George Golla - Easy Feelings
Posted on January 23, 2006 by Dan
Every so often you come across an album that, but for one track, is just another addition to the endless heap of profoundly mediocre music. This baffles me; I don’t understand how a band recording an otherwise crappy LP manages to create the one fantastic track. Maybe, after a long session and a lot of drugs, the band finally let loose and played like they wanted to? Was it the band’s sole, grudging concession to a commercially minded producer? Or perhaps for one brief moment the stars aligned and the fates smiled and the musicians made something inspired.
Case in point: “The Dancer”. “Easy Feelings” is a bad Australian album of guitar-driven proto-smooth jazz. It’s almost offensively banal, but can’t even manage that. And yet “The Dancer”, the second track on side two, is an amazing gritty uptempo jazz-funk composition that properly belongs on a good library LP. I’m told that it’s one of the great funky Australian cuts, but all I want to know is what made George Golla get funky for those short minutes. Incidentally, I wager “The Dancer” was the funkiest thing ever played in the Sydney Opera House, where the LP was recorded.
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Your review isn’t too bad, neither is the Easy Feelings album. I bought the album on cassette in the seventies, and it seems to fit that time. I think musos were coming out of their 60’s drug induced state. But it was a reasonably enjoyable album. Yes “The Dancer” was a great track. George Golla could mix it with any so called o/seas muso and then do 100% better, we Aussies should be very proud of him. Don Burrows isn’t complaining, they are a good combination. As Peter the gardener would say, “that’s your bloomin’ lot” from me!!