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God smiled on me and granted me the chance to hang out with Shawn Lane and Jonas Hellborg and "press the flesh" on May 31st, 2003 for a show at Smilefest in Union Grove, NC. What a blast! I will have some more brief mpeg/wmv movies soon for download and more to say. For now enjoy this brief animated GIF movie below. PS: "God bless you Souvik of Abstractlogix.com"
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In the early 90s guitarist Todd Duane and keyboardist Lale Larson performed a series of highly popular and virtuoso gigs throughout Europe as well as recording several instrumentals together, including 'Schizoid' (featured on Guitar on the Edge No. 4) and 'Double Delight'. After years of planning the time was finally right for Todd and Lale, together with ace drummer Peter Wildoer (Darkane, Time Requiem) to combine forces and record a CD.
The recording ELECTRIC CARTOON MUSIC FROM HELL by Electrocution 250 sounds like nothing you have ever heard before. This trio plays a mixture of instrumental rock, fusion, thrash metal and jazz. But most of all, this album will remind you of all those old Looney Tune cartoons you saw as a kid. Enjoy these 38 minutes of pure entertainment. Prepare yourself for a force 10, unrestrained and unstoppable hurricane of musical excess and virtuosity. E-250 is here!
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After decades of listening to these guys on LP, cassette, then years with some pre-official release CD-Rs secretly smuggled to me - I finally got to hear and see these guys live right here in North Carolina.
They covered lotsa material from their legendary 70s releases and offered new music from their forthcomincoming re-union release, perhaps to be titled, The Muse Awakens.
What a killer, high-energy, and fun show! I was in total blissville. Incredible fusiony-progressive axe, dual keys/synths, tuff bass work, amazingly dynamic percussives, reeds to die for and flute thrown in for good measure. Everything was so tight yet fluid.
David Rosenthal more than covered original HTM Kit Watkins' keyboards, (Kit refused to re-unite with HTM).
I was fortunate enough to make it back to the dressing room and got to meet HTM and we all traded thank-yous and hellos -- pressing the flesh and snapping pics for memories. What a great bunch of guys!!
I realize HTM played live their official reunion gig awhile back at NEARfest but I couldn't make it. Hearing all the freshly composed new material tried out on us was well worth the wait!
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Re: Planet X's MoonBabies release
Well, I've had my 4-5 listens and things still sound great. Track 4 is my current fav.
Early opinion: In response to someone saying things sounded "disjointed", I think/assume/feel I know where he is coming from. Between Donati's much more complex drum modes, Sherinian's incredibly dense compositions of angular, stop-n-go-stop-go-go-stop-break-GO! frenetics of one onslaught after another, (which my neurons have adapted to long ago), a first listen or melody-inclined listen might make one feel as if their head was in a faulty food processor upon hearing Moon Babies.
This CD represents a new, polymosaic of fusion in micro-evolution! I kept thinking of new coin-able phrases, buzz-words to hold this sound.
For example: dense fusion, black-hole fusion, aggressive fusion, cyber-warrior-caste fusion, angularly heavy fusion, Godzilla fusion . . . I think I like Godzilla fusion best. Why?
Derek, Virgil, and Tony are serving up way heavy, monstrous, dense, challenging, threatening, and excellently powerful fusion rock. There are some slow and flowingly easy moments but those are quickly devoured by whirlwind of notes, polyrhythmic rage, immense bass, and doomer speed-crunch axe. This is a warping, wall of fusion "noise" that requires cranking your brain up 4 or 5 notches to near 78rpm listening. Between Derek and Tony going insane in hyperdrive, fractal overload, unison lines and conversational soloing -- my bet is many folks will feel "disjointed" or pummeled into submission.
What keeps it all very organized is Donati's drums and the guest bassists providing a very interesting fusion rock groove throughout, a groove that provides a perfectly NON-disjointed foundation for all Derek and Tony's rail-gunnery and seek-and-destroy sonic ambushes.
I am gonna give this release a solid 9.3 out of 10 and that's only because I felt Tony needed to wail on fusion axe solos moreso and fills at least 10-15% more per track or at least be more present in the mix versus blended into much of Derek's superb synthwork. (I am an axe guy - so be it.)
After a good listen I have to disagree with any "disjointed" call. "Dense" is a much more accurate description.
Lastly, is this music or madness? It's a bit of both and that's exactly how I like it.
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HENDRIX a fusion forefather??Interesting thought. Much is said in commentary on how McLaughlin filled a void of desparately needed new axe hero once Hendrix passed. When listening to young pre-Mahavishnu John on his Devotion release, that screaming wailing crunch of Hendrix is evident.
Jimi's fearless way of blending genres like blues, acid rock, instrumental guitar pyrotechnics,(figuratively and literally!), balladic power pop, and experimentally progressive rock epic saga songs like "1983, A merman I should turn to be . . .", surely helped inspire McLaughlin (and others) to meld modalities from afar into a screaming wall of genius fusion rock.
Everybody says Miles Davis brought the fusion noise but after listening to Bitches Brew, I dunno really. (I don't like that "seminal" album at all, myself.) Miles Davis did help birth and inspire greats like McLaughlin, Zawinul, Shorter, Stern, Holzman, etc, etc but they seemed to merely find a solid fusion freedom of expression and recognition once they _LEFT_ Miles' shadow of greatness.
McLaughlin had more jazz going in his head and hands than Jimi so I feel only Jimi's death kept him from becoming a fusion hero. There is a tune on South Saturn Delta or New Rays . . . (I forget now) where Jimi recorded with same nameless jazz studio artists but very lttle fusion was happening there. Still, Jimi very well may have found a new fusion groove upon hearing McLaughlin - ya know?
When you heard rockers like Jeff Beck, Tommy Bolin, Ray Gomez and so on jumping into the fusion arena you know Hendrix would have stepped in too if he hadn't of checked out of planet Earth.
Jimi was essentially blues deep at heart in all his rock mastery and about the only trace of blues you ever hear in classic fusion was the syncopated bluesy shuffle breakdown in "The Dance of Maya". Of all the axe-men that could have been great fusion heroes if . . . they hadn't died, my guess is Tommy Bolin would have been more of a fusion natural and a real cornerstone of the genre, perhaps more than even Jimi. Whaddaya think??
Speaking of axe-men that could be quite excellent current-day fusionists but aren't really doing anything fusion-wise to speak of are the following: Jamie Glaser, Ray Gomez, and Bill Connors.
I have contacted Ray but nothing is happening with any CD release yet. We all are waiting Ray . . . .
I wrote a nice and encouraging letter to Bill via a NYC addy his brother gave me. No reply. Thanks Bill, nice of ya. (BTW, Connors tidbit of axe on Plainfield's new CD is nuthin' to write yer Mom about.)
I haven't bothered trying to contact Glaser yet. Anybody know what's up with him??
Well, I've blathered enuff -- y'alls turn!
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FuseNet post by EER-MUSIC.com Editor . . . Date: Tue Jun 18, 2002 4:57 pm Subject: Shawn Lane on Personae / Lost Tribe CD up for grabs Well, I finally nearly shed a tear during a fusion solo! Why? As a struggling guitarist, when you hear what Shawn Lane does live on the cut "Rice With the Angels" off the new Personae -- something just slips away -- any hope of ever reaching the levels that these guys play! Amazing! What a rush!
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SHAWN LANE - photo from Richard Hallebeek interview, "Read more about Lane!" Lane was burning -- no lasering these coherent beams of sound in ostinato bursts like McLaughlin's MahaOrk 70s style but the ostinato runs were so fast and seamlessly fluid they approached the quicksilver shimmer of Holdsworth's legato explosions. It's very hard to imagine an axeman outdoing Mahavishnu John and Gnarly Allan in one solo but I swear -- I heard it happen in Lane's solo outburst. And as far as Scott Henderson's blusy-rock-fallin-down-the-stairs- drunk-n-laughin axe antics go -- Lane covers all that territory elsewhere on Personae. I have to admit that I used to own Powers of Ten and also listened to Tri-tone Fascination all by Lane but never really was deeply satisfied with those releases' overall gestalt(s). Personae however -- Whew! -- great stuff. I am now a solid Lane fan. I highly recommend this release.Ever wonder about your dreams reflecting your future?
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It has come to my attention recently that two misconceptions run rampant about jazz rock fusion fans as well as those editor/reviewer/webmaster types like myself being: 1) Narrow in their musical tastes as well as the juvenile aspersion cast forth that e-zines/review websites are: 2) Only after free CDs and do not support the arts via purchasing music Frankly, this mentality irks me royally in its own form of insipid narrow-mindedness. A certain alternate-guitar progger, (I refuse to name), and some well-known jazz fusion guitarists come to mind . . . when I think of such shallow mentality. To set aside any future b.s./whining from these folks and other out there with similar rut-driven mentalities, I offer a listing of the music I have purchased for my own collection since November 2001. Recent CD purchases: (in no genre order) [artist: album] ======================= 1. Aaron Copland: Assorted works 2. AC/DC: Back in Black (remastered) 3. Antonin Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 “New World”, Symphonic Variations, Op. 78 4. Bill Connors: Theme to the Guardian 5. Billy Cobham’s Glassmenagerie: Stratus 6. Black Sabbath: The Mob Rules (remastered UK import) 7. Bonzo Dog Band: The Best of the Bonzo Dog Band 8. Christopher Parkening: The Artistry of Christopher Parkening 9. Crack the Sky: Animal Notes/Safety in Numbers 10. David Sylvian and Holger Czukay: Plight and Premonition 11. Dixie Dregs: Freefall 12. Donovan: Mellow Yellow/Wear Your Love Like Heaven 13. E.S.T.: Somewhere Else Before 14. Ed Mann: Get Up 15. Erik Satie: Complete Piano Music 16. Frank Zappa: Guitar(2CD) 17. Frank Marino: Juggernaut 18. Franz Liszt: Panorama (2CD) 19. George Gershwin: Concerto in F, An American in Paris, Rhapsody in Blue 20. Greg Bissonette: self-titled 21. Hatfield and the North: The Rotters Club 22. Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, Petrushka 23. Jean Michel Jarre: The Essential J.M. Jarre 24. Jennifer Batten: Above, Below, and Beyond 25. Jimi Hendrix: South Saturn Delta 26. Jimi Hendrix: First Rays of the New Rising Sun 27. Joe Satriani: Not of this Earth 28. John McLaughlin: Devotion 29. Karl Jenkins: Diamond Music 30. Keith Jarrett: Dark Intervals 31. Laocoon: Immersion 32. Leo Kottke: The Essential Leo Kottke 33. Lyle Mays: Solo (improvisations for expanded piano) 34. M-Base Collective: Anatomy of a Groove 35. Maurice Ravel: Assorted piano works 36. Mike Oldfield: Hergest Ridge 37. Mike Stern: Odds and Evens 38. Miriodor: Elastic Juggling 39. Neil Young: Decade(2CD) 40. Orb: The Orb’s Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld(2CD) 41. Ozric Tentacles: Become the Other 42. Ozric Tentacles: Curious Corn 43. Phil Miller: Split Seconds 44. Phil Miller: Cutting Both Ways 45. Players: self-titled 46. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concertos 2 & 3 47. Return To Forever: Return to the 7th Galaxy, Anthology(2CD) 48. Roxy Music: Avalon 49. Schoenberg: The Transfigured Night, Variations Op 31 50. Soft Machine: Bundles 51. Steely Dan: Showbiz Kids, The Steely Dan Story(2CD) 52. Steve Coleman and Five Elements: Rhythm People 53. Steve Hillage: Rainbow Dome Musick 54. Steve Khan: Eyewitness 55. Steve Khan: Tightrope 56. Steve Khan: The Blue Man 57. Stone Temple Pilots: Core 58. Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense (special new edition) 59. Terje Rypdal: Odyssey 60. Terje Rypdal and the Chasers: Blue 61. Tomita: Dawn Chorus 62. Uli Jon Roth: Transcendental Sky Guitar(2CD) 63. Wally Badarou: Words of a Mountain 64. Wendy Carlos: Beauty in the Beast (This list does not include CDs I purchased as gifts for family and friends!) Do the math. John W. Patterson and http://EER-MUSIC.com support the arts.
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READ REVIEW: ALLAN HOLDSWORTH 3) The Canadian group, SPACED OUT, lead by the bassist/composer Antoine FaFard deserves a very good nod for their recent fusion rock releases. Do check 'em out! More info here: http://www.unicornrecords.com/spacedout/ and in-depth SPACED OUT CD reviews here: http://eer-music.com/EER_music_reviews/SPACED_OUT.html Ciao!
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