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Originally Posted by Moshe

Sonic Youth, Tortoise, Godspeed Folk on Chatham Set
Plus: Final Fantasy, Tony Conrad, Lichens, members of Hüsker Dü, U.S. Maple, Fog

One man, one chord, and a pretty enviable list of collaborators: Guitar Trio, perhaps Rhys Chatham's trademark piece, is minimal music deployed on a maximal scale.

Chatham celebrated the iconic composition's 30th birthday early last year by taking it on tour across North America with members of Sonic Youth, Tortoise, Godspeed You! Black Emperor/A Silver Mt. Zion, Hüsker Dü, Fog, Final Fantasy, and more joining in at various stops. Most performances stretched the Trio to include upwards of seven or eight guitarists-- one (Toronto) even featured a six-piece string section-- and by all accounts "epic" was the word.

Those who missed out and those who long to relive the experience alike, you're in luck. On March 4, Table of the Elements will issue "GUITAR TRIO IS MY LIFE!" from Rhys Chatham & His Guitar Trio All-Stars, a massive three-disc set collecting performances of the famed piece from across last year's tour. The set draws its name from an exclamation made by a particularly zealous fan during a previous Guitar Trio performance.

Featured on the release: Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, and Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth (in Brooklyn), John McEntire, Jeff Parker, and Doug McCombs of Tortoise (Chicago), Efrim Menuck and Thierry Amar of Godspeed You! Black Emperor/A Silver Mt. Zion (Montreal), Owen Pallett of Final Fantasy (Toronto), Rob Lowe of Lichens (Chicago, Milwaukee, Minneapolis), Andrew Broder of Fog (Minneapolis), Greg Norton of Hüsker Dü (Minneapolis), and tons more. Check out the city-by-city breakdown here, and while you're at it, have a look at the score. Not so simple after all, eh?

"GUITAR TRIO IS MY LIFE!":

Disc one:

01 Guitar Trio Pt. 1, Brooklyn
02 Guitar Trio Pt. 2, Chicago
03 Guitar Trio Pt. 1, Buffalo

Disc two:

01 Guitar Trio Pt. 2, Toronto
02 Guitar Trio Pt. 1, Montreal
03 Guitar Trio Pt. 2, Cleveland
04 Guitar Trio Pt. 1, Minneapolis

Disc three:

01 Guitar Trio Pt. 2, Milwaukee
02 Guitar Trio Pt. 1, Chicago
03 Guitar Trio Pt. 2, Brookyn

Well! isn't this a pleasant suprise! I'M ON DISC ONE! Buffalo... (btw, Tony Conrad is on the Buffalo set)
glad Rhys choose part one from the Buffalo set, from memory it was better of the two except i think the finale of pt. 2 which was for me the most intense guitar playing moment i've ever experienced!!! exciting and scary (because i never had so much ringing in my left ear after playing a show, luckily it didn't turn into permanent tinnitus!)
didn't know the score was up on his site too...

i never imagined that i'd be on a cd boxset with all these wonderful musicians... thanks rhys!