So, what do you do when your boss of 29 years and over 5400 performances decides to retire? That\u2019s the situation Anton Fig found himself in with late night television\u2019s David Lettermen\u2019s retirement. He was the drummer in Letterman\u2019s house band, first on NBC and then on CBS.<\/p>\n
Fig has hit the concert and studio circuit again. He is currently traveling with blues guitarist Joe Bonamassa. He has also taken the time to re-release his only solo album, Figments, <\/i>which was originally a limited edition issue from 2002.<\/p>\n
Solo is probably the wrong word to describe the release as a number of his friends helped create the music, including Brian Wilson, Ivan Neville, the late Richie Havens, Ace Frehley, Al Kooper, Booker T, Chris Spedding, Lettermen bandmate Paul Schaffer, and more. \u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n
Wilson layered in a wall of sound on the poignant \u201cHand On My Shoulder.\u201d A special unlisted bonus at the end of the album is the unaccompanied harmonies without any distractions.<\/p>\n
Richie Havens had a unique vocal style and it is upfront on \u201cMore Than Friends.\u201d Ivan Neville provides a soulful bent for \u201cInside Out.\u201d <\/p>\n
Fig was a member of Frehley\u2019s Comet for a spell and drummed on the Kiss albums Dynasty <\/i>and Unmasked.<\/i> Now, guitarist Frehley returns some musical favors and brings along Skid Row frontman Sebastian Bach, who together help create the sonic \u201cKnow Where To Go.\u201d<\/p>\n
Decades of experience have given Fig the ability to know and understand his limitations. While he composed the album\u2019s 13 tracks, he is smart enough to allow his friends to fill in the missing pieces. <\/p>\n
Figments <\/i>is an apt title and while it will not change the music world, it is an excellent coming out party for a drummer who has performed in front of millions of viewers, each day, for almost 30 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":32499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[9708],"rating":[5615],"class_list":["post-44260","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-anton-fig","rating-rating-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44260"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=44260"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=44260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}