Product details
- Label Columbia
- Artist Herbie Hancock
- Format 1LP
- Country United States
- Released Date 1980
- Genre Jazz
- Sealed No
- Media Condition Very Good Plus (VG+)
- Sleeve Condition Very Good Plus (VG+)
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Condition: Used
Media Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)
Sleeve Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)
Condition Notes:
Disk has couple of scuffs and lines but still in Vg+ condition.
Cover has some edge wear and some bending. But still in shrink VG+
Monster by Herbie Hancock.
By 1980, Herbie Hancock had long since proven he could shift between acoustic lyricism and electric experimentation, and this Columbia release finds him leaning hard into the latter. It's a glossy, funk-forward studio statement from a period when Hancock was treating the recording console as another instrument, cutting across multiple rooms with a small army of engineers led by longtime collaborator David Rubinson. Even the sleeve carries attitude, with cover artwork by the celebrated macabre cartoonist Gahan Wilson lending the record an unmistakable visual identity.
Musically, it's built on groove. Hancock surrounds himself with a formidable rhythm section—Freddie Washington's bass locking in with Alphonse Mouzon's drums and Sheila Escovedo's percussion—while Melvin "Wah Wah" Watson adds biting guitar. Hancock himself pulls from a staggering arsenal: Rhodes and Hohner clavinet, a wall of synthesizers from the Minimoog and Prophet 5 to the Oberheim and Yamaha CS-80, plus vocoder and even an Apple II computer. The Waters family sweetens it all with lush backing vocals.
The result is a warm, slick, unapologetically electric listen that rewards a good system and attentive ears, mastered by Paul Stubblebine for maximum punch. For collectors, it's a fascinating document of Hancock's crossover era—a record where cutting-edge technology meets deep R&B feel, wrapped in distinctive Gahan Wilson art that makes it a standout on any shelf.
Pressing Details:
Track Listing:
A1. Saturday Night
A2. Stars In Your Eyes
A3. Go For It
B1. Don't Hold It In
B2. Making Love
B3. It All Comes Round
Credits:
Gahan Wilson - Artwork [Cover]
The Waters - Backing Vocals
Julia Waters - Backing Vocals [The Waters]
Luther Waters - Backing Vocals [The Waters]
Maxine Waters - Backing Vocals [The Waters]
Oren Waters - Backing Vocals [The Waters]
Freddie Washington - Bass
Alphonse Mouzon - Drums
David Rubinson - Engineer
Fred Catero - Engineer
Bryan Bell - Engineer [Keyboard]
Bob Kovach - Engineer [The Automatt, Assistant]
Barbara Issak - Engineer [The Village Recorder, Assistant]
David Kulka - Engineer [United Western Studios, Assistant]
Gary Boatner - Engineer [United Western Studios, Assistant]
Jim DeMarco - Engineer [United Western Studios, Assistant]
Melvin "Wah Wah" Watson - Guitar
Herbie Hancock - Keyboards [Eu Polyphonic], Guitar Synthesizer [Clavitar], Synthesizer [Waves Minimoog, Minimoog, Prophet 5, Oberheim 8 Voice, Yamaha CS-80, Arp 2600], Clavinet [Hohner], Electric Piano [Rhodes 88 Suitcase Piano], Electronic Valve Instrument [Steiner EVI], Vocoder [Sennheiser], Organ [WLM], Synthesizer [Lynn-Moffet Drum Synthesizer], Computer [Apple II Plus Microcomputer], Drum Machine [Roland CR 70], Piano
Paul Stubblebine - Mastered By
Sheila Escovedo - Percussion
Ray Rogers - Photography By [Back Cover]
David Rubinson & Friends, Inc. - Producer
Herbie Hancock - Producer
Jeffrey Cohen - Producer [Associate]
Notes:
Recorded at:
The Village Recorder, Los Angeles
United Western Studios, Los Angeles
The Automatt, San Francisco
Ray Parker, Jr. and Julia, Maxine, Luther and Oren Waters appear courtesy of Arista Records
A product of Catero Sound Company, San Francisco
Thanks: John Viera, Eu Systems, Bill Heckard, Pat Quinn, Fred Catero & Gigi Hancock
© 1980 CBS Inc. ℗ 1980 CBS Inc.
Manufactured by Columbia Records, CBS Inc./51 W 52 Street New York
Artist: Herbie Hancock
Format: 1LP
Genre: Jazz
Label: Columbia
Catalog Number: JC 36415
Release Year: 1980
Country: United States
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