This brings to mind Jeff Beck in the 'Blow by Blow' era. The SACD
of 'B b B' is completely amazing. There's Moog in there disguised as
a bass :). Also, Jeff Beck's band with Jan Hammer was pretty darn
good...
Can't wait to hear the new stuff, Dave! You'll keep us posted?
Mike
--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, Dave Trenkel <improv@p...> wrote:
> At 11:54 PM -0500 3/4/03, jwbarlow@a... wrote:
> >I've been enjoying this thread as I always do when we start
drifting
> >off towards music since I always learn something. And I always
enjoy
> >Mr. T's and Trenkel's stuff since they always have a bunch of
things
> >which I recognize and like, and a bunch of stuff which I haven't
> >heard before.
> >
> >I was just listening to a CD by Gong today and I started thinking
> >how few bands have done a harder edge rock with electronics (and
I'm
> >not thinking of Uriah Heep). I guess I'm thinking less prog and
more
> >hard rock, and more noisy than "keyboardy" -- Crimson, Gong, Pere
> >Ubu, Bowie (Low through Scary Monsters), Talking Heads (Remain in
> >Light), Ornette Coleman's Prime Time (Of human Feelings), Zappa,
> >Ronald Shannon Jackson's Decoding Society -- these all kind of hit
> >the mark at least in some way.
>
> Man, I saw both Prime Time and the Decoding Society in the
> early-80's, definitely life-changing experiences!
>
>
> One thing I found while doing the Minus disc was how good MOTM
mixes
> with heavy guitars, the timbres are really complementary,
especially
> the 440 filter. I've entertained fantasies about doing a
> modular-heavy prog metal disc, along the lines of Meshuggah
> (incredibly heavy and mathematically precise Swedish band) but with
> modular synths mixed with the guitars. I think it'd be an awesome
> sound!
>
> The current thing I'm doing is leaning more towards early 70's
fusion
> (think Bitches Brew/Hancock's Sextant) mixed with hip hop and
> breakbeats, and will definitely feature some of the MOTM. Disc is
due
> out this June.