Bill Frisell 'That Was Then'

August 15, 2000
La Trastienda~Buenos Aires, Argentina
w/Tony Scherr-bass, Kenny Wolleson-drums

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Music

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• Bill
• Frisell
• Tony
• Scherr
• Kenny
• Wolleson
• Jazz

[arteffete]

Its probably the Line 6 dl4...record a loop with the half speed setting engaged, and when you return it to normal speed, it'd be twice the tempo and an octave higher....

He did use a whammy pedal, but i think that stopped in the '90's

[abrock31]

I can't believe someone said they didn't like Bill because he doesn't interact with the crowd. When you can play guitar like he can, you don't have to interact with the crowd. Pretty amazing that someone with social anxiety as bad as Frisell is even comfortable playing in front of crowds

[rsmeetsguitar]

Bill's one of my absolute favorites.. and yeah, he doesn't need to talk to the crowd- the music does that. He's a shy guy, so let the guy be (amazing). Thanks for the video!

[chelobes]

I'm not into labels either but clearly if you have to come up with a genre for Frisell, it would be jazz. No getting around that one. I have to say that I saw this trio in summer 2009 and I was pretty disappointed in the show. I had never witnessed a featured player have zero interaction with the audience and he had his side or back to the audience the whole show. It was a WTF did I just witness kind of show. Give me Pat Metheny or Larry Coryell or DiMeola.

[TrommerX]

Wer ist der Bassist ?

(Kenny Wollesen am Schlagzeug)

[jkidd05a]

I like all the simplicity in his music.

[fodera6]

Too bad the audio and video aren't lining up. Cool footage nonetheless.

[oakmcgowan]

Loop or not, check out his right hand. He is playing two parts at the same time. Not the usual chord melody technique that just puts the melody at the top of the chord. Not classical technique either. He's arpeggiating with the pick and fingers and playing the melody mainly with the fingers. You get a good look at it around 2:18. At 2:41 he reaches to adjust a control on the delay or looper and the arpeggios stop

[Gregorypeckory]

Well Bill vehemently defends himself from any such limiting labels as "jazz", or any other genre. He does play it sometimes, but moves freely between country, rock, jazz, surf, and no genre, or a mix of them. What they're playing here is definately not jazz, but that has nothing to do with it's validity. I love Frisell, but this particular performance doesn't do it for me. Whatever you want to call it.

[davidaleksander]

actually bill not only uses loops, he creates them, which can´t really said to be un-jazz, or un-anything. Just really cool:-)