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Gambale/Hamm/Smith

Gambale/Hamm/Smith: GHS 3

by Todd S. Jenkins
February 21, 2003

Fusion’s hottest current power trio returns with a third offering on Tone Center. All the elements of outstanding modern fusion are present on GHS3 -- powerful guitar leads, pounding and complex basslines, intricate driving rhythms -- with few of the clichés that characterize lesser organizations. With only a few hitches in the mix this time, Gambale, ...

The Light Beyond

By Steve Smith

Label: Tone Center
Released: 2000
Track listing: Katahdin; Yang; First Look; The Throne Of Savitar; Nostalgia; Yin; Yang; Lumpy.

Gambale/Hamm/Smith: The Light Beyond

by Todd S. Jenkins
October 1, 2000

Half of Vital Information unites with a former chops-metal icon to produce their second masterfully hewn fusion disc. Gambale and Smith are true giants of the fusion industry, and Hamm proved long ago that he was up to more than backing hair-god guitarists like Steve Vai and Joe Satriani. From the very first notes the astonishing ...

Gambale/Hamm/Smith: The Light Beyond

by John W. Patterson
August 1, 2000

If I had to find patterns or echoes of another guitarist in Gambale’s chordal progressions, breakdowns, and eruptions into vitriolic riffs of ostinatos and legatos, all being sweep-picking showcases – I’d have to say I keep hearing Mahavishnu John McLaughlin’s style in his Mahavishnu Orchestra daze of fusion. Listen to opening cut, “Katahdin” for evidence. And ...