This was actually the first Herbie Hancock track I heard as a kid; we're talking the days of breakdancing, bodypoppin' and Electro. Naturally I though that this kinda music was Herbie's stock in trade; imagine my surprise to discover it was by a man who started as a contemporary to the likes of Miles Davis and John Coltrane! Prodigious talents that they are, could you image those two doing something like this? Thats the gravity of the effect that this track and the appropriately-named album Future Shock had when they were released.
For your delectation, the live version from the 1983 Grammy awards; check out the dancers, absolutely superb. This particular song is what I associate with the whole MTV phenomenon; innovation, style, technology. And lets not forget the clavitar.
Damn, Herbie was ahead of his time.
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