Re: One Guitarist, One Drummer was: Altered Tunings

[Ariel Rzezak <arzezak@gmail.com>]

Dear Rick,

you should REALLY check "The Elephant Sleeps but Stil Remember" duo  
with Jack DeJohnette and Bill Frisell.

Really BIG stuff.

Very best, Ariel.

El 16/12/2008, a las 21:17, Rick Walker escribió:

>
>
> --Mark wrote:
> "have to have a bass player.. infact it was just me, the drummer and  
> the singer, she also fired off
> samples. small band... big noise!!!"
>
> Yeah, it's cool that you said this, Mark.  Lately I"ve been  
> fascinated by the concept of a band with
> only a drummer and a guitarist (with augmenting effects).
>
> I'd never really listened to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs (mostly because  
> their singer puts me off a little bit)
> but  a friend of mine who is enamored with noise and distortion  
> guitar (and who I really respect a lot
> as a musician)  hipped me to the fact that this guitarist is really  
> cool and innovative:  and that's his
> approach.   I also found out that he is using a lot of live looping  
> to clone himself in live shows
> (to pull off parts that are obviously overdubbed on their records).
>
> I picked up a CD and an EP of their's and have really enjoyed what  
> he's doing with one guitar.
>
> Also,  my multi-instrumentalist friend, John Connell (who plays  
> everything from traditional Persian
> Ney and Daf to synthesizer to Black Metal guitar and who was one of  
> the really cool newbies at the
> festival this year)  said a really cool thing that I never thought  
> about.
>
> He said that most of the ethnic world uses this paradigm:   One  
> string instrumentalist and one
> drummer.
>
> There is an amazing amount of freedom when there is only one  
> guitarist and one drummer
> and there is also a primalness that is very cool and deep potentially.
>
> I really love that thought...................I'm just being the  
> equivalent of a Tuareg playing
> guimbry and an accompanying Bendir , when I play electric guitar and  
> drums (thanks to looping)
>
> What other single guitar/drum groups are out there, per chance?
>
> PS  by the way,   I changed the name of this thread, purposefully  
> for future researchers in our
> archives.   I think it's better to have more things to search in the  
> search archives (but I also
> am mildly afraid that I'll upset the person who started the original  
> thread when I do this)
>
>