Bladerunner
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Paris, La Villette Jazz Festival
John Zorn as, Fred Frith g, Bill Laswell b, Dave Lombardo d, Oz Fritz sound
Extract of a Dave Lombardo interview :
Question : "What has been your most memorable or inspirational gig and why?"
Lombardo: "In Paris at a jazz festival. I played there with John Zorn and Bill Laswell, the dub producer, and Fred Frith, the guitar player/sound effects guy. We did an improv there that brought the people to their feet - it was just amazing. We clicked so well that night that I don't think it was ever recreated again. That showed what could come out from your inside naturally - a musical experience that only happens not very often."
Extract of a Bill Laswell interview:
Question: "The quartet you were in with Zorn, Fred Frith and Dave Lombardo - why was that group never really documented with a full-length studio album or a live CD or anything like that?
Laswell: "I'm not sure why. It happened so quickly, and I think we only played in Canada, New York, Paris and London. We played four or five times."
Question: "And that was it? There were no other shows?"
Laswell: "No, that's all I remember. Lombardo had left Slayer, and he was kind of looking to do things, and I think right after that little run he rejoined Slayer and got very busy. And I think Zorn was moving kinda fast as well, and we never followed up on it. I'm not sure if any of that was ever documented on a recording which actually makes any sense."
Question: "Do you feel that was a successful collaboration, musically? That it achieved what it set out to achieve?"
Laswell: "It's hard to say. I'm not quite sure if it did, because I'm not sure if Dave ever totally connected with what we were doing. I was trying to connect with what he was doing, but he kept changing his approach. I liked one of the reviews in London that said it was the first time the writer had ever heard these elaborate drum fills used to introduce a section in the middle of improvisation. It was funny; a lot of it was really funny. There's one thing he does with the double bass drum which goes back years, back to the record everybody loved, Reign in Blood, and he still does that, or did that, pretty effectively. And that's undeniably kinda powerful. So when he does that, there was something there for sure. I'm not sure we all made the right contribution to it. I'm not really clear what happened there. It seemed to happen really fast. Sometimes in improv, it comes and goes and you don't even remember what you did, and other times it stays with you like a composition."
Question: "I saw the New York show, and it seemed like Fred Frith was the odd element out there, but when Dave took a drum solo, it was really funny to see people throwing the horns up at an improv gig."
Laswell: "Yeah he did that - probably on every gig, something happened that brought out this power. And if you could have sustained that for the course of a concert, you'd have a pretty brutal statement there. But I'm not sure we ever got really close to that. I think it was more kinda hit-and-miss."
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