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

So I got the Glenn Jones and Chris Forsyth RSD records. Also picked up Marisa Anderson - The Golden Hour because it was $9? Thanks thread!

Couldn't find Solar Motel
Glenn Jones thing is great wish it were twice as long

Chris Forsyth in stock here: http://www.bullmoose.com/c/12066/record-store-day-2014/0

Glenn Jones too for those of you that didn't bother.

Snagging that Forsyth one

It's great!

ah thanks for the tip re: the forsyth! got the digital, but the LP looks so good. nice cover reference:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rn2XF1fc1gc/UDOZQf2HhoI/AAAAAAAAAWI/HLPhBXeAOV4/s1600/Little_Feat_-_Electrif_Lycanthrope-front+600x600.jpg

any of y'all get this?
http://lightintheattic.net/releases/1057-playing-guitar-the-easy-way
http://lightintheattic.net/system/release_images/0001/3161/playing-guitar-the-easy-way_thumb_325.jpg?1390517980

Following on the heels of LITA’s previous Chapman reissues comes an ultra-rarity, 1978’s Playing Guitar The Easy Way – an instructional record (complete with a 20 page booklet of notation) making its CD debut and reissued on vinyl for the first time ever! For guitar geeks, it’s one of the first instructional methods to deal with open tunings like DADGAD. For Chapman fans, it’s merely a gas to listen to!

Released with the direct involvement of Michael – who supplied the original master tape as well as some new liner notes – he still stands by this record as he told Thurston Moore during a recent interview for the Fretboard Journal:

“I still think it was a good idea. [But] it wasn’t meant to be for people starting the guitar; it was for people who had maybe got bogged down a bit and then maybe wanted to write some songs, and here comes an interesting way to find some new chords, which is what I did, you know, I just went.”

Now just about everyone can try Playing Guitar The Easy Way!

wow yeah that's an awesome idea

yeah i wanna get it. seems like a CD will be more readily available?

http://www.michaelchapman.co.uk/albums/play-guitar/

i will say that after having played almost exclusively in open tunings for about 2 years that standard tuning can basically s my d
i enjoy it so much more on every level

yeah i've been fiddling around with that chasny tuning (or some variation thereof). it definitely makes me excited to play guitar!

Leaving standard tuning 15 years ago changed my whole relationship to playing completely, it was completely liberating.

Just got back from a short trip to Asheville, N.C. Got a cheapish copy of the 2011 RSD split between Glenn Jones & Black Twigs/Charlie Parr. Haven't had a chance to listen to it yet but am pretty psyched for it. Still contemplating the current records, especially the Jones live, but shouldn't spend more cash on records right now.

new william tyler recording up on nyc taper: http://www.nyctaper.com/2014/04/william-tyler-april-16-2014-union-pool-flacmp3streaming/
the new tune they have streaming is gorgeous.

Yeah that W. Tyler song is really pretty, thanks for sharing. Hope to get to see this guy live with the full band, cause I don't get to see pedal steel enough and they are sounding really great together on this track.

Heard something very nice on WFMU this morning, "Division/Separation" by Suborno. Turns out the album (The Instrument) is on Spotify. Acoustic guitar, spacy/psych elements.

http://open.spotify.com/album/1vNsKFc7Sr8clWrF4icIYb

Standard tuning bores me pretty quickly but I wrote at least a couple guitar lines in standard I'm proud of and that remain fun to play.

My patented D G D Gb B E tuning has stayed fresh for something like 2 years now? I've been hooked on it. Just wrote a new tune with it that has a hint of Yellow Princess style flair to it?

If I could play like Mance Lipscomb does in standard tuning, I'd be one happy person. You can still carry quite the punch with standard tuning when you play with a dead thumb like his:

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

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmPgKsklczM

I can never do this right

Heard something very nice on WFMU this morning, "Division/Separation" by Suborno. Turns out the album (The Instrument) is on Spotify. Acoustic guitar, spacy/psych elements.

http://open.spotify.com/album/1vNsKFc7Sr8clWrF4icIYb

I know Ash! Tremendous fellow. Unfortunately, he's pretty much decided not to make any more music, which is madness, but there we are. He's made some great short films recently: http://www.ferventarts.co.uk/

Enjoying that Mance Lipscomb Neal, and to be honest I have come around to standard a bit due to access to a 12-string (which I am not allowed to tune out of standard too often cause my wife plays it in standard and hates tuning it back). I love watching players like Mance though, looks so effortless for him and yet it is detail-rich playing.

Neal: try "http:" instead of "https:" when posting videos, it should embed then.

just got an email from tompkins square - "James Blackshaw returns to Tompkins Square with a new album, Fantômas : Le Faux Magistrat, available worldwide July 8th." Guess it is a score to the Louis Feuillade film.

people forget how good standard tuning is, it's like air or the english language

I tell you, playing a 12-string in standard tuning does way more for me than on a 6-string, but yeah it has got me back in-line with standard tuning for the first time in a long time, but really only messing around at home.

James Blackshaw returns to Tompkins Square with a new album, Fantômas : Le Faux Magistrat, available worldwide July 8th. In celebration of the centenary of Louis Feuillade's Fantômas silent film series, Blackshaw was invited to perform a live score to the fifth and final film, Le Faux Magistrat, within the beautiful and prestigious surroundings of the Théâtre de Châtelet, Paris on October 31st 2013. Features Duane Pitre and Simon Scott (Slowdive). Explore five other Blackshaw titles in our Catalog.

Ryley Walker is on tour with Cloud Nothings and then off to Europe for festivals such as Lunar, Roskilde, Gagnef and more. His debut album, All Kinds Of You, has received wide praise from the likes of NPR, UNCUT, Washington Post, and from actual people. Ryley will be featured on NPR's World Cafe next month. http://www.self-titledmag.com/2014/04/08/stream-ryley-walkers-all-kinds-of-you-album-and-read-his-commentary/
BUY the LP/CD.

We reissued a Dillard Chandler LP for Record Store Day. The North Carolina folksinger recorded two sessions for John Cohen in 1963 and 1968, resulting in the super rare 1975 Smithsonian Folkways LP, The End Of An Old Song. Our LP quickly sold out, but we have one box left for our mailing list friends at the earthy price of $25 US, $40 x-US. Simply paypal us at : orders at tompkins square dot com. First come, first served.

We have released six new digital titles by Suni McGrath, Bern Nix, Terry Waldo, Harry Taussig, Cajun pioneers, and a Max Ochs tribute album. These are now available via every digital service worldwide. Learn more.http://www.tompkinssquare.com/archives/468

Lol was gonna post about how mournful and meditative the new Glenn Jones is but just realized it's a 45 I've been listening to at 33

Hah hah. I imagine you wondered what tuning he was playing in too. Some serious down-tuning ....

It's actually pretty cool! I recommend trying it

Glenn Jones - Rejected Wherever I Go

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I used to do this all the time, especially when I did a late-night radio show. Solo guitar records I imagine work really well with it, I should totally try it.

Wrote about William Tyler and Steve Gunn's rock music.

good stuff, edd! would love to see that show...

the second song on the first side of this live solar motel rsd release is so good that it made my heart race
just the right combo of heavy and intuitive/pretty
loooove the whole thing, so glad i bought it and also saw the show when it was the middle of winter and getting out was a bit of a challenge
also so glad there are no words in these songs

it's out!! (??)

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1613745192/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_sce

my friend tony gave me a copy of this today and man oh man is it good. very lysergic acoustic stuff. love it. on the vin du select qualitite label.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/t1.0-9/10152421_10153014878552137_3055943062060902905_n.jpg

i want everything they still have in stock, but i have spent so much money on records lately, i just can't do it. and it is a total blink and you missed it label. snooze/lose situation.

http://www.vdsqrecords.com/

Damn. Tempted to buy just about everything they've got on there... never heard of this label, super cool aesthetic and curation, it seems...

yeah it's a cool label & was particularly interested in hearing the mark mcguire but there's no way I can justify spending $35 to get an album sent to me in 2014

I think I mentioned this upthread, but if you guys don't know already, the guy who runs VDSQ is the same guy that wrote the Fahey book that Global Tetrahedron just posted a link to (and has been discussed here).

Those VDSQ records look cool as hell for the most part but like Ogmor I am not in a position to buy any of them right now, nor the Solar Motel Band live record, though I am mostly fine with the bootlegs I have of that band so far (La Lechera, I am right on board with you in the ways that that band delivers).

so excited, my copy of the bio just shipped! I thought it didn't come out until June for some reason

cool i gotta order that book.

nice seeing you at Loop global!

wrote a new song i'm pretty pleased with, feel like the overall structure is really sound...was trying to write something like james blackshaw but then i think i've been thinking about slint a lot lately because the thread has been revived and listening to spiderland and it kind of occured to me how there's a lot in how i approach my playing from bands like that, that stuff got so into my DNA, even moreso than fahey and stuff like that....title swiped from "i am a cinematographer" by palace/oldham

https://soundcloud.com/matthew-lee-helgeson/you-could-walk-away-from-louisville-alone

totally! bummed they blew out their amp, the show just kept getting better and better. oh well, i had a great time.

the bio is great so far, don't wanna 'ruin' too much of the book for anyone but favorite little nugget so far is that Fahey called New Age music 'hot tub music' which cracked me up. getting to his 80s era right now, feel like that's the most under-covered aspect of his career. sort of morbidly fascinating. he could do some crazy shit.

good song, i like the chord voicings that come in around 2:00

Yeah UMS, cool song. I agree with global about the bit around minute 2, and that whole passage through to the turnaround at 3:08-3:14. I really like that turnaround/transition, and appreciate that you just hit it and move on, as I tend to drive those things into the ground and stretch them out for minutes and minutes.

thanks guys (global: it sucked they blew that amp because my friends had seen them the night before and apparently a 15 min version of Can's "Mother Sky" was coming!!)

yeah sometimes i don't know how long to make stuff....i've sort of accepted that i'm not very good at being real psychedelic or improvisational so i guess i'm just gonna try to write songs w/good melodies and see how it goes

a producer in mpls that recorded my own bands always had this idea that the second verse and chorus of each song should be shorter than the first time because ppl had already heard it which always stuck in my head...but sometimes i don't know if i should get more mileage out of a good part

sounds good ums