Power Tools

[klaw@iglou.com]

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>
>Power Tools was a band who made a cool album on the
>Antilles label called Strange Meeting. Bill, Melvin Gibbs,
>Ronald Shannon Jackson. Out of print, but not impossible
>to find. Probably the most aggressive (w/o the pomo
>distance of say, Naked City) work Bill's done. Reminds me
>of live Hendrix a lot of the time in that the guitar and
>drums are playing very busy back and forth, while the bass
>is trying to hold some kind of center-not that that's not
>cool, you could apply the same description to a lot of
>live Coltrane, and Melvin Gibbs is a formidable bassist
>who's way more versatile than Noel Redding was... blah >hovard@online.no
>wrote:
>
>> Power tools also did continue after Bill left with Pete Cosey( Miles )
>>taking filling the big man's shoes . As you can imagine the sound of this
>>band changed considerably . I think Cosey played abit of G synth along
>>with some keybrd work. The only recorded document of this line up that I
>>know of is a live Knitting Factory radio show tape.

>> Nels is cool > Ive seen him a few times in Santa Monica where he hosts a
>>improvisational music series every monday night.Must be on hiatus now -
>>He played here last week with Mike Watt.

                                        K Law