Show #1 Playlist

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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.

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