Thurston in Trad Gras Och Stenar DVD

Moshe · 10.21.2007, 02:28 PM

Trad Gras Och Stenar
Live From Moja To Minneapolis
Gashud G2007-10-17
DVD
£16.99

Over the past few years the two ‘comeback’ artists whose re-incarnated performances have fried my brain as thoroughly as the arc of their original trails have been Simon Finn and Trad Gras Och Stenar. Trad Gras were birthed from the seminal Parson Sound/International Harvester axis and seeing them make their way across the USA with The No-Neck Blues Band or their amazing show at the Minneapolis Freedom From/De Stijl fest or with Bardo Pond in Philadelphia turned my whole concept of ‘the jam’ on its head by the way they would work the most monolithically simple blues runs into quicksilver hymns to the inherent ecstasy potential of extended repetition and staggered nod-out rhythms. They sounded exactly the fucking same as they did when they first thought to seed The Rolling Stones with Terry Riley and the aura they projected from the stage was honestly beatific, with the guitarists just beaming and smiling at everyone while they group-minded us with modal fuzz solos like they had just spiked our coke and we all realised it was for our own good. So the arrival of this excellent DVD is pretty cool. It documents the whole saga of the reactivated group as they take the jams back to the people and across 118 minutes we jump cut through some primo live footage of the band who seem to be pretty much ‘on’ every single night, all cut up with documentary footage of them on the road, at home, hanging out with The No-Neck Blues Band, Thurston Moore, Paul Flaherty etc. Pick of the bunch might be the footage from Minneapolis where Rita Ackermann from Angelblood et al gets up and dances with them on-stage but truthfully there’s a ton of meat here. There’s also some tantalising bonus colour footage of the original group from 1970 jamming at some outdoor hippy fests. I go back to this stuff so much and there’s just so much in here that you’ll find yourself reaching for it every time you have a few friends over who are ready to get seriously loaded. Region 0.

Everyneurotic · 10.22.2007, 11:34 PM

trad gras are great!!

10.21.2007, 02:28 PM	#1
Moshe Super Moderator Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 5,889	Trad Gras Och Stenar Live From Moja To Minneapolis Gashud G2007-10-17 DVD £16.99 Over the past few years the two ‘comeback’ artists whose re-incarnated performances have fried my brain as thoroughly as the arc of their original trails have been Simon Finn and Trad Gras Och Stenar. Trad Gras were birthed from the seminal Parson Sound/International Harvester axis and seeing them make their way across the USA with The No-Neck Blues Band or their amazing show at the Minneapolis Freedom From/De Stijl fest or with Bardo Pond in Philadelphia turned my whole concept of ‘the jam’ on its head by the way they would work the most monolithically simple blues runs into quicksilver hymns to the inherent ecstasy potential of extended repetition and staggered nod-out rhythms. They sounded exactly the fucking same as they did when they first thought to seed The Rolling Stones with Terry Riley and the aura they projected from the stage was honestly beatific, with the guitarists just beaming and smiling at everyone while they group-minded us with modal fuzz solos like they had just spiked our coke and we all realised it was for our own good. So the arrival of this excellent DVD is pretty cool. It documents the whole saga of the reactivated group as they take the jams back to the people and across 118 minutes we jump cut through some primo live footage of the band who seem to be pretty much ‘on’ every single night, all cut up with documentary footage of them on the road, at home, hanging out with The No-Neck Blues Band, Thurston Moore, Paul Flaherty etc. Pick of the bunch might be the footage from Minneapolis where Rita Ackermann from Angelblood et al gets up and dances with them on-stage but truthfully there’s a ton of meat here. There’s also some tantalising bonus colour footage of the original group from 1970 jamming at some outdoor hippy fests. I go back to this stuff so much and there’s just so much in here that you’ll find yourself reaching for it every time you have a few friends over who are ready to get seriously loaded. Region 0.
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10.22.2007, 11:34 PM	#2
Everyneurotic invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mexico Posts: 15,713	trad gras are great!! __________________ Richard Clayderman found alive and still bland! Repo Man has all night! Photographic evidence of Monosodic's existance! New Kiddieriot shit after all! Never too late to share fave rex from the year before! David Keenan is a douchebag! Ron Asheton missed!
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