"Situation Dangerous"
Magna Carta
Terry Bozzio - drums and percussion
Tony Levin - basses
Steve Stevens - guitars
But the record kicks off on a resoundingly un-flamenco note. 'Dangerous' is
a mad scientist dash of schizoid Crimson that might remind you of another
well-known band as well. "Steve had this lick, similar to Led Zeppelin's
'Immigrant Song'. We went after that kind of beat and when we went to the
bridge, Steve started playing this thing and I started playing in five
across it. Then the half time section is very dark and dangerous."
The acoustic work on "Situation Dangerous" is positively breathtaking,
culminating in a piece called 'Spiral'. "That's one of my favorite harmonic
pieces on the record. When Steve started playing that rhythmic thing that he
set up on the guitar . . . harmonically, the way he was working with the
finger picking was so amazing to me that I had to sit him down next to me at
the piano and say, 'OK, what is it that you are doing here?' And I learned
how to play it on the piano so I could take it away with me. It's just a
gorgeous piece."
And a favorite drum performance? "There's not a spot on there that I'm not
proud of, but I think the highlight for me is probably a piece called
'Tziganne', which is French for gypsy, a flamenco-ish piece. There's a
piccolo tom drum solo which is highly melodic and is some of the best
piccolo stuff I'd ever recorded. It lets me do something almost on the level of a guitar player on the drums. So that's something I'm very proud of."
Bozzio Levin Stevens - "Situation Dangerous" on Magna Carta
Bozzio Levin Stevens - "Situation Dangerous" on iTunes
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