On Wed, 14 Sep 1994, John Christian Vegher wrote:
quoted 6 lines Went to the Limelight last night to see Vapourspace, Prototype 909 and>
> Went to the Limelight last night to see Vapourspace, Prototype 909 and
> Bill Laswell. All played excellent sets. I couldn't believe the sounds
> Laswell was wrenching from his bass. His performance just consisted of
> him, his instrument and a huge wall of speakers about 8 feet high and 20
> feet wide.
Huh? Ok, Ok, not to be too picky or obnoxious, but first of all you did
not see Laswell onstage (if he was anywhere he was mixing, but that wasn't
too aparent anyhow). The guy onstage was Andy Hawkins, who plays guitar
for the macho jock dub/metal band Blind Idiot God. The "project" at the
Limelight show was known as Azonic.
Second, you claim he was playing a bass?!?, well I can understand
confusing Laswell, for someone else, but christ he had two guitars.
One a doubleneck Gibson, the other was an Ibanez (7 string, I believe.)
Definately not a bass in sight, unfortunately. Because it surely needed
something to spice up the otherwise dullingly self indulgent open string
with reverb and delay going through four full stacks and a rack of
proccessing gear the size of an inexpensive loft performance.
Ugh, sorry, I don't want to slight the author of the post, he appears to
have enjoyed himself, I wish I could have said the same, but bad metal
intros dragging on for 40 minutes generally depresses me.
quoted 1 line = ----->APHEX, EAT STATIC, BANCO DE GAIA!!! YESSS!!!> = ----->APHEX, EAT STATIC, BANCO DE GAIA!!! YESSS!!!
Hopefully a live performance, and not a DJing set.
Cheers,
gooey