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Re: guitarists...ha
by kris visser 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

i cant believe noone mentioned keiji haino. is he forgotten now? _________________________________________________________________ MSN Zoeken, voor duidelijke zoekresultaten! http://search.msn.nl

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reading, guitarists
by mwisckol＠ocregister.com 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

The Forest People -- Colin Turnbull. One of the most delightful books I've ever read, return to it every few years for soul nourishment. Anthropologist manages to to befriend wary pygmies and lives with them for months, seeing behind the veil of obscurity into their touching, playful nomadic lives. Great little story in there about a magic trumpet. The Oblivion Seekers -- Isabelle Eberhardt. Got hipped to this by Zeena Parkins "Isabelle" (which, in turn, I bought at the e-yard sale of somebody on this list). Easy to see why Paul Bowles was so attracted to her writing -- similar bag and setting. Adventurer! Desperate Voyage -- John Cromwell. Page turner, first-person account of a guy whose first outing in a sail boat was a trip from Panama to Australia in a 19 footer. Funny and harrowing both. Where We Once Belonged -- Sia Figiel. A charming coming of age story about a girl in a typical Samoan village. Very insightful into this unique culture, and the perfect book to be reading as I landed on Samoan shores. The Portable Promised Land -- Toure. Short stories, stylized and cute, from the hood, somewhere between Amira Baraka and Tom Robbins. Fun read. Blue Note Records -- Richard Cook. Any jazz junkie will probably make it easily through this volume about various sessions and the general history of Lion and Wolff. But I agree with whoever (Lundvell?) said it is wanting for more anecdotes. Guitarists: The king of electric guitar is Jimi. Period. Two other favorites I haven't seen mentioned are Egberto Gismonti and Charlie Hunter, the former falling in inactivity, the later having fully arrived in his unifiying bass and guitar into a single instrument. Quite different proponents of added-strings guitars. Honorable mention to Skip Heller, who I've yet to hear live but whose new live "Battle in Seattle" is an often manic stream-of-consciousness flow of his diverse stylistic interests (Beatles, R&B, rockabilly, jazz) into a swinging organ trio. Recommended! Martin

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Sam Phillips
by Tosh 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

I woke up this morning hearing the sad news of Sam Phillips' death. As some of you know on this list - I sort of just got started on hearing the Sun stuff. As of now I have heard almost everything - except for the black artists and I believe there is also a collection out there focusing on Women artists on Sun. It's fascinating that Sun Records was basically a small operation - and yet they produced such a powerful sound and how it affected pop culture. -- Tosh Berman TamTam Books http://www.tamtambooks.com

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RE: guitarists...ha
by Mark Saleski 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

CC DeVille Richie Sambora Mick Mars Nuno Bettencourt .... ok...i'm just feeling a little silly today. -- Mark Saleski - marks(a)foliage.com | http://www.foliage.com/~marks "Nothing in the world is more haughty than a man of moderate capacity when once raised to power." - Baron Wessenberg

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new sound clips on screwgunrecords.com
by jason tors 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

hi all, there are some new clips from the live science friction album up on screwgunrecords.com http://www.screwgunrecords.com/sound.php?pageid=sound scroll for some additional marc ducret clips jason __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

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Re: Guitarists...ha
by Perfect Sound Forever 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

Let's see... Chuck Berry, Arto Lindsay, Robert Fripp, Billy Zoom (X), Duane Allman, Sonny Sharrock, James Burton (Elvis/Jerry Lee), Phil Manzanera, Tony Chin (session man on hundreds of reggae records), Manuel GÃ¶ttsching (Ash Ra Tempel), Derek Bailey, Robert Quine, Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd (Television), Keith Levene (Public Image Ltd), Django Reinhardt, Charlie Christian, Les Paul, Hubert Sumlin (Howlin' Wolf band), Buddy Guy (solo and in Muddy Waters' band), John McLaughlin, Fred Frith, Pete Cosey (Miles), Mike Bloomfield (Dylan/Butterfield etc), Jerry Garcia, Peter Green (early Fleetwood Mac), Henry Kaiser, Michael Rother (Neu!), John Fahey, Loren Mazzacane Connors, Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), Adrian Belew, Johnny Winter, Bob Mould (Husker Du), Greg Ginn (Black Flag), Clarence White (Byrds), Lowman Pauling (Five Royales), Lou Reed, Dick Dale, Steve Howe (Yes), Richard Thompson, Kevin Drumm, Buck Dharma (BOC), Mick Jones (The Clash), J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr), Fred 'Sonic' Smith and Wayne Kramer (MC5), Johnny Thunders, Mick Ronson (Bowie), Peter Buck (R.E.M.), Bernie Nix (Ornette), Eddie Hazel and Michael Hampton (Funkadelic), Vernon Reid, Bruce Anderson (MX-80), Bill Harkleroad (aka Zoot Horn Rollo, the Magic Band), Ira Kaplan (Yo La Tengo) and others I can't remember right now! I would definitely nominate Johnny Ramone too- technically, the guy was no whiz but his style had a hell of an influence (ditto Angus Young, Tommy Iommi and Steve Jones). That Jimi guy was pretty rad too! ;-) Best, Jason -- Perfect Sound Forever online music magazine with warped perspectives http://www.perfectsoundforever.com

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Re: guitarists...ha
by Samerivertwice＠aol.com 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

Frank Zappa Robert Johnson Ledbelly Blind Blake Richard Thompson Brian May Jeff Beck Eddie Van Halen Steve Vai Stevie Ray Vaughan Marc Ribot Wes Montgomery Al Dimeola John McGlaughlin Bill Frisell BB King Albert King Alvin Lee Jimi Hendrix John Frusciante Vernon Reid Chris Haskett Thurston Moore Chuck Berry James Burton Jerry Garcia Warren Cuccurillo (sp?) Grant Green Gary Moore That's all I can think of at the moment. tom ______________________________________________________ Discs I'm listening to at work: Die Like A Dog Quartet -- Aoyama Crows Steve Earle and the Del McCoury Band -- The Mountain Bill Evans -- The Complete Riverside Recordings

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Re:summer reading list
by Ben Axelrad 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

White's really rips into Terry Gross in his essay, "The Middle Mind" (surely to be reprinted in his forthcoming book of the same name). It can be found online here: http://www.centerforbookculture.org/context/no9/white.html. He describes the "middle mind" as the midpoint between the radical right and intellectual/academic left in the culture wars, but minus the political and intellectual engagement. White sees Gross' "Fresh Air" as the perfect embodiment of the "middle mind" -- the interviews with writers (apparently the show makes no distinction between serious authors and tv writers) and artists never get into serious discussions of the artworks. "It's like Dr. Laura for people with bachelor degrees. Car Talk has more intellectual content." Funny article, but leaves a bitter aftertaste. >From: Herb Levy <herb(a)eskimo.com> >To: zorn-list(a)mailman.xmission.com >Subject: Re:summer reading list >Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 08:21:14 -0500 > > >"Ben Axelrad" <soulfrieda(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >>Curtis White "Requiem". Quite enjoyable, despite the pretentious >>description on the back. Fragmented stories about famous composers, an >>English prof surfing the net for porn, a "prophet" inteviewing murderers >>and >>madmen, bestiality, but the most exploitative parts are the potshots at >>NPR >>and Terry Gross. > >Ben, could you please write more about what he's up to re: NPR & Terri >Gross? _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

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non-narrative texts
by Herb Levy 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

"Benito Vergara" <bvergara(a)sfsu.edu> wrote: >> Yeah, I'd recommend that book to any one on the Zorn list for whom >> the concept of a "non-narrative text" isn't a turn-off. > >So who else would you recommend, along the same lines? Well, there's a lot of ways to go there. Just thinking of North American poets (to get around issues of translation and how that works & doesn't work for non-narrative works), enough different strains of avant garde writing throughout the last hundred years have been functionally "non-narrative" that one could make a case for that being the normative mode of writing by poets. For example, I have a hard time reading most of what, say, Charles Olson or Allen Ginsberg or Jack Spicer wrote as being "narrative." Of course, Billy Collins still sells more books than most other living American poets, so go figure. But if you're looking specifically for things that may be similar to Lyn Hejinian's work, let me suggest a few writers and books: Bruce Andrews: especially I Don't Have Any Paper So Shut Up (or, Social Romanticism); and maybe Lip Service. This first of these is particularly disjunctive on the level of phrase and/or sentence. Rae Armantrout: She doesn't have any long sustained works, but Veil is a recently published volume of collected poems that I think is quite good. Clark Coolidge: ROVA Improvisations; Own Face; Quartz Hearts; The ROVA book has been mentioned - because it includes the second section of re-writes of the first section's more direct responses to the music, it provides some useful insights into some of Coolidge's processes. The other two books are earlier collections of short pieces. Rachel Blau DuPlessis: Drafts 1-38 Again, a book that includes works that fold back onto earlier pieces in the series. For me the process is still rather oblique, but I've enjoyed reading much of this sequence as it's been developing. Barbara Guest: any of the poetry Leslie Scalapino: most anything Ron Silliman: most anything Some writers living in and around Vancouver BC may also be of interest: Deanna Ferguson, Lisa Robertson (especially Debbie: An Epic), Catriona Strang, Dorothy Trujillo Lusk, Lissa Wolsak. If you're in the Bay area (sfsu.edu IS San Francisco State, right?) a lot of these things will be available in some libraries cause the Bay area was a focal point for and is home to many writers working in this vein. & there's probably at least one writer in the SFSU English Dept who could point you in other related directions. &, since this just showed up in the zorn digest: "Benito Vergara" <bvergara(a)sfsu.edu> wrote: > >I missed everything below the quoted sections... > >> In a very different mode, Ron Silliman's Sunset Debris > >And interested readers can download it here: >http://www.ubu.com/ubu/silliman_sunset.html > Let me point out that in general <http://www.ubu.com/ubu/index.html> has several texts that'd probably be of interest. & for anyone still reading this far who has an interest in avant garde writing more generally, the UBU Web <http://www.ubu.com/> is an amazing archive of sound poetry recordings, digital reproductions of visual/concrete poetry, and much more. -- Herb Levy P O Box 9369 Fort Worth, TX 76147 herb(a)eskimo.com

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RE:guitarists...ha
by Maurizio Suppo 31 Jul '03

31 Jul '03

-BUCKETHEAD(the best!) -TREY SPRUANCE -VERNON REID -JOHN MCLAUGHLIN -JASON SCHIMMEL(estradasphere guitarist) -THE GREAT KAT(yessss!!!!) -AGATA(melt banana guitar player) -TREY AGAZTOTH -NATSUKI KIDO (bondage fruit,korekiojin with tatsuya yoshida of ruins, unbelievable album!) -ALLAN HOLDSWORTH -AMMOTT BROTHERS(both now in arch enemy .before mike was the carcass soloist) -PAT METHENEY -FRANK ZAPPA -EDDIE VAN HALEN (david lee roth period) -SHAWN LANE(a monster player!) -BILL FRISELL(until 1995) -JIMI HENDRIX(of course!) -JEFF BECK -JEFF LOOMIS(nevermore soloist) all genres... fuck barriers!!!

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