SR VII: It's extreme male brooding!

I would disagree with that because Fred Frith is f**king awesome, and I've never heard anything from him that was officially published from him that was bad. But I'm sure he has off nights when the camera isn't running. But I'd be happy to judge a specific video you take issue with.

I just can't take some of his prepared guitar work. Some of it is brilliant, but I just get bored with it sometimes. Maybe my taste has changed since I watched the videos.I'll try to find a good example, but right now I can't find one because I like everything that I look at.

From what I have heard, all the stuff he did with Evelyn Glennie is wonderful.

Edited by A Person - November 15 2009 at 01:23

That was a good performance, too bad the rest of the movie was boring.

Henry Plainview wrote: Evolutionary_Sleeper wrote: laplace wrote: oh interesting. i tend to have problems with free jazz but if you say you like it despite that... If you outright don't like free jazz at all you might not want to get it. Unless you're feeling adventurous. However, if there was an album to change your mind about the genre...this may be it. Oh shoot, I had completely forgotten about that, I really need to get that. I don't have any of his albums yet, but I was listening to him on Ruckus and Wadada is amazing. Free jazz is possibly the best genre ever. <3   Sleeper, you should listen to Okkyung Lee's album, it's pretty great. Of course, I'm a little biased because I saw her live at The Stone, but it has some incredible free cello. I wish she hadn't given two of the tracks over to Ikue Mori though, I wasn't expecting the album to be so atmospheric. While this type of playing is only a small part of the album, if you like this I think you'll like the whole album.

Yea, Spiritual Dimensions is incredible. Definitely a must-have IMO.

Interesting sample there, I'll definitely have to check out some more of her stuff tomorrow. Thanks for Rec.
But for now I am off to bed, goodnight everyone!

Henry Plainview wrote: progkidjoel wrote: Henry, have you seen Life Is Beautiful, the film? I think everybody has seen that movie. It was suitably depressing, although I watched it a long time ago.

My teacher for Prejudice (my current english unit at school) said its brilliant, but (I'm only 40 minutes in, but) I don't get what's good about it so far. Just a crazy Italian guy.

May I ask why you can't lift more than fifteen pounds?

So I just listened to Naked City for the first time.

I actually liked it, a bit insane, and a bit loud, but overall fun and enjoyable.

birdwithteeth11 wrote: progkidjoel wrote: May I ask why you can't lift more than fifteen pounds? An employee injured themselves carrying something that weighed 16 pounds and they sued.

Edited by Henry Plainview - November 15 2009 at 16:25

It's not easy in the sense that writing music is not easy, but I can only get the impression from Mr Bungle that they threw darts to pick which genres to transition to, and then didn't try to innovate anything within those genres because just playing them next to each other is apparently innovative enough. I still like California as a pop album, but I don't think it's prog. Naked City s/t had the same problem, although it was better than Mr Bungle because John Zorn is awesome. I need to listen to some of their other albums before I judge the whole project, but I don't want to buy the huge ass box set, especially when it's probably going to be filled with more disgusting pictures. I love Painkiller musically, but I downloaded their albums from Amazon for that very reason--I do not want a f**king torture picture in my house what the hell is wrong with you John?