New(?) LaMonte Young cassette
 

For those who may be interested...

La Monte Young & The Forever Blues Band
Just Stompin / Live at The Kitchen
Signed and numbered, edition of 72 - £31.99 + postage



"Two hours, one song (never mind "song", one chord progression), no break and zero boredom... At the Kitchen in New York, pianist La Monte Young and his Forever Bad Blues Band rocked me out of my socks and into deep trance-dance hypnosis, the closest so-called art music had ever taken me to true groove heaven. This extraordinary and devilishly bewitching cassette, recorded by Young and his avant-jam combo at the Kitchen two nights later, keeps doing it again and again.

In Young’s percolating keyboard attack and the extended improv-reveries of guitarist Jon Catler and bassist Brad Catler, you can hear the same blue-note pitch swerves that have been the poetry in motion of guitarists from Son House to Jimi Hendrix. The locomotive chug of Young’s playing also swells with the Chicago rent-party exuberance of Jimmy Yancey and Little Richard’s barrelhouse hammering." - David Fricke, Rolling Stone.

"If one person can be said to have defined music's avant-garde in the last half of the 20th century, it's La Monte Young. He studied with Stockhausen, beat out Eric Dolphy for the alto spot in his college dance band, and thanks to his years as spiritual leader of the Theatre of Eternal Music, which included both John Cale and Angus MacLise planted the seeds for the Velvet Underground and all who came after them.

The Forever Bad Blues Band...has just one tune in its repertoire, but it's a stone killer: Young's Dorian Blues in G, captured for posterity on Just Stompin': Live at the Kitchen (Gramavision). It's an intensely physical, two-hour-long piece that transfigures blues progressions and through use of his "just intonation" system (which forsakes conventional "equal-tempered" notation in favor of a 49-notes-to- the-octave system) creates a listening environment that's totally unique and surprisingly easy to grasp." - David Sprague, Request.

http://www.secondlayer.co.uk/index/p3217.htm

Also available direct from Mela Foundation (http://melafoundation.org/LYrecscat.html) for US$48 + US$5 postage (US$15 postage for overseas)

Whoaaa!Thanks for this.

Possibly worth noting, the 2 CD version of Just Stompin' (I think that this cassette is the same as the second of the 2 CDs) is available from a seller on Amazon UK at the moment at £32.99 + postage: SEE HERE

£32?

The words 'Fuck' and 'Off' come to mind.

Well, yes, I couldn't have put it better myself. But to someone who wants to buy original La Monte Young stuff, £32 is a bargain. He sells his vinyl LPs for something in the region of $300.

Balls. I'd jump on that for £32, were I not penniless, even if that's an exorbitant price. One day I'll have the sort of money to buy his stuff. One day...

£32 is £32, but I don't find that expensive at all, considering that it's an edition of 72.

It's not only an incredibly limited edition but it's also by La Monte Young and i still have to hear a piece of music of his that i don't find thrilling,to say the least.


Joe Whiley

I'm not sufficiently interested in La Monte Young to think that one of his releases is worth spending £32 on, because his stuff doesn't do much for me, but I can appreciate that someone else might want to spend that, so I posted the information. Personally, I wouldn't even spend £5 on something by him. But that's just a matter of taste.

Look at him.....what a shame....

Yeah but loads of people release stuff in editions of less that 100 and don't charge £32 for it. For a fucking cassette as well. Get with the program granddad.......for fuck sake. Daylight robbery I tell you.