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Let's Go For A Gride
Sometimes you have to wait for good music to come to you. Then all at once, you get a ton of great stuff you don't know what to do with. Feast or famine. That was tonight. I aired the new Ozric Tentacles The Floor's Too Far Away which is a bit of a different flavor this time around with a slightly different line up. We opened tonight's show with Soft Machine's Legacy which is a tribute to the late great Elton Dean who passed away earlier this year. We also closed out with the latest Soft Machine archive from the wonderful Cuneiform Records label titled Grides. Grides features Elton Dean, Hugh Hopper, Mike Ratledge, and Robert Wyatt recorded live at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam on October 25, 1970. This also has the track from Elton Dean titled Neo-Caliban Grides, which has a fairly lengthy composed section that was never heard again. Steve never ceases to amaze me with all the great archives he finds. Bless his heart.
The Return Of McGill
Scott McGill has been a mainstay on our program since 1995. But I have known Scott since I was in elementary school. Scott was a student of my father in his mid to late teens. He was one of the only students that my father said "He doesn't need me...he's got it already." Scott's breakthrough onto my program began back in 1995 with The Hand Farm. These were songs not on a CD. These were early cassette recordings that I still consider timeless to this day. Since 1995, I have seen Scott become one of the premiere guitarists in today's scene. I am happy to be a witness of his growing talent. Our interview began with a spotlight on the forthcoming McGill/Manring/Stevens CD titled What We Do. This is a disc that more or less was inspired by the last MMS tour that was hampered by faulty equipment. The thick and thin of it is, it's a disc that features many jazz/fusion classics done in the MMS way. It kicks ass. After featuring some tracks from it, we did a retrospect. Spotlighting the Ripe album from 1999, the short lived Finneus Gauge, The Hand Farm live performance in our studio from 3/99 as part of our 50 Weeks To 1000 showcase. We then began our trek into Addition By Subtraction (Our #1 album of 2001) and Controlled By Radar. Scott as always, is a great guest, one of the leading fusion guitarists in the world, and a close friend. The interview and retrospect lasted 2 1/2 hours. Another gem to be heard again down the road.

Tonight's Program Ran 4 Hours and 2 Minutes