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Re: Harmolodics
Feb 23, 2011, 14:05
Squid Tempest wrote:
It was such a bloody essential record of it's time too - I seem to remember it alongside things like The Pop Group, Gang of Four, those kind of hard postpunkfunk kindofthings (although that may just be the context my memory has placed it in).


I think that is totally right. Not sure many bands apart from The Pop Group and Rip Rig really took the heart of that music on board in what they composed / improvised because of the sohpistication in the drumming but the guitar attack and that weird mix of African influences, jazz and Robert Fripp's non 'tronic playing with Crimson and others was very much of its time I think. Though Phil Manzanera gets a lot of the credit for that. The Fripp solo on Baby's On Fire is very "free" and harmolodic in its own way. Would love to know how many people listened to that record and found it took their guitar playing away from the Blues basics.
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