Thumbs down from me too. I hate guitar noodling.
A Frippertronics concert might be the very definition of guitar noodling 
I saw him do it in the 90s at some point and it was fun. Of course he was all digital then. I sort of wish he had busted out the old Revoxs.
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I also saw Frippās solo act in the early 80ās when he came to Western University in Ontario. I remember him sitting on a stool in the middle of the stage, with his reel to reels spinning, and one lone spotlight over top of him. He started the show by plunking a couple of notes to create a backing beat, and slowly built up the song to a monstrous mash of guitar orchestration, with spacey solos in between. Quite entertaining and evolutionary at the time.
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As I recall it was part of a 3 solo album stretch of concerts like that I believe was called the ādrive to 1984ā. Exposure was album 1 of the series. Whatās weird is I canāt find my shoes but can remember stuff from the 80ās ā¦
I added that part at the end to be pointless ā¦ 
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Hereās something stupid to watch.
Nash The Slash gets kicked out of his own gig.
Iāve seen Nashās performances several times over the years. For some of you that donāt know him, he was a solo musician playing electrified violin and mandolin. Part of his act was to dress up like a mummy. He also played in a local Toronto band called FM.
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As I remember he was a Roland micro composer extraordinaire with a very compact stage rig!
I wasnāt aware Nash was using a microcomposer, but makes total sense. There was no MIDI back then. Nash was doing cutting edge stuff back in the 70ās with his voltage controlled hardware.
He also had tricks up his sleeve like using a reel to reel and slowed it down to 1/2 speed to get some thunderous drum loops.
Stupid but effective. 
Nash was great. I canāt wait to watch the videoā¦
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Ya Fred,
Nash and the band FM had quite a cult following where I live.
He sure went through a lot of surgical bandages in his lifetime too. 
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For a while I had heard rumors that Nash was actually Ben Mink in costume but obviously thatās not the caseā¦ I didnāt realize (or had forgotten) that he passed away in 2014. Thatās very sad,
Fred,
Yes sad, but still gave a lot of good memories.
If you google āFM Live at Nearfest 2006ā thereās a 38 minute video of the band playing all their top hits. They sound just as good as they did back in the 70s-80s. Might be worth a listen. Check out the keyboard setup too.
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Oh excellent! Yeah, I didnāt go that year. Didnāt know there was video! Nash was back for that, right? I know he came and went a couple times though their career.
Oh my bad Fred,
Nash wasnāt at Nearfest, Claudio Vena was playing mandolin here.
Still a good listen though.
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Me too am a Hacket-ite! And Firth of Fith is one of my all time favourites, specifically the interaction of guitar and keys in the instrumental, which is right at the top of instrumentals!
I can thoroughly recommend the DVD of Steveās āSpectral mornings/Selling England by the Poundā tour - the musicianship is awesome!
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W00t, thread back from the dead!
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The one I like is the sleeping tablet side effects list, that caution that they may cause drowsinessā¦
Iāve got his Genesis revisited Hammersmith Odeon live set, and of course the Genesis Revisited II album, which gives you all the classics in one place.
āDo not take Privonarsisect, if you are allergic to Privonarsisect.ā
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