TS: Vernon Reid vs James Dean Bradfield

*is tempted to drop brandon ross's name*

incredibly personable guy.

http://www.dailycollegian.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/02/27/3e5da6cbaa68e?in_archive=1

I wonder if this comment applies to Manic Street Preachers.

I really liked Living Colour's first album, but I lost track of them after that.

yes it's very good
below is a review link
don't click! it is LONG

http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/u/ulmerjamesblood-noescape.shtml

I'm really into instrumental guitar heroics albums this week and I grabbed VR's Other True Self off eMusic...it's fuckin' great! if you like some moody (but not mellow...just, like, mood-setting) instrumental rock, anyway. The production is what production for this sort of thing usually is, i.e., "transparent," which is a value I kinda don't believe in, though there's some really interesting tape-manipulation sounds on "enjoy the silence" - like, what it'd sound like if, while tracking (unlikely) or while transferring a 2-inch master to digital (maybe, but I know v. little about what you can & can't do in real time during such a transfer), you grabbed the tape & held & then let it go, as I've seen King Tubby do in some footage of him recording somebody. Anyway, this album is a solid lazing Friday afternoon fire-up-the-grill-and-chill listen...dude actually mixes the bass higher than his own guitar! what a mensch! that is today's "if you are looking for chill guitar workouts" recommendation.

(and yes, it's that "enjoy the silence," though it's barely recognizable, which is awesome)

Other True Self has stood up well to repeated listens, I wish I could put it on now.

Urban Mythology by Reid's power trio, Free Form Funky Freqs, is also worth getting from eMusic. Louder and rawer than Other True Self.

Is Vernon Reid's "Artificial Afrika" thang any good?

musician and visual artist, Vernon Reid presents Artificial Afrika, a multimedia work based on the various ways that the West has mythologized and invented an image of “African culture,” through appropriation of mythology, religious traditions, visual and musical forms. The work includes a multi-screen video exhibit that is itself a kind of appropriation –using digitally manipulated images as genuinely African–and music that is a hi-tech, up-tempo blend of live electric guitar, electronic sounds and digital processing.

NMAFA’s Africa in Motion Series presents Artificial Afrika with Living Colour’s Vernon Reid this Saturday night June 25th @ 6:30 pm. The event will take place at the National Portrait Gallery in the Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium (8th and F St NW). Please enter on the G St NW side. Seating is on a first come first serve basis. We are expecting a big crowd so get there when the doors open at 6:00 pm. this is in Washington, D.C.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/nyregion/vernon-reid-savors-the-mellower-music-of-home.html?ref=music&_r=0

the new Free Form Funky Freqs album, Hymn of the 3rd Galaxy, is really good

I interviewed him for the Voice 10 years ago about the Artificial Afrika project. Nice guy. VERY smart. I'm hoping to have him on my podcast soon to talk about fusion and his years with Ronald Shannon Jackson.