Not so (Recent Tunes)

On 2/25/02 5:19 PM, "jacky_ligon" <jacky_ligon@...> wrote:

> Marc,
>
> Ah - so you know Ralph!?
>

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> I think this label was one of the first two places I heard Fred
> Frith's guitar work.
>

Frith yes so surely it all comes back.

> Certainly the "Guitars on Table" music would have to qualify as some
> of the most highly "microtonal-sounding" music I'd heard back then,
> whether in deliberate tunings or not.
>

Sounds familiar. If I know what you're talking about I agree.

> How 'bout:
>
> Henry Cow?
> Naked City?
> etc...etc...?

Just how old are you? I thought maybe 20s or so but you've got that
Postponed Generation exposure. Unless you had one of those much older
brothers with 3000 pieces of vinyl.

Besides my abundant Kiss and Beatles upbringing, I studied a lot of Van Der
Graaf Generator, Magma, Brand X, etc, basically anyone who ever played with
Yes or Frank Zappa, and anyone who ever played with them, and anyone who
ever played with *them* etc. Last quarter century worth of British based
jazz rock fusion.

I was actually in close touch with Allan Holdsworth for a couple years. In
between all the overwhelmed audience people trying to impress him with what
strings they use, I just went up to him and started talking to him after an
unpublicized show brought a few guys and their girlfriends, two football
teams and a couple strays. Maybe 20 people in the audience. It WAS A
COURTESY to clap at the end of long solos in a fusion piece. No one else
did. He wasn't very receptive after the show and after a few mumbles I said
HEY *I* was the one clapping, I know it was a bad show. Influence,
diversity, thank you etc got his number.

He knew how to talk, he knew how to listen, I felt like I was on the phone
with him for hours but I'd look at the bill, 2 minutes, 3 minutes, etc.
Answered the phone Hello Marc one day. Far before call waiting was
invented. I was calling often that week.

Well. Like anyone else. Just lost touch.

When I was 18, I was trying to get something going with people who were
amazed that I could play Allan Holdsworth solos note for note by ear... I
started losing them when I started playing HARMONIES over the fast parts...
Very interesting that point in my life, where I was able to competently solo
along with progressive rock and fusion albums. Besides knowing the albums
note for note I actually had a few different variations per piece I'd work
on. This was a point where I had a very rich melodic and harmonic sense
even though I was playing in 12. I kept the alpha brainwaves stirred.

I suppose a little off topic but I suppose a little background. Sentences.
Fragmenting. Need coffee.

Marc

--- In MakeMicroMusic@y..., "Orphon Soul, Inc." <tuning@o...> wrote:
> Just how old are you? I thought maybe 20s or so but you've got that
> Postponed Generation exposure.

20s - 20s - Yes, but I forgot if it was 1220 or 3020. (I'm an old
dude. You young whipper-snappers don't know how easy you got it -
with yer micreetunin' synths, and yer cable TVs!)

; )

> Unless you had one of those much older brothers with 3000 pieces of
> vinyl.

Not far off.

> I was actually in close touch with Allan Holdsworth for a couple
years.

I'm a huge fan. He is actually one of my top faves.

> When I was 18, I was trying to get something going with people who
were amazed that I could play Allan Holdsworth solos note for note by
ear... I started losing them when I started playing HARMONIES over
the fast parts...

Well - I stand amazed at the telling of it here. Wow - can't wait for
those CDs!

> Fragmenting. Need coffee.

Got my iv hooked up now!

J:L