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Post by spacedog on Sept 11, 2020 16:29:26 GMT
Likely, Brits of a certain age wil remember Steve "Interesting" Davis, the professional snooker player from the UK who won six World Titles in the 80's. Well, he retired and got into a bit of music and into modulars. He's played as part of a prog/electronic group, but he's now issued a solo modular track on the fourth of Ian Boddy's Tone Science releases. You can judge for yourselves whether you think he was better suited to snooker, here's his track. |
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Post by 101 on Sept 11, 2020 16:56:49 GMT
Steve Davis as an electronic modular musician seems like something from a parallel universe.
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Post by Jihel on Sept 11, 2020 19:48:19 GMT
Likely, Brits of a certain age wil remember Steve "Interesting" Davis, the professional snooker player from the UK who won six World Titles in the 80's. Well, he retired and got into a bit of music and into modulars. He's played as part of a prog/electronic group, but he's now issued a solo modular track on the fourth of Ian Boddy's Tone Science releases. You can judge for yourselves whether you think he was better suited to snooker, here's his track. Thank you for the link to The Utopia Strong. I didn't know this band (yet I am interested in prog music).
The track of Steve Davis remains in the style of his Band, a sort of electro-prog...
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Post by blackhairrolledindriedblood on Sept 11, 2020 19:51:40 GMT
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Post by Jihel on Sept 11, 2020 19:54:49 GMT
the 1st link don't work (to Musicradar)...
Paul Weller, the guy of the band The Jam ? |
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Post by spacedog on Sept 11, 2020 21:01:37 GMT
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Post by blackhairrolledindriedblood on Sept 11, 2020 22:29:43 GMT
Thanks spacedog!
Yes, Jihel, Paul Weller of The Jam doing experimental tape music
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Post by blackhairrolledindriedblood on Sept 11, 2020 22:47:47 GMT
Which shouldn't come as a surprise of course, and in the context of this conversation, where we associate people who are well known for one thing, actually doing something you wouldn't expect is interesting - as in Steve 'interesting' Davis! I hope I'm not digging myself into a hole here, but I am always amazed at anybody's creative ability or just the desire to be interested and motivated enough to go and do it in the first place. It takes a lot of courage to do your own thing - A lot of the posts and videos of work on this forum endorse that.
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Post by Lugia on Sept 12, 2020 3:58:37 GMT
Paul Weller's not the only one...I recall back in the late 1970s, just before "Deguello" came out, there was a story about ZZ Top in Rolling Stone and in this, the reporter mentioned that Billy Gibbons had spent some of ZZ Top's 3 year hiatus before that album doing...SOMEthing...at IRCAM!
I think we would ALL like to know what that was...but apparently, Billy (or, more likely, his management) doesn't mention this anywhere in his bio/vita/discog.
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Post by Jihel on Sept 12, 2020 6:26:08 GMT
I had never heard of Steve Davis until now, but we're on the same wavelength (about Prog Rock) for his albums choice : Gentle Giant Magma (!!!)
Caravan Robert Wyatt Soft Machine Gong Albert Marcoeur (it's a surprise here !!!)
About Billy Gibbons at IRCAM, I think it's a journalist's invention (no trace in France about that).
From "Rock" world, the only one who came to IRCAM is Frank Zappa (at the time, mentioned in all music magazines).
About Paul Weller making experimental music, I always considered that a musician had to be curious about all the music. So many artists are locked in their style...
I remember Pete Townshend, from The Who, was fond of experimenting with "concrete" and electronic sounds. There is a documentary film about that, but I no longer find the reference.
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Post by tIB on Sept 12, 2020 6:53:30 GMT
Likely, Brits of a certain age wil remember Steve "Interesting" Davis, the professional snooker player from the UK who won six World Titles in the 80's. Well, he retired and got into a bit of music and into modulars. He's played as part of a prog/electronic group, but he's now issued a solo modular track on the fourth of Ian Boddy's Tone Science releases. You can judge for yourselves whether you think he was better suited to snooker, here's his track. I'm pretty sure he got into euro a little while back - think a friend of mine did some system demoing with him. Really nice guy apparently, and far more fun/enthusiastic than his snooker persona suggested. And what a snooker player he was! I reckon from a mindset pov if you are willing to put that much time into getting great at one particular thing it can be translated into any other field you are interest/obsessed enough in. That's not a dig at Steve - I reckon as musicians we are all somewhere further down the spectrum road than most, high performance snooker players are no different! |
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Post by rockysmalls on Sept 12, 2020 10:19:43 GMT
hell! Mr Davis mentions The Camberwell Now and likes This Heat!! not so retro-prog after all.. The Ghost Trade is one of my all time faves.. ( Wyatts Rock Bottom is terrific too ) I guess maybe i should take up Snooker to reciprocate. |
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Post by namke on Sept 12, 2020 12:50:24 GMT
I missed seeing The Utopia Strong some time ago when they played here in York (in the middle of one of those pesky mood slumps that happens — I wasn’t going out at all). The promoter (a friend of mine) had persuaded them to play whilst the snooker championships was in town, apparently the audience contained most of the BBC commentary team that night!.
I’m hoping that they might be back another year, but at the moment live music feels somewhat distant…
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Post by Lugia on Sept 12, 2020 23:00:14 GMT
I had never heard of Steve Davis until now, but we're on the same wavelength (about Prog Rock) for his albums choice : Gentle Giant Magma (!!!)
Caravan Robert Wyatt Soft Machine Gong Albert Marcoeur (it's a surprise here !!!) +1 on the "Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh" pick! Magma's stuff is...well, I was going to get really gushy there, but Magma is simply MAGMA. Really, I gave up on trying to sort them out decades ago, and the fact is that "MDK" was probably the beginning of my line of questioning (back in the early 1980s) about why New Music doesn't do anything else this simultaneously complex AND primal. It caused QUESTIONS...and it's not that often that something does that.
Also, I totally derped out on not mentioning Van der Graaf Generator! On the reissued CD of "Pawn Hearts", you have one of the missing tracks from the proposed double version of the album, a primarily Guy Evans workout called "Angle of Incidents". This thing is full of tape manipulation, musique concrete tricks, howling free jazz from Jaxon's saxes, smashing glass, raw electronics, and so on. Only 6 minutes-ish, rips your FACE off! And it's not the only time that bunch dipped into this sort of sound; Peter Hammill's "In Camera" has "Magog (In Bromine Chambers)" which is pure "classic studio" weirdness. And there's others, especially salted throughout "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers"...which, at not one but TWO points, contains SIXTEEN nonsynced mono overlays of the entire band playing simultaneously! These guys were...and STILL ARE...trouble!
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Post by Jihel on Sept 13, 2020 6:59:41 GMT
+1 on the "Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh" pick! Magma's stuff is...well, I was going to get really gushy there, but Magma is simply MAGMA. Really, I gave up on trying to sort them out decades ago, and the fact is that "MDK" was probably the beginning of my line of questioning (back in the early 1980s) about why New Music doesn't do anything else this simultaneously complex AND primal. It caused QUESTIONS...and it's not that often that something does that.
Also, I totally derped out on not mentioning Van der Graaf Generator! On the reissued CD of "Pawn Hearts", you have one of the missing tracks from the proposed double version of the album, a primarily Guy Evans workout called "Angle of Incidents". This thing is full of tape manipulation, musique concrete tricks, howling free jazz from Jaxon's saxes, smashing glass, raw electronics, and so on. Only 6 minutes-ish, rips your FACE off! And it's not the only time that bunch dipped into this sort of sound; Peter Hammill's "In Camera" has "Magog (In Bromine Chambers)" which is pure "classic studio" weirdness. And there's others, especially salted throughout "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers"...which, at not one but TWO points, contains SIXTEEN nonsynced mono overlays of the entire band playing simultaneously! These guys were...and STILL ARE...trouble!
Yes, Magma is Magma ! MDK makes sense on stage; IMHO, it's not their best studio-album. Pawn Hearts by Van der Graaf Generator, it's the only album of the band that I own, a great album ! I have the original version, but after reading your comment I'm forced to buy the reedition with bonus tracks  |
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Post by spacedog on Sept 13, 2020 12:42:30 GMT
Here's what Steve "Interesting" Davis says about his own track. Much as I hate to use the word, some interesting modules there.
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Post by Lugia on Sept 14, 2020 0:21:56 GMT
Pawn Hearts by Van der Graaf Generator, it's the only album of the band that I own, a great album ! I have the original version, but after reading your comment I'm forced to buy the reedition with bonus tracks Ahh, then you'd also have to get the "H to He Who am the Only One" reissue, because it has the other "missing original double-LP Pawn Hearts" track, a blistering version of "Octopus/Squid" from the very first album. But unlike that older version, this is the "classic" band, live in the studio, literally PEELING PAINT, especially in the last 2-3 minutes. It's a damn good thing that it came out, too...keeping a track this mindwrenching in the vaults would've been downright criminal! |
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