Morris Tepper opened - only know he was in the Magic Band -- he did a sort of Tom Waits-y set with some real cool guitar playing. What do people know about him?
But, anyways, the Frusciante show was cool -- songs composed specifically for the show. apparently he is doing a few more of these there -- they are listed just under "Performance #4, #5," and so on. He's playing again tonight.
― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 19:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 21:04 (twenty years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 21:09 (twenty years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 21:22 (twenty years ago) link
― kephm, Tuesday, 3 February 2004 21:42 (twenty years ago) link
i guess i wish i had an ipod right about now as i do not have the cd handy.
― kephm, Tuesday, 3 February 2004 21:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 10:45 (twenty years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 13:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Monday, 22 March 2004 11:15 (twenty years ago) link
I love his lo-fi guitar sound so much; I can listen to his noodling for hours.See also, this thread: Ataxia - "Automatic Writing" (Frusciante/Joe Lally-Fugazi collaborate on excellent psyche-out mini-epic)
― Taxi Dancing in the Soft Prison (Ben Boyer), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 20:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 20:46 (nineteen years ago) link
both awesome.
i need to hear this DC EP.
― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 21:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Taxi Dancing in the Soft Prison (Ben Boyer), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 21:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 23 September 2004 02:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― kephm, Monday, 4 October 2004 19:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Taxi Dancing in the Soft Prison (Ben Boyer), Monday, 4 October 2004 19:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 4 October 2004 19:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― kephm, Monday, 4 October 2004 19:37 (nineteen years ago) link
I have almost given up on playing pretty things and resigned myself to sub David-Byrne-esque twerky strumming.
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 4 October 2004 19:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixxxorzh (Fabfunk), Friday, 1 April 2005 09:28 (nineteen years ago) link
iTunes synergy activate!:
Pussyfootin'the Duke...Comets on FireYour Pussy's Glued to a Building On Fire....John FruscianteInstant Pussy....Matching MolePussy Don't Fail Me Now...Missy Elliot
― Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Friday, 1 April 2005 11:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 1 April 2005 11:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Vic Funk, Friday, 1 April 2005 11:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 1 April 2005 11:51 (nineteen years ago) link
Sphere In the Heart of Silence, the Frusciante/Josh Klinghoffer colab album, is far different. Way awesome. It's kinda reminiscent of Kid A in it's structure and pacing, but it uses some ancient electronics and is way scratchier sounding. Josh Klinghoffer's singing voice is surprisingly good, too. He sounds kinda like a softer, more effeminate Thom Yorke, which makes a nice foil to John's more weathered voice. The song "Walls" on this album has one of the best vocal performances John Frusciante has or probably will ever lay to a track.
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 1 April 2005 13:21 (nineteen years ago) link
Sphere... (with Josh Klinghoffer) > Curtains > Inside of Emptiness > Automatic Writing (Ataxia) > Will to Death > DC EP
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 1 April 2005 13:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixxxorzh (Fabfunk), Friday, 1 April 2005 13:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Boy Who Cried YSI? (Freud Junior), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 01:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Boy Who Cried YSI? (Freud Junior), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 02:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― trees (treesessplode), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 03:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Boy Who Cried YSI? (Freud Junior), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 04:58 (seventeen years ago) link
I've been re-dicsovering To Record Only Water for Ten Days these last two weeks what an awesome awesome album...
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 11 September 2008 13:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Yup. Need to dig it out again...
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 11 September 2008 13:39 (fifteen years ago) link
With No One is awesome
― Zeno, Thursday, 11 September 2008 13:43 (fifteen years ago) link
classic
― cutty, Thursday, 11 September 2008 14:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Haha yeah "With No One" is the one I get stuck in my head all the time
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 11 September 2008 14:54 (fifteen years ago) link
classique
― update prefs (ice crӕm), Thursday, 11 September 2008 15:41 (fifteen years ago) link
saw this dude play last week, it sounded like the royal trux
― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 11 September 2008 15:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Weird; just last week I put all of the 6 Record Collection albums in one playlist and listened to them all for the first time in several years. There are some incredible (and incredibly sad) songs on there. I still have never heard the 2nd Ataxia disc (and I LOVED the first one)... I never see it in shops and it's not on iTunes for some reason (though the other one is). Anyone heard it?
― Ben Boyerrr, Thursday, 11 September 2008 16:00 (fifteen years ago) link
http://johnfrusciante.com/
― cutty, Thursday, 13 November 2008 20:07 (fifteen years ago) link
He'll never end up on the John Petrucci thread if he only talks through his lessons.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 13 November 2008 20:12 (fifteen years ago) link
ENJOY!!
― BIG HOOS' macaroni is off the motherfucking chain (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Thursday, 13 November 2008 20:15 (fifteen years ago) link
AWESOME
― baaderonixx, Monday, 17 November 2008 09:20 (fifteen years ago) link
New album is streaming on Luisterpaal
― baaderonixx, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 13:59 (fifteen years ago) link
I bought it blind from iTunes. It starts off with a great 9 minute instrumental with some awesome guitar stuff, which segues into a pretty cover of "Song for the Siren." Then it sounds a lot like his other albums - vague lyrics (as in platitudes, not surreality); nice chord changes. I need to give it a few more listens, but I'm having a hard time summoning the desire so far. Does anyone else have it/like it?
― Shannon Whirry & the Bad Brains, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 14:20 (fifteen years ago) link
new record is kinda batshit and very good
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, 15 September 2012 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
100 percent more amen break on this record vs. other frusciante solo records
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, 15 September 2012 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
without his edgy playing rhcp would lose their last bit of relevance. when he came back for californication - that saved the band.
When he left the 2nd time, it made the band irrelevant again.
― Lee626, Saturday, 15 September 2012 21:39 (eleven years ago) link
what's the new one like - after my initial enthusiasm for this guy and the godly 'Water' I kinda drifted away as he seemed more interested in tortured blues rock.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 17 September 2012 15:21 (eleven years ago) link
new one is sort of like a proper follow-up to to record only water for ten days, but way more unhinged. free jazz drumming that morphs into drill n' bass, cheesy synth sounds, almost niandra-esque frusciante vocal stuff over the top
but in more than a few instances the songwriting is very traditionally pretty.
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 17 September 2012 15:29 (eleven years ago) link
for the longest time I tried to pretend that I liked Shadows but recently I've realized that it just doesn't do anything for me. Not familiar with Empyrean, I might need to check it out
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 8 August 2013 13:31 (ten years ago) link
well it's kind of his ultra prog record. ymmv
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 8 August 2013 13:45 (ten years ago) link
http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/01/john-frusciante-teams-up-with-omar-rodriguez-lopez-for-new-band-kimono-kult/
― how's life, Wednesday, 15 January 2014 12:25 (ten years ago) link
oh, and a new solo ish
http://johnfrusciante.com/article/enclosure
― set the trolls for the heart of the sun (how's life), Monday, 3 March 2014 22:18 (ten years ago) link
omg thank god i thought he died
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Monday, 3 March 2014 22:43 (ten years ago) link
is there suppose to be a comma after the "thank god"?
― nostormo, Monday, 3 March 2014 22:44 (ten years ago) link
i guess…I'm glad hes not dead, and that he's got a new record out
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Monday, 3 March 2014 22:59 (ten years ago) link
lol
― nostormo, Monday, 3 March 2014 23:00 (ten years ago) link
this is such a cool album (shadows)
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Sunday, 13 May 2018 18:41 (five years ago) link
back in RHCP for some ungodly reason
every one of his solo releases has something to recommend it, from what I've heard.
― akm, Monday, 16 December 2019 03:16 (four years ago) link
(that EP Outsides that he wrote about up above is really great, for instance)
― akm, Monday, 16 December 2019 03:17 (four years ago) link
maya, his straight up breakbeat idm record from 2020, is surprisingly very good
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 4 April 2022 14:53 (two years ago) link
Leave us not forget (my gateway)https://orlprojects.bandcamp.com/album/omar-rodr-guez-l-pez-john-frusciante"> https://orlprojects.bandcamp.com/album/omar-rodr-guez-l-pez-john-frusciante
― dow, Monday, 4 April 2022 17:05 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qBDrdZVCpQ
this album was likely ignored bc it was billed as a bunch of experiments in electronic music that preceded and/or weren't considered good enough for the two very manic albums of exploded music frusciante put out in 2012. but uhhh it's fucking incredible?
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 4 April 2022 21:01 (two years ago) link
I was skeptical for the first forty seconds, and then I was sold. Makes me nostalgic for a lot of early/mid '00s idm and breakcore that I used to listen to at the time.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 4 April 2022 21:23 (two years ago) link
the one time i met JF was at a Squarepusher show!
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 5 April 2022 01:08 (two years ago) link
Renoise rules (new version out that works on Raspberry Pi!)
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 5 April 2022 01:10 (two years ago) link
He was surprisingly inactive in the 2010s compared to the 2000s.. what did he do all this time?
― groovemaaan, Tuesday, 5 April 2022 01:15 (two years ago) link
sleep on a pile of money
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 5 April 2022 01:23 (two years ago) link
idk i feel like he released a ton of material in the 2010s, there were just no “five records in a year” kinds of stunts
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 5 April 2022 02:07 (two years ago) link
the first trickfinger record is a pretty ok acid/idm record, the follow-up EPs are all pretty awesome and unique though
i had no reason to expect he'd be any good at dance music and feel like maybe i'm grading him on a curve (or, as with justin broadrick, i have such an all-encompassing obsession with his music that i'll even listen to the damaged electro shit no one cares about)... but idk i love it
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 15:52 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPjy2qeabyc
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 15:53 (two years ago) link
Even though I've never spent any real time with his records, I just love that he has equal time & respect for breakbeats & synth-based music as guitar. In that Rick Rubin interview he mentioned spending the last year before rejoining RHCP both doing a deep dive studying and transcribing Charlie Christian's playing and making electronic music.
Obviously it's nice to have the money to just mess around with music all day, but he's clearly a true obsessive and it's rare to find an instrumental prodigy who takes electronic music that seriously.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 16:07 (two years ago) link
very otm
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 16:18 (two years ago) link
Brad, I have mucho mucho respect for you based on the years you have provided insight and enthusiasm for stuff such as RHCP that would be challenging for the average late 40s/early 50s person such as myself, who loved the band 30 years ago but find them in the past 20 to be thematically the Eagles (LA will fuck you up, LA is alluring) in the format of Aerosmith (white bros inspired by black music), i.e. conservative radio rock. And yet here is this guy who this band needs, who when he is in the band provides them with these song structures and melodic elements that are no doubt the key to the success of that radio rock, but on his own nickel does very pure, adventurous music. Why do you think that none of his adventurous inclinations rub off on the band? Do Flea and Anthony not want that? (they posture as if they do)? Or do you think he says "RHCP is where I do easy to digest music, which I like and is part of me." For all the guy talks about Squarepusher or Sparks or Steve Howe or Schoenberg or Stockhausen or free jazz, I wonder why he can't put a bit of that in this band…he claims to do just that, but all comes out as conservative twaddle…not like I want the band to sound like Twin Infinitives, but they— not just him, but all three of them— could do better…
Yesterday the band was on Stern, and I do find them all to be pretty likable people… none of them think that they are toxic bro jocks…
― veronica moser, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 18:28 (two years ago) link
Does he claim to do that? I think he's just a mature musician that he wants to add exactly the right supportive part for their (largely boring, radio rock) songs, rather than squeezing in something jazzy, shreddy, dissonant, or trying to turn them into Radiohead.
I don't know what Flea's excuse his, except that maybe now they have so much experience as an arena band with a huge audience that they know what works on that scale, and save the weird shit for their private time or side projects.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 18:35 (two years ago) link
by the way is 100 percent the record where frusciante’s ambitions guide them, especially across the last 4-5 songs, so it’s not like it’s never happened
i think the very simple answer is the soul of the band is them jamming together, and when they jam together it tends to produce this sound and these kinds of songs. frusciante usually has a few moments per record where he gets to fuck with the formula though, cf. “animal bar” on stadium arcadium, the rubin interview reveals he brought “these are the ways” whole into the ultimate love sessions, and you can certainly tell, etc. etc.
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 19:04 (two years ago) link
I like that tune "Montreal" off one of the Ataxia collections. It sounds like what PIL with Bob Dylan as lead singer might sound like.
― earlnash, Thursday, 7 April 2022 00:38 (two years ago) link
once again i am absolutely obsessed with the will to death
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 7 April 2022 14:23 (two years ago) link
Dunno, as much as I tried, nothing of his ever grabbed me like To Record Water… I guess that one will remain an outlier.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 7 April 2022 16:56 (two years ago) link
it only took eight years but wow i adore enclosure now
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 8 April 2022 14:51 (two years ago) link
the skittery, constantly morphing drum programming is just the right counterpoint for the static yet gorgeous melodies he's singing over it. also even though his focus soon drifted toward making actual idm, i think he was really onto something when he was incorporating his guitar playing in his dance music experiments, especially on this record and "same" from the outsides EP
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 8 April 2022 14:56 (two years ago) link
this'll be a really messy ranking but here we go
to record only water for ten daysenclosureniandra lades and usually just a tshirtthe empyreanthe will to deathrenoise tracks 2009-2011dc epmayashadows collide with peoplepbx funicular intaglio zone / letur-lefr trickfinger: look down, see ustrickfinger: she smiles because she presses the buttona sphere in the heart of silenceoutsidesinside of emptinesstrickfinger iiforegrow4-track guitar musictrickfinger
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 8 April 2022 15:13 (two years ago) link
Have to co-sign veronica's sentiment here Brad. Thanks for spending the time with this stuff and sharing thoughts. I know I'm very cynical about this dude's music these days, but there was a time I considered him one of my GOATs. So it's refreshing to be reminded of how I came to revere him so much in the first place. Thanks.
(earlnash also otm RE: Ataxia — that stuff can get pretty wild!)
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Friday, 8 April 2022 15:20 (two years ago) link
as usual i forgot to rank ataxia!!! put both records above maya
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 8 April 2022 15:27 (two years ago) link
That 'Montreal' track has this thing where you got the vocal which has this folky drone and then you got the droning guitar (kinda Keith Levene say in style) and then this repeating bass and drum groove. It's moving but it's got that statis that to me really captures the ever present waiting to get somewhere. I get a visual of a head leaned against a car/bus window while the miles roll on in a totally dead and gray landscape of rain.
"Sold all my records. What a stupid thing to do."
To me, it just captures the emptiness of the quiet times when you have to fight the loop of rumination of your mind turning over failures.
I'm not a huge fan, but I thought this song was pretty killer.
― earlnash, Saturday, 9 April 2022 01:56 (two years ago) link
again, maya is soooo good
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 21 April 2022 18:53 (two years ago) link
^^listening to it now, and Maya is sick. Much more immediately convincing than his other electronic records I've heard. Still has that Aphex/breakcore/IDM tinge, but it's ravier too.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 20 May 2022 18:17 (one year ago) link
https://acidtestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/i-i
his most recent release: improvised dark ambient drone. and really good for being his first foray into that realm
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 24 February 2023 18:03 (one year ago) link