I just listened to that track again. Yes, at the beginning FZ says "you ready?" to Jeff on the phone while at the same time you can faintly hear FZ-on-tape in the right channel counting in the Mothers.
I just listened to that track again. Yes, at the beginning FZ says "you ready?" to Jeff on the phone while at the same time you can faintly hear FZ-on-tape in the right channel counting in the Mothers.
Jeff Cotton has a solo album coming out. Here's a track:
I want to dynamite your mind with love tonight.
A surprising comeback after almost 50 years of silence. Let's hope it is good. The guy was, and probably still is, a great guitarist.Originally Posted by polmico
That track was super cool.
The guitar work is excellent. If the album focuses on that, I’m in.
Anyone else think Cotton looks like Hawkwind’s Dave Brock?
I want to dynamite your mind with love tonight.
For a guy who's been rumoured dead a few times, yes - surely neat.
While his work with Beefheart was certainly a major race of fantastic guitarism, groundbreaking in both applied technique and diversity, I keep coming back to that debut MU record from '71.
Cotton's sparkling tone and picking is -so- decisive to the whole in all of its zany peculiarities, conjuring an unheard world of faux roots-rock completely lacking in presedence of absolute style. There's a glimpse of folky surf or even cajun, blues as from the Captain's shoes, intricate harmonies and odd arrangements obviously indebted to post-psychedelic karma here - but it really must be heard. An example of fairly "difficult" rock music crafted into something apparently simple and direct.
"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
Bongo Fury.
We're trying to build a monument to show that we were here
It won't be visible through the air
And there won't be any shade to cool the monument to prove that we were here. - Gene Parsons, 1973
Fucking great. Thanks for sharing.
I want to dynamite your mind with love tonight.
True?
No, not true.
I don't have the reference to the Beefheart biography, but the real story was that Beefheart never replied to Bono's letter, but was heard to comment to friends "who is this Bongo person anyway?"
You have not heard anything like Vostok Lake, nor do you know anyone who has.
He looks like the guy with the cardboard sign at the end of the freeway exit ramp.
Jeff Cotton discusses the new album and takes some Trout Mask questions. https://www.guitarworld.com/features...asy-of-reality
This is pretty good.
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