Sir Richard Bishop: C or D?

he is a dealer of esoteric literature.

http://shop.ebay.com.au/merchant/esotericbooks_W0QQ_nkwZQQ_armrsZ1QQ_fromZ

this is him right?

Who is ruling out all conspiracies? I'd say if you believe in the existence of more than oh let's say three conspiracies you are probably a nut.

Spoken like a true single-bullet man.

Spoken like a true the Rockefeller's are behind it all man.

this guy can believe whatever wacky shit as long as he plays a mean guitar IMO

The fact that Bishop is a nut does nothing to detract from my enjoyment of his music.

― Alex in SF, Tuesday, April 28, 2009 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

The fact that Alex in SF quotes himself does nothing to detract from my enjoyment of his posts.

lol

I'm going to get the Rockefeller-Bolshie-Kremlin triumverate on all your asses now.

so meh, the more pertinent question in my mind is WHAT THE FUCK was up with that exclusive Earth/SRB split LP that you could get if you lived in Lancashire or some shit like that. That is so stupid, and uncool to the "Base" here in the states.

that was for their Euro tour, i got one. I dont live in Lancashire

Sun City Girl in limited availability SHOCKER

that split is find-able on the net, if you just want to hear it ... it is awesome, but that is fairly obvious!

Sooo, does anyone know anything about the musicians backing Bishop on the new LP? The playing throughout is great stuff, and I don't recognize any of the names (lol i'm white btw.)

don't have the record yet but i saw him live last night and his backing band were the members of the oakland group oaxacan and i thought they were fucking great. plus they performed a number off of grotto of miracles. holy shit! amazing.

^^^ this

Oh cool he's playing the Bottom of the Hill in July. I couldn't make it out to Oakland.

I played the new album yesterday and was kind of put off it by the number of people that came up and asked if it was The Shadows...!

:-(

At least they know who the Shadows are...? Don't you like surf?!

Also, it doesn't look like the Oaxacan dudes are the dudes who play on the record, unless the record dudes are playing under pseudonyms.

great last night! and oaxacan were cool too. great to see them in such a small place too. one jam reminded me of a saharan surf version of a robin trower song or something. with all the twang in the air i was kinda hoping he would do a number by his old labelmates JFA.

if you are in boston you should go tonight.

dude from oaxacan stopped by my store during the day and he was a little worried that people wouldn't show up, but there was a good crowd. not PACKED, but respectable for a tuesday night in turner's falls massachusetts.

sad i missed this.

scott is your store open?

yup. open for 3+ weeks. next to tofu a go go on main street in greenfield. noon to 7 every day except sunday.

cool! what's it called?

Also, it doesn't look like the Oaxacan dudes are the dudes who play on the record, unless the record dudes are playing under pseudonyms.

― ian, Sunday, May 24, 2009 4:57 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I think they are pseudonyms, cause the only guitarist listed is Rasheed Al-Qahira who I assume is SRB.

"cool! what's it called?"

john doe jr.

(we are still waiting for our cool new sign to go over our door. should be ready by friday.)

oh, and my brother's store is called john doe. which is why i called mine john doe jr. cuz i'm the younger brother.

good to hear the report i'm going to see this tour in mpls.

freak of araby is a great too...total weirdo ventures-gone-world music vibes

urgh, wish he was coming through my city. loving this new album.

he plays here (Eugene OR) July 2nd. so psyched. picked up the Freak LP 2 days ago but I keep just listening to my bad MP3s, gonna have to break it out today.

listened to this today. soooooooooooooooooo prog. space bass prog, even.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TPGvgtLrAHs/SYdZMvYfJXI/AAAAAAAADHg/BJNfddUFZH4/s320/61tzRiOpiaL._SS500_.jpg

oops! wrong thread.

although an alphonso johnson/richard bishop jam would be pretty cool. they could do dark star together.

I played the new album yesterday and was kind of put off it by the number of people that came up and asked if it was The Shadows...!

:-(

― krakow, Sunday, 24 May 2009 09:23 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

At least they know who the Shadows are...? Don't you like surf?!

Also, it doesn't look like the Oaxacan dudes are the dudes who play on the record, unless the record dudes are playing under pseudonyms.

― ian, Sunday, 24 May 2009 20:57 (3 weeks ago)

Heh, I would have been asking if this was the new Richard Bishop and not known who the Shadows were.

Oh i c, they're British.

going to see him saturday nite! so excited : )

tonight, should be good

saw the show with oaxacan at the music gallery.
i was expecting mystical improv madness, so i had to readjust for the surflike stylings of his freak of araby material.
really liked what the oaxacan drummer was doing during their opening set.

Saw them on teh 3rd. Oaxacan were great (I bought both their CD-Rs.) Bishop was good but seemed slightly tired (he actually remarked on this a couple of times). . . for some reason I was expecting more jokes. One of the stranger audiences I've seen in recent memory too.

the show i went to was great!

yeah he was great in Eugene on the 2nd. Played "Sidi Mansour" in like triple time with a raging extended solo. I was thinking this lineup is kind of a dream gig for that particular kind of Sun City Girls fan who never really liked much other than Torch Of The Mystics. They also did "Wild World Of Animals" as an encore, that was slow and sad and sweet.

best garage sale ever? http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2009/08/21/sir-richard-bishop-is-having-a-garage-sale

Wished I lived in Seattle.

daaaaaamn

I will stop by tomorrow and check it out

will you buy a guitar 4 me? also some erotica

request noted

Wow! I can hardly bear to imagine what goodies he might be selling. His record collection is going to be something special.

yeah no kidding -- sort of curious why he's going the garage sale route? has he never heard of ebay?

going to richard bishops garage sale sounds like much more fun than ebay

"If you want the music to stop, just buy the guitars." lol

LOL

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Listening to new fantastic Sir Richard Bishop LP and just remembered the the time we were on tour and Rick said to me: “you and Yngwie are all about scales. I don’t do scales. Scales are for snakes”

Yes!

New album is good, the song title "Rhythm Methodist" is even better.

Sir Richard Bishop 2026 Tour Dates

June 11 - Arcata, CA @ The Miniplex
June 12 - Point Reyes Station, CA @ Dance Palace
June 13 - San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill (w/ Neil Hamburger)
June 14 - Orangevale, CA @ Faulkner House
June 15 - Los Angeles, CA @ Zebulon
June 17 - San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar
June 19 - Tucson, AZ @ Solar Culture
June 20 - Corrales, NM @ Historic Old San Ysidro Church
June 22 - Denver, CO @ Hi Dive
June 23 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
June 24 - Boise, ID @ Shrine Social Club Basement
June 25 - Bellingham, WA @ The Shakedown
June 26 - Seattle, WA @ Black Lodge
July 9 - Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios (w/ Liam Grant & William DeLee)
August 20–23 - Wales, UK @ Green Man Festival (Brecon Beacons National Park)
September 6 - Chicago, IL @ Judson & Moore (Sound & Gravity Festival)