Two tragically little-known guitar masterpieces

RADEMACKER AND RUBENSTEIN -- ONE IN A MILLION TWICE!

When Joe Gore joined the editorial staff of Guitar Player Magazine
there was a good five year or so period where the overall editorial
vibe of the magazine was quite liberal, and very open to many
experimental guitarists.

If you were lucky enough get the July '89 and October '91 issues of
the magazine you were also enough lucky enough to get two extremely
rare flexidiscs of two of the most amazing unknown experimental guitar
recordings I've ever had the pleasure of hearing -- Kalle Rademacker's
"Eine kleine Fantasie: Die Entdeckung!", and Ken Rubenstein's "Legs
Akimbo".

Though neither of these recordings feature microtonal instruments,
both are extremely "microtonal" and about as good as it gets.

A decade or so on and neither of these recordings have ever been
released in any other fashion... these flexidiscs are the only place
you'll get to hear them. What a damn shame! From where I sit here at
the dawn of the 21st century, I'd be willing to put either of these
forward-looking pieces shoulder to shoulder with most any cut by any
other established guitarists I've ever heard. No kidding.

As it turned out, interest in guitar took a major nosedive from it's
'80s technique happy heyday... Guitar Player Magazine started to die
the slow death of dissipating sales... Joe Gore and the other
experimental-friendly editorial crew members eventually got the boot
or bailed while the bailing was good... and the dawn of bold
avant-garde guitar with a pronounced microtonal "agenda" wasn't just
around the corner after all.

But it all happened. I was there, and I remember...

--d.stearns