RE: Nels Cline, guitarist occasionally looping

["Tom Heasley" <ambienttuba@earthlink.net>]

Yeah,

 

They had a nice run at the Alligator Lounge.  By the time I was hip to it, living in the Bay Area at the time, G.E. Stinson had taken over booking the joint.  Unfortunately, I think attendance went way down once Nels stopped playing the last sets of the evening.  Not long after I played there with Bobby Bradford and Ken Rosser (fine looping guitarist), they had to move to another venue, which only lasted a short time, then Monday nights were gone…..

 

Nels and I were band mates in Charlie Haden’s Liberation Orchestra back in ’83-’84, and had played on a Vinny Golia septet gig around that time as well.  I packed up my car and headed for NYC in January of ’85 in the hope of doing such music full-time (and of course, that’s when the LMO West Coast Unit actually became busy!).  If you ever get a gig like that, don’t give it up is all I can say – even if they are only playing once every few months…..

 

Best, TH

 

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From: tEd ® kiLLiAn [mailto:tedkillian@charter.net]
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 8:26 AM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: Nels Cline, guitarist occasionally looping

 

Per,

Earlier, I had seen him play many many times too. He (Nels) used to organize the "New Music Mondays" down at the old Alligator Lounge in Santa Monica, California during the early '90s. Great place, but I'm pretty sure it's no longer there though. His trio was always the closing act (going on stage about midnight or so) at these gigs. I saw him there several times. I've also played there myself. So has Jeff Kaiser (I think).

On May 2, 2007, at 2:13 AM, Per Boysen wrote:

Anyone been to gigs with him?