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?!

― Clever Message Board User Name (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, August 5, 2025 7:01 AM (one hour ago)

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

"plush"?

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

did anyone listen to that Cyrus Pireh album that Orcutt put out on his label earlier this year

really astonishing stuff

https://cyruspireh.bandcamp.com/album/thank-you-guitar

no but i am now and yes it’s astonishing, thank you

quite the mustache too

Was really stoked to see a post on Instagram that Orcutt Shelley Miller were recently recording new material in SF.

Orcutt is unstoppable! This thing looks wild:

https://64.media.tumblr.com/d142e6958a761582449590244610b006/9e1ffd087080b6c5-a4/s1280x1920/14114f581d8acb199616bb865bc79267af325db4.jpg

Excited for that. The 21st will be a marathon with the Jennifer Kelly benefit in the afternoon.

nice, what a day in brooklyn! hoping to catch him at least once at big ears.

some other east coast dates for Orcutt Shelley Miller

https://www.songkick.com/artists/10384700-orcutt-shelley-miller/calendar

new one is more my vibe than OSM, back to his four guitars approach. at first it felt a bit sketch-y (shorter tracks that each kind of have one idea and not much riffing) but it gets thornier as it goes. mostly it made me wonder when someone is going to hire orcutt to do a "dead man" style movie score - a lot of the tracks here feel like they would work great in that setting.

New one is great and I also haven't been able to get into OSM as much as I should like it on paper, I mean it's no Rangda!

Two tracks from an upcoming album with Mabe Fratti(!!) are available:

https://tinangelrecords.bandcamp.com/album/almost-waking

whoa

Looks like last weekend's Brooklyn showcase is available to stream on Roulette's YT channel:

https://m.youtube.com/@RouletteIntermediumNYC

I woulda flown to NYC for the two-nighter if plane tickets were cheaper and that whole cross-border ICE thing didn't make travelling to the States so unappealing atm

Waiting around before Orcutt/Shelley/Miller at Metro Baltimore now, should be a good one. Many old dudes.

I was there, that show was fucking bonkers

Hopefully someone taped it

Lol probably some old dude did

orcutt shelley miller YOW (at least for one song anyway), plus a new Neil Young cover:

https://orcuttshelleymiller.bandcamp.com/album/hot-head

awesome

Two tracks from an upcoming album with Mabe Fratti(!!) are available:

https://tinangelrecords.bandcamp.com/album/almost-waking

― etc, Tuesday, March 17, 2026 7:55 PM (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

WHOA

That Neil Young cover was previously issued on an Uncut CD free:

https://www.uncut.co.uk/features/inside-our-latest-free-uncut-cd-the-gold-rush-the-songs-of-neil-young-151721/

xp GAH why does there have to be singing :(

thanks Ward, I should have clocked that myself, as I have that Uncut CD!

did anyone listen to that Cyrus Pireh album that Orcutt put out on his label earlier this year

really astonishing stuff

https://cyruspireh.bandcamp.com/album/thank-you-guitar

― Murgatroid, Sunday, November 30, 2025 9:28 PM (four months ago) bookmarkflaglink

Just saw on the Open Melody fest in Los Angles thread that Pireh played with Mike Watt on Sunday

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While I like Orcutt Shelley Miller, I wish I had not slept on The Four Guitars Live with Ava Mendoza, Wendy Eisenberg and Shane Parish

if y'all like jazz-brut covers of neil young you might enjoy die glorreichen sieben's "keep on rockin' in the free world" - kalle kalima does his psychedelic woolly ribot twang, with a bassist and TWO drummers, one of whom is flipin christian lillinger

I'll be honest, Orcutt Shelley Miller is fun to listen to, but as a whole, it's still kinda beneath them, like "shredding" is a bit of a waste of their individual talents imo

https://tinangelrecords.bandcamp.com/album/almost-waking

Orcutt and Mabe Fratti

released May 22, 2026

Guitar by Bill Orcutt, Cello and vocals by Mabe Fratti, Except tracks 1,3,4 and 6 that were writtern by Bill Orcutt & Mabe Fratti with contributions on the cello arrangement by I.La Católica
Recorded at Tinho Studios in CDMX and in the Living Room in San Francisco.

new album is really great imo

Yep, nice balance between instrumental tracks and ones with vocals .

that album cover is wonderful

https://open.substack.com/pub/levidayan/p/an-interview-with-bill-orcutt?r=2ck8a&utm_medium=ios

Levi Dayan interview with Bill Orcutt

thnking u 4 that

Bill Orcutt is opening shows for Geese on the US west coast in October

lol

Heard he's in discussions to headline Coachella.

that Sweet Child o' Mine album must be doing some TikTok numbers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C1l2JwGQes

The live Louies was a blazing and expansive wall of sound, with impeccable time-keeping by Mr. Winant on maracas. The twin drums exploded immediately, and Bill’s riffing prodded Gumby’s Junk into some boisterous interplay. In the grand tradition of Kiss Alive, Frampton Comes Alive, Live at Leeds, or When the Shit Hits the Fans, Four Louies Live eclipses its studio predeccessor, and surely portends an attendant commercial breakthrough.” — ALAN LICHT

From notes on Bandcamp for Louies Live release

It’s missing the first sentence where he acknowledges that he played on it. Lol

Licht disses the studio version (did he play on that one?) but he loves this live Louie Louies version that he and a bunch of others played on with Bill Orcutt

love the Glenn Branca tribute art too

virtuoso performance from William Winant on the maracas, i bet his wrists must have been sore afterward

final comment, it's good and cool but i bet this was a lot more fun to see live than it is to hear on record

Maracas.jpg

I was there - it was glorious. Winant's stamina on maracas was truly something to behold. He played a stunning set with Zeena Parkins the following day. Also loved Alan Licht diligently jabbing at the same note on organ for much of the performance.