"Children's Crusade" is certainly the best song on the album. It was always a pleasure to practice to as well.
on every level. In fact, I think the whole song: drumming, feel, phrase development, lyrics, lyrical cadence, how the music supports the subject matter of the song; the build up to the 3rd verse through the solo section changed my world back t hen....how that completely described the build to chaos that t he words are talking about...like a big swirling "mess" (that drug addiction is). I did two differnet papers on that song in college. One in English class, and the other in Music Theory...
When I saw Sting in '85, he opened with "Shadows in the Rain." Hakim was superb from the outset. He secured his spot as one of my favorite drummers that night.
yep!!! We saw them in a small club in Cleveland called the Blind Lemon...it sat like maybe 200 people. I think he was on a series of warm up dates for the big tour. A friend of mine knew the sound guy there, and got us in. It was an "exclusive" show from what I understood. Branford was not there though...they had another guy sitting in. But Sting, Omar, DArryl Jones (a HUGE bass influence of mine) were there. They did everything off of the album except "We Work The Black Seam" <--- which is my 2nd favorite song on the album - plus Bring On The Night, a quick version of Roxanne that turned more into an improv jam, a medley of Demolition Man into Spirits in The Material World into Murder By Numbers...
that night also changed my life...and made up for my passing up of 2nd row tix to the Synchronicity tour a few years earlier.