#davepikeset

I'm warming up in here for an essay I am about to create for a segment we do on our website called "Records We Love". I chose this 32 minute masterpiece for all the obvious reasons so let's talk about it for a minute.

Dave Pike decides in the late 60's that the US is fucked and is like oh hey you know where people are cool and open-minded about things? Europe. So he takes action and crosses the pond and brings with him the influences of the jazz-fusion and psychedelia-rock that was on constant air-play at the time. He moves to Germany and finds three incredible jazz musicians, including Volker Kriegel on guitar, and releases three albums on MPS in 1969 alone - including this tasty live one recorded in November at Berlin Philharmonie.

If a team of scary people told me "we're putting you in a glass cube for the rest of your life with water, food, a bathroom, and other necessities in order to survive BUT there will only be one jazz musician's catalog being played on repeat in your cube for eternity and that jazz musician will be ... Dave Pike"

I'd be okay with that.