TIP OF THE TONGUE 17 JANUARY 2010
Doug Snyder & Bob Thompson
Daily Dance
Cantor No Cat
LP
OUT OF STOCK!
Deluxe vinyl edition of this legendary outta time private press LP, cut by the duo of electric guitarist Doug Snyder and drummer Bob Thompson in Ohio in 1972. When the Warm O’ Brisk CD reissue of this came out back in 98 there was pretty much across-the-board acclaim from alla your favourite thinkers, with Nick Cain in Opprobrium and Chris Stigliano in Black To Comm both singing its praises. It’s still a singular recording, one that mainlines the classic Creem-magazine high energy pantheon – Velvets, Stooges, Pharaoh Sanders, Sonny Sharrock – while anticipating the free jazz/noise/no wave synthesis of groups like The Blue Humans and The Dead C. Snyder’s guitar takes off on the kinda extended electric form of Lou Reed’s chord soloing on live takes of “Run Run Run” (indeed it was Snyder and Thompson that provided the audience recording of the Velvet’s “Melody Laughter” that turned up on the Peel Slowly And See box) while getting into some fantastically blunt detours, heading off Thompson’s pounding kit with bulldozing chords that combine churning fuzz pedal distortion and splintered bursts of single note solos. As the disc progresses the pair get into some more abstruse territory, with Snyder tearing Industrial gamelan shapes from his six strings while Thompson uses the guts of the kit as the basis for whole new tonal alphabets. But it’s all rendered with such a strong garage punk ethos that it effortlessly equates monochord rock oblivion with the kinda celestial freedoms of Cecil Taylor/John Coltrane et al while establishing that kinda advanced territory as implicit in the most far-reaching visions of the rock/roll blueprint. Still hard to believe this was recorded in 1972. A major historical unearthing, beautifully packaged with an obi strip and a substantial booklet featuring liners, reminiscences and pics. Highly recommended.
