Just played Phil Miller - Split Seconds on wax....Beautiful record!!!!
Just played Phil Miller - Split Seconds on wax....Beautiful record!!!!
I totally agree and put my signature below what you say. I don't want to denigrate Neil not even for a second. The comparison - which is as stupid as all comparisons are in a way - is made just for the sake of highlighting what - to me - is possibly the best bass playing I have heard in my life. I mean John on OQAC.
Love this tune (having Sinclair on it doesn't hurt):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3CTXU154ac
If it isn't Krautrock, it's krap.
"And it's only the giving
That makes you what you are" - Ian Anderson
OKEY DOKEY!
I have favorites too! I prefer xxx bassist in UZ to xxx bassist. I prefer xxx bassist in Magma to xxx bassist
but: my personal experience has shown me that we are lucky to have any musicians willing to tackle this hard music and they are who are on the albums they are on and they all bring something of themselves to this music!
thanks for your kind response.
Steve F.
www.waysidemusic.com
www.cuneiformrecords.com
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“Remember, if it doesn't say "Cuneiform," it's not prog!” - THE Jed Levin
Any time any one speaks to me about any musical project, the one absolute given is "it will not make big money". [tip of the hat to HK]
"Death to false 'support the scene' prog!"
please add 'imo' wherever you like, to avoid offending those easily offended.
Here is a poster from one of the best gigs I ever attended Steve Hillage and National Health at Lancaster University April 29th 1978. The poster has been roughly scanned from the excellent book When Rock went to College Legends live at Lancaster University isbn 9781910837115.
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No way man - I actually like to read detailed thoughts like that, even if we (music nerds collectively) agree or disagree on something at times. Its interesting to hear WHY people like/dislike something, how they hear things, how it makes them feel, etc. The mere fact that I can actually communicate with other people about this music is an absolute pleasure - since most of the real world doesn't even know that this music fucking exists! It's like some invaluable buried treasure (in Kent of course) that some lucky few get to dig up and revel in it.
If it isn't Krautrock, it's krap.
"And it's only the giving
That makes you what you are" - Ian Anderson
^ Well, I WOULD say that Greaves' playing underneath that amazing flute solo of Jimmy Hastings' in "Binoculars" counts as some of the most creatively melodic bass work I've heard in rock music. Greaves' true monstrosity really shines in Henry Cow's "Ruins", though - and in that finishing part especially, where it's basically all written out. He also Plays fantastically good on the Kew. Rhone album.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
If it isn't Krautrock, it's krap.
"And it's only the giving
That makes you what you are" - Ian Anderson
Robert thanked me profusely for finding and documenting and releasing this one, and allowed me to bookend his recording career with that one. It's simultaneously his first - ever release and his last - ever release. And I got to work with all my favorite collaborator - type folks on it; Aymeric, Mike King, Bill Ellsworth, Mark Chapman, etc etc etc.
That was the best medal of honor imaginable! Truly!
Steve F.
www.waysidemusic.com
www.cuneiformrecords.com
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“Remember, if it doesn't say "Cuneiform," it's not prog!” - THE Jed Levin
Any time any one speaks to me about any musical project, the one absolute given is "it will not make big money". [tip of the hat to HK]
"Death to false 'support the scene' prog!"
please add 'imo' wherever you like, to avoid offending those easily offended.
Hey, just about everything is better on the Concerts version - although it was recorded live-in-the-studio. There's a wholly different flow to the proceedings, and that Frith guitar solo is -painfully- intimate. One of the gloomiest tracks I know, and the return of the "Moon" main riff with the ultra-heavy bass towards the end is simply monumentally majestic. Gives mee goosebumps every time.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
Re: John Greaves. His playing is indeed outstanding in all aforementioned examples, but Half Asleep/Half Awake from HC's Unrest wins for me as his best studio performance ever. The sense of flow and the dreamy nature of this (his!) composition is absolutely gorgeous, like something that's always close but cannot be touched - as if it always escapes from you in slow motion, as in a dream. Fantastic player and composer. I'm looking forward to hearing his new album. His latest Verlaine Gisant album was amazing.
I consider myself very lucky to be have been able to see him playing live in Lindsay Cooper's memorial concert in 2014, in London. Would give an arm and a leg to see him again at the RIO festival in Lyons this year, but finances are a serious matter in this case for someone living in South America. After all, I'd eventually end up *without* an arm and a leg, but still stuck in bloody Brazil, anyway.
Without doubt one of the greatest tunes by anyone in "progressive rock" - ever. IMHO. The sheer density here, yet so overwhelmingly melodic and played with an abundant finesse, drums/percussion and bass in particular. Zappa never delivered that sense of complete organic chemistry, one in which you can practically smell the joy of performance. And still it hardly ever repeats a single friggin' ostinato - it simply just continues to discover… Like following a bumblebee across a lawn on a hot summer's afternoon.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
I fell to bed last night with Unrest in my earphones, and I was making the same thoughts more or less. Possibly it has to do with Henry Cow being a real band, than just a super-genius helped by excellent musicians that were still under his dominant presence. But yeah, HC took the Zappa/Soft Machine paradigm to another level of refinement: that first side of Unrest is a complete template of musical perfection, and the Greaves/Cultler tandem fills the rhythmic spaces in an unprecedented manner in rock music.
Great comments guys!
Not Canterbury nor RIO ( not musically ) I listened a lot to the new Peter Blegvad record ( with Karen Mantler, John Greaves , Chris Cutler and Bob Drake) absolutely delicious , the missink link between Shakespeare and R&B. I am looking forward to see them in april in concert in Lyon, for me the RIO festival opening night.
When is that concert in Lyon?
Ian
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