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  1. #101
    I just listened to that track again. Yes, at the beginning FZ says "you ready?" to Jeff on the phone while at the same time you can faintly hear FZ-on-tape in the right channel counting in the Mothers.

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    Jeff Cotton has a solo album coming out. Here's a track:

    I want to dynamite your mind with love tonight.

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    Quote Originally Posted by polmico View Post
    Jeff Cotton has a solo album coming out. Here's a track:

    A surprising comeback after almost 50 years of silence. Let's hope it is good. The guy was, and probably still is, a great guitarist.

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    That track was super cool.

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    The guitar work is excellent. If the album focuses on that, I’m in.

    Anyone else think Cotton looks like Hawkwind’s Dave Brock?
    I want to dynamite your mind with love tonight.

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    Quote Originally Posted by chalkpie View Post
    That track was super cool.
    For a guy who's been rumoured dead a few times, yes - surely neat.

    While his work with Beefheart was certainly a major race of fantastic guitarism, groundbreaking in both applied technique and diversity, I keep coming back to that debut MU record from '71.

    Cotton's sparkling tone and picking is -so- decisive to the whole in all of its zany peculiarities, conjuring an unheard world of faux roots-rock completely lacking in presedence of absolute style. There's a glimpse of folky surf or even cajun, blues as from the Captain's shoes, intricate harmonies and odd arrangements obviously indebted to post-psychedelic karma here - but it really must be heard. An example of fairly "difficult" rock music crafted into something apparently simple and direct.
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    Bongo Fury.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zeuhlmate View Post
    Fucking great. Thanks for sharing.
    I want to dynamite your mind with love tonight.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zeuhlmate View Post
    True?

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    No, not true.

    I don't have the reference to the Beefheart biography, but the real story was that Beefheart never replied to Bono's letter, but was heard to comment to friends "who is this Bongo person anyway?"
    You have not heard anything like Vostok Lake, nor do you know anyone who has.

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    Quote Originally Posted by polmico View Post
    Anyone else think Cotton looks like Hawkwind’s Dave Brock?
    He looks like the guy with the cardboard sign at the end of the freeway exit ramp.

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    Jeff Cotton discusses the new album and takes some Trout Mask questions. https://www.guitarworld.com/features...asy-of-reality

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    This is pretty good.

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    I think this the appropriate place to post this, an ALL ACAPPELLA VERSION of the whole Trout Mask Replica album... from a guy who already did The Commercial Album by Residents and Sing to God by Cardiacs. Incredible stuff!

    https://davidminnick1.bandcamp.com/a...lica-replica-2

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    Incredible, impressive, and IMO, too annoying to sit through.

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    Just listened to a bit. Sort of like an unusually weird Bobby McFerrin album.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pb2015 View Post
    Sort of like an unusually weird Bobby McFerrin album.
    Don't worry, be fast and bulbous.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pb2015 View Post
    Just listened to a bit. Sort of like an unusually weird Bobby McFerrin album.
    Steve F.

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    This guy should have his own national holiday. All schools, banks, government buildings, etc are closed and we listen to these albums until our spouses can't take anymore and they flip the main circuit breaker switch. Then we grill hotdogs and burgers and go back to work the next day.

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