Bill Frisell ~ Live To Tell

July 3, 1993 Warsaw, Poland
with Kermit Driscoll-Bass,
Joey Baron-Drums

[@kermitdriscoll204]

This was the highlight of my life. The years with Bill and Joey. A HARD goddamn act to follow - but I've finally decided I'm going to try.........

[@readewhitwell5878]

I saw you in Seattle a couple of years ago with John Hollenbeck. We were introduced after the show by my friend Tony Malaby. I can understand the longing for this band, (and the version with Hank Roberts.) Every time I saw you guys you never failed to inspire, excite and transform. Hell yeah, try! The world needs every bit of your energy, perseverance and sacrifice.

[@supermansunshine1351]

album is still one of my favorite album and I really have been enjoying your great bass playing. So pleased to meet you here...

[@bogohoboho]

thank you thank you. from my first introduction to bill frisell, i sought out everything by him, and then everything by everyone named in the notes. eerie, beautiful, perfect.

[@flip65515]

I remember seeing the trio in about 92 in Boston...Up to that point, I had only heard Naked City and was unfamiliar with Frisell's material...It truly changed my life..And I remember the first few notes of this song being played...the sparse laughter as if it was a fuckin joke..He looked pretty goddamn pissed off...But from the bottom of my heart, I have never experienced such joy in hearing a live band before or since...Oh, and I saw you again in Oakland about 3 years later and you were playing an upright bass and split your finger open..You bled for a good 10 minutes..

[@Lanearndt]

If this is really you man, you all defined the bill frisell sound for me so deeply that it was hard to adjust to future collabs! I would still love it if you guys did a new record. Why does someone like frisell move on from you and JB? I don't quite understand. Like I love watching Tony Scherr and I don't mind wallason but tbh he's far from my fave drummer. So i guess I'm curious what happened to sever the three of you? But privacy is privacy and I understand. But this is and always has been some next level shit! You should be very proud of what you contributed to this, the space, not many bass players would allow for so much of it!

[@doca9357]

A friend once said "Bill could take a song I absolutely loathe, play it and I would love it"

[@UnitedElectric]

This trio was a truly revolutionary troupe. It was all about space and surprise, captured perfectly on the "live" album from '92 or so. From track 7's 'Strange Meeting' to track 8's 'Hangdog' and you'll here an abridged history of western pop music, minor rhomba to prog thrash metal in two tracks. Kermit is a huge part fo that aesthetic. I think thos track is incredible.

[@theusersam]

My favorite Madonna song of all time!

[@talpajam]

Like someone else on YT said, the greatest jazz guitar since Jim Hall. This stuff is timeless.

[@TECHNOIR]

Heard Live to Tell on the way home, led me to this, this really brings out the undeniable loveliness of the melody and its underpinning of melancholy

[@menajapo]

Wow! Amazing. Patrick Leonard + Madonna it can't go wrong. Beautiful interpretation of a great song.

[@chrisgosling5408]

Lucky to see this live, they brought it in from a far longer way out than this though. A great band to watch as well as listen.

[@jopavel]

My fav Madonna song played by a favourite guitarist, simply fantastic

[@functusian]

Beautiful, Kermit. Man, lead ears around here.

[@RezAbbasi1]

Jesus Bill looks young. He's a visionary really. doesn't matter about a wrong note, an off beat..it's all music with him and this trio!

[@ONE3ARTH2012]

yeah, same ... gotta say THANKS for this one, heard this while waiting for a train to pass out in the country... and talk about fitting.. mid summer, lights flashing, slowly box cars clickety clack, time slowed down and this tune came on and i had no idea who it was 'till now! i was in bliss on that one day ;o)

[@lekyamaha8588]

l love this song.

[@bernardogui3933]

so many music and sounds and just three persons!! amazing music.

[@tamalocal]

this is just so amazing!!!!!!!!!

[@pthombeaux]

I didn't think it sounded like a wrong note. It was perfectly placed and took me by surprise. I love it when that happens in music.

[@ShredMiyagi]

Wow I love this madonna song. Always associate it with that strange film At Close Range. Didn't know Frisell covered it; I love it, should've known he did ha! That Klein guitar is beautiful. Headless telecaster of the future.. er the 90s future anyhow. The one and only

[@frisell1968]

i love it... frisell the true innovator!!

so great. my mind´s floating

[@marcelopucheta]

maravillosa versión

[@jimmyskins]

joey baron is too cool!

[@piltdown]

In the intro, really like the contrary motion in bills descending line and the bass players ascending one. great bass playing there I think

[@Fluffyfluffyhead]

Joey Baron!

[@colouroflight4077]

The Master

[@rimon3562]

💛

[@hoprabbitbunny]

Mr. Frisell does Madonna Proud!

[@twangbarfly]

I saw them in Paris and that's exactly what I thought - Scofield was following the score, but Bill was driving it forward in his very unassuming way. I loved their version of "House of the Rising Sun" by the way - Bill really ripped it up in that one :-) He's a genuine musical force.

[@kopi3nnn]

bathoshue has posted another video that picks up where this clip ends, so you can hear Live to Tell in its entirety, but Frisell didn't go with the solo he does on the Have a Little Faith CD.

[@klulik]

I pomyśleć, że kiedyś taka muzyka leciała w TVP... Ech...

[@johnbeal7846]

...and Miles covered Cyndy Lauper. A good song is a good song.

[@AustinBeede]

Scritti Politti too!

[@Kegan954]

I approve this message

[@portbankok]

Great!

[@hilarrycarlton]

My ideal...

[@pieroorsi]

meraviglia

[@trump-1-win]

At 2:42 min , is bass E string out of tone ?

[@loren1283]

Kermit is awsome just listen to "live" its a great album.

[@GerardRebours]

A few years ago, a short tour of the "Bass desires" was organized, and I was there in Paris, and something stroke me: he was, with his usual gentle way, leading the group! or, more precisely, the group was just relying on him. He was beginning most of the pieces (wonderful intro on Georgia) and - this is the point - it seemed obvious to me that he was not thinking "guitar, fingers, fingerboard etc", but MUSIC. Music was being developed in his mind, and then he made it concrete on the guitar...

[@docnelson2008]

Yes, I have noticed the same thing myself; Bill is a natural musical leader and a catalyst for magic and mystery.

[@holdencaustic]

Lindsey--- You are the man--- so are you Aaron---

[@bogohoboho]

so fine

[@talpajam]

listening to BF turned me on to the Klein guitar..he owns their tone.

[@niftydrifty]

any chance we can please, please, hear the solo at the end?

[@roncasella1402]

....and he's doing itm on a Klein guitar.Lorenzo German was building these.

[@msimon976]

Pretty sure Bill got this before Lorenzo took over the build...and destroyed the company. I don't know if Steve actually built this, but I want one soooooo bad. Had one on order before Lorenzo flew the coop with a bunch of unfinished instruments and deposits.

[@johanntabone5719]

Could anyone give me the progression chords of this song

[@1953mel]

@loren1283 : Amen!

[@ndongousman]

no wrong notes there ,only a way to sound diferent ! no wrong notes, only wrong ears !!!!!!! and wrong minds !!!! just open it baby !

[@Dimigrey]

Reminds me of Pat mathenny

[@gratefulguitarlesson]

I'd like to hear Frisell play with Victor Wooten.

[@barryberko]

that would definitely be incredible to hear

[@GuitarGare]

Are my taste buds provincial if he lost me at 6:40? Now I am le sad.

[@Lanearndt]

a little: ) he deconstructs it a bit in order to bring it back even more powerfully than it began!

[@chezambezi]

@guitarNuke indeed :)

[@DanRelayer_Ukraine]

it's a pity that the Lennon covers aren't in the same vein...

[@JazzInATinCan]

Miles Davis himself said: "There are no wrong notes"... does'nt that solve the question?

[@ColtraneTaylor]

That guitar is shaped like a toilet seat lid!

[@chezambezi]

@guitarNuke indeed

[@piltdown]

the chord at 9:19-9:20 and 9:44-9:45

[@RezAbbasi1]

Dude, why don't you read what the others below were saying, It was a response.

[@matthieurosso]

??? bill never off beat!!!!!!!!

[@juliuspudding]

Joey Baron III the

[@joe44850]

Bill Frisell has done something few guitarists outside of Clapton have figured out: how to be great without being fast (Clapton can play fast, but that's not what makes him great). Very musical, very unique phrasing, playing just behind the groove...nice...

[@Natashahoneypot]

theres no such thing as a wrong note

[@22fret]

@joe44850 Clapton and fast? Naaah. John McLaughlin is fast, Al Di Meola or Allan Holdsworth, to name but a few. Clapton has a great sound and conveys a specific feeling, just as David Gilmour does or Mark Knopfler, but he is not fast. Same with Santana. He's no virtuoso, but he has balls, sounds awesome and his music kicks arse. That is, what counts, it's not always about speed...

[@DragonlordXV]

wtf

[@LodoGrdzak]

Only wrong note is an insincere one. Not too many in this clip that I could hear.

[@gtrrs71]

Oh for fuck's sake...

[@Stereostupid]

Holy fuck