John Zorn / Mike Patton / Fred Frith @ Cervantes, Denver CO, 2006-04-07

 

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

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Mike Patton and Rahzel @ The Fox, 2003-11-06

"Let me ask you a question?  You've heard of the movie Deliverance right?   Weeeeeeeeeee!!!!
Alright, Well you know that tune Dueling Banjos?  Tonight what your going to get is dueling Man Hoes"

That is Mike Patton's introduction to this performance.  Not sure how rehearsed this was and how much is just spontaneous.  Rahzel does his amazing human beat boxing and Mr. Patton does his odd vocals things and bits of popular songs.  Salt and Pepper and 50 Cent are referenced.  Part of the show Mike tunes around on the radio and the riff on some of what he dials in.  It's an hour of awesome weirdness.

Rahzel and Mike have preformed together on multiple occasions before and since this performance.  Based on a cursory Google search they performed at Coachella in 2009.  Later in this show from Boulder Rahzel mentions that they will be having a new album come out soon but sadly no album has ever been release.  The way Rahzel talks it sounds like it was s done deal but who knows.

I had no idea how to label these tracks with song titles so I didn't bother.  There are just track splits between obvious transition points.  Check it out.

I posted this as a torrent some where way back in 2003 so if you have that source know that this is a fresh transfer from the master and I did a fresh mastering job on it as well.  Consider it an upgrade.


Mike Patton and Rahzel

Fox Theater
Boulder, CO
2003-11-06

Taped and Transferred by SxPxDxCx
Source: AT933 > SP-SPSB-1 > Sharp 722 minidisc
Transfer: Sharp 722 (Analog) > SBLive > Cooledit > CDWave > FLAC
Time: (59:21.41)

01 Track
02 Track
03 Track
04 Track
05 Track
06 Track
07 Track
08 Track
09 Track
   

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