Active Projects:
The Bibb City Ramblers-2007-present
Spaceseed-2004-present
T.O.T.M-2003-present
Brian Fowler's Axes:
Weber Yellowstone Mandolin,Mcormick Flat Mandolin,McCormick Solid Body Electric mando,Gibson SG Guitar,American Strat,Gibson Thunderbird Bass
U.K WEBSITE www.sfblue.co.uk
Zeitgeist Records
Cd's available at CDBABY:
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Influences
On Mandolin(Bluegrass music): The Skillet Lickers,Bill Monroe,Bluegrass Alliance,New Grass Revival,Drew Emmitt,John Duffey,David Grisman.
On Guitar(Spacerock): Hawkwind,Can, Black Sabbath,Jethro Tull,Bonzo Dog Band,Steve Hillage,Quicksilver Messenger Service,Moby Grape.
Sounds Like
2004 Compilation of Brian's Psychedelic music(Czar,SFB,Jones Ave.)
2007 Spaceseed Album w/ Live and Studio Cuts w/ Harvey Bainbridge (Hawkwind).
2004 Album w/ Jefferson Airplane Founding Member Bob Harvey and Brian. Has Hurting For People co-written w/ Skip Spence (Moby Grape,Jefferson Airplane)... Get one before Out of Print....
2005 Album w/ Bob and Brian play Psychedelic Folk music.
Very Limited Quantity then out of print!!!!------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Review---------A lovely warm 'alt country' opener, the title track is co-composed
by the legendary Skip Spence whose 'Oar' album remains one of the
finest of its ilk. Brian Fowler's mandolin playing is brilliant
throughout especially in the extended solo on 'Bitter Cherry'. Bob
Harvey writes most of the songs sometimes in collaboration with
others. Harvey was in an early incarnation of Jefferson Airplane
while Brian Fowler produced the most enjoyable 'Folk Art' CD with
his band Jones Avenue a couple of years back. In fact his
song 'Third World War' is reprised here. 'Hurting for People' has a
very spontaneous feel to it- what you hear is what you get and
Harvey's vocal style is not to be missed!
It's his harmonica that leads the way on 'Listen to the Voice', a
fine song with a serious message while the 7 minute rendition
of 'Walking The Dog' is a lot of fun. Check it out!
Reviewed by Phil Jackson for Zeitgeist--------------------------History Behind this CD.------------------
In August of 1965, Matthew Katz, the manager, took Jefferson Airplane to Los Angeles to audition for several labels. He got us rooms at the Palms, a secluded lodge in the Hollywood hills. Skip Spence and I had a room together. We spent that first night getting high and writing a song called "Hurting For People".
I wrote the lyrics in my journal, and have hung on to them for 39 years, but the melody was never recorded and was lost in the mists of time, so when I decided to use it for the latest Moby Grape tribute album, I got together with Brian Fowler and we put new music to the lyrics. the one part of Skip's melody that I could remember was to the line, "love is just reaching out while someone else is reaching in". It fit perfectly with the new chord structure.
Brian and I recorded "Hurting For People" with an engineer named Melonie Emerson Taft. She is truly amazing. She got great sound out of all the instruments, including my voice. I'll be proud to have on the new tribute album.
2004 all acoustic live at Cartersville Georgia w/ CSX Trains making Cameos. Very Limited Quantity!!!
Superczar w/ Scorpions Arian Arcu along w/ Brian Fowler and Hank Tart (Spaceseed).. Very Limited Quantity
2002 Superczar "Stress Signal" Electronica and Maddness! Limited Quantity!!
2002 Jones Ave. Folk Album Very Psychedelic!! Very Limited Quantitys left!!
Brian on Lead Gtr and Mandolin and vocals.
To Contact Brian Fowler email follicle777@yahoo.com--------------------------------
Brand New Studio Album for 2009 "Suckers Prize" Buy the Mp3's or CD!!
Brand new 2009 LIVE Album w/ Bibb City Ramblers and Wildman Steve on Washboard!!!!
Paul Angelsanto's review of Brian Fowler-Fountain City Blues: Brian has recorded and written songs w/ members of Jefferson Airplane, Hawkwind,Spaceseed and Moby Grape. 13 songs and 58 minutes of bluegrass, newgrass,blues and experimental acoustic music. Fountain City Blues is Fowler's homage to back porch blue grass instrumental music. One of the impressive things about this disc is that it is a strictly one man deal. Brian plays all the instruments. Fowler produced it himself and over half the tunes are originals. This disc features Fowler doing some intricate plucking and strumming on the guitar, bass, mandolin, and he even takes a stab at the violin. Fountain City Blues opens up with an original called White Tail Ridge which is a sweet taste of the great sounds to come. The time change in the middle of White Tail Ridge is so subtle and deft you hardly notice it shifting into high gear until the tune is speeding by you. It takes a breezy tune on a hairpin turn. The traditional Train 45 is next. This track features some nice jangly guitar harkening back to the days of the Yardbirds and beyond. Then we get the title track. The mando and the guitar swing off each other perfectly. There's so much going on the track it takes repeated listens to get your ears around everything that's going on. Fowler stretches his musical muscles on this one for sure. Fowler covers Little Sadie next. There are some deep romantic slices of violin in his version. Foggy Mountain Breakdown is another cover song. This one has a sweet waltz feel. Really nice for some slow dancing and romancing. Port Columbus Blues features some spacey theremin whirls in the background. Ok I know that sounds like a weird thing to have going on in a blue grass tune but it works. It's hard to say why. Maybe it's because it adds a psych quality to an otherwise standard arrangement or maybe it's because the mandolin floats over the ethereal tones. Whatever the reasons it works out well and is a welcome component to this number. Fowler gives us a rousing rendition of House of the Rising Sun. There's a stirring quality to Fowlers thick attack of the guitar. Concrete Soldier has a strong melody that takes you away to a different age. You can really feel like your only care is sipping your mint julep as this song fills you up. Ghost of Andersonville has some striking mandolin tremolos that hang expertly on top of thick acoustic guitar chords. There are some nice Kentucky style sweeps of the violin that really fill the space on what starts as a breezy number then turns into what might almost be called "proggrass" with some great time and structure changes creeping into the tune. His cover of Amazing Grace is well, very spiritual. You can feel Fowler pouring himself into all the moving mando tremolos that decorate this tune. Eufaula is another Fowler original. This is a fast paced number and you can hear Fowler's fingers flying over the mandolin. This is a great knee slapping dance number. You'll have to fight to keep your feet from moving to this tune. The disc closes out with a rendition of the traditional Weeping Willow. It feels like there's a whole band blazing away on this one. You can't help but feel like your at the local dance hall on summer night with your best gal or guy and you're ready to cut the rug one more time. The whole disc has a deceptively under produced and casual feel to it like it was done in a single afternoon but repeated listens reveal that to be untrue. The complexity of the playing and songs speak to long hours of writing, recording, and mixing. This a great disc for chilling on the deck, barbecuing, cruising on a backwoods road, or watching a summer sun set..
2007 Solo Instrumental CD By Brian Fowler. Pick up cd or Download mp3's.
Architects Of Twilight Review by Steve Rowland Holding Together the Jefferson Airplane fan Mag
‘Architects Of Twilight’ – Spaceseed (Zeta Reticuli Records, USA/ Voiceprint, UK)
Fasten those seatbelts, star children. Contemporary space-rock doesn’t come any spacier - or rockier - than this latest powerhouse offering from the Seed. If you failed to check them out following my review of ‘Empire Of Night’ [HT38], you owe it to yourselves to get to hear ‘Architects Of Twilight’.
Spaceseed, (presumably named after that famous episode of Star Trek from its inaugural 1967 series), was formed some two decades ago by John Pack and a group of guys with a mutual love of the music of the mighty Hawkwind. Over the years, the relationship between the outfits has morphed from imitative adulation to something akin to incorporation. Veteran Hawk Nik Turner has played with Spaceseed live on tour in the US and on their 2005 studio album ‘Future Cities Of The Past’ (which was billed as being by Spaceseed “featuring Nik Turner”); sometime Hawkwind bass and keyboard/synth player Harvey Bainbridge has also toured and recorded with the Seed over several years; and latterly, the Hawks’ female vocalist, Bridget Wishart, has become a regular contributor to Spaceseed recordings as well.
The crew behind this latest creation are: Paul Angelosanto (lyricist), Harvey Bainbridge (synths), Brian Fowler (lead guitar, vocals), Bob Harvey (vocals), Steve Hayes (synths, bass guitar), John Pack (lead guitars, vocals), Josh Sattler (bass guitar), John Stanton (guitars), Hank Tart (drums), Allen Welty Green (producer) and Bridget Wishart (vocals).
Over ten tracks and forty hugely enjoyable minutes, Spaceseed weave their mesh of guitars, synthesizers and (mostly spoken) lyrics as they very loosely tell the story of an attempt by those fiendish Agents of Twilight to take over our lovely world and lead us from illumination to obscurity. (Some might argue we’re doing a good job of that already without external assistance!)
The opus commences with a chilling broadcast from the “dealers of darkness”, those afore-mentioned Architects of Twilight. Topped and tailed by some signature flute music, Bridget Wishart declaims: “The premise of destruction is not open to debate…You should surrender your world to us. We will be gentle masters… We will not tolerate chaos!” Oooh er…
“Rivers In The Sky” really launches proceedings. It is seven minutes of spectacular, high octane rock-out – solid drumming, busy bass, twin riffing guitars and Harvey Bainbridge on synthesizers and vocals. These guys take it from the garage to the outer limits with commendable enthusiasm!
As “Rivers…” dies away, huge swathes of ‘wind-swept’ synths swirl and drift from speaker to speaker on the atmospheric (if that’s not a contradiction in terms) instrumental piece, “Nebula Part 1”. This is stunning three-dimensional sound, which does much more than simply provide some respite in advance of the next rocking blast, “The Saucer Incident”. The latter powers in on the buzzing, head-banging ‘Architects Of Twilight’ riff. Despite many plays, I’ve not yet deciphered the lyrics in the dense mix, so I don’t know what the saucer incident is, beyond “the saucer came and everything changed” but – honestly – it’s the playing and the atmosphere the song creates, that matters here and the musicianship, the guitar-playing in particular, is mesmerising.
Bob Harvey, ex-bass player with Jefferson Airplane, ventriloquist and army colleague of Brian Fowler, performs the cameo role of the incarcerated “hero” in the deeply ironic and superbly orated “Blood On My Hands”: “They told me to release the living machines into the colonists’ water supply. They didn’t tell me why. They never tell me why. A hero doesn’t need to know why. A hero is just part of the design.”
“Titan” is another five minutes of storming and tumbling space music, with hard-riffing guitars, phasing, modulators at the max and the indefatigable Hank ‘Pop’ Tart giving his kit such a battering that he almost lives up to the title of the song! Just when the listener is getting lost in the majesty of the groove, Ms Wishart resurfaces to remind us that chaos will not be tolerated and the song segues into “Omega”, another spoken Wishart piece over minimal, brooding synthesized backing. This tells of an experiment gone wrong, the developing of a machine that has taken on a life and a purpose of its own, beyond its creator’s design or control. (I tried to warn you, I tried to warn you!)
Cue “The Insane Scientist”, another sinewy rocker under/over which Bainbridge intones a description of his encounter with some awful beastie that stared right into his soul and found it “too empty and dead to matter”; it’s a psych-rock updating of Edgar Allan Poe, complete with manic laughter and spiralling hysteria to the fade.
“Nebula Part 2”, the second purely instrumental piece, interposes its beautifully desolate mellifluousness for five minutes prior to the concluding instrumental rock-out that is “Warlord”. Once again, the sonic geometry that Harvey Bainbridge and Steve Hayes conjure up is breath-taking.
This final track revisits those searing ‘Architects of Twilight’ riffs, powerhouse drums underpinning some bubbling organ pyrotechnics, with twin lead guitars duelling over the top until it all settles into a final riffing groove that nods in the direction of the Stones’ “Gimme Shelter”. In a neat conceptual conceit, the flute that opened proceedings also closes them.
This is a hugely entertaining outing. ‘Architects Of Twilight’ dubs itself “the hammer to space-rock’s anvil” and it should resonate with fans of good psychedelic space-rock music everywhere. (which surely includes everybody reading this review). I’m told it should be available from CDBaby or Voiceprint but you might like to try Zeitgiest Records first, PO Box 13499, Edinburgh EH6 8YL, or online at www.sfblue.co.uk
Steve Rowland
New 2009 Spaceseed album w/ Brian Fowler on Lead Guitar,Vocals along w/ Jefferson Airplane Founding Member Bob Harvey and Hawkwind members Bridget Wishart and Harvey Bainbridge.
2006 Spaceseed Album w/ Brian Fowler,Harvey Bainbridge (Hawkwind),Bob Harvey (Jefferson Airplane)
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hey dude just wanted to let you know that I'm finished with my first album, when I get the money I'll do a cdr release, I'll send Ben when he practices with charles over to give you a copy as soon as i can, I've already got about a third of my second album done, peace
Bibb City Ramblers at Strutting Duck Wire Rd. Auburn, Alabama 2038 Lee Rd 137, Auburn, AL - (334) 821-7277 US Columbus,Auburn Folks don't miss the Bibb City Ramblers at Strutting Duck,, One of the coolest venues in this whole area. Great food,atmosphere and music.............................. Also BCR at the DUCK on:
Yeah! You made it a complete success! Thanks for letting me play your mandolin too...awesome instrument! Someday I'll play like you...yeah right! Thanks so much to the two of you for being there.
Howdy Folks, It has been quiet in Bibb City for a few weeks, the boys have been in the secret training facility preparing for the Cherokee Farms Fiddlers Convention. This fest will be in Cherokee Farms La Fayette Georgia. The blog before this has all the info you could want on the festival. We also have another run of shows at the Strutting Duck and a bunch of new music. The Duck shows are gonna be alot of fun we are gonna have some special guests and have us a good ol hootenanny!!! The new record Sucker's Prize is out now available at cdbaby,amazon, just about everywhere. We are starting a new record that we will finish by the end of the year....We will be in Columbus Georgia at SOHO bar and grill, we always enjoy playing there, good sound in the room..July 16th, The 17th we will be in Cusetta Georgia at the Bunkhouse w/ Stan and Marsha,Randy and Darlene. Marsha if you read this blog please add to it w/ info on the Bunkhouse evening....Brian and Dan have been churning out alot of new songs and are excited about the future w/ BCR....Join us at Cherokee Farms!!!! We would love to see some folks from Columbus come out to Cherokee Farms, Larry Keel,Good Medicine,Snake Oil Medicine Show, alot of great music, we will have a special,special guest RAILROAD BILL FOWLER on dobro all the way from Louisville Kentucky. Adam Brown our bassist will be appearing in the Troy heard production of Rocky Horror Picture show, Adam is a talented bassist and should be a hoot for him.....At Cherokee we plan to be jamming the whole time when not on stage we will be parking lot picking. SO join us for the party and bring your git fiddles. We also have 2 cd's out Broad Street Blues has Wildman Steve on washboard, this cd was recorded live and is a great party time cd live and raw, also Suckers Prize our new studio album. You can get both at cdbaby,Amazon,Napster etc... Please pick up some Rambler Music and support ORIGINAL ACOUSTIC MUSIC in Georgia......
Is it real life or is it a dream ? Have a peaceful and sunny day and thanks very much for your friendship.Your page is very inspiring and I would be glad if you visit me and leave me a comment Hugs Mindmovie
Likewise my friend. Hope we can do it again sometime soon ,but maybe not quite so late. Thanks for the compliment on the Rainsong guitar,I really like it alot.Keep on pickin' and we'll catch ya later. R
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