Re: OT: Gig with Damo

[Kevin Cheli-Colando <billowhead@gmail.com>]

Hey Mark,

That's awesome you got to play with the legendary Damo!  Can you tell
me (us) more about how he pulls it off?  Does he really just get a
group of people and run a full imrov set with everyone doing their
best to keep together or does he have some kind of guiding strategy
for the thing.

He seems like a really nice guy too.

Kevin

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:32 AM, mark francombe <mark@markfrancombe.com> 
wrote:
> Hi guys...
>
> Just boasting really, but I had a fab time last Thursday when I was one 
> of
> the band to play with Damo Suzuki in Oslo. It went so well, considering 
> none
> of us had ever played together, we just kinda gelled! And 1 hour 40 mins 
> (I
> kid you not) just zipped by!!!
>
> We were slightly bummed cos I got my film dudes to shoot it, but
> unfortunately teh desk recording got fucked up, so the audio here id just
> from a camera mike, but that too seems to go a bit weird after a bit.
> Anyway, its just the first 13 mins, so there may be better later.. gonna
> take a while to go thru. This bit is quite retrained, and we got pretty 
> wild
> later on.. Twas a big band too, with 2 drummers (including Ted Parsons, 
> from
> Prong, Killing Joke, Pil, Swans) and a couple of members of Radio9, one 
> of
> the best motorik rock bands from the UK, who moved to Oslo a few years 
> back.
> Enjoy...
>
> http://vimeo.com/59392680
>
> Psst.. no looping in this clip, but sneaked some in later...
>
>
> --
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