I have wanted to hear Spiritual Unity (with Ribot and Henry Grimes) for a while now. I'm sure it's good.
Never heard the SS album Guitar.. I'll have to find that. Faith Moves is terrible. Monkey Pockie Boo actually was reissued (vinyl and CD); I think it's still in print.
Masayuki Takayanagi is another good one. Check out April is the Cruellest Month (1975) with his New Directions Unit.
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22There's not enough love for Mr ScumlistIvan Dobsky wrote:rashiedgarrison wrote:Stefan Jaworzyn, the king of Chingford?
That's Stefan "Funk" Jaworcyn to you matey.
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23aaron wrote:I have wanted to hear Spiritual Unity (with Ribot and Henry Grimes) for a while now. I'm sure it's good.
Never heard the SS album Guitar.. I'll have to find that. Faith Moves is terrible. Monkey Pockie Boo actually was reissued (vinyl and CD); I think it's still in print.
Masayuki Takayanagi is another good one. Check out April is the Cruellest Month (1975) with his New Directions Unit.
I am w/Jung in my non-fandom of Ribot. He always seemed like a poor man's Bob Quine to me. Much less soulful than Quine. But I'm not overly familiar w/his music beyond sidework.
Guitar is fuckin' excellent. It's just Sonny! Playing the electric guitar!
When I said I wasn't hip on Skopelitisness re SS, it was a nice way of saying I didn't like it. I think I still have the album, even.
I was real happy when MPB and Black Woman got reished, even though it was only a few years after my epic search for MPB came to an end. It was one of those record-buying Holy Grails for quite a while.
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25rashiedgarrison wrote:There's not enough love for Mr ScumlistIvan Dobsky wrote:rashiedgarrison wrote:Stefan Jaworzyn, the king of Chingford?
That's Stefan "Funk" Jaworcyn to you matey.
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Indeed. I pretty much love all the As/Des-cension stuff.
Still need that solo stuff.
Just don't mention Smell & Quim.
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26I have seen Marc Ribot three times.
Once with the Fake Cubans, once with Electric Masada, and once by himself.
I don't remember much about Ribot's playing with the Fake Cubans because the whole band was quite great.
Electric Masada was the worst fucking hippie bullshit I have ever seen. Ribot had a music stand and reading glasses, and he couldn't keep up with Zorn and his reefer signals.
The solo show I saw was fantastic, minus the balloon bit (I think he said Zorn wrote that shit). He played a lot of covers because he can't write songs.
Generally, he can't write, and he can't play, but he is a good interpreter. I think he is a great singer as well, but no one ever cares about his singing. His playing is ten or eleven times better if he is singing.
He's funny, too. When asked if he felt exoticized when he played in Germany because he's a Jew, he said, "Oh it's really cool, actually, I've gotten laid a lot. You know to be an 'other' when you don't have to really. I mean it was a bit of a bummer for my grandparents' generation, they all died. But to be able to go over there and have German girls really think that your dick is bigger because you're Jewish, it's fantastic."
Once, when my mind was lost for two weeks, I had Fred Frith records and Elliott Sharp records. I still have eight Marc Ribot records, even though I never listen to them.
Ribot also consistently wears parachute pants.
Once with the Fake Cubans, once with Electric Masada, and once by himself.
I don't remember much about Ribot's playing with the Fake Cubans because the whole band was quite great.
Electric Masada was the worst fucking hippie bullshit I have ever seen. Ribot had a music stand and reading glasses, and he couldn't keep up with Zorn and his reefer signals.
The solo show I saw was fantastic, minus the balloon bit (I think he said Zorn wrote that shit). He played a lot of covers because he can't write songs.
Generally, he can't write, and he can't play, but he is a good interpreter. I think he is a great singer as well, but no one ever cares about his singing. His playing is ten or eleven times better if he is singing.
He's funny, too. When asked if he felt exoticized when he played in Germany because he's a Jew, he said, "Oh it's really cool, actually, I've gotten laid a lot. You know to be an 'other' when you don't have to really. I mean it was a bit of a bummer for my grandparents' generation, they all died. But to be able to go over there and have German girls really think that your dick is bigger because you're Jewish, it's fantastic."
Once, when my mind was lost for two weeks, I had Fred Frith records and Elliott Sharp records. I still have eight Marc Ribot records, even though I never listen to them.
Ribot also consistently wears parachute pants.
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27I've got a BBC recording of Ribot with Bar Kokhba which is excellent.
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28Ribot's Spiritual Unity is good, not great, he is a decent enough player, though the poor man's Quine is pretty accurate descriptior I think.
w/r/t Sharrock, I have always been much more impressed by his playing on other people's records then his own, specifically Tribute to Jack Johnson by Miles Davis (whose, as its been mentioned, electric records are chock full of great electric guitar work)Tahuid by Pharoah Sanders and esp the self-titled Marzette Watts record on ESP-Disk. His stuff on the Last Exit records is good, even though you have to swallow a heaping helping of Bill Laswell to get to it.
Ulmer is the jam, his playing on Tales of Captain Black is a bit more jagged, skronk-y then his later playing. And again good call by tmidgett about his playing w/ Arthur Blythe. He recently released a reunion record w/ the Odyessy Band that I would love to hear.
My favorite free guitarist though is Derek Bailey.
w/r/t Sharrock, I have always been much more impressed by his playing on other people's records then his own, specifically Tribute to Jack Johnson by Miles Davis (whose, as its been mentioned, electric records are chock full of great electric guitar work)Tahuid by Pharoah Sanders and esp the self-titled Marzette Watts record on ESP-Disk. His stuff on the Last Exit records is good, even though you have to swallow a heaping helping of Bill Laswell to get to it.
Ulmer is the jam, his playing on Tales of Captain Black is a bit more jagged, skronk-y then his later playing. And again good call by tmidgett about his playing w/ Arthur Blythe. He recently released a reunion record w/ the Odyessy Band that I would love to hear.
My favorite free guitarist though is Derek Bailey.
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29The other night I saw a French/Algerian guitarist named Camel Zekri play a duo concert with Evan Parker. He is probably the best guitarist I've ever seen. I can only hope they make a record together. And I'm putting it in this thread 'cause it was as free as free can be. Camel Zekri is my new hero.
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30I saw Marc Ribot play a show last night with a new trio called Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog. Ches Smith is the drummer and a talented guy named Shazzad plays bass and Moog and does some singing.
Ribot seems to be trying a "heavy" thing with this band (while keeping his music stand and reading glasses). There were no covers played. None of the songs are very interesting in and of themselves, but some of them go off into good tangents. There were some really impressive fusion-y moments, and also some really boring "rockin.'"
(The rhythm section was never boring. Ribot was solely responsible for the boring moments.)
He was playing an extremely cool-looking '60s pawnshop guitar. He had obviously replaced the guitar's one pickup, maybe with a stacked humbucker or something. It sounded hot.
If you are a fan of his, I think you will be into this new band. I was into about half of it.
Ribot seems to be trying a "heavy" thing with this band (while keeping his music stand and reading glasses). There were no covers played. None of the songs are very interesting in and of themselves, but some of them go off into good tangents. There were some really impressive fusion-y moments, and also some really boring "rockin.'"
(The rhythm section was never boring. Ribot was solely responsible for the boring moments.)
He was playing an extremely cool-looking '60s pawnshop guitar. He had obviously replaced the guitar's one pickup, maybe with a stacked humbucker or something. It sounded hot.
If you are a fan of his, I think you will be into this new band. I was into about half of it.
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