THE FALL has had (and note, I'm counting "main" instruments that these people played only.. obviously, some guitars played bass, some drummers played keyboards, etc... if you're wondering, since Karl Burns did quite a few things, I counted him as a drummer, since that is what he did during most of the 9 times he was in the Fall...):

10 main keyboard players (also counting people credited with "sound effects", "samples", "programming" and related)
16 main guitarists
14 main bassists
12 main drummers
1 main vocalist

...

2 saxophone players
1 clarinet player
1 violin player

and a few other people who contributed backing vocals and didn't do anything else.

14 bassist? That is less then I excepted

btw,
new record (on Domino Records) coming end of 2009

!!!!!!!!!!

Oh yes!

That's some epic news

Domino is a good label for them. Hopefully now I'll actually see their new one in stores, and even better, a US tour.

The Fall are one of the last four acts I absolutely need to see live before I die (the others being King Crimson, Jandek, and Tom Waits.)

The fall always do a small dutch tour so I'm pretty jammed to see them live.

on domino.... how strange????? the fall usually release stuff on "neverheardofthem records" as john peel said once, i want to live for another year because for certain there will be a new fall album....sorry quote not entirely correct but you get my meaning.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xwssovnr2nU

I still dig The Fall after all these years even though Mark's reduced himself to a mumbling, growling drunken shadow of his former self. He was a great lyricist and story teller in the past. Check out that link above to see him at his speed fuelled best. Recent output has been sketchy I think and a little too formulaic but even though his powers are waning a Fall gig can still be dynamite. Watch out for Fall fans though...the band have long attracted chin stroking media types and even more so now the music has become more accessible...their forum can be a horribly smug and self absorbed place.

Gigs being pencilled in for October time so it looks like the new album will be out around then.

I'm not being funny, but he looks a bit like Richard Madeley in that clip.

:D Funny you should say that. I once mistook Judy for Brix in a Thresher's off license.

you don't think .... no .... it couldn't be .... could it?

"Hit the North!"

that
clip
is so
good
it
hurts
!


october fall date yes..... yeah their forum is very blazers and john coltrane pictures alright..... ha and this place isnt...... actually we are more like converse and charles mingusmingusmingus paintings daubed by the sweat of keiji haino...... and so forth

Leave The Capitol

love the fall i read in a book that mark used to work in the same docks in salford as peter hook at one point.

Maybe that's why The Fall have so many awesome bass lines?

"Play like that fuckin slagger bloke Peter cunt Hook."

yeah haha. i remember that song he did with inspiral carpets. aparently he tried to hire some of the carpets for the fall when the carpets split up.

The Fall - In-A-Hole (Live in NZ 1982)

 

This live document from an Auckland, New Zealand gig in 1982 gained notoriety more from its rare status than its quality as a live recording featuring the group in all their menacing pre-Brix era glory. The band is mostly tight, though the drumming gets a bit ropey in places, but perfection was never the Fall's reason for being. "Room to Live," "Fantastic Life," "No Xmas for John Quays," and "The Classical" are all delivered with a fury by Smith, who uses live gigs to extend and improvise on the themes outlined in the studio versions. A few rarities -- "Backdrop" and "Solicitor in Studio" -- made this worth picking up for the more than casual fan. The album was shoddily released on CD in 1997 by Cog Sinister, mastered apparently from a dusty copy of the original vinyl, skips included.


http://www.sendspace.com/file/6ve13b
http://decrepittapes.blogspot.com/20...n-nz-1982.html

this is the first live version of cowboy george, http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YMWQFGQO- i assume this will be on our future, your clutter.