Fred Frith - Episode 30 - The ProgCast with Gregg Bendian
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- Fred Frith has changed the worlds of guitar, guitar sound, rock songs, rock bands, improv, and beyond. We chat about Fred's early years, Henry Cow, Art Bears, Massacre, and Skeleton Crew, plus Captain Beefheart, Derek Bailey, and John Cage come up too.
Gregg Bendian is now available for Zoom music lessons. Drums, composition, improvisation and more, at www.bendianmusic.com
GREGG BENDIAN is a percussionist/composer/producer/educator/podcaster from Teaneck, New Jersey. During his wide-ranging career he has toured internationally and recorded with Todd Rundgren, Jan Hammer, The Mahavishnu Project, Keneally-Bendian-Lunn, The Musical Box, John Zorn, Derek Bailey, Nels Cline, Cecil Taylor, Pat Metheny, Ornette Coleman and Zoot Horn Rollo. On the academic front, Gregg develops and teaches courses in studio production aesthetics, music history, and composing/arranging at William Paterson University of New Jersey. For the Yale Oral History of American Music, he has contributed over 100 expansive interviews with major figures including Wayne Shorter, Sonny Rollins, Quincy Jones, Carla Bley and Steve Reich. Bendian is archivist/producer for the Bottom LIne Archive of historic concerts. Recorded over 30 years at the Greenwich Village venue, the series features discs by Jack Bruce with Billy Cobham, The Brecker Bros, Lou Reed/Kris Kristofferson, Pete Seeger/Roger McGuinn, and Doc Watson. An accomplished percussionist and a composer of over 200 works, he has created a body of innovative music for jazz, rock, percussion (solo and ensemble) and mixed chamber groups, which include his Interzone and Trio Pianissimo bands. Gregg's music is published by Iamuziks (ASCAP). Begun in August of 2020, The ProgCast explores the creative process and musical history of a diverse assortment of cutting edge artists.
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Thank you very much for this wonderful interview with Fred Frith. I am so indebted to him, and the amazing Henry Cow, and the music he introduced to me.
Thank you for listening! Fred is truly an inspiring musician.
Best Fred Frith interview I've ever heard, thanks so much to both of you for doing it!
Thank you for listening!
Fred's comment's regarding greed and in particular, the presence of greed as an essential element within the human condition are interesting. It dovetails nicely with the themes in "The World as it is Today". I first heard that record in 1982 (Jr. year of college), near it's release time. I too was absolutely floored by the "in your face" manner in which it confronted and attacked the more malignant and destructive aspects of Capitalism. The record has grown in relevance for me as I have grown older.
It is as they say. "heavy."
Wow, Fred was a Beefheart fan. Met him in NY in the early 80s at 16 years of age. Saw him many times over the years. Always so unassuming and accessible to his fans. Thank you, Fred.
Very cool. I loved hearing all the mentions of all the musicians I love so much from the lips of one of my all time heroes. From Beefheart to Miles to Dave Stewart, and of course Robert Wyatt, what a great interview with a brilliantly creative and extremely underappreciated modern treasure of progressive music. Thanks for uploading this
"We don't want it to sound like Christmas bells" -- I love that Derek Bailey story so much! Thanks for this interview.
Hope you guys come back to Brazil more often in the future...
Just been listening to ‘Western Culture’ again, so this is a such a treat.
I had the good fortune to see Fred, Tony Oxley, John Zorn and some local guys called the Shaking Ray Levi Society in Chattanooga, TN at the Company concert that stretched over 3 or 4 days, IIRC in 1995. Great fun, indeed! About 2 years later, Chris Cutler played in Chattanooga and afterwards I told him about the Chattanooga show. Great interview.
One of the best interviews you have done. This one I will listen to again.
Such a great conversation! Thanks!
Absolutely fascinating way to spend two hours! Thank you.
GREAT interview, so interesting!!!!
Wonderful conversation.
What a great interview
Wonderfully in-depth and insightful, Gregg. It would be great if you could get Chris Cutler next!
Great to see this interview with Fred Frith. I saw him back in the days of Henry Cow when he played at Strathclyde University. A great musician and inspiration for us budding avant-gardists.
Thank you for this fascinating interview with Fred. I was lucky enough to meet him back in 1984 when he was on tour with the Skeleton Crew.
Love the comments in this "room", the tenor of it-so to speak-as well as the content. Lots of good listeners in these seats.
Very nice...I had the pleased of meeting & hearing a few times in LA.
I also loved him & his music. After almost 5 years of classical music due to a strange religious situation I saw him solo at McCabes...just amazing. Plus by this time Technology of Tears was released...a master piece.
In regards to the interview I would've loved to hear his experience with Syd Barrett, The Residents, John Zorn and his thoughts of Anthony Braxton...maybe on FF Interview #2.
Thank you GB
Hey, I saw him solo at McCabes! A year or two after seeing him there with Tom Cora as Skeleton Crew.
I even got to talk to him in between sets. He had a slight cold and we talked about his guitar, Japan, and California audiences. Such a treat.
Thank you very much for this interview. I hesitate to ask, but maybe a follow up might possibly happen?
I am interested in the traditional Japanese and Swedish influence on Fred Frith's music. Traditional Japanese music looms big over Winter Songs. I see Winter Songs as a melding of Medieval Europe and Japan...
Traditional Swedish music influenced Gravity, Speechless and Skeleton Crew. Or was that all Bulgarian folk music?
Fred was some kind of organizer and producer of Japanese music in the 1980s.
And the Residents!!!! Maybe, like all Residents material, that is a secret...?
Also Fred Frith has such a distinctive bass sound as a bass player. I thank you for your consideration.
This is another very interesting podcast. Thank you for doing this.
What an incredible guy and musician ( interview )
This is an absolute gem, I absolutely adored listening to this, the whole conversation made me feel less alone in the world, the breadth of the whole interview was totally involving xxx
This is riveting! A brilliant interview.
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Wonderful interview, the last 30 minutes or so particularly fascinating stuff!
@32:00 What a great interview!!! I am surprised Frith had no interest in "The Canterbury Scene"... I associate Frith and Henry Cow with Mike Oldfield... But wikipidia says Oldfield was not part of the Canterbury Scene....?
I see your point however HC/Frith were more part of Rock in Opposition movement. Fred did have musical connections to Oldfield and Wyatt so ipso facto the loose association to Canterbury
what an amazing video and people, my favourite interview ive seen
Thank you! Amazing
"Hopes and Fears"........ gave me hopes and fears..... (and joy, as it were?)
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Brilliant
I saw Fred with Derek, Keith & Julie Tippetts at the ICA in London in June ‘82 and got noticed for all the wrong reasons.
Wonderful. I wonder if Mr Frith ever picked
up a sitar after seeing Ustad Vilayat Khan
I'm wondering how much of his and
Henry Cow stuff used different time
signatures like tala in music of India
or Captain Beefheart
i’d buy two… so that’s four presales!
What was the music at the start of the video?
Show's theme music is from Bendian's song, "Deadman's Lullaby"
@@MahavishnuProject Many thanks - loved it!
Great interview, but prejudicial on Brazilian experimental music. Super Americanocentric.