Fred Frith Much?

I have not checked out a lot of his solo work or much after Art Bears split. But I love his work with Art Bears and Henry Cow, so I am motivated to check out his work.

So much music to check out, so little time......

Anyway, decided to start with Massacre and it is brilliant.  Love it.

My Wayside order came in today.  Massacre's Killing Time, both Skeleton Crew albums, Death Ambient and Frith's Clearing.  



edit: LMAO iTunes calls these albums "indie rock"


Edited by Triceratopsoil - July 11 2011 at 14:54

The Fred Frith Guitar Quartet is another Frith project to look for and I haven't seen it mentioned in the thread yet.
I was mainly interested in it because it featured Doctor Nerve's Nick Didkovsky.

Also exchanged a few emails with Frith today. I want to get a hold on some sheet music for "Spring Any Day Now" and he was very nice and seemed (unless I was just completely star-struck and he just told me to bugger off) to be glad to try and help get the sheet music and to send it to me when he's home! Bucking awesome...

Edited by frippism - July 07 2011 at 05:19

Listening to Eye To Ear III.  Whoever says you can't dance to prog don't know what they are talking about.

Edited by Slartibartfast - July 07 2011 at 06:10

One of the true greats of the last 40 years. Lots of good recommendations so far - I'll just point newcomers in the direction of Keep The Dog, a live double set of his late 80s/early 90s touring band (including Charles Hayward on drums) that gives a pretty good overview of his solo albums up to that point.

Ouch, my wallet

You'd probably enjoy it, then.  Also, it's not them who covers La Grange, it's Crazy Backwards Alphabet.  And the cover is sung in Russian. 

Colin, if that FFKT album is anything like the one I have, you'll probably enjoy it.  It's not quite as avant as the other stuff, I'd say it lies somewhere between Richard Thompson's stuff and the avant stylings of the other three...plus, it's got a cover of La Grange.