Derek Bailey 12-21-01 Tonic, NYC

[@alfredo50560]

It is a masterpiece, futuristic and full of inspiration, really great!

[@blindbubba9001]

...an inspiration on every level inconceivable....

[@thevirtualjonathan1284]

we need this for guitar hero

[@terencethomson5593]

would have to then rename it guitar villain.

[@zaxzaxx4561]

As the sound sculptor Max Eastley said of his own work, 'It may not be music, but it's something quite like it.'

[@Caligari...]

Excellent ! Thanks Derek

[@waatchyourhead]

an abstract expressionist guitarist… this should be listened to as one would look at a painting by jackson pollock or de kooning

[@johnbogusz8090]

Great comparison. Just listen.

[@EF5B3D55]

fantastic!

[@udomatthiasdrums5322]

still love your work!!

[@honeyinglune8957]

the universe is ordered similarly

[@Johnnysmithy24]

😂

[@stephenparis9595]

Absolutely. I wish I could properly convey how much I agree with you.

[@rebeckajackson6080]

It's like a box of puzzle pieces that don't fit, but you forced them together anyways. I like it.

[@failinginamerica]

peeling the color stickers off a rubik’s cube to solve it

[@johnbogusz8090]

Definitely captivates one's attention.

[@mackeralPelog]

I thank you

[@Mjollnir1234]

This is incredibly beautiful.

[@JonJonJonJonJonJonJonJon]

Let’s be honest. It’s shite.

[@Mjollnir1234]

You've never even played a single note, Cindy

[@stephenparis9595]

I agree. This is mesmerizingly beautiful.

[@StephenDorocke]

The Master🙏

[@jessenowells2920]

There are all kinds of guitar heroes & there's enough capes to go around.

[@luigistudioso2368]

Sicuramente nel limbo della ricerca votata all'improvvisazione totale. Uno dei geni della chitarra e unico ad approcciare in tal senso sul suo strumento.

[@MrMHughes68]

Simultaneously fierce and immaculate. There’s not a wasted moment.

[@wstr9963]

Thank you so much for posting this.

[@IanGreavesTV]

Wonderful. Thanks for posting.

[@jeanpaulmacabre]

The David Lynch of guitar.

[@zombizombi]

Yep just as shit and pretentious

[@thetruetotteringbacchussla4715]

thx for place pinch harmonixx

[@caiogracco9129]

So powerful

[@MOROZOVVADIM]

Кто подскажет на какой гитаре играет Дерек?

[@michaelns9887]

Epiphone Triumph

[@Johnnysmithy24]

How come I’m not bothered by this but I can’t stand to listen to 3 seconds of Reggaetón

[@efrendv]

Because you're a reasonable human being

[@Johnnysmithy24]

@@efrendv why thank you

[@Smudge4199]

Not reggaeton but Listen to DB Guitar Drums n Bass

[@kingdozerr]

100% punk ,much more than Pistols, Ramones etc.

[@Johnnysmithy24]

Fr

[@LOS_NEGRITOS]

if punk goes against the political standards and/or power, bailey goes against music as a stablished language. so yeah, its very punk.

[@wstr9963]

Fantastic.

[@EF5B3D55]

good

[@fritzklessinger1829]

That's it. Thank You

[@ZERONETWORK0]

If Schoenberg played guitar

[@bunchoftwigs4076]

Beautiful! 👏👏👍👍

[@Richard_Lush]

Huh interesting 🤔

[@geddylee501]

What a pile of chit

[@isolateddemon9438]

Pure genius😀

[@alexfletcher5192]

Somehow he is the inventor of everything post punk at the same time. Post-music for some people. How does that happen from one man?

[@Mjollnir1234]

Most people who don't play will never understand his genius. Just an absolute HAMMER of a player.

[@manuelpedrosd]

@@Mjollnir1234 and most people who play also don’t recognize his genius, hummmm, maybe because he is not a genius?

[@Mjollnir1234]

@@manuelpedrosd It's nothing you'd ever understand, child. Sit down. Adults are talking.

[@manuelpedrosd]

@@Mjollnir1234 lol How easily silly ignorants identify genius in things they don’t understand. Miles Davis was a genius. Keith Jarrett is a genius. Mozart was a genius. Einstein was a genius. Derek Bailey was an interesting musician the first five minutes he played. Sorry dad

[@keithgardner5818]

@@manuelpedrosd Everyone's entitled to their opinion, but some are more well informed than others. Here, Bailey takes the music to more of an abstraction than the other two you mentioned (I mean the two relative contemporaries you mentioned, Davis and Jarrett) generally did. If Miles Davis were to have abandoned the chord structures and perhaps done more solo work, he may have worked with some of these ideas too, I can hear that in some of his music. But Keith Jarrett, no; he didn't take these liberties with his instrument. He took a very different approach to it, he was exploring a different space. Anyway, I don't like to use or think it's particularly appropriate to use the word "genius" in cases like this, just for this reason. It's just too loaded a word. I think Derek was extremely gifted, he was remarkably creative, generous, nuanced, masterful, lyrical, big-picture thinker and detail-oriented at the same time. Call him what you will.

[@LordMorbid5]

an insurrectionary take on music, the spectacle.

[@MrJadePinwheel]

I like piano better for this kind of music. Cecil taylor has ideas and a rhythmic thrust. this actually just sounds like mistakes

[@Mjollnir1234]

He IS the Cecil Taylor of guitar. If you like Taylor, you can't possibly mistake this for mistakes.

[@raclette2690]

JAJAJAJA

[@danum442]

Absolute nonsense. Please stop.

[@osiruskat]

HAHAHA!!! It's all about harmonics and composition. There are performances of his playing straight jazz guitar and his work with Tony Williams and Bill Laswell in the group, Arcana, was outstanding.

[@afterceasetoexist]

filtered

[@rufusreloaded1043]

@@osiruskat haha yourself. You could give a baboon a guitar and it would come up with something similar. If you think there is any musical ability involved in this then you yourself probably have none. Derek Bailey was probably either joking or insane when he did this.

[@tomfurgas2844]

@@rufusreloaded1043 That would be a damn talented baboon. The key to appreciating Bailey's improvisations is to understand that extreme disjunction is the point. Bailey is a master of all the things a guitar can do, and he jump cuts from one idea and technique to another with surgical precision. It's not easy listening, of course. Free Improvisation is the most radical music one can imagine. I wouldn't want a steady diet of it, but when I'm in the mood (and thus receptive) it is just right.

[@mr.beaverchair3622]

@@rufusreloaded1043 Only people with minimal if any technical ability on a guitar would say that anybody can do this. Lack of traditional harmony and melody does not mean that what he is doing does not require a ridiculous amount of skill. Getting the sounds he gets from the guitar requires an extensive knowledge of extended techniques and the technical facility to move between them at will. There's a reason other guitarists of such renown as Pat Metheny and Bill Frisell sing Derek's praises.