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On 18 sep 2006, at 00.22, hazard factor wrote: > For me too, it means 'avante-garde' or 'experimental', or 'difficult > listening' if you had never been exposed to such a thing. (not about "a solo looper" but a funny memory somewhat related to "weird") I was Exposed once... In 1980 I bought a double album of Eugene Chadbourne, bought it unheard after reading in Guitar Player about his experimentation with "prepared guitar". When listening for the first time I just couldn't believe my ears: Eighty minutes of noise sounding like someone was ripping off small pieces of paper, crunching them into small paper balls and throwing them to the floor. I think I listened through the double album three times on a row and I didn't find any sound that appeared to emanate from a guitar or even carry a melody or a rhythm. Musically I found it totally unusable, but I was amazed and inspired by the knowledge that this american weirdo had actually put that much energy into releasing this weird statement. I was also somewhat lifted by finding out that recordings could be created for communicating a statement as opposed to communicating music. But I never listened to the vinyl again ;-)) Then I really didn't think about it much until some years later when I read that Chadbourne and his japanese partner was almost beaten up by country music lovers at a concert. Then I thought that his "concept art" was way too aggressive, at least when comparing to what I myself was able to envision doing. I mean, using concept art in a provocative way that almost turns into harassment of people that do love a certain musical style. Although I hated country music myself I felt with those cowboys and understood why they got so angry. At this phase of understanding, Chadbourne's activities did not come out "weird" to me - only unluckily misplaced. Greetings from Sweden Per Boysen www.boysen.se (Swedish) www.looproom.com (international) http://tinyurl.com/fauvm (podcast) http://www.myspace.com/looproom