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

"It was pretty, and sounded perfectly cool, but I was hoping to maybe hear some guitar interplay amongst Gunn/Tyler/Kaplan and that was not the direction they went in for the most part."

Yeah, it was underwhelming for that reason for sure. When what three people have in common is being known for amazing guitar playing, and are put on stage together, resulting ambiguous/anonymous drone is a huge let down.

Just in that context, though.

Yeah context is key here. I am a fan of drone/improv/noise (and veer this way in my own playing often enough) but considering all of the directions this crew could have taken this one was a little lower on my list. Still cool they did it, and nice that they are helping Letha out with the download.

According to Nathan Bowles, Steve Gunn's touring band right now has a second guitarist along w/ Nathan on drums and a bass player I believe, so probably some nice cutting loose at those shows if anyone gets a chance to see them. Not sure who the second guitarist is though.

I really like some of Dylan Carlson's solo guitar music <iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/oagF0ZPhXkA?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

haha sorry didnt embed... http://youtu.be/oagF0ZPhXkA

I dig some of that D. Carlson solo stuff for sure. I am a fan of telecaster worship.

Also wanna say that I will be there in spirit for the big Global record release show with UMS tonight! Sure wish I could be there in person but hope it is great on all fronts. Try to get someone to record it!

yeah i want the bootleg for sure

me three!

i'm gonna try and record my set for sure, but probably the whole thing. stay tuned!

Make it happen man. Well, really, good luck and have fun!

not that this thread needs more good music for people to check out, but wow, this forthcoming nathan bowles record is sounding great.

Hah well, some of us are gonna have to wait to hear that one anyways, but glad to hear that it is sounding good. Recorded at Black Dirt again, which seems to pump out nothing buy good records these days. Really enjoyed getting so see Nathan play so much at the Three Lobed show, really looking forward to this one for sure.

Also, no harm in more good music coming this thread's way!

Apparently it is Leo Kottke's birthday!

happy birthday leo cupcake

Excellent David Keenan review of the Fahey book in this month's Wire. If nothing else it's reminded me I really need to check out more of the Revenant back catalogue. That line 'shame, Glenn, shame - who sing about shame any more?' really broke me up for some reason. First stop, the Stanley Brothers!

Screen grab of the review: http://snag.gy/r9QEP.jpg

And seconded on the Nathan Bowles - really powerful stuff. And thirded (fourthed?) on wanting to hear the bootleg.

great review, thanks for that. i agree that sometimes that bio is a bit surface level but this is coming from someone who's read basically every little scrap on the internet about the guy, so i can understand the conundrum lowenthal was prob in, a book necessarily has to appeal to multiple demographics

i'm so stoked on the new bowles record, that first one is probably one of my favorite records.

well, the CDRs didn't come in the mail on time for my release show, my amp also blew the day before... umm what else, i forgot all the download codes to hand out for the show. i guess where i'm going with this is that my SD cards were full for my Tascam so then i meant to record it on my phone but forgot. oops. my playing was a bit shaky anyway! i'd say the 7th st Entry bootleg can stand as the 'official' entry in the S. Palmer live canon lolz. (i also got stuck in the parking lot afterwards because the machine ate my entry ticket and the gate wouldn't open.)

but for reals it was really a fun night! everyone played great, Matt Sowell brought a Weissenborn which was gorgeous, UMS had a really cool new song in the works, a blusier one, and Kyle Fosburgh has chops out his ass and knows how to use them. i'd suggest folks check him out, he is 23 and seriously fantastic.

great night...everyone played great, especially liked it when your friend sat in w/you global

Sorry to hear about all of the problems leading up to the show, but glad it was fun anyways! We'll just have to wait for future shows to get our bootleg fix.

I like that keenan piece, not sure what he's thinking saying fahey had broken the link to his subconscious in his later years tho

This just popped up on Twitter - that's quite a line up! http://mie.limitedrun.com/tickets/12833-pelt-richard-youngs-united-bible-studies-nathan-bowles-mike-gangloff-and-patrick-best-live-in-london-16-11-14

Amazing venue, too - reputedly the oldest church in the world, with evidence of worship going back to the 3rd century or something daft.

First ever on the spot improv with two of my friends. Not necessarily fit for sharing, but it was sloppy and fun enough and maybe there's something to it!

I'm on electric! Our project name is apparently "Skuntkt Stinky" because why not?

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

https://soundcloud.com/factual-1/tat-won

I forgot to upload a solo run through of one of my pieces I'd shared here a lot earlier. This take from our jam session is much better (though the recording is kinda blown out, oh well). I'll upload it on Wednesday. :)

Pretty cool Evan, glad you have some folks to play with. Seems to have some potential, look forward to hearing more down the line.

oh man chris from soft abuse is spoiling us in mpls!!!

http://www.icehousempls.com/events/soft-abuse-presents-peter-walker-paul-metzger/

rad

Thanks, finally is what I say. We had fun.

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talking old familiar chime on KFAI right now, playing a new steve gunn song off the upcoming album

http://www.kfai.org/

Oh cool, tuning in now! Thanks.

hey I got my first byline in our local vv weekly (the city pages)...interviewed chris and wrote an article on Old Familiar Chime

it was REALLY challenging to articulate this stuff because I think i'm so used to talking to all of you guys who are like super into everything...i think i did an ok job of explaining it to a general audience, i hope

http://blogs.citypages.com/gimmenoise/2014/09/old_familiar_chime_gathers_giants_of_experimental_solo_guitar.php

dude! sweeeeet

i hope you avoided his prohibited verbs!

(i'm sure you did)

Ohoh...I didn't know about the list...

Nice man, look forward to reading that. Wouldn't want to have to break this thread/music down to most folks at all, I have a hard enough time telling people what kind of music I play (my wife gets really mad when she has to witness this in public).

good job w/ that, I'm v jealous of everyone going

Yeah, what a great line-up. Good write-up too UMS, hope there is a good turnout for that show.

oh wrong chris! whoops.
so many men with first names and last names itt!!haha :)

In case anyone hasn't seen this posted around, you can go grab the Daniel Bachman/Nathan Bowles/Zeke Graves set from the Three Lobed Hopscotch show here (NYC Taper site):

http://nblo.gs/ZXZHU

Really good set in my opinion. Cool acoustic opening with some drone (Daniel does the Jack Rose rub the slide on the lapsteel trick Neal displays above) and good picking of a Jeffrey Cain song "Moonshine is the Sunshine" followed by a cool run through of a Link Wray tune "Waterboy" via two electric guitars and Nathan on drums.

Also a pretty good rundown of some Rebetika solo guitarists (including my man A. Kostis mentioned several times in this thread):

http://shellachead.com/2014/09/16/rebetika-guitar/

Pretty minimal write-ups but a handy reference of guitar-centric Rebetika music.

some good stuff in there, haven't listened to as much rebetiko since my anglo-greek friend hasn't been around to explain the lyrics

Wow what a night!
More when I'm at a computer and can type

man that was good. bill orcutt works much better in a live setting imo. i think i finally 'get' it.

i don't know what else to say, it was a show of legendary/soon-to-be legendary players, on and off stage. something i'll remember for a long time.

got my hands on some of the VDSQ stuff, the Karpinski album rules! anybody love that one too?

Never got that rundown of the show!

I sadly missed Spider John because we were waiting for our babysitter

Matthew De Gennaro - maybe the big surprise standout of the show, and I wasn't alone in feeling that way, really odd/cool set...did everything from sawing drones to more trad folky instrumental stuff, but also sang, sometimes songs recalled Silver Jews, and some odd droney things w/spoken word that almost reminded me of The Blue Mask by Lou Reed, dude seems like a real interesting guy and I was really taken with his set....

Alexander Turnquist - some of my friends didn't dig him as much, he definitely comes closest to the Windham Hill side of the scene than anyone else, I really liked it, but I knew the new album pretty well...I will say the album is better than it was live because it's pretty arranged on the album and gives it more of a Steve Reich/Glass type vibe....then again new age isn't necessarily "cooties" to me like it is for some ppl....amazing player, his guitar looked like it cost about $5K

Michael Chapman - mindblowing. It was such a strong show from top to bottom it's hard to say any one person "stole the show" but Chapman really opened my head up....such a great player, and man his skills/chops have not dimmed a bit with age, he has that "heavy hand" like Neil Young where he makes acoustic sound really heavy/loud but obviously he's a super adept fingerpicker...he seems just totally evolved into his own style, def great bridge as i said in my article between the American Primitive stuff and UK folk....his singing numbers were great too, reminded of if Townes Van Zandt could play like Fahey.....ended with a rolicking Fahey cover to the crowd's delight....huge stand ovation...."You guys have a good time...I always do"....big props to a british dude who dresses like an American truckdriver, cowboy boots, Arkansas Razorbacks baseball hat and all....At the merch booth later I told him thanks for playing and he said, "I'm a guitar player! That's what I do!".....later on in the night, got to see him and Peter Lang (who was in attendance) chatting it up, pretty cool...

Steve Gunn - I'm a huge fan and he did not disappoint...no band, just solo acoustic and man he's a great fingerpicker....also really amazing how well some of the more Grateful Dead full band stuff off Time Off worked as solo fingerpicking songs, gave me a new appreciation for what a good songwriter and singer he is....unbelieveable skills, finally picked up Time Off on vinyl too....

Bill Orcutt - was the guy I knew the least of, and frankly some of the stuff I'd listened to was a bit too choppy/crawbwalk for me...but he was really really great....super funny and affable in an oddball way ("I'm really glad Rick Bishop had to go to Brazil")....but yeah I don't know if it was his mood or just the general vibe of the night but his set was actually (for him) really gentle and almost meditative at times....he did some standards even (in his own twisty way) like "Somewhere Over the Rainbow".....his version of "Star Spangled Banner" was one of the real musical highlights of the whole night....

Glenn Jones - Glenn is probably my personal fav out of all these guys and seemed like the perfect headliner, the one guy who can kind of connect the dots between all the aspects of night, from Ocutt to Chapman to Spider John.....he played so lovely, did a few new things and some banjo stuff...he seems like an extradinarily kind guy, and it was really moving how much he spoke about Jack Rose and how much he obviously misses him...dedicated songs to locals Paul Metzger (who he said inspired him to take up banjo) and Peter Lang (who came up and shook his hand before his left)....Glenn's stuff is so well composed and just lovely in a totally unfussy way that avoids any taint of saccharine....he makes it seems so easy and effortless it's easy to ignore how masterful of a player he is....told lots of great tales including one about being very unimpressed by a young Bruce Springsteen when he played Glenn's college in Jersey in 1971 opening for Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks

overall, one of the best nights of music i've ever seen....

thanks ums!