PBS Soundstage - Laswell, Bootsy, Buckethead & others broadcast tonight

[TheSuzie]

This is being broadcast in the USA tonight - many east coast stations at 10 PM with some repeats over the next few days on some stations.

"Bill Laswell: Axiom Sound System: Musical Freezone" Episode #1303.
Bill Laswell performs with Buckethead, Material and Bootsy Collins.

http://www.pbs.org/wttw/soundstage/laswell/bio.htm

Enjoy,
S

[Scalestein]

awesome, you just made my night. Can't wait to see Buckethead, and bootsy too

edit: ahh cruel joke, i have to wait until tuesday to see it it turns out!

[The Lynchinator]

I saw it last night at 12ish. Whicked good. Bucket head does some slap guitar, and the he puts it down and does a bunch of break dancing on stage. It's awesome. Plus, theres some good Tabla type stuff going on at the beginning, and a cool jam after that with some foreign instruments. Bootsy comes on and does some rapping, no bass playing, unfortunately.

And, as Bootsy says, "There aint no party like a Laswell party cause a Laswell party don't stop!"

It's just too bad that it's only an hour long, cause it's so good, that it seems way shorter.

[TheSuzie]

Originally Posted by The Lynchinator

Plus, theres some good Tabla type stuff going on at the beginning, and a cool jam after that with some foreign instruments. Bootsy comes on and does some rapping, no bass playing, unfortunately.

Yeah in the first part, that was Zakir Hussain on tabla, an absolute master. The kora was played by Foday Musa Suso, and the congas by Aiyb Dieng, both also excellent. Suso and Dieng toured and recorded with Laswell/Material in Japan in 1992. A lot of the music in that first part of the show grew out of what they were playing during that period, though some of that music probably has much older traditional roots.

Buckethead makes me want to ebay the guitars in the house...
There is that one part where Laswell finally cranks in the distortion and plays as basically a power trio with Buckethead, Brain on drums and later some accents & groove (was that still DJ Spin?) on turntable. Anyway that part kind of reminded me of Cream except that Bill Laswell wanked a lot less than Jack Bruce

The fact that Bootsy never touched a bass was a bit of a letdown, I wonder if there was some sort of contractual issue involved *shrug*.

Peace,
S

[superbassman2000]

i am watching it right now...and that first jam was absolutely perfect, with the awesome tabla solo...

now i am on the second song, and all i can say is give me a pharoah sanders sax solo over charlie parker any day

EDIT: plus its cool that Brain was the drummer for the buckethead song

[superbassman2000]

wow...what a great show!

[TheSuzie]

My hair actually stood up on my head when I saw/heard Pharoah Sanders. Parker and Sanders are just two totally different flavors of greatness. I like both for different reasons. Now I wnat to run out and get ice cream....gota drop that flavor metaphor 8)

[mrpackerguy]

I can't help but try and figure out what bass gear is being used. I didn't see the show.

Anyone?

[Chunk-O-Funk]

I only caught the last ten minutes or so. I'll have to watch out for a repeat.

<Napoleon Dynamite>Buckethead has mad nunchuck skills</Napoleon Dynamite>

[superbassman2000]

Originally Posted by mrpackerguy

I can't help but try and figure out what bass gear is being used. I didn't see the show.

Anyone?

bill had ampeg cabs, and it sounded like he had a flanger (or chorus) on the whole time...i know for his envelope filter he had an FX25

[bigfatbass]

from what I'v eseen over the years, bootsy only plays bass with a full rig and his own band. I've never seen him "sit in" on anything that wasn't a vocal performance.

[Passinwind]

Originally Posted by TheSuzie

My hair actually stood up on my head when I saw/heard Pharoah Sanders. Parker and Sanders are just two totally different flavors of greatness. I like both for different reasons. Now I want to run out and get ice cream....gota drop that flavor metaphor 8)

Yeah, it was amazing to see Pharoah still sounding so great after a zillion years on (or maybe not) this planet. He seemed really old when I saw him at Jazz Alley 20 years ago. The Tabla Beat Science set was really cool too. The Buckethead and Bootsy sequences didn't light me up nearly as much, but it was still all cool in my book.

[JAUQO III-X]

During the Buckethead section before Bootsy came out guitarist Pete Cosey was sitting in(he was sitting in a chair very close to the stage in the lower left side of the screen).

[bassist15]

I saw a little bit of this last night. I started watching when Laswell was playing with the sax player , and someone was playing an exotic instrument. I really enjoyed the show. The trio with Buckethead , Laswell , and Brain was great. Brian is a very great drummer. I have CCBOBB with Claypool but I always thought they bass shouldve been groovier on that album. What Praxis albums are good? I really enjoyed Laswell's playing , that was the first time i head him.

[JimK]

I didn't see all of this...'bout time PBS gave the likes of the Dixie Chicks, et al the week off.

The parts I caught looked like Material (Laswell, Hamid Drake, Pharoah, etc) doing what they're up to nowadaze (Ethnic, almost ambient-trance-groove)...then Bucketmeister & Brain for some energy-Rock.
Pretty cool for a Saturday afternoon channel surf.

[JimK]

Originally Posted by bassist15

I really enjoyed Laswell's playing , that was the first time i head him.

Well, you're in luck...there's plenty more.
Laswell has played bass on about 2000 records.

P-bass through Ampeg amps (w/ some kinda flanger)...nice fat tone.
A fellow Talk Basser recently sent me a DVD of Material & Hancock's latest version of the Headhunters w/ Marcus Miller.
Laswell's P-bass & Ampegs sounded 100% better than Miller's hot-rodded Jazz & EBS stuff.

[geshel]

The Buckethead portion was pretty disappointing for me. He's got skills, but what he played just sounded like a random mixture of bits and pieces.

[Mojo-Man]

Seen it.
Great stuff.
I dug, Bill's tone.
Hand drum player Killed?

[superbassman2000]

Originally Posted by geshel

The Buckethead portion was pretty disappointing for me. He's got skills, but what he played just sounded like a random mixture of bits and pieces.

i thought it was alright, but i kinda laughed when that song that buckethead, bill and brain did sounded a bit like New Kids on the Block's "hangin' tough"

[DaveBeny]

Looking forward to seeing this. God bless bittorrent!