Symmetry

For anyone who might be interested, I've started a Symmetry page at
ZeBOX:

http://zebox.com/symmetry/

Symmetry was my high school band from the mid 80s We--Dan Stearns,
John Clark, Colin Malakie and Pete Zolli--played a sort of teenage
jazzrock,the sort of music that had us finishing last in the battle
of the bands and opening for groups like the Glenn Phillips' Band and
Eugene Chadbourn's Shockabilly before we were even old enough to get
into clubs.

I've uploaded five pieces. Hope somebody finds something here to
enjoy!

Thanks, Dan

part of the reason I started this page is because I recently came
across an X-15 on the cheap, and this led to me finding a shoebox
full of C-90s,the contents of which were mostly a mystery to me!
Anyway, I'm finding a bunch of old Symmetry stuff there I don't even
remember playing, mostly live recordings hastily archived some 20
odd years ago that no-one's ever heard before--I just uploaded a
bunch more should anyone be interested. While we were all quite
young, and most all of my playing here makes me cringe, the
composing does not, and I'm really quite surprised at how well most
of this holds up for me out here in the relative future...

http://zebox.com/symmetry/

--- In metatuning@yahoogroups.com, "daniel_anthony_stearns"
<daniel_anthony_stearns@y...> wrote:
>
> For anyone who might be interested, I've started a Symmetry page
at
> ZeBOX:
>
> http://zebox.com/symmetry/
>
> Symmetry was my high school band from the mid 80s We--Dan Stearns,
> John Clark, Colin Malakie and Pete Zolli--played a sort of teenage
> jazzrock,the sort of music that had us finishing last in the
battle
> of the bands and opening for groups like the Glenn Phillips' Band
and
> Eugene Chadbourn's Shockabilly before we were even old enough to
get
> into clubs.
>
> I've uploaded five pieces. Hope somebody finds something here to
> enjoy!
>
> Thanks, Dan
>

> For anyone who might be interested, I've started a Symmetry page at
> ZeBOX:
>
> http://zebox.com/symmetry/
>
> Symmetry was my high school band from the mid 80s

Listening to symmetry_-_bossa_nova.mp3. That's one helluva
high school band you had there!!

-Carl

for anyone who might be interested I've uploaded another big batch of
Symmetry live cuts and oddities .

http://zebox.com/symmetry/

Munster was kind of the de facto Symmetry theme song, so there's a
few versions up now,including a real early one recorded in a little
pub in Holden, Massachusetts and real late one recorded in Boston .

--- In metatuning@yahoogroups.com, "Carl Lumma" <clumma@y...> wrote:
>
> > For anyone who might be interested, I've started a Symmetry page
at
> > ZeBOX:
> >
> > http://zebox.com/symmetry/
> >
> > Symmetry was my high school band from the mid 80s
>
> Listening to symmetry_-_bossa_nova.mp3. That's one helluva
> high school band you had there!!
>
> -Carl
>

> Munster was kind of the de facto Symmetry theme song, so there's a
> few versions up now,including a real early one recorded in a little
> pub in Holden, Massachusetts and real late one recorded in Boston.

Wow. -C.

--- In metatuning@yahoogroups.com, "Carl Lumma" <clumma@y...> wrote:
> Wow. -C.

I see you, and raise you a "holy crap!". High school kids? Yikes!

Thanks for sharing the juvinilia, Dan. You've got big shoes to fill,
and their yours!

Cheers,
Jon

For anyone who might be interested, I've uploaded two new pieces to
the symmetry site:

http://zebox.com/symmetry/

ispT3
rehearsal extract

ispT3 is, like many symmetry titles, shorthand for something we
called it that wasn't really a title (in this case it's short for
Interstellar Space thing, part 3). This was recorded a bit later than
the other material, right as the sun was setting on the band . It's
another rehearsal half the band didn't show up for, so Colin and I
decided to work on something else. In this case drum and guitar duets
in the spirit of Coltrane viaECM. So, in case you haven't noticed, I
had a major Holdsworth-like period when I was younger, and here I
think you can really hear that I was starting to be more interested
in improvisation,especially thematic improvisation, than I was licks.
Eventually I became more and more interested in free improvisation,
and that's what I really concentrated on the most in my early 20s.
But this was a bit earlier than that, and I was still trying to get
my chops and my ideas on the same page .Interesting to see and hear
back into that transitional time.

the rehearsal extract is a very interesting and completely different
thing . John was a no show for a rehearsal, so we decided to write a
new piece, a kind of big, early Crimson epic pop type tune . This was
recorded on a boombox, so the sound quality is especially bad. But I
think it's a fascinating look back at rehearsing, check Pete's voice
and patience as it fries from 200 previous takes, ha. Plus you get to
hear me play pop guitar parts! happy major chords, big anthem
strummings ,and even a Emin/maj7. My big regret is that there's an
edit, yes a boom box edit, and my solo guitar section--a neat little
Villa Lobos kind of thing--got edited out.Probably by me, because it
had some claming or something... stupid Dan, stupid Dan. When it's
gone it's gone!

ok.THANKS

--- In metatuning@yahoogroups.com, "Jon Szanto" <jszanto@c...> wrote:
>
> --- In metatuning@yahoogroups.com, "Carl Lumma" <clumma@y...> wrote:
> > Wow. -C.
>
> I see you, and raise you a "holy crap!". High school kids? Yikes!
>
> Thanks for sharing the juvinilia, Dan. You've got big shoes to fill,
> and their yours!
>
> Cheers,
> Jon
>