Here, for your dining and dancing pleasure are seven improvised electric guitar solos (no overdubs, no second takes), seamlessly joined into one big slab of sound. These were all recorded in one night in an effort to find out what I could do with just one guitar and one block of time. Although there are a few moments of "traditional" playing here and there, it would be more appropriate to think of the guitar as simply a sound source in these pieces. I "prepared" the instrument with various things I found kicking around the house--bicycle spokes, silverware, shish-kebab skewers, old guitar strings, etc. Since my earliest days of playing the guitar I have always had a fascination with coaxing sounds out of the instrument that are not immediately (or ever) recognizable as guitar sounds. In these seven bits I give full vent to that fascination.
The titles of the seven pieces are:
1) Billy Is A Thief
2) Donkey Noodles
3) A Lie Nation
4) Sorry I Wrote This
5) God Licked My Brain (Ho Ha!)
6) Skullhead, Where Are You?
7) Splang!
Titles 1-6 were graffiti I saw in various places over the years. Number seven is onomatopoeia.
Equipment: G&L F-100 electric guitar. Recorded on a Fostex Model 160 4-track.
Bunch o' gall-dang noise! 20.2MB
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