MOTM

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.