what tuning did bill orcutt use in harry pussy????

thanks in advance i love music
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http://blog.imageworksllc.com/Portals/165864/images/stock-photo-7350033-jesus-slam-dunking-a-basketball.jpg

this latest one is great... gonna have to sit with it for awhile, seems like a bit of a classic tbh

there's a new Harry Pussy album?!

sorry, bill orcutt solo

yeah, i like it a lot! this one and his VDSQ release are definitely my faves of the stuff I've heard (i know there's a lot i haven't heard)

If you're old like me, you might remember "The Entertainer" a Scott Joplin ragtime number, which, in a bastardized version by Marvin Hamlisch, was ubiquitous in 1974, thanks to its inclusion in the hit movie "The Sting." It was annoying to 12 year old 1/2 https://t.co/8TY5lwzvgO

— Bill Orcutt (@billorcutt) April 6, 2020

awesome, thanks for sharing.

Working with the theme of that cut-off Joplin half-loop, it's very Jazz Ha

Let's Build A Piano

lol

perfect prescription for these febrile nights of hypnagogia

San Francisco based musician Bill Orcutt presents "The Idea of Every One," an hour-long exploration of the source material behind his Editions Mego LP "The History of Every One." Inspired by the "contrapuntal" CBC radio programs of Glenn Gould and the multilayered superimpositions of Godard's "Histoire(s) du cinéma," it's a dense and harrowing ride through the history of American popular music.

https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/bill-orcutt-28th-may-2020

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/26/1171047855/bill-orcutt-guitar-quartet-tiny-desk-concert

Sund4r to thread!!

awesome.

this is so amazing.

thanks to this, went on a deep dive searching on recent orcutt stuff. and found this!!!

https://fakeestates.bandcamp.com/album/a-mechanical-joey

ha. which them led me to his GITHUB profile: https://github.com/billorcutt?tab=repositories

https://billorcutt.bandcamp.com/album/the-consolation-of-records

everything except the test pressings sold out by the time I checked that link, thanks Bill

No digital, no streaming, no repress !!

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/26/1171047855/bill-orcutt-guitar-quartet-tiny-desk-concert

Sund4r to thread!!

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 27 April 2023 13:03

^^

Would love to hear from people more familiar with this sort of thing how Four Guitars Live (Bill Orcutt, Wendy Eisenberg, Ava Mendoza, and Shane Parish) compares with the (Billx4) original Music For Four Guitars:

https://billorcutt.bandcamp.com/album/four-guitars-live

Only just now catching that the other three guitarist in the Orcutt Quartet omit their A and D strings like their leader does--amazing

I guess this is our S/D thread? this sounds very cool on first listen:

https://billorcutt.bandcamp.com/album/how-to-rescue-things

hmm

Love the concept

Yeah, this is great - dr3w compared it to this Alan Licht piece on Twitter:

https://alanlicht.bandcamp.com/track/the-old-victrola

Echoes of the Caretaker / Gate's Saturday Night Fever for me.

i'm into pretty much everything orcutt does but i love "how to rescue things"

Drove from Bathurst to Sydney recently with this on and it really painted the scenery.

It's fantastic.

Hadn't realised he'd also released a Reich Four Organs/"Louie Louie" pileup this year:

https://fakeestates.bandcamp.com/album/the-four-louies

^ this is fantastic

The Four Guitars Live with Ava Mendoza, Wendy Eisenberg and Shane Parish is absolutely fantastic.

i saw them live (fantastic) but don't really have any desire to relive it via a recording tbh

Bill's taking The Four Louies on the road (well, SF & LA):

https://i.imgur.com/qB8nR7v.png

https://i.imgur.com/6yNmKPp.png

So far Bill's only announced Wiliam Wynant as part of the 12 piece orchestra but Tony Bedard mentioned he'll be drumming as well.

Winant*

Huh, second Four Guitars live album coming out (2024 in Chicago vs 2023 in Utrecht/Copenhagen):

https://billorcutt.bandcamp.com/album/hauslive-4

Hausu Mountain continues the HausLive series of live show recordings that capture some of the headiest moments in Chicago underground music. On HausLive 4, we rewind the clock approximately one year to May 3rd, 2024 at Constellation, where the all-star Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet (featuring Wendy Eisenberg, Ava Mendoza, and Shane Parish) made their barn-burning Chicago debut. The series channels the spirit of the informal bootlegging and tape trading of audience recordings as pioneered by the community surrounding the Grateful Dead, honing in on the raw live energy and in-the-moment emotions that can make any show stand out in the stream of time. HausLive 4 catches the Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet in a sublime state of tour-hardened synergy with one another as they tear through the four-string guitar compositions that Orcutt wrote for his album Music for Four Guitars (Palilalia Records, 2022) with dialed-in fingers-on-fretboard precision, while also letting those songs evolve into flights of improvisation and extend into solo and duo passages led by each of the four guitarists. As Orcutt says on tape during one of the show’s interludes, “that record is thirty minutes; this show is an hour, so we’re improvising.” The resulting free-wheeling moments combine with the rigidity of Orcutt’s meticulous four-guitar compositions to form a program of music that draws power in equal measure from the forces of chance and discipline.

The above is out; Stereogum have a nice interview with all four members of the quartet:

https://www.stereogum.com/2306079/bill-orcutt-guitar-quartets-glorious-ordered-chaos/music/

the quartet live album rocks

saw the four louies concert last night, it was awesome. wish it had been 2x as long even

i was gonna ask if anyone went, that's awesome.

loved the v00redoms-esque arrangement

I was there too! Yeah, it was def short, maybe 30 min? Pretty cool. Def would be better on a stage than in the round since 75% of the room is going to be too close to one of the two drummers as opposed to just getting blasted by both

They should have just played "Louie Louie" straight as an encore.

is anyone going tonight with an extra ticket? Vicky's on tour and I guess I could awkwardly ask for a guestlist spot.

Maybe was mentioned elsewhere, but The Four Louies was repressed for anyone who missed it the first time around (like me).

https://fakeestates.bandcamp.com/album/the-four-louies

my buddy took some youtube clips of the SF gig (i am positioned across the way from him):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH6chvwRjbc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyragzEVxRg

Well, this is delicious

https://orcuttshelleymiller.bandcamp.com/track/a-star-is-born

For some reason the core melody reminds me of…. early Pearl Jam?!

They're still alive, yeahhhh

New HP archival tracks to help support sometime 2nd guitarist Mark Feehan are weird/unhinged/fun as one might expect (and gtrless), esp this 'title track' IMO: https://harrypussy.bandcamp.com/track/lost-lost-lost

For some reason the core melody reminds me of…. early Pearl Jam?!

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surely you mean STP "dogs can smell her" song?

"plush"?

oh yeah there is the "even flow" bassline

kinda ends on a malkmus/pavement stoned note.

saw him last night play in a park in the middle of downtown, perfect, loved the few people who had no idea who he was gathering outside the gates

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3b5ZOZ0WfI bill and the gang live. love to see steve playing <3

fucking rad, thanks

this band rocks

yeah, this album is astounding. i'm ready for more.

does Steve live in SF/Oakland now?

I watched that video this weekend and was not expecting the band to sound like that, super bad ass jams

x-post - I do not think Steve Shelley lives in SF/ Oakland now. I think west coast guy Ethan Miller, of Comets on Fire & Howlin Rain, whose style is rooted in late '60s & early '70s California rock, encouraged the other 2 to play with him, and I read that Orcutt said it reminded him of his pre-punk roots plus European & Asian jazz rock, and mid to late 80s SST rock.

Good show by Orcutt Shelley Miller last night. A little of it was too jammy for me, but most of it rocked enough and was propelled by Shelley’s drumming

Saw Takaat ( members of Mdou Moctar band without Mdou) the night before I saw Orcutt Shelley Miller so it was 2 nights in a row of impressive unique guitar players

I know wrong thread and all but Mdou Moctar and band (Takaat) are heading out on a big tour in 2 weeks, those guys never quit!

Anyone picked up his new perfect day? howzit?

classic solo orcutt if you like that sort of thing

strange to think A Mechanical Joey is already four years ago. i like to think i follow this guy's career but in truth it's difficult to keep up and i miss a lot of things