Pete Townshend on Sun Ra

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[Rooster_Ties]

Jazz Record Mart

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

really, oh, lol- what an awesome story

[Guy Berger]

Chewy, thank you! That's a hilarious story. Pete Townsend has good taste.

[ejp626]

  On 5/12/2011 at 2:54 PM, Guy said:

Chewy, thank you! That's a hilarious story. Pete Townsend has good taste.

Oh come on now, surely we can agree to disagree on the merits of hoarding such a huge pile of Ra -- and not even listening to it! Seems unethical to me, and I won't rest easy until we've discussed it for 3 or 4 pages!

[.:.impossible]

Hahahaha

[Hot Ptah]

Now Art Yard knows where to go to get clean vinyl for any Sun Ra reissues which may require needledrops due to missing master tapes.

[Rooster_Ties]

Or rather, we HOPE Art Yard knows where to go for clean Sun Ra vinyl...

[Chuck Nessa]

Please get Pete off Sun Ra. Not a pretty picture.

[JSngry]

  On 5/12/2011 at 11:02 PM, Chuck Nessa said:

Please get Pete off Sun Ra. Not a pretty picture.

Not even if you put a comma in there.

[Chuck Nessa]

Commas are the world's excuse for travesties.

[ATR]

I've always been curious as to why Sun Ra's music appeals to rock fans who are otherwise cold to the vast majority of avant garde jazz. I guess it's the George Clinton/Phish/Grateful Dead/Fela jamminess thing that the Arkestra gets into. Used to play poker with this guy who had something like 50 Sun Ra albums and no other jazz in his collection to speak of.

Edited May 17, 2011 by ATR

[.:.impossible]

Spectacle, mystery, myth, electricity, etc.

Look up "Surrender to the Air".

[Rooster_Ties]

  On 5/17/2011 at 4:56 PM, .:.impossible said:

Look up "Surrender to the Air".

Fun project, and often overlooked.

I see copies in the dollar bins to this day, and often pick them up to pass along to the right people.

[.:.impossible]

Agreed Roo. Its been a couple of years, but I remember the last time I listened, I was actually very intrigued by the music. That disc will never find it's audience because of the notoriety and association of certain musicians involved, but there is some fantastic playing there. Bob Gullotti specifically.

[clifford_thornton]

Gullotti was/is in The Fringe, right? That's a fine band that I need to revisit.

[.:.impossible]

Yes. The Fringe. I realize now that my last sentence confused two ideas. Let me clarify that the guitarist and drummer of Phish are a part of this, though I don't think anyone would know had they used other names.

[romualdo]

  On 5/17/2011 at 4:46 PM, ATR said:

I've always been curious as to why Sun Ra's music appeals to rock fans who are otherwise cold to the vast majority of avant garde jazz. I guess it's the George Clinton/Phish/Grateful Dead/Fela jamminess thing that the Arkestra gets into. Used to play poker with this guy who had something like 50 Sun Ra albums and no other jazz in his collection to speak of.

from my own experience (having a long exposure to "Rock" & its tributaries - didn't properly get into jazz till the early 90's) it's the Detroit connection ie MC5 & the Stooges, both of whom were big fans of Sun Ra (the first MC5 LP, "Kick Out The Jams" had a tribute track to El Sonny)

Recently a friend bass guitarist (non jazz) who had lived in Melbourne for years & had jammed with the Nick Cave crowd visited me. As soon as she saw my record/CD collection there was immediate focus & comment on my Sun Ra material (It's cool to mention Sun Ra within the "alternate" rock fraternity).

[Rooster_Ties]

  On 5/20/2011 at 10:56 AM, romualdo said:

from my own experience (having a long exposure to "Rock" & its tributaries - didn't properly get into jazz till the early 90's) it's the Detroit connection ie MC5 & the Stooges, both of whom were big fans of Sun Ra (the first MC5 LP, "Kick Out The Jams" had a tribute track to El Sonny)

Recently a friend bass guitarist (non jazz) who had lived in Melbourne for years & had jammed with the Nick Cave crowd visited me. As soon as she saw my record/CD collection there was immediate focus & comment on my Sun Ra material (It's cool to mention Sun Ra within the "alternate" rock fraternity).

Perhaps I won't be needing that 'hip' replacement after all.