LAFMS: The Lowest Form of Music "The
unearthing of the LAFMS recordings is experimental rock history at it's
most historical and hysterical - a completely bizarro and further-out
counterpart to the L.A. punk scene." ~ Thurston Moore
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The
LAFMS was a lightning rod for pre-punk & non-punk musical whatsis
from all over the globe. This compilation deals primarily with the
associations core members and their good works, but one of the LAFMS'
prime functions was to transform itself
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A
severely underrated player during his lifetime, Grant Green is one of
the great unsung heroes of jazz guitar. Like Stanley Turrentine, he
tends to be left out of the books. Although he mentions Charlie
Christian and Jimmy Raney as influences, Green always claimed he
listened to horn players (Charlie Parker and Miles Davis) and not other
guitar players, and it shows. No other player has this kind of
single-note linearity (he avoids chordal playing). There is very little
of the intellectual element in Green's playing, and his technique is
always at the service of his music. And it is music, plain and simple,
that makes Green unique.
The rock era saw a few white female singers, like Janis Joplin,
show they could sing the blues. But one who could outshine them all --
Jo Ann Kelly -- seemed to slip through the cracks, mostly because she
favored the acoustic, Delta style rather than rocking out with a heavy
band behind her. But with a huge voice, and a strong guitar style
influenced by Memphis Minnie and Charley Patton, she was the queen.
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