Re: Gentle Giant, etc.

Hi Aaron, I didn't realize you were on metatuning, or I would
have posted that last here.

>I confess to being a sometime prog-head myself. Dan Stearns, a
>list member known for forward-thinking musical tastes,
>recommended the current band Thinking Plague's _In Extremis_,
>influenced by Yes and Henry Cow. It's challenging but I liked
>in on last listen.

Wild! When I read this, I thought, 'I'll mention Sleepytime
Gorilla Museum as being a good contemporary Henry Cow influenced
band. Oh wait, they're only in Berkeley, and nobody else will
be able to find their stuff'. But on Amazon, they have links
to them from Thinking Plague!

Grand Opening and Closing is the album I have. It's very
heavy but quite good. And microtonal after a fashion (they
build their own megalyra-like instruments, but they play them
by hitting them with sticks!).

Anyway, I've met their lead through a friend. And then I ran
into him in Seattle. And then I ran into him at a Fred Frith
concert at Mills! Turns out he knows Frith and has studied
informally with him.

-Carl

Hey, I don't know Henry Cow or Thinking Plague *at all*, so I think you are
coonfusing me with someone else...but I like this post anyhow-informative it
is !!!!

Yes, some of this stuff gets dated and a bit eggheaded, esp. Rush....

BTW, don't like Phish much at all. I appreciate their originality and skill,
but do not like the aesthetic, musically or culturally (the whole "let's be
smelly wandering hippies Grateful Dead VW-bus" thing)

I also heard they are real assholes, whhich is of course, beside the point,
but another reason not to like them.

Best,
Aaron.

On Monday 08 December 2003 02:35 pm, Carl Lumma wrote:
> Hi Aaron, I didn't realize you were on metatuning, or I would
> have posted that last here.
>
> >I confess to being a sometime prog-head myself. Dan Stearns, a
> >list member known for forward-thinking musical tastes,
> >recommended the current band Thinking Plague's _In Extremis_,
> >influenced by Yes and Henry Cow. It's challenging but I liked
> >in on last listen.
>
> Wild! When I read this, I thought, 'I'll mention Sleepytime
> Gorilla Museum as being a good contemporary Henry Cow influenced
> band. Oh wait, they're only in Berkeley, and nobody else will
> be able to find their stuff'. But on Amazon, they have links
> to them from Thinking Plague!
>
> Grand Opening and Closing is the album I have. It's very
> heavy but quite good. And microtonal after a fashion (they
> build their own megalyra-like instruments, but they play them
> by hitting them with sticks!).
>
> Anyway, I've met their lead through a friend. And then I ran
> into him in Seattle. And then I ran into him at a Fred Frith
> concert at Mills! Turns out he knows Frith and has studied
> informally with him.
>
> -Carl
>
>
>
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--- In metatuning@yahoogroups.com, "Carl Lumma" <clumma@y...> wrote:
> Wild! When I read this, I thought, 'I'll mention Sleepytime
> Gorilla Museum

Heyheyhey - now we're cooking with gas! Splendid band and album, which I got hooked into through Tin Hat Trio -> Karla Kihlstadt -> SGM. At this point in my life, anything Karla plays a hand in is bound to be gold - her recent release with her group 2 Foot Yard (vln, cello, perc) on Tzadik is splendid. If I can *ever* find a copy of "Charming Hostess" by the band of the same name I'll keel over. I'll post a part of the one cut of theirs on "Balkans Without Borders" at some point.

Carl, you're all over the map, taste-wise (who isn't) and I'm glad some places on your map I like too!

Cheers,
Jon

> Hey, I don't know Henry Cow or Thinking Plague *at all*, so
> I think you are coonfusing me with someone else...

Sorry, it was a reply to Paul, but since you were involved in
the thread I posted it to tuning (where it wasn't appropriate)
because I assumed you wouldn't see it here. So then when I
did post it here I thought I'd say something about that, and
well... the whole thing blew up in my face. :)

> BTW, don't like Phish much at all. I appreciate their
> originality and skill, but do not like the aesthetic,

I felt the same way for the longest time. After my initial
period of awe in high school, it got to where I could seldom
stand to listen. But then I slowly started coming 'round
again, started to grok the lyrics (which before I thought
were dada but now think of as truly great poetry), started
to get into the sense of humor... to where I now think of
the band as a Pinacle of Artistic Perfection.^TM

> musically or culturally (the whole "let's be smelly
> wandering hippies Grateful Dead VW-bus" thing)

Well that's not Phish, that's just the audience they happened
to attract/inherit. I went to my first live show just this
past July or August and it didn't do much for me. But then,
I'm not much for rock concerts -- it was only my second one
ever. Perhaps I'd like a campout-style event more.

-Carl