Fred Frith - Guitar Solos (Caroline, 1974)

In a house exploding with evil spirits

He used it like a wand to tell me his hypothesis about why we were afraid and BAM "horsey" was dead. We could have laughed forever if we weren't so needlessly scared. It was the aftershock that initially scared us, then the sounds from inside the house, then we were scared of the darkness. The shattering of glass was the one thing that broke the funk of the darkened house that seemed to be preparing for an explosion of evil spirits. We decided that Fred Frith, a collaborator and possible member of the Residents, was more than just an avant-garde guitarist but a composer on par with the likes of Sun Ra and John Cage. We studied his technique all throughout the summer of Rainbow Bridges and gibberish. We got good, but the emotional fallout of guitar experimentation was more than we were prepared for. It effected our minds and our bodies. Perhaps we were the evil spirits in the house after all.

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