Andy Timmons Electric Truth

A professional musician from the age of 12, Simon Phillips' drumming sound and style is instantly recognizable. He's toured and recorded with just about every major rock and pop act imaginable; from Mick Jagger, The Who and Toto to Judas Priest, Mike Oldfield, and Joe Satriani. Protocol 3 is real-deal jazz rock. No avant-garde trappings, smooth jazz noodling or proggy pretensions (well, maybe a little bit of the latter) here.

Back in the summer of ‘78 someone told me that there was one hell of a harp player blowing hot and cold up and down the boulevards of Paris. “You can‘t miss hirn. He wears a floppy beret and when he takes it off he has all of his hair…his name is Andy and he‘s just arrived from the States“. Julio Finn had skipped town in a haze of Havana smoke and 1 was looking tor someone to put a harp track I was producing for an album that featured the current crop of American and British musicians hanging out in Paris. lt didn‘t take long to track Andy down and get him in front of a microphone tor, as 1 learned much later, his first taste of the recording process. He blew a stunning solo, first take. Later he told me he was real nervous and the notes were bending themselves without effort on his part. He‘s been in front of a lot of microphones and audiences since then and his playing just keeps getting better and these days the notes bend like they‘re Romanian gymnasts……