andy summers show...

[andre <andre@monmouth.com>]

hey all-- 

just a tip...(positive)


if ANDY Summers is coming to your town on his short (20-25 date) tour of US
east & west coasts - do go see him - i just saw the (moderately attended)
wetlands NYC show - first of the tour, and it rocked - or actually, it
jazzed - Andy's playing a ton of standards, and standards-ish material - 
his
new CD with Tony Levin, Gregg Bissonette is awesome, if you like jazz 
guitar
with balls and modern tones.... the cd also features on one cut, Bernie
Dresel(dr) and Jerry Watts (bs) who are his fine touring band.... 

He played a red gibson 335 - thru a stereo mes simulclass amp, with 2 mesa
2X 10 or 2X12s - processing seemed to be eventide harmonizer, a litle
marshall (guvnor???) distort/pedal, maybe a lex pcm 90....

on his set list i saw stuff like Naima, Oleo, they did Afro Blue, a coupla
Wayne Shorter tunes..... great set!!

Andy is such an unsung hero - and of course a looping pioneer - from way
back in the late 60s - he's on some classic shit - Eberhard Schoener,
Dantalion's Chariot, i think even Soft Machine... not to mention several
loopy albums after the police, incl. the masterpiece twin discs with Mr 
Fripp...

So - support the dude.... buy the CD, tell your friends, go to the show -
this sucks, but he's almost a secret, yet he was in arguably the biggest
media phenom of an (excellent , innovative) band since the beatles...

check out www.andysummers.com