Dual Steinbergers

klaus486 · #1 03-29-2011, 04:12 AM

YouTube - Ronald Shannon Jackson's Decoding Society 1 / 4

Discuss............ I F'ing loves me some RSJ.

Codymb · #2 03-29-2011, 05:18 AM

What was that?! That was easily one of the worst things I've ever heard.

Is that what happens when you have two basses in one band? Everything goes to hell?

waleross · #3 03-29-2011, 05:25 AM

Two drummers are ok, stand-up bass and electric bass great but two electric basses.....please its two early in the AM and I have not had my coffee......................

Codymb · #4 03-29-2011, 05:26 AM

It sounds like they're all on drugs... but they're all on different drugs.

Melik · #5 03-29-2011, 05:36 AM

This really sounds horrible. Still not as bad as Naked City

Richland123 · #6 03-29-2011, 12:08 PM

Obviously, you never heard Last Exit.

Last Exit was a British jazz fusion band formed in Newcastle upon Tyne England in 1974, and is best remembered as the group Sting was in before finding stardom with The Police. The band name came from the book Last Exit to Brooklyn. Last Exit was composed of drummer Ronnie Pearson (also of the Phoenix Jazzmen), guitarists John Hedley and then Terry Ellis, keyboardist Gerry Richardson, and bassist and singer Sting. Sting and Richardson left the band in 1977.

What a way out there band musically

YouTube - Last Exit - Destination-Out (1986)

YouTube - LastExit , Bochum 1988

YouTube - Last Exit - Discharge

Hoover · #7 03-29-2011, 01:47 PM

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Originally Posted by klaus486

I F'ing loves me some RSJ.

Hells yeah! Eye On You may well be my favorite album in the whole world! There's something so infectious and visceral about the way RSJ intimates that he knows exactly where every single micro-subdivision of every beat is, and yet at the same time staunchily refuses to actually articulate any of them.

klaus486 · #8 04-02-2011, 12:55 AM

Ok I get why people don't like RSJ. It's way out man! But for me I've looked up all the man's music and can appreciate the links and threads, the whys of this music. You have to understand Ornette Coleman a bit or... alot. You have to understand Cecil Taylor. Good luck! Unfortunately the quality available on youtube etc ...doesn't do any of it justice. It's an abstract a mix of Texas football marching band with NYC downtown jazz via African satellite transmission from the Great Unknown. I love all of it.

My fave RSJ story is.... Bill Laswell produced some minor European dance hits for a couple of African guys living in Paris. Radio Hits, talk of the town, hot. Laswell shows up with Last Exit to play in Paris this............http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYwhQ...eature=related