My buddy Lance called this show "the worst thing he has ever heard" which I find hard to believe since he is a Phish fan. Haha!! Just kidding buddy love you lots.
This was an evening of Zorn, Patton, and Frith doing an all improvisation set for about an hour. Zorn on sax, Frith on guitar, and Patton doing vocals(?) and sound manipulations.
It swerves into noise set territory with atonal saxophone squalling, with Patton pattoning, and whatever Frith was doing. It's not obvious what his contribution to this is upon listening back to it. It was so long ago I can't recall. You can kind of see in the above picture lots of guitar pedals on stage so more sound manipulation.
There are moments of control in the chaos and if your into this kind of think it is pretty enjoyable. I like noise sets generally but if you saw the name Patton and start and end at Faith No More this might not be for you.
Nice MBHO capture and fairly minimal crowd noise. Enjoy
John Zorn / Mike Patton / Fred Frith
Cervantes Ballroom
Denver CO (USA)
2006-04-07
Recorded and Presented: SxPxDxCx
Source: MBHO KA-200N > JK Labs DVC-V12 > JB3
Transfer: JB3 > USB > Cooledit > CDWave > FLAC
Time: (51:57.61)
01 Improv 1
02 Improv 2
03 Improv 3
04 Improv 4
05 - encore -
06 Improv 5
thanks, nice post!!
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