Alright music post. Been a minute heh. Its a little ironic that I'm listening to Boogie Down Productions "By All Means Necessary" as I post this. Not that it reminds me of this record in any way at all,but more of a sense that BDP in their grass roots 4/4 primitive loops and KRS yelling at you is the polar opposite of this freakout. Yea,its more than a record. Easily some of the most insane minutes in my entire collection. It begins with a quiet piano introduction...could be anything...anyone...something pleasant...I could play this for my pep-pep and he'd enjoy it*...then all of a sudden SAXOPHONE/XYLOPHONE/BASS/DRUMS EXPLOSION OUT OF NOWHERE on a level only ever measured in Frank Zappa songs (this dude gives Ruth Underwood a run for her mallets for sure) and then right back to the quaint soft piano that guided us in from the start,cradling you and making you feel comfortable after that bombardment WHICH COMES RIGHT BACK AT YOU TEN TIMES HARDER. Somewhere between Frank's finest Apostrophe/Over-Nite Sensation and Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire grooves melded with one of the smoothest pianists this side of Cecil Taylor. It gets funky. It gets up and down scales with a ferocity. It swells down just to bring you right back up. Intense. Stupefying. A damn shame that this 19 year old nutjob left the music scene soon after this record was released. Or maybe not...he never got to reach the '80s. Synthesizers. Dayglo. Commercialism. Its a harsh reality that too many good ones fell to.*My pep-pep (or Grandpa Pete if you wanna get down to brass tacks and quit using Tim & Eric quotes) isn't exactly how I portrayed him in the pretentious blog posting. From what I remember,he was a Jazz man himself,with a gargantuan record collection. This was years ago mind you,when I was a tot stranded in the slums of Chicago with Mancow Muller warping my brain and the first time I bought Black Flag "Damaged". Now Im trailing. He's not a sissy like most pep-peps. I painted the picture of textbook music listeners is what I was trying to get at. My pep-pep is rad.
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