Re: NELS CLINE & GREGG BENDIAN - INTERSTELLAR SPACE

[Echopark99@aol.com]

Just have to say I caught this show, practically by accident. We were 
gigging 
a block and a half away in downtown L.A. and afterward we walked by The 
Smell 
and heard all this racket. Often willing to support that way-out, literal 
hole in the wall venue, we popped $5 each and entered. After being 
thoroughly 
tortured for 25 minutes by a guy with four speakers with a contact mic on 
each and a mixer doing what looked like might have been a 
feedback/regenerative tones performance but sounded like continuous 2.5KHz 
feedback squeal...

...Nels and Gregg followed with a very exciting show - dynamic in volume 
and 
texture, contrasting sheer thunder and lightning with occasional moments 
of 
beautiful, sensitive "jazz" playing. And Nels really plays that EH 16 like 
a 
musical instrument in itself (yes, looping). Thrill to moments like when 
Nels 
gets a little wild modulating and pitching and wha-ing, then somehow 
knocks 
out his pedalboard, exclaiming "I've lost power, Captain!" to Gregg, then 
taking an heroic turn to whatever's still running in the 16 and re-shaping 
it 
to support life for the moment, then switching to manual override - 
plugging 
the guitar straight into the amp (!) and busting out the Coltrane phrase 
with 
a mellow, old skool sensibility. Great fun.

The tour schedule is here:
>http://people.we.mediaone.net/dbeihoff/NCAS/index.html

eric p
echo park




In a message dated 2/9/0 3:25:46 PM, speck45@hotmail.com writes:

>Sorry for the kind of Off Topic post, but this is a show not to be missed 
>if 
>you are in the Seattle area, and maybe an excuse to visit.
>
>Subject:   NELS CLINE & GREGG BENDIAN - INTERSTELLAR SPACE: THE MUSIC
>OF JOHN COLTRANE  *[ SEATTLE SHOW ADDED! ]*

The tour schedule is here:

>http://people.we.mediaone.net/dbeihoff/NCAS/index.html