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A musician whose body of work you love
One musician, not a band.
Ed Kuepper: - Guitarist for The Saints in the 70's - Guitarist and vocalist for the Laughing Clowns in the 80's - Guitarist and vocalist for The Aints in the 90's - As well as a solo career from 1985 onwards |
Ed's great.
Nick Cave. Bob Dylan. Tom Waits. |
tara jane o'neil
rodan retsin sonora pine solo |
Luke Sutherland:
long fin killie bows music a.m. |
Don Fleming (Velvet Monkeys, Half Japanese, Gumball and many guest appearances)
Mary Timony (Autoclave, Helium, The Spells, solo, etc) Christina Billotte (Autoclave, Slant 6, Quix*o*tic, Casual Dots) |
john coltrane
tom waits jim o'rourke me |
Heh, Don Van Vliet? That probably doesn't count, so: Mukai Shutoku. Seiichi Yamamoto. Rick Bishop. Jim O'Rourke. Yoshimi P-We. David Grubbs. eYe. Tatsuya Yoshida. Trey Spruance. Fred Frith. Hisako Tabuchi. Too many to even mention, really.
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ian williams
thurston moore thomas mery kieran hebden steve albini jim o'rourke |
A random one would be Merzbow because his body of work does need more and more global recognition. They should teach his music in schools and deservedly so.
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If I pick just one I'd have to say Fred Frith. In terms of musical output the guy is a monster. In addition to countless solo albums he has collaborated with too many musicians to count and been a vital member of numerous groups such as Naked City, Henry Cow, the Art Bears, Massacre and Skeleton Crew. He excels at both composition and improvisation and is a virtuoso on guitar as well as accomplished performer of various instruments. Genius.
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Derek Bailey, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, Masami Akita, Mark E. Smith, Keigi Haino, Fred Frith, John Fahey, Sonny Sharrock, Nick Cave, Iannis Xenakis, Ennio Morricone, John Zorn, Thurston Moore, Oren Ambarchi, eYe, Masonna, Glenn Branca, Ian Mackaye, Rhys Chatham, O'Rourke, Sir Richard Bishop, Jimi Hendrix, Daniel Menche, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, C.C.C.C..
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Good question. I was meeting a friend who would rather die than seeing someone like Merzbow live. I have decided to make it a point of going to many more gigs this year 'cause I feel like I've been slacking for the past 2 quite a bit. I'm trying to make it more of a point to my friends that after work they will have to go through sonic torture in order to feel honoured of my presence. |
i should throw in richard d james for good measure as well.
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Ian Mackaye
Micheal Gira |
Nick Drake
Tim Buckley Scott Walker Neil Young Serge Gainsbourg Jeff Buckley |
i think naming solo artists/jazz band leaders is cheating
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I love almost everything these musicians have ever done/been involved with (music wise (he he he)).
Joni Mitchell Todd Rundgren Elliott Smith Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Cedric Bixler-Zavala Wayne Coyne Evan Dando Chan Marshall the list goes on......................................... |
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i was gonna name some, but i think ya'll already named everything i was gonna. :(
oh wait, damien jurado, no body said him. |
Neil Young
I love his acoustic guitar work. I love his electric stomp skronk I love his harmonica playing, my favorite rock n roll harmonica ever I love his singing I love neil young and his grizzled canadian self. |
shit i cant believe i forgot neil young and albini!
more: john lennon, john cage, john cale, lou reed, lydia lunch, fuck it i saying it, beefheart. |
I haven't heard all of his work, but it seems to me everything Will Oldham does is golden.
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not everything, trust me on that. he has a very lax way of recording, he basically just picks whatever of his musician friends are availible and record. sometime the spontanaity of this recording style makes for some beautiful songs (i see a darkness, viva last blues, etc..) and sometimes its pretentious bullshit (lots and lots and lots of stuff). |
Sun Ra
John Cage Brian Eno Glenn Branca Chrix Knox (Tall Dwarfs, solo) Laurie Anderson Amy Denio Crank Sturgeon Michael Griffen (Noggin, Behead the Profit No Lord Shall Live, Arty Smudges Trio) Lou Reed (give or take a couple records, but I love close to 90%) Edward Ka-spel |
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Yeah, I know he was in Toy Love, I just haven't heard that material despite having several Tall Dwarfs and solo albums. His painting is also mind-blowingly good. He stayed in my apartment in Olympia when he was on tour in the late '90s and we hit it off pretty well. He's a fun guy if you can handle some massively strong personal opinions (he hates Alex Chilton for instance, which I thought was really odd). |
two more:
kevinn drum weasel walter |
kevin drumm*
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Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Nick Drake, Syd Barrett
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Billy Childish. John MacIntyre. Mike Watt. Nels Cline. Jerry Lee Lewis. Son House. Charly Patton. DJ Primier
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Again I agree with you Death, he recorded fewer than 20 tracks with Pink Floyd, and the rest is just solo stuff. Its not really a very broad output yet, however in '06 a lost live recording of Syd Barrett and The Stars was unearthed, and a release was discussed. Maybe if that surfaces we'll have more of a body of work to talk about. But y'know, I still love him, as my avatar suggests...
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Neil Young & Lucinda Williams.
I more or less love everything that these two solo artists have done. I enjoy other solo artists of course... David Bowie, Bjork, Joni Mitchell, etc... but they have spotty catalogues that I'm not consistently crazy about. Neil Young and Lucinda Williams on the other hand manage to please me time and again. In fact, thinking about them in this context makes me realize how great it would be to see them collaborate somehow together! YIKES!!! BIG EDIT::: Nina Simone..... the late great......... can't believe I forgot her as a third mention. |
Sun Ra
Tony Conrad John Coltrane/Alice Coltrane Ennio Morricone Beethoven Diamanda Galas Coil Sonic Youth Afrika Bambata Loop Current 93 Throbbing Gristle Paganini ESG Merzbow Mo Tucker (modest output but made only decent records) John Barry Burt Bacharach Joe Meek Nico Nina Simone Delia Derbyshire Nurse With Wound Angus Maclise (Ok, I just want to believe that one day more of his music will surface) and on and on and on and on and on and on................................................ ... |
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