Rock In Opposition

[metropolis_4]

This is a new one to me!

I spent the night listening to a killer band of amazing musicians playing some of the most beautiful, bizarre, fringe avant-garde artistic music I’ve ever heard.

The lineup was:
Drums
Upright bass
Electric guitar
Accordion
Keyboard
Trombone
Clarinet/Saxophone/Flute

Think Zappa doing rock-jazz-gypsy-polka-folk fusion and that’s the best context I can think of for this bands sound. The guitarist killed shredding crazy harmonized lines with the accordion and clarinet that were borderline atonal at times but perfectly coordinated.

They were heavily influenced by Henry Cow, Samla Mammas Manna, and the whole Rock In Opposition movement. This is new to me, I’d never heard of this whole movement.

Anyone else know of RIO?

 

[Alex Kenivel]

Magma comes to mind.



On the last leg of a tour, we were coming down from Oregon into California playing this song in our bassist's girlfriends' car, packed to the windows full of belongings. When this song ended we finally noticed the group of police cars following us with lights and sirens blazing and we were pulled over. I was handcuffed, the vehicle was searched, and the less intimidating of us were questioned. We were so confused, and the officers were hyped up on adrenaline because they had been in Pursuit for over 10 minutes and I was the biggest guy there so I was detained. The girlfriend snapped a Polaroid of me in handcuffs. I wish I can get a hold of that picture, it was such a crazy event.

Sorry for the OT