Sir Richard Bishop: C or D?

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

oh yeah, totally more fun, just seems like he could make more $$$ on ebay

ahhhgg i want to go to this!!!

I hope there's at least a whole bunch of photos taken.

I also love this wee snippet from the directions on how to get there...

"Sale is in the BACK yard — follow path through bamboo grove."

He has a bamboo grove!

I notice he's not selling any LPs, just CD/DVD/tape.

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

― tylerw, Friday, August 21, 2009 9:07 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

RB is a noted ebay bookseller in fact.

ah, right, I see there's a link on this very thread. durr.

So, did anyone go? I'd love to hear more...

how did I miss this great interview:

http://www.markprindle.com/bishop-i.htm

http://www.unfictional.com/joseph-moshe-mossad-bioweapon-swine-flu-vaccine-westwood

anybody know who the support is for tonight's London show?

should go really, but it's £9. and a Monday. and he's up against University Challenge.

I can't answer your qu but I saw him on Saturday and enjoyed it a great deal - played most of 'The Freak of Araby' and two or three old SCG songs, seemed like a really sincere and decent guy to boot

The Glasgow show last week was wonderful, pretty much as per DJ Mencap describes. Varied, charming, fun.

http://krakow.zenfolio.com/img/v3/p822185574-3.jpg

Click image for more...

Nice pics! Anyone have any recent live recordings of him?

My only disappointment was that he didn't have any handmade tour cd-rs like he has in days of old. I got a very nice t-shirt though.

new one http://www.unrock.de/sir-richard-bishop-the-unrock-tapes-lp/
translated (awesomely) from the German:
Bishops capabilities allow various influences come together in his game, could give rise to the absurd impression that it was in his solo work for world music (as we know it). His playing is his fire and his fascination but rather through traditional irreverence. The Spirit of the Sun City Girls pervades the album, even if it is less a musical similarity to disclose this fact, as the approach. Disrespect / Respect, a game of opposites, which is used here by exaggerated wink. Musically, full of allusions to the tradition of Sun City Girls on the one hand, characterized by respect and appreciation congener (Omar Khorshid) on the other. Bishop's stunning guitar work, an Impetuous hybrid that can operate because of its subtle skills almost effortlessly across calls, rightly, a shameless authenticity of which he recognized that history in mind, no one will seriously deny.

Looking forward to that one. SRB is also releasing the vinyl version of last year's cdr "Intermezzo" soon.

tour dates! psyched to see him in Denver.

Feb 08 2013 Seattle, WA @ Highline
Feb 09 2013 Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge
Feb 10 2013 Vancouver, BC @ Media Club
Feb 12 2013 Salt lake City, UT @ Urban Lounge
Feb 13 2013 Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge
Feb 14 2013 Albuquerque, NM @ Sister
Feb 15 2013 Phoenix, AZ @ The Crescent Ballroom
Feb 16 2013 San Diego, CA @ Casbah
Feb 17 2013 Santa Ana, CA @ Constellation Room
Feb 18 2013 Los Angeles, CA @ Center For the Arts Eagle Rock
Feb 19 2013 Santa Cruz, CA @ Don Quixote’s Intl. Music Hall
Feb 20 2013 San Francisco, CA @ The Independent

Unrock Tapes LP is amazing... It's kind of a ringer since it compiles some of the best CDR-only tracks, but I only had one of the original CDRs so this is almost all new to me.

Last time I went to a February Portland show it was a hellish ice-covered 2-hour drive back home, so I dunno abt the Doug Fir show.

got a hold of the live freak of araby CDR -- totally great! i love that record.
annoyingly it looks as though i may not be able to make it to his denver gig tomorrow night urgggggh.

ooh tyler I am gonna hit you up for trade via mail when I get home today.

xp - when was that recorded and where?

not sure where, when is 2009-ish?
actually posted over yonder by one of the dudes in the band: http://www.electricalaudio.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=23116&hilit=sendspace&sid=33b459a6e66bc2711ca2acc7d35ea8a8&start=6960#p1603598

oh ok, I misunderstood and thought you had the CDR. looking forward to hearing this!

http://capturedinasia.tumblr.com/

awesome picture, weird that some of the captions are lame dad jokes

That scene with all those figures with their hands clapsed together is fantastic, especially dog-head man

xp haha, yeah, some of them made me laff (i am a lame dad after all), but some of the things he's taking photos of are so amazing i kind of want a little more actual information.

That's SCG/Sublime Frequencies all over though, isn't it. Driving up the mystique through never acknowledging their sources.

why learn when you can gape?

That's SCG/Sublime Frequencies all over though, isn't it.

No. Hisham Mayet was in Brooklyn for a lovely film series centered around Sublime Frequencies movies in March. Very forthcoming and candid about sources, musicians, context of all his movies/recordings. Never felt there was any "intentional mystery"/mystique to SF stuff, unlike the early Mississippi releases.

it's true that some of their releases have decent liner notes. i guess this maybe applies more to some of the earlier releases like princess nicotine (which came out in the 80s right?)

The original Princess Nicotine was compiled by Alan Bishop and released by Major in 1994. When it was reissued by SF in the 2000s, I believe there were liner notes added but I'm not sure.

*Majora

the bishops/sublime frequencies can maybe be accused of focusing on the more "exotic/esoteric" side of various cultures, but at the same time, I don't doubt that they know a lot about these various cultures...i mean, they've been actually going to all of these countries for several decades, i'm sure the interest for them isn't just "lol how weird".

"lol how weird" is fine by me btw

haha, yeah the world is weird!

http://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/gms/3809089215.html
you can own sir richard's 88 Honda CRX! and some other stuff too.

I wonder where he is moving? Seems like more than your typical yard sale.