Revolt of the ILX Brigade: New Post-Fahey Folk For PPL that post in the Takoma & Tompkin's Square Threads

Hot damn, good luck man!

Thanks guys. I do solo electric stuff, some improv with some themes worked in as well, I try to mix it up. Always a work in progress, but trying to step it up a little. Opening for better folks definitely motivates one to practice!

Here's a soundcloud from a relatively recent live set opening for Chris Corsano (amazing dude/performer, but scary opening for that guy), for those inclined:

https://soundcloud.com/#davis-salisbury/dais-queue-live-09-10-2012

I live in a small enough town where I get asked to open for a lot of the out/weird/improv people that come through, as there aren't many people doing stuff that fits on the bill here.

Also, listening to that Paul Metzger WFMU session linked above, and track one is sounding great. Very cool so far, really into the bowing at the beginning (I assume that it's bowing ....)

your stuff sounds great, grandavis

Thanks Tyler, I appreciate it. Hope to hold it together tonight.

yeah cool stuff!

for whatever dumb reason i bought that joe bussard record store day 78 even though my cheap turntable has no 78 setting. anyone else pick it up?

Thanks UMS! Look forward to hearing more of your stuff, keep it coming.

maybe there should be a revolt of the ilx brigade compilation hmmm...

Well, that would get me to sort out my home recording setup perhaps, which is long overdue as it is.

yeahhh, i can see it now, maybe not necessarily fingerpicking, but just solo(ish) guitar instrumentals?

Makes sense, essentially stuff the thread has touched on would work. Global Tetrahedron's stuff spans a lot of it, it's really good! Definitely go listen to some of his stuff if you haven't yet. Gotta return to it myself, but I really liked it. UMS may be our resident purist, but maybe some others would pop out of the woodwork.

Haha, thanks! That's really nice/flattering. I took down the 'Jasmines' demo take I put up awhile back because I really wanna get a good take of that one. The stuff on the Bandcamp as it stands is a bit old, and culled from a lot of long takes of improv. I think my chops have improved since then along with my songwriting. I'd definitely chip in a tune or two if this came to fruition, that'd be fun!

where's the link to your stuff? think i missed it...

i'd be hip to doing this, would light a fire under my butt to figure out my recording situation beyond recording w/my phone

http://stevepalmer.bandcamp.com/

the 'open mic' one is exactly what it sounds like it's gonna be from the title, oil slick one is fahey tunes w/ peter lang cover (made it as an xmas gift for my parents), and the 'garfield ave' ones (in retrospect) are more or less documentations of my learning to play fingerstyle acoustic and do bedroom recording! the first is mostly acoustic improvy stuff, the 2nd is noisy drone stuff. totally flattered that anyone here gives a shit!

I am not good at guitar but I'm going to be getting my guitar back from home next time I visit (mid-May) so if utter incompetence isn't a barrier I'd like to be involved too.

yeah, i'm techincally incompetent too, but might be able to do something in this vein that could come out OK.
this stuff sounds great, global, sounds like you've got the style down.

Gonna try and record a bit this afternoon- my guitar is pretty nice, but my recording setup is quite meagre, just a Tascam 4-track with fairly crappy built-in mics. I have a single condenser mic, and not only is my pre-amp is trash, it means I can really only get a mono signal and it can sound pretty boring. ANYWAY, selling myself nice and short here, we'll see how it pans out.

cool! i was actually working out an electric version of sligo river blues to play w/ my band over the weekend. hopefully it'll be kind of cool and psychedelic but -- to sell myself short -- it'll probably sound like a lame indie rock band playing john fahey. get excited!

no way, that sounds awesome! hope we get to hear it. i gave that song a spin the other day, it's difficult to play it exactly like the recording, but where's the fun in that? found it much more entertaining to work out my own arrangement.

yeah i have no idea how to actually play it, i'm just kinda futzing around with it.

also think I might rip off the "crossfade from a crisp studio mic to a mic in an echoey corridor outside" trick if I can pull it off. good stuffs, that

I totally support bastardized versions and personl arrangements of songs, really rich territory there. Good luck with the recording/rehearsal both of you.

did another open mic last night.

felt like i played well. it's good to play in front of people even if they aren't paying attention.

however, the whole open mic thing is such a drag i don't know how much longer i can do these.

Oh, they're awful. I enjoy playing for people too but the whole "go to a bar and sit around and wait and buy drinks and stay up too late and endure several weak Tallest Man on Earth covers and have awkward people trying to 'network' with you and then try and cram in three songs in ten minutes" routine gets pretty damn rote. pfffff

i've only ever done one "open stage" kind of thing and it was with a band. can't imagine doing it solo! though i suppose it's good enough practice for just performing in a public setting.

oh and hey, many of you may have already heard these, but if not: Jack Rose - Peel Sessions, 2004 http://ow.ly/kBGbC

listening to disc 4 of the fahey fonotone box. i hope whoever gave fahey this motherfucking pan pipe or flute or whatever is in hell now.

lol @ the 'fall-se' start on those jack rose peel sessions

haha, yeah, pretty classic...
more from the bachman factory -- dude is prolific
http://24.media.tumblr.com/2c1ac751f428d93e0cf7dcbe8115e160/tumblr_mkvdi0qGQM1r8xa7zo1_500.jpg
http://broadcastsfrom.poorfarmeditionspress.com/#47377163306

though it looks like this is a big departure -
Really wild improv here from the duo of Daniel Bachman and Ian McColm. If you are familiar with Daniel’s solo work, you’d never be able to expect what’s to come on this tape here. This is some of my favorite recordings associated with his prolific output and surely shows the wide tonal range that is possible with just an acoustic guitar. Free jazz, experimentation, an avant garde ‘mess’ in the best possible way.

Ian is such a great performer that there’s plenty of times where there is no discernible difference between the drums and guitar, it’s hard to tell which sounds are coming from which instrument.

“Taman Shud”, meaning ‘ended’ or ‘finished’ in Farsi, is the name of an unsolved murder case of Australia circa 1948. The tracklisting seems to come from undecipherable ‘code’ associated with the case.

Ian is such a great performer that there’s plenty of times where there is no discernible difference between the drums and guitar, it’s hard to tell which sounds are coming from which instrument.

hmm this should be something

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http://www.npr.org/2013/05/05/180821229/first-listen-glenn-jones-my-garden-state?sc=tw&cc=twmp

Thank you! I've been very excited about this record.

got this nice guitar solo 78rpm last night -- riley puckett. weird.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulALiHO9VPc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21WP8dsr68U

the quality on that second one is incredible, resonance like a glass armonica. his playing is pretty strange, but I dig that second track a lot

the guy who sold me the record says it was his only bottleneck piece; i'm inclined to believe him. i've never heard another puckett guitar record like that; a lot of his stuff, especially early on, was mostly country in the loosest sense -- a lot of pop records. i wonder if there;s a full scale puckett bio available; i'd read it. i dunno who else would. i'd like to learn more about the skillet lickers days and their demise (mcmichen and stokes apparently hated riley puckett??).

That bottleneck piece does sound amazing, what a wild sound. I could listen to that shit all day, though would have trouble telling someone that I was listening to a song called "The Darky's Wail" perhaps.

yeah, that's one of the weird things abt collecting 78s; i've become accustomed to hearing and readings things that are totally NOT OKAY TO SAY OUT LOUD.

Yeah, I can imagine! A lot of art/music would be off limits if that was a barrier though, just gotta take the "sifting through history" approach. I mean, it is completely fascinating, as you well know. As stated, keep sharing this stuff, it's great.

yeah those puckett tunes are pretty cool. it *is* a weird sound he's getting on the second one -- wonder if (at least part of) its strangeness is a circumstance of the recording technology/condition of the 78 (rather than actual technique from puckett)?

listening to that youtube video now, i think there might be a bit of overzealous noise reduction going on. the 78 has a much sharper tone.

http://adhoc.fm/post/chuck-johnson-slow-passing-ghost-town/

Really pretty new song by Daniel Bachman and Ryley Walker (with a buddy on steel):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFNKcdSM-Ho&list=UUZOexysDEmbM7VU1Ux1FChw&index=1

More laid back than a lot of Daniel's stuff, more nuance and less steamrolling (though I like his steamrolling action as well). Guess Daniel and Ryley are working stuff up prior to going on tour in Europe.

That Chuck Johnson vid is pretty great. I like that Chuck does a lot with his fretting hand, a lot of cool little slides and pull-offs/hammer-ons.

nice, i would take a whole album of songs like that new bachman track.
and yeah the chuck johnson record is highly recommended, kind of darker/more intense than some of the other things of its ilk we've been discussing on this thread.

Yeah, Chuck taps into a different vibe for sure, baroque maybe isn't quite the word, but what I have heard does not seem as steeped in country blues/trad American Primitive styles for sure.

I imagine that Daniel is gonna mix things up over the years, judging by this and the other recent collab with Ian McColm, and yeah, I would love more of that kind of thing from him.

My Garden State will be a cherished record in my collection as soon as I can get it. Just sayin.