     
... " I've got six things on my mind --you're no longer one of them." - Paddy McAloon, Prefab Sprout | |
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100MPH said:
Lee's firing his axxe on this album , together with Tommy Bolin . Wait, do you mean to tell me there were talented musicians on all those Mouzon albums my dad had me tape for him? I used to hate being handed another Mouzon record by him. This was in the mid-1980s, though. Maybe he'd hit his peak by then... | |
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ThreadBare said: 100MPH said:
Lee's firing his axxe on this album , together with Tommy Bolin . Wait, do you mean to tell me there were talented musicians on all those Mouzon albums my dad had me tape for him? I used to hate being handed another Mouzon record by him. Yeah, I agree with 100mph, this one, (Mind Transplant, [1974]) is the Alphonse Mouzon album to check out--- the playing is Smokin' on this album!! Tommy Bolin, Lee Ritenour, and Mouzon are firing on all four cylinders here... ... " I've got six things on my mind --you're no longer one of them." - Paddy McAloon, Prefab Sprout | |
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paligap said: Some of my favorites from Lee:
... This GRP release turned me around on Lee... 
...Wes Bound Always respected him as a player but found him rather stiff. Driving home from work one night I flipped to a station that was playing Boss City. Almost ran off the road when it was announced that it was Lee Ritenour playing. Very groovy soulful guitar playing. The only strange thing on this album (which is supposed to be a tribute to Wes Montgomery) is the inclusion of Bob Marley's Waiting in Vain featuring Maxi Priest. Some A&R person must have demanded something hit-like. 
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