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Influences
Zappa, Todd Rundgren, Jeff Beck, Django, Allan Holdsworth, Can, the Soft machine/Caravan/Gong family, Santana, Curtis Mayfield, the Damned, Roy Wood, Traffic, Colosseum, Curved Air, Alquin etc etc
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Heres a Video experiment based on the seminal 'Invisible Opera' tune, 'Gravity'
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...and some gems from the archive!
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."...........Hunter .S Thompson
Difficult to describe it myself....
So here's a review of the first album/demo..
"Why oh why? the subject matter of the Zappa-esque first track 'Now it's your turn' concentrates, somewhat unnecessarily it seems on Will's failings as a performer. It will make you laugh darkly, however. This track is given the additional edge of irony by Will's deadpan Waits style delivery interspersed with some brilliant flailing electric guitar.
'Smokeless' starts with a gently jazzy piano riff about the vagaries of running out of things to smoke, if I understood it right. It cuts to a rather beautiful Hillagey instrumental section with further demonstration of Will's prowess as psychedelic fretwangler.
'Shine' is a bit within-without-you with a bit of the pretenders after Chrissy got into Hare Krishna. One can't help feeling that it might all sound a little more punchy with a live kit drummer. The arabic instrumental works well here, however.
'Euphonious Junk' seems to be back to Will's perceptions of his own musical ineptitude. Great groove, more fine guitar work, "and a dodgy voice is all the more revealing", you said it.
'Discrepancies' - I just don't want to go into it now, ok? a bit of a blippy house production here with Will's ambient drawlings over the top. Then a bit of extended Invisible Clockwork Band style instrumental improvisation. Apart from the excalibur FM jingles which give this release an air of surrealism all of their own, the album ends with 'Guitarsis' more clockwork band guitar workouts with a touch of Zappa.
This CD is a great introduction to the world of Will Greenwood, although it has more of the feel of a long demo than a proper album.
We want more..."
Tim Hall
(This Album, as well as 'Lament to a Space Pirate', is still available, for a small concession, from this very website...)
I play Guitar........but with a shamans sense of fear!
Its all spontaneous........well, mostly.
Playing music with like minded people, and connecting in that special way is like nothing else.
I also play Keyboards, Drums, Bass, Synthesizer etc
This is the drug I crave, really....... the others are there merely for fun.
I have played with a host of bands and projects during the last 36 years of playing.
Most notable of these were/are;
Space Pirates.....
Blue Cheese from Space.....
Glass Unicorn.....
Spannerman.....
Will Greenwoods Impossible Stress Factor.....
The Titanic Dance Band.....
Medicine.....
One Night Band.....
The Nebulizers (with Roger Heal).....
Hubba.....
Tanjy Wilson.....
Hot Club of Avalon.....
Indivisible.....
Shining Ones.....
Invisible Opera
El Plazmo.......(with Joie Hinton, Paul Didge, Ted Duggan, etc)
and more recently a guest appearance on 'Gaia's Garden' by O'Head
.....and many others over the years, here and there.
I have also spent several years as musical director of the Glastonbury Town Players, during which time I helped stage 8 of the infamous Glastonbury Pantos, (including...'the Wizard of Odd!' and several seasonal cabarets.
Sadly,'INVISIBLE OPERA' has now passed beyond its own veil and become almost totally transparent, leaving me FREE to spend time on the SPACE PIRATES, my favourite project.
New album, 'Avast Beyond' now available from MYChoonz
Thankyou for adding Sonic World Festival, 4/5th September 2009. Tickets are available from www.sonicworldfestival.co.uk and www.myspace.com/harveybainbridgemusic as well as our own myspace site. £30 for the whole weekend, indoor toilets, free showers, free camping, bars, bar meals and restaurant, indoor venue.
20th Feb -- The Regent -- "Circle Lounge", IPSWICH. (IP4 1HE) 26th Feb -- Queen Charlotte – NORWICH 27th Feb -- The Victoria -- COALVILLE (LE6 3FA) 27th March – The Rigger – NEWC-U-LYME (ST5 1BT) 28th March -- The Leopard -- DONCASTER (DN1 3AA) 24th April -- TBC 25th April -- The Axe & Cleaver -- BOSTON (PE21 8QH) 1st May -- TBC 2nd May – The Riverside – SELBY (YO8 4NJ) 22nd May – TBC 23rd May – Ivory Blacks – GLASGOW. 24th May – TBC 29th May -- TBC 30th May -- Blues Café – ROTHERHAM 19th June – Sonic Rock Solstice, BUILTHWELLS, Wales , GUNSLINGER(Friday Night Headline!) 20TH June – Sonic Rock Solstice, Bassist for PRE-MED(Saturday Night Headline!)
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