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

^relevant

Perfectly relevant, actually.

The Arnold Dreyblatt / Megafaun collaboration that's just come out on Northern Spy seems like something that'd appeal to the weirdos on this thread. Strange and amazing avant banjo music:

https://soundcloud.com/northernspyrecs/01-home-hat-placement

― i'll be your mraz (NickB), Thursday, September 19, 2013 6:30 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

i like this! some of the things i've been practicing have been military/march sounding like this, totally down with the plodding tempo!

Hooray! :) Rest of the album is a lot more droney tbh, whole thing ends up as a sort of cross between Pelt and TFUL282

oh that's good -- i was hoping for more drone. it reminds me of this time we went camping and the owner of the campsite liked to wake people up by practicing his bagpipes. drone + fresh air, doesn't get better than that! i'll check it out.

Fuck it.
Been avoiding this for a year.
I'm gonna suck it up and learn how to use finger picks.
Hate having a set back but it does sound so much clearer and more defined. All these pro awesome dudes must use them for a reason

Just grow your nails James Blackshaw style:

http://www.losgrilloscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/James-Blackshaw-Lynda-Smith.jpg

I know people aren't big on Calexico here but that track really does mostly deliver

I want to hear twang and spacey mountain strings married to a steady meditative krautrock drumming (bass bass bass snare bass bass bass snare bass bass bass snare)

― Evan, Tuesday, September 17, 2013 2:00 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

pretty strikingly.

Anyway, full of mistakes, but here is another thing I recorded! I'm much sloppier when I know I'm recording so please look past that. Trying my best to not fuck up and it keeps happening anyway. This is basically a medley of a few of my more established melodies. It's also a little farther from thread relevance.

https://soundcloud.com/factual-1/medley

Yeah I hate recording nerves press record &sometimes it's like I forgot how to play

Just grow your nails James Blackshaw style
man, i can't imagine having nails like that

Yeah I see dudes like that in YouTube lessons and it grosses me out

yeah seems like a step in some deeply antisocial direction. still, blackshaw is pretty freaking amazing, so it must be worth it.

Partly I associate long nails men with kinda skeezy coke nail vibe which isn't really fair but I can't help it

it kinda grosses me out a little bit, but i'm not in the business of telling people what to do with their fingernails since i don't want them to tell me what to do with mine

William Tyler: really long nails. Seemingly an awesome guy, so creepiness not really a factoy. Still, I have an aversion and couldn't do it myself, but then again I am not playing fingerstyle all the time, just to mix it up. Picks feel weird to me to though, so good luck with that UMS. The good playes seem to to one or the other (nails/picks), though Chasny doesn't.

Wow. So many typos in one post. New record maybe. I am getting off the computer for a while, yikes. Point made I guess. "The good players seem to use one or the other" etc. Have a nice day everyone.

I think I got a lot better at speed/precision when I switched to fingerpicks. It took a few weeks to really get used to but overall worth it, I think. Once you get used to them you can always go back to bare fingers whenever you want, which I sometimes do, as I prefer the tone with bare fingers honestly. You might lose your calluses. And yes W. Tyler has weird long nails.

Yeah I don't have any good reason to dislike the long nails. But yeah practiced today and went OK. Just starting over with a Half Leonard instruction book to ramp up.

Man playing in standard tuning suuucks feels so awkward now

The Arnold Dreyblatt / Megafaun collaboration that's just come out on Northern Spy seems like something that'd appeal to the weirdos on this thread. Strange and amazing avant banjo music:

https://soundcloud.com/northernspyrecs/01-home-hat-placement

― i'll be your mraz (NickB), Thursday, September 19, 2013 6:30 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

This album is great. Thanks for this! Is Megafaun any good? I've shied away because they seem to be tangentially related to Bon Iver. BUT between this and Phil Cook's pretty killer solo guitar LP, maybe I should check them out.

I really like Megafaun a lot, but I'm also the guy here who won't shut up about Calexico (periodically).

They were great live by the way. They like to experiment, and I think they mix that pretty well with their more straightforward pretty stuff.

hey do any of you (guitar players) take requests? don't feel like you have to answer that right away...just think about it.

...what sort of requests?

Guitar playing requests (nothing untoward!)

what sort of guitar playing are you looking to request?

Freebird!

ok... i'm playing freebird. wow i'm really on fire tonight, hitting all the notes.

i can play a good array of open tuning/fahey kinda standards, i dunno if you're looking for something specific but i'd be happy to give it a go. feel free to pm or email me

will do!
i'll explain elsewhere, this probably isn't the place for requests anyway

I take requests
Whether I have the ability to fulfill them is another question

coupla things relevant to this thread to listen to, all very good
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Cian_Nugent/Live_on_WFMUs_The_Long_Rally_with_Scott_McDowell_-Sep_17_2013
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/William_Tyler/Live_on_WFMUs_Shrunken_Planet_with_Jeffrey_Davison_-_May_11_2013
http://folkadelphia.bandcamp.com/album/don-bikoff-folkadelphia-session-6-15-2013

oh and this too!
http://www.nyctaper.com/2013/09/daniel-bachman-september-6-2013-hopscotch-music-festival-long-view-center-raleigh-nc-flacmp3streaming/

Hah cool! FYI pretty sure my buddy just played a live "Marquee Moon" on his radio show that he pulled from a certain blog, or very likely did. It really cooked! 1978-07-02 Live in Portland.

that is the marquee moon you want to play. what's your buddy's radio show?

The Broadcasting System on WTJU. He is the other guy in my band Grand Banks btw, and biased opinions aside, his show is pretty damn great most of the time:

http://wtju.net/stream?s=pl

Unrelated request: if you see that Tom Carter set from the Hopscotch/Three Lobed day party posted anywhere before I do please share. That is something I want to dig back into in a big way.

yeahhhh, would love to hear that one again too. i was hoping some of those 3 lobed sets would pop up. someone more technically savvy must've grabbed the broadcast stream?

A buddy of mine started recording shows BECAUSE of encouragement from Cory Rayborn way back in the day, so I am pretty sure that recordings of all of those sets exist. The question is just whether or not they will surface as free sets or get officially released (my guess at least, if I played a set as good as Tom's I would consider releasing it). My friend corresponds with him still, so if anything comes through on my end I'll certainly let you know. I would think that someone probably grabbed the streams as well, so yeah, something should turn up. Can't believe that apparently no one recorded that C. Forsyth and Solar Motel Band as Television set.

ha, i know -- i think it's been one dude in Philly who's been recording those Forsyth shows, and he couldn't make it to that one. what a bastard!

Hah yeah, a missed opportunity for sure. Guess they will just have to play that set again ....

Man this Cian Nugent song/clip is lovely. I really enjoy his phrasing/timing and string bends on this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBZuKhPHKfg&app=desktop

the forthcoming album is pretty amazing

Yeah, looking forward to it! Wish I could have made that Three-Lobed Desert Heat set. Would have loved to see him stretch out on an electric with Steve Gunn.

Sorry reposting cause I'm needy. Though it's not great. Was lost in fingernail discussion. A few separate melodies laced together- still have trouble playing cleaning with record button pressed.

https://soundcloud.com/factual-1/medley

No worries Evan, that did get lost in the fingernail shuffle. It's good man, I especially like the first part/song. Some cool notes emphasized. You gotta find some like-minded folks up there and start a band, no reason this wouldn't fly far in the land of Hoboken.

yeah sounds very nice -- was going to ask if you saw this stuff as purely solo or with a band or what?

Thanks!

Yeah arrangements to jam/record with local people I know always disintegrate quickly- trying to keep up the enthusiasm. I need someone else to be as into the project as I am. So they can bug me about recording more/setting up sessions more often. Need some give and take.

Thank you, too!

Uhhh I see them as fleshed out with a band in my mind ultimately.

But I've been playing them for myself so often that I account for the bass parts right in my guitar arrangements. It doesn't really come out as much in these recordings though. Basically I try to emulate Kozelek song constructions in a way.

I can hear what you mean in re the bass parts, came across to me.

I also would think folks would be excited to jump on some of these progressions/parts, good launching points all over. A big reason I started imagining how to play stuff I liked solo was because of how hard it is to get a band rolling though. Good luck, hope you find the right combo/partner in crime at some point.