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>Thom:
>Power Tools? I have heard mention of that before , but I have no idea
>what it
>is. ne1??
>
Power Tools is a trio consisting of Frisell, Melvin Gibbs on bass and
Ronald Shannon Jackson on drums. A very successful "fusion" of Jacksons
harmolodic funk concept with Frisell. They did one record in about 1987 on
Antilles which is VERY nice. Pete Cosey eventually replaced Frisell, but
that line up never recorded. I have a live radio broadcast of the Tools
with Cosey, and, frankly, it just isn't that great, though I generally
really like Jackson's stuff (Decoding Society, Last Exit)
>I know this was discussed recently, but I couldn't find the post.
>
>The vinyl I have is called "Bass Desires" and I believe it is Marc
>Johnson and
>??? (someone help me here.) Frisell's playing on this record is *very*
>electric
>on this album. Although it isn't necessarily more distorted / fed back /
>or
>agitated... It just seems that the chemistry is electric. This is Frissell
>before he had his Klein. He was playing his SG on this one.
>
It's Mark Johnson's Bass Desires, Johnson on bass, Frisell and John
Scofield on guitars and (I think, too lazy to check the liner notes) Peter
Erskine on drums. This record blew my mind when I first heard it in when it
came out in the mid-80's, Frisell and Scofield sound excellent together,
though I normally am not so into Scofield. It has been issued on CD, though
I do not know if it's still in print, the ECM back catalog seems to drift
in and out of availablility.
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"...there will come a day when you won't have to use
gasoline. You'd simply take a cassette and put it in
your car, let it run. You'd have to have the proper
type of music. Like you take two sticks, put 'em
together, make fire. You take some notes and rub 'em
together - dum, dum, dum, dum - fire, cosmic fire."
-Sun Ra
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