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Re: NELS CLINE & GREGG BENDIAN - INTERSTELLAR SPACE
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