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Obscurities In The Dark
Hosted by Paul Kurzweil

Show #1
3/7/03

(Artist/Song/Album/Year)
(Notes)

Part I
L. Shankar/Little Stinker/Touch Me There 1979
Produced by Frank Zappa, Simon Philips, drums; Phil Palmer, guitar

New Tony Williams Lifetime/Red Alert/Believe It 1975
Allan Holdsworth, guitar

Fire Merchants/(And Again) Hamsterdammed/Landlords of Atlantis 1994
John Goodsall (of Brand X); Doug Lunn, bass; Toss Panos, drums

Jan Akkerman & Thijs van Leer/Indian Summer/Focus 1986

Grand Funk Railroad/Out To Get You/Good Singin' Good Playin' 1976
Produced by and guitar solo by Frank Zappa

Mike Keneally/'Cause Of Breakfast/Boil That Dust Speck 1994
Guitarist, keyboardist, and vocalist for Frank Zappa tour, 1988, and
an all-around swell human being, let me tell ya!

Part II
Quiet Sun/Sol Caliente/Mainstream 1975
Phil Manzanera, Brian Eno and crew, before '801'
engineered by Rhett Davies

Bebop Deluxe/Adventures in a Yorkshire Landscape/Live in the Air Age 1977
Bill Nelson, guitar

Tempest/Upon Tomorrow/Tempest 1973 (recorded Oct/Nov 1972)
Allan Holdsworth, guitar & violin
Anyone have any releases with Allan Holdsworth older than this, or is this his first?

Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe/I'm Alive/I'm Alive CD-single 1989
Not included on the album (also includes a live version of 'Birthright.')

Part III
Jethro Tull/Scenario/Audition/No Rehearsal/The Chateau D'Isaster Tapes 1972
Aborted sessions from France prior to 'A Passion Play'
by special request

Interlude - Naked City/Ujaku/Naked City 1990
John Zorn w/Bill Frisell, guitar; Fred Frith, bass;
Wayne Horvitz, keyboards; Joey Baron, drums

Mick Karn (of Japan)/Bestial Cluster/Bestial Cluster 1993
David Torn, guitar; Joachim Kuhn, keyboards

Frank Zappa/Easy Meat (original)/Crush All Boxes 1980
The version of this song that ended up being released (on 'Tinseltown Rebellion')
cuts to a different show for the solo section. This is from the original concert
in its entirety. Why he cut this solo out I'll never know. Listen to those bends...

Steve Howe (of Yes)/Sharp On Attack/Guitar Speak 1988
Compilation album of guitarists

Part IV
Jan Akkerman (of Focus)/Fresh Air/Profile 1972

Jane Siberry/Temple (Orinoco Mix)/Temple CD-single 1993
Produced by and oboe played by Brian Eno
Not included on the album 'When I Was A Boy'

Interlude - Naked City/Hammerhead/Naked City 1990

David Torn/Mick Karn/Terry Bozzio/This is the Abduction Scene/Polytown 1994

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PK's random anecdote for the week:

I saw David Torn play with Mick Karn and Bill Bruford, in Boston in the mid 1980's, supporting Torn's album 'Cloud About Mercury.'

Torn came out and said 'Hi, I'm Michael Jackson, and I'm Bad."

Just as Bruford went to sit down at the drums, some guy yelled out 'BILL! WE LOVE YOU!"

He stands back up, leans over to a drum mic and very seriously and courteously says:
"Thank you. I love you too, Sir."

I swear Mick Karn was wearing the exact same huge dangling earring that he wore back when Japan filmed 'Oil On Canvas.' He didn't do any tiptoeing across the stage, though.

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Many thanks to Davin at Aural Moon, as well as my pals Ray, Daryll, and William,
for lending their tremendous talents for this production.

Obscurities In The Dark is produced by Paul Kurzweil
Original music and content ©2003 Mutant Music Co.,
administered by Kurzweil Music Publishing, BMI

Send your thoughts to obscurities@kurzweil.net

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Thanks for the post Paul. I really enjoyed the show Friday night. Would you make your playlists available after (or before if you can) your show on Friday as a regular feature?

Cheers!:)

Thanks for your support! The complete playlist including notes about the tracks (plus a random anecdote) will appear immediately after the show airs.

This week I'm going to experiment with 2 one-hour segments instead of 4 half-hour ones in an attempt to streamline the production process (and limit how many times we have an interruption in the music).

Obscurities In The Dark continues Friday March 14 from 9 - 11pm EST.

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Sorry it's late but thank you for playing the Jethro Tull stuff on your first show.

It was really good to hear some of that music again.

I got the Jan Akkerman album "Profile" off the shelf afterwards and gave it a spin again. I'd forgotten how good it was.

Have you heard any of the Thijs van Leer "Introspection" albums? May be a bit too 'Classical' for this forum but really nice to listen to nevertheless.

Nice one Paul!!!

Looking forward to the next one. More Bill Nelson perhaps?

Glad to hear you enjoyed the Tull and Akkerman. I'm going to dig up Akkerman's first band Brainbox for a future show, but before that you'll be hearing the audio from that amazing Focus DVD I just got. I do have all 3 of van Leer's Introspection albums, but as you said they may not be suitable. Perhaps his album 'Nice To Have Met You' would work.

You want Bill Nelson? You got it. I must say he's probably one of the most underrated artists out there, besides being a monster guitarist (and the reason I started using the E-Bow years ago).

I have plenty of his stuff to choose from, but I sure wish I had all those vinyl EPs he released to his fan club. If he'd only compile them all and release them on CD!

In and out of focus!
 

Paul, Good news about the Bill Nelson. He is underrated by many as you say.

You mention playing Brainbox in the future. Have you considered doing a slot on Bands and their spin offs to see how various band members styles change when they move on? I was thinking (again) of Jethro Tull.......just the original line up as it could get VERY messy otherwise.
You have:
Ian anderson.........Solo albums 'Walk into Light', 'Divinities' and 'The Secret Language of Birds'
Mick Abrahams.......Various albums with Blodwyn Pig and the Mick Abrahams Band.
Glenn Cornick.........3 Albums with Wild Turkey (good to play around thanksgiving) and a couple with Paris (Bob Welch on Guitar.......pretty heavy stuff)
Clive Bunker...........One solo album but numerous guest appearances most notably on Steve Hillage's Live Album.

Is the Focus DVD the one released by 'Masters from the Vaults'? This has live recordings of Hamburger Concerto and Anonymous II on it and seeing those again took me back to some GREAT gigs that used to be put on in London in the Seventies at Sunday Lunchtimes.......They were called 'A Sunday Joint' and bands like Focus, Hawkwind, Phlo and Eddy and Magic Michael would play for hours. Great Days!!!!

Keep it up...great show.

Sure Keith, but that could get intense, especially with just 2 hours. Can you imagine trying to do that for a band like Yes?

Yeah, the Focus DVD I have is Masters From The Vault. I almost wet myself when I saw this...not one second of that footage have I seen before.

I can only imagine the shows you saw back then. You damn lucky European, you!

Since you're in London, I want you to go and find Bill Nelson, walk right up to him and give him a big kiss for me. If he punches you out, I'll pay the doctor bill. ;)

Paul,

As an avid Nelson fan you probably know this site but just in case.......

http://www.billnelson.com/start.htm

It has a good list of all Bill's releases and colaberations.

If I ever manage to track him down I'll certainly say hello for you but Kiss Him?...........Oh, all right then! Anything for a mate!!

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Kieth;
Great suggestion on band spin-offs.

Blondwyn Pig "A head Rings Out" is one of my absolute favorites! Just curious if you have heard any of the re-formed Blondwyn Pigs albums?

Also the Paris albums (I prefer the first one) were pretty heavy indeed. I found the addition of the Nazz drummer Thom Mooney to be pretty intreresting! Two Brits and a Yank seems to be a rare but worthwile conglomeration in certain cases (Jimi Hendix Experience, etc.).

These are some of the reasons why I listen to Aural Moon. You just can't hear any of this material on commercial radio these days.

Regards
Aerofoil