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its fun to see it written out

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02 Jun 2005 ::: 18:56:06 ::: 70.243.164.96

I was in a "miles" band, in 1972, called Water Jug X, we played quite a few gigs around town and recorded them. It was just for grins, but in retrospect, the "jam" thing stands up better than the "planned out" shit. Er, I mean LOTS BETTER, from a producer's point of view. Our collective subconscious of then is still valid now, musically speaking. This is a kind of joyful surprise, because the other shit we recorded SUCKS. Follow me?

This written out "listener's" version of what Miles' bands did is cool, because it only the stuff we already knew, but explained so a non-player can verbalize it. I left out a whole section the guy wrote about how wrtinig it out might take the life out of it, in all fairness you should read his whole article.

I just posted it here because I'm in a Water Jug X mood lately. David Katakalos, one of the WJX bass players, has been coming over playing on tracks I'm doing with Eric Gabitzch, who's really "into Miles, the On The Corner era." Eric is 23, (born in 1982) so this is a lot of fun. That's his Mustang on board #13, with Thingfish crawling all over. We recently discovered that McLaughlin was playing a Mustang on all those classic LP's! Katakalos has a weekly radio show, he's kind of a jazz professor, he has all the old LP's.

I'm playing some guitar, and some bass, and some drums, and a whole lot of keys and a bunch of noize. We have so MANY tunes, I'm starting with Reaktor, and ending up in a kind of "Miles" place. Katakalos was the logical bass player, but I'm thinking, with the sheer amount of tunes we have, this might be a way for Big Ed to blow that mythical load into this naked 16-year old chick effigy. I will definitely send you a zinc bucket to stream piss into.

special note: if you look who the other WJX bass player was, it helps you appreciate what a PIECE OF SHIT Mike Taylor is.

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