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ateolfI posted a little tribute to James Chance on my fb yesterday so I'll share it here. Along with a link to "Dish It Out":
I also added a comment with a link to "I Can't Stand Myself" and these additional words:
Okay, then on my lunch break we did our TFM grocery run. Not much else up until the show at night! It was a good un'. The only negative is that the a/c is out at the Hi Tone. They've got some fans up which helped when you were in their path, but it was otherwise pretty dang hot in there. Up first was "Avery Vaughn" but though then it wasn't quite that. It was originally going to be Jack's solo guitar stuff but then he ended up putting a cover band together with Neely on vocals, (himself still on guitar), Jacques on drums, and Maggie on the other guitar. After that it was J.W. Bird playing violin through loopers and delays and such and it was really good. Then it was K.L. Clark playing banjo. He has this fretless banjo and was getting some quite Turkish/Indian sorts of sounds and tonalities out of it. He also had another banjo on the floor (I dubbed the term "floor banjo") mic'd and with an ebow so it had this light background drone throughout. He did lots of cool stuff with the banjo. Then last was Dinosauria and he did the awesome thing he always does. It was a pretty good crowd too. I picked up a cd before leaving: J.W. Bird: Narcissus at the Muddy Banks/Done Gone Got Lost. And oof, I need to catch up on sleep soon.
RIP James Chance ... His music on No New York and Buy is some of the most absolutely crucial in shaping the way I listen to music. And it all starts with hearing this song. THIS SONG! It's so rare in music that every element in a piece is so perfectly fighting against each other while cohering together. So much unfolds in the first three seconds alone. The entrance of the guitar to the entrance of the bass (that's not at all trying to sound like a bass and is definitely not trying to support the guitar part, it's kind of echoing the pattern but almost as if it's mocking it) to the saxophone that just explodes into audition. It's a little over three minutes of perfect angular aggression and it is one of the absolute peaks of recorded music.
I also added a comment with a link to "I Can't Stand Myself" and these additional words:
And I can't let it pass without marveling at how they took a song AS AMAZINGLY GOOD as James Brown's original and somehow made it EVEN BETTER!
Okay, then on my lunch break we did our TFM grocery run. Not much else up until the show at night! It was a good un'. The only negative is that the a/c is out at the Hi Tone. They've got some fans up which helped when you were in their path, but it was otherwise pretty dang hot in there. Up first was "Avery Vaughn" but though then it wasn't quite that. It was originally going to be Jack's solo guitar stuff but then he ended up putting a cover band together with Neely on vocals, (himself still on guitar), Jacques on drums, and Maggie on the other guitar. After that it was J.W. Bird playing violin through loopers and delays and such and it was really good. Then it was K.L. Clark playing banjo. He has this fretless banjo and was getting some quite Turkish/Indian sorts of sounds and tonalities out of it. He also had another banjo on the floor (I dubbed the term "floor banjo") mic'd and with an ebow so it had this light background drone throughout. He did lots of cool stuff with the banjo. Then last was Dinosauria and he did the awesome thing he always does. It was a pretty good crowd too. I picked up a cd before leaving: J.W. Bird: Narcissus at the Muddy Banks/Done Gone Got Lost. And oof, I need to catch up on sleep soon.
