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Re: Re[2]: Fred Frith



So far the one I've heard is Ayaya Moses. I'm really trying to get ahold of
his Guitar Solos disc but i'm so tied up trying to buy cd's from those I
haven't heard yet. You know what I'm talking about?
Jeff
-----Original Message-----
From: Buzz Kettles <buzz@macromedia.com>
To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com>
Date: Wednesday, April 15, 1998 3:29 PM
Subject: Re: Re[2]: Fred Frith


>Quartets or Ayaya Moses ?
>(I like both)
>-Buzz
>
>>Buzz,
>>I am a BIG Fred Frith fan. And thanks for the info. Have you checked the
>>guitar quartet cd?  Amazing.
>>Jeff Collins
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Buzz Kettles <buzz@macromedia.com>
>>To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com>
>>Date: Monday, April 13, 1998 10:01 PM
>>Subject: Re[2]: Fred Frith
>>
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>>>This is available on CD -
>>>It also includes FF's selections from gtr solos 2 & 3 ...
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>>>there WAS tape delay in places -
>>>later on (1980?) FF moved to a mixer (HH?) that had built in DDL echo 
>...
>>>
>>>-Buzz
>>>
>>>>     I'm only really familiar with Fred's work from the period of Henry
>>Cow
>>>>     (for whom I failed the audition as bassist!) up to the Art Bears,
but
>>>>     if you ever see a copy of his GUITAR SOLOS (1974 - Caroline in the
>>>>     UK), then invest immediately.
>>>>
>>>>     Its some while since I've heard it, but I suspect at last part of
it
>>>>     was recorded with some form of tape delay device (the original
sleeve
>>>>     notes comment that most/all performances are live apart from one
>>track
>>>>     which had two notes edited out) - anyone know anything more on
this?
>>>>
>>>>     I recall he used various `prepared' guitar techniques - alligator
>>>>     clips on the strings etc, but also had an additional pick-up
attached
>>>>     to the head stock of his guitar, which could `pick up' the sound 
>of
>>>>     the string's vibrations from `behind' the left hand fingers,
>>achieving
>>>>     a duet/harmonised effect (sort of).
>>>>
>>>>     GUITAR SOLOS 2 (with G.F. Fitzgerald, Hans Reichel, and  Derek
>>Bailey)
>>>>     had a few diagrams of recording techniques - placing speakers 
>under
a
>>>>     piano's lid and taping the resonance etc. plus
>>>>
>>>>     David
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