Music to My Ears

Musicians

See Les Clamtones and Holy Modal Rounders
  • Jefferey Fredericks
  • Michael Hurley (vocals, guitar, banjo)
  • Doug Southworth (piano, guitar)
  • Melting Snow (guitar)
  • The Mothers of Invention
  • Frank Zappa (Band)
  • Solo, collaborations, and appearances
Bruce Fowler, Tommy Mars, Larry Klimas, Mr. E. Guest, as well as Arthur, of course.
Robbie Krieger, Ike Willis, Ray White, Bruce, Walt, Steve, and Tom Fowler, Kurt McGettrick, Richard Feynman, and Arthur.
Bruce, Walt and Tom Fowler, Larry Klimas, and Arthur.
Vinnie Colaiuta, Bruce Fowler, Tommy Mars, Larry Klimas, Don Preston, and others, as well as Arthur, of course.
"When he's on, Beck is probably the best there is." - Jimmy Page
see also Automatic Slim & the Fatboys and Holy Modal Rounders
  • Jim Boyer - guitar,slide guitar,vocals
  • Dave Reisch - bass,vocals
  • Roger North - drums,percussion,vocals
  • Turtle Van Demarr - guitar,vocals
  • Alexander "Lex" Browning - fiddle, guitar,vocals
  • Peter Stampfel co-founder; fiddle, banjo, vocals; joins band on East Coast
  • Steve Weber co-founder; former member of The Fugs
  • Richard Tyler piano
  • Sam Shepard drums; Pulitzer-winning playwright & actor
  • Ted Deane
  • Jeffrey "Skunk" Baxter Steely Dan & Doobie Brothers Band member
  • Robin Remally fiddle, mandolin, guitar, vocals; joins band on West Coast
  • Dave Reisch bass. vocals
  • Michael Hurley ("Doc Snock")
  • Lee Crabtree
  • Martin Mull
  • Michael Hurley
  • Antonia
  • Jill Gross
  • John Raskin
  • Bill Hults email
  • Bill Kennedy
  • Roger North drums; North Drums; former member of Woodstock band Catharsis

            Recommended albums: Bathing at Baxters, Surrealistic Pillow

            Recommended albums: Aqualung, Passion Play

  • The Mothers of Invention (9 years)
  • Akashic Ensemble
Experimental electronic musings meet contemporary, avant garde classical styles to create imaginative soundscapes, reminiscent of John Cage, Subotnic and Stockhausen.
  • The Mothers of Invention
  • Arthur Barrow
  • Bunk Gardner
  • Amy Knoles
  • Art Jarvinen
  • Brad Dutz
  • John Lennon
  • Gil Evans
  • Carla Bley
  • Meredith Monk
The Stones are shells of their former band (with 2 of 5 members out) have put out some good material in spite of the whiney (Angie, Wild Horses) and look at me prance in front of a mirror (useless you!) strut, but it was all before Jones died (er, was offed). My count is:

Jones era (1962-1968): 34 good songs in 7 years, or 5 good songs every year
post-Jones: 9 good songs in 36 years, or 1 good song every 4 years

19th Nervous Breakdown  (1965) Jones: guitar
2000 Light Years From Home  (1967) Jones: percussion, mellotron, piano
Bitch (1970) post-Jones
Can't You Hear Me Knockin'  (1971) post-Jones
Dear Doctor  (1968) Brian Jones: guitar, harmonica
Factory Girl  (1968) post-Jones but with Rik Grech (Family, Blind Faith) and Dave Mason
Fortune Teller  (1963) Brian Jones: guitar, harmony/vocals
Get Off Of My Cloud  (1965) Brian Jones: guitar
Gimme Shelter (1969) post-Jones
Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby (Standing In The Shadows)
Hitch Hike  (1965) Brian Jones: guitar
I'm Alright (1965) Brian Jones: guitar
I'm Moving On (1965) Brian Jones: slide guitar
I'm Free  (1965) Jones: guitar, organ
It's All Over Now (1964) Brian Jones: guitar
Jig-Saw Puzzle (1968) Jones: slide guitar, mellotron
Jumpin' Jack Flash  (1968) Jones: guitar, maracas, mellotron
Let's Spend The Night Together  (1966-7) Jones: organ, vocals
Midnight Rambler   (1969) Brian Jones: guitar
Monkey Man  (1969) post-Jones
Mother's Little Helper  (1966) Brian Jones: guitar
Not Fade Away  (1964) Brian Jones: harmonica
Out Of Time  (1964) Brian Jones: guitar, vocals, piano
Play With Fire (1965) Brian Jones: tambourine
Parachute Woman (1968) Brian Jones: guitar
Prodigal Son (1968) Brian Jones: harmonica
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (1965) Brian Jones: guitar
Shattered (1977) post-Jone
She Said Yeah (1965) Brian Jones: guitar
She's A Rainbow (1967) Brian Jones: guitar, piano, mellotron, percussion, background vocals
She's So Cold  (1978) post-Jones but done with Michael Shrieve (Automatic Man, Santana)
Start Me Up  (1975) post-Jones
Stray Cat Blues (1968) Brian Jones: guitar
Street Fighting Man (1968) Brian Jones: background vocals
Sympathy For The Devil (1968) Brian Jones: sitar, tamboura
The Last Time (1965) Brian Jones: guitar
The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man (1965) Brian Jones: guitar
When The Whip Comes Down (1977) post-Jones
You Can't Always Get What You Want (1968) Jones: did not play

Mick, to me, is as useless as Stevie Nicks except that he dances around for the cameras instead of Nicks, who's moving as dead as she sounds. Mick Taylor and Nicky Hopkins weren't much for saying "no" to Jagger - and Ron Wood has Keith-like stagger presence at best, an easy vote to make Mick king. He was/is the industry's narcissist darling. They needed a model to be too full of themselves. Now, they're both fully pointless and living on borrowed time.

(def) Jaggeristic: consumer of reified dreams, producer of himself as image needing to consume his audience for  a near-depth experience.
Recommended albums: Vagabonds of the Western World, Fighting, Jailbreak, Renegade, Chinatown, Black Rose, Bad Reputation
Recommended albums: Life in the Foodchain (1978), Amerika (1980), La Bomba (1982), Romeo Unchained (1986), Notes From the Lost Civilization (1988), Ole (1997), Yugoslavia (1999), 16 Tons of Monkeys (2001)
  • Stan Ridgway lead vocalist
  • Andy Prieboy lead vocals (replaced Stan Ridgway)
  • Bruce Moreland bass, keyboards
  • Joe Nanini drums, percussion
  • Chas T. Gray keyboards
  • Ned Leukhardt drums (replaced Joe Nanini)
  • Marc Moreland lead guitar, founder
  • The Index Masters (1980)  lyrics
  • Dark Continent (1981) lyrics
  • Call of the West (1982) lyrics
  • Granma's House: Collection (1984)
  • Seven Days in Sammystown (1985)
  • Happy Planet  (1986)
  • The Ugly Americans in Australia - Live (1988)
  • Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band (1978-1981)
  • Flowerpothead
  • Robert Wiiliams Playground
  • Ting Ting
  • Hugh Cornwell (of The Stranglers)
  • Arthur Barrow (of Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention)
  • Mark Mothersbaugh (of Devo)
  • Fowler Brothers (of Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention)
  • Ike Willis (of Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention)
  • Danny Elfman (of Oingo Boingo)
  • Zoogz Rift
  • Tex and the Horseheads
  • Wild Man Fisher
  • Frank Zappa (Band)
  • Project Object
  • Ike Willis Band
  • Ike Willis Project
  • Dirty Pictures (1998)
  • Selected Works (2002)
  • Tom McGriff (guitar, vocals)
  • Steve james (guitar)
  • Rich Gooch (bass)
  • Tom Royer (drums)
Another in the line of eccentric rock experimentalists led by Zappa and Beefheart, Zoogz Rift was influenced by those two as well as figures artistic (Dali) and literary/sociological (Ayn Rand, author of the objectivist pillar Atlas Shrugged). Born in New Jersey but later a resident of California, Rift began recording in the 1979 with Idiots on the Miniature Golf Course, for Snout Records. The album began a long association with his two major collaborators, Richie Häss and John Van Zelm Trubee (also a member of the Ugly Janitors of America), and proved similar to the zany freak-out of Beefheart, to whom it's dedicated. Much of Zoogz Rift's eccentricities began to be overwhelmed by his growing musical ability in the mid-'80s, and though albums like Amputees in Limbo, Island of Living Puke and the three volumes included in the Water trilogy were hardly commercial propositions, they found Rift embracing synthesizers and samplers as well as the traditional guitars. His last LP in a long series for the punk label SST Records was 1989's Torment, after which Rift recorded for Trigon and the German label Musical Tragedies. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide
  • Torment (SST Records; 1989)
  • Idiots on the Miniature Golf Course (Snout) 1979 (SST) 1987
  • Amputees in Limbo [tape] (Snout) 1982 (SST) 1987
  • Music Sucks [tape] (Snout) 1982
  • Can You Smell My Genitals from Where You're Standing? [tape] (Snout) 1983
  • None of Your Damn Business! [tape] (Snout) 1983
  • The Diseased Confessions of Moamo Milkman [tape] (Snout) 1984
  • Ipecac (Azra) 1984 (SST) 1987
  • Interim Resurgence (Snout) 1985 (SST) 1987
  • Amputees in Limbo, Deluxe European Edition (Cordelia) 1985
  • Island of Living Puke (SST) 1986
  • Looser Than Clams ... A Historical Retrospective (SST) 1986
  • Water (SST) 1987
  • Water II: At Safe Distance (SST) 1987
  • Son of Puke [tape] (SST) 1987
  • Nonentity (Water III: Fan Black Dada) (SST) 1988
  • Murdering Hell's Happy Cretins (SST) 1989
  • Torment (SST) 1989
  • War Zone (Ger. Musical Tragedies) 1990
  • Europe 1990 (Ger. Musical Tragedies) 1990
  • Nutritionally Sound (Trigon) 1990 - Zoogz Rift and Mark Mylar

Dead Musicians (links to Tom Coleman's extensive research)

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