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At 8:59 -0700 4/15/98, Dave Trenkel wrote: > >Absolutely , this album is great!! On a related subject: Has anyone > >heard anything > >by the "Everyman Band" (with DT)?? They played live a lot around here (upstate NY), NYC, Europe and I dunno where else, maybe 1982-86. In his previous bands DT had stayed a little closer to mainstream jazz/rock/fusion/blues playing (to try to reduce the amazing stuff he was doing into a few words, think Holdsworth, Hendrix and that Eastern twist we still hear today). With Everyman Band, Torn, as Dave alludes, seemed to be exploring the guitar as noisemaking machine (though not to the exclusion of melody and harmony). > >I believe they released an album with > >Jan Garbarek > >in the middle eighties. The saxophonist was Marty Fogel, whose first (I think, and only?) solo release was "Many Bobbing Heads at Last" (CMP 37), on which Torn also plays. It's a bit more jazzy. Good stuff. > I got the first everyman band lp as a cutout in about '85, it's great, > proto-skronk fusion. Torn's playing, while not nearly as subtle and > sophisticated as his current stuff, is really wild, raw and full of >energy. > Don't think it's ever been released on CD though. No, but the second one, "Without Warning" (ECM 1290) was. This one has some more composed moments (even an occasional synth part), but plenty more wild Torn shredding. Doug -- Doug Wyatt doug@sonosphere.com Sonosphere (music and music software) http://www.sonosphere.com/ "Accidental Beauties" CD release: http://www.sonosphere.com/wyatt/