Fred Frith “Solo Electric Guitar” live@ Torino Jazz Festival 2019 [Full Set]

[@whatilearnttoday5295]

Some people who might struggle to play the guitar might consider this as a route. Fred knows precisely how to play the guitar.

[@webkahmik]

Fred knows exactly what to do to find exactly what he doesn't know.

[@TheVeryBlondeOne]

Fred Frith giving the 335 guitar a top rate body massage that beauty salons envied. What a fantastic improviser and musician!

[@TheSecondNature]

Hate to be that guy but it's a 345 🤠

[@TheVeryBlondeOne]

@@TheSecondNature Yet, they come from the same family of Gibson ES series. Good catch; didn’t realise there was some leftover pieces from the Varitone removal.

[@TheSecondNature]

@@TheVeryBlondeOne I have a 345.. Such a versatile guitar. The varitone and the stereo outputs open so many doors. Fred's 345 is obviously heavily modded

[@krisscanlon4051]

I like this comment 👌 😀

[@rainerkornmusic]

Still playing the Blues! That's my man!

[@DiogoJordan]

holy shit I laughed out loud with this one

[@growskull]

dada blues

[@btard4978]

When Miles Davis told John McLaughlin "play it like you don't know how to play guitar", this is the kind of thing Mr Mahavishnu should've come up with!

[@PIPEHEAD]

No, and no ! If JM had followed the instructions, there's no way this would have been the result - Miles was Miles, but he wasn't anybody else, and this would not have been in his mind. Secondly, JM and MD are just not on this level !"£$%^&*()_++_)(*&^%$£"!

[@adrianalvarez8119]

Tbf Fred Frith can actually play

[@keeshoendervangers6125]

Thank you for uploading this performance

[@archiechoke23]

Love his guitar on the table approach. If you know what I mean.

[@astrojazzman]

Happy Bday Fred February 17,2021

[@philippecirse4872]

Jag såg och hörde källor med chokladmjölk som sprang från hennes paradis, utan att skratta började stjärnorna bråka och slutade rulla och vi tog tag i deras guld i gryningen. Solen yr och månen, rörd, gömde sig bakom en del moln i form av en barbapapa 🔥🦄

[@MaurizioAntonioParola]

grazie... grande

[@UNKUHNOODLES]

It certainly is what it is... For, what else could it be?!?!? Can it be categorized as this or that? Them or those? Who/they can say?

[@tracehints9315]

sublime. thank you.

[@Lemma01]

Monumental. Still. ❤

[@ADURG1]

...a brilliant performance by a MASTER+INNOVATOR. ...thank you NienteFluorescente! i strongly urge folks to check out HENRY COW who have not...Western Culture...Unrest...Concerts....e.t.c.

[@petemarr824]

Henry Cow are bloody brilliant! Get their box set !

[@scottkuzminski8114]

He goes to all the cobweb places even Hendrix never dreamed of going to ...and comes back

[@PIPEHEAD]

J was pure drugs, F is pure genius ( and drugs ).

[@udomatthiasdrums5322]

love it!!

[@nosmoking2933]

Outsider music at its best

[@ВаняФенерджиева]

Big massive aromatic fart for Fred.

[@fryingwiththeantidote2486]

at 34:29 i think the cameraman made a mistake zooming in like that, now it just looks like hes milking himself

[@Urdatorn]

You cracked me up dude

[@realeconsapevolezza4584]

Reminds me of early Olivia Rodrigo

[@gabomovil5422]

Wuau

[@simonwilliams8525]

In the words of Noel Coward, this is da bomb!

[@PIPEHEAD]

One guy mentions Miles Davis, one guy mentions Noel Coward - are we all watching the same vid ?

[@whatilearnttoday5295]

@@PIPEHEAD It's all the same jazz.

[@PIPEHEAD]

@@whatilearnttoday5295 Sorry, you need to apply the usual approach - the Segovia/Hendrix approach : - Fred loves NC and he loves MD, but both of them would reckon Fred to be a joker. Fred is on a level above those guys .......................

[@whatilearnttoday5295]

@@PIPEHEAD Here I am listening to Fred Frith's approach.....

[@PIPEHEAD]

@@whatilearnttoday5295 P.S. I doubt that Miles would be happy being thrown in the same boat as Noel Coward ! ! ! ! ! P.P.S. Thanks for making me watch this vid again ...........................

[@oreongaku1]

Top(neck) of Fred's guitar, what is that? It's mysterious...and fantastic!

[@abcs123s3]

Definitely not a band to mute the strings - that’d be more like what you see on Victor & Reggie Wooten guitar -not sure what it is exactly but it definitely has some kind of pickup or contact mic as it plugs in from the goes coming out of it

[@Tomislav_B.]

It's a third magnetic pickup to sense other side of string when it's fretted. For example when he frets string on the seventh fret that pickup puts out out of tune frequency that happens between sixth fret and nut.

[@rainerkornmusic]

@@Tomislav_B. Makes perfect sense. Plus he gets more overtones

[@growskull]

​@@rainerkornmusicyes its a third pickup. spencer seim of hella has the same device but it looks alot more subtle

[@hangedups2608]

@@Tomislav_B.ALA TWO GUITARS

[@_KOOB_]

Wow

[@samuelregan7160]

v sick

[@k-switchooo7669]

好き

[@abcs123s3]

I listen to a lot of this style of music and guitar in particular, and even a solid amount of FF but this particular performance albeit loaded with tons of amazing moments, and to me is a quintessential example of the guitar as a melodic percussion instrument but for my ear has that “trying to hard to be avant-garde” energy. Just to many idea mashed together.

[@PIPEHEAD]

Having been avant garde in the 70s, I hardly think Fred can be accused of trying it now - he's retro garde !

[@lietzaulukasz6390]

FF is the best artist in unknown catogory.

[@yoserbmon6827]

For all fans of this crap, I will be throwing a little intimate concert tomorrow at 6:00pm when I replace my old guitar's rusted strings white still plugged to the amp at full volume... and maybe, just maybe, I will proceed to sand them down with a chainsaw just to sound more "experimental" (However, this will depend on my mood and level of creativity at the time, since as a true artist I can't predict what my feelings and state of mind will be tomorrow) ...The one thing I can promise though, is that I will remain serious and distant to add solemnity to the show.

[@scottkuzminski8114]

Lou Reed did this for one album to satisfy his record contract, out of spite but he never performed that live Fred has

[@rainerkornmusic]

What Lou did was not exactly the same Level. He plays around with massive Delay on various Tape speeds. I like it.

[@scottkuzminski8114]

Rainer, its all about intent as well....Lou did that only out of spite for RCA which demanded another album in a tight time frame Fred's is sure artistry and intentional, and was all he did, Lous was a one off spite anomoly

[@rainerkornmusic]

@@scottkuzminski8114 Not all Fred did. This is one Side of him. He wrote a lot a sheet Music as well. And by the Way Metal Machine Music is one of his best Albums in my opinion. The Fact that he wants to Piss off his Label , makes it even more fun to listen

[@bulletbelt97]

yes, he did. look up the Metal Machine Trio, Lou Reed didn’t just make Metal Machine Music out of spite, he did it because he loved experimenting with sound & music.

[@rainerkornmusic]

@@bulletbelt97 Yes , i agree

[@matthewtop]

14:16 in case you needed proof of the MF's skillz

[@morkus26]

19:33 neat. 28:05 magic.

[@MOUBARRET]

👁El ojo

[@scottkuzminski8114]

Anyone realise these sound spot-on like whale mating calls, even sounds submerged in the ocean? Esp 33:00 in

[@liamwhitney509]

I want this job!! No. Wait. I've got a dog. He can keep his job.

[@wallybeery4058]

I know, I know ... Keep The Dog!! Up the stairs, Mister!!

[@liamwhitney509]

I think his guitar may be out of tune.

[@marcouribe8018]

😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴

[@toothasaur]

bruh moment

[@andrewjohn4876]

I’m better than him .

[@dantean]

Odd to hear anyone who considers the world an ugly place contributing even more ugliness to it. Early H. Cow gave the world much beauty. I prefer to listen to those, instead. I guess there really ARE "No More Songs."

[@earinsound]

This isn't ugly (does Frith really consider the world an ugly place?), and Henry Cow were hardly assonant or straightforward; they were often considered awful and ugly by many at the time. Maybe just tune your ear a bit differently (or not) and enjoy the ride through a purely imaginative approach to the guitar--it's not like he hasn't been playing solo similarly for 40 years. Warning: stay away from Keith Rowe, Derek Bailey, Sonny Sharrock, et al.

[@mononoaware1960]

@@earinsound Well said. It’s weird cause I love Henry Cow and Sonny Sharrock, and this is still a little too out there for me. I’ve given a lot of his albums a really good chance, there’s just something I’m missing. Anything else by him you can recommend?

[@jabu003]

@@mononoaware1960 yeah try to catch him live,,,,,,,,,,

[@Kanendd]

@@earinsound Derek Bailey is awesome imo.

[@joeheadblues]

@@Kanendd Ugly? This and the early H. C. piece Oslo are beautiful.

[@wilsonrawlin8547]

This just doesn't work for me at all. I like some of the sounds he created, but this isn't music for me. Back to Buckethead for me. Came back to try this a year later. Anyone who thinks this is music needs their head examined ASAP.

[@deVon30241]

It doesn't matter if it isn't music for you. It is music regardless of your thoughts of it.

[@Wagiblues]

Same thinking - but it IS MUSIC for him - no doubt . Personally i prefer SEGOVIA or JIMI HENDRIX, GARY MOORE

[@Tomislav_B.]

@@deVon30241 Your post is kind of pointless because he didn't deny it's a music. And why shouldn't matter that isn't not for him, everyone can say that they like or don't like something. Last time I checked it's not forbidden.

[@rainerkornmusic]

This is Improvised and totally Free! Go Back to Buckethead and Song Structures

[@growskull]

ofcourse you like buckethead

[@steelsergesteelserge9939]

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