"The Abbie Hoffman Incident" at Woodstock -- Remix featuring Ferryman

[Ted]

Hello Woodstock!

ARE YOU READY TO RO...

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Where'd everyone go?

I started on this well before the deadline, but life got in the way.  Way back in July June I looked at the list of "songs" performed at Woodstock and saw The Abbie Hoffman Incident and decided that's what I wanted to do.

At Woodstock in 1969, Hoffman interrupted The Who's performance to attempt a protest speech against the jailing of John Sinclair of the White Panther Party. ... The Who's guitarist, Pete Townshend, ... ran with his Gibson SG and rammed it into Hoffman's upper middle back. Hoffman turned with mouth gaping, back arched with one hand trying to reach the injury as Townshend, disgruntled and yelling "Fuck off! Fuck off my stage," put a hand in Hoffman's face and shoved him backwards to stage right. Townshend then said "I can dig it."

Nigel (Ferryman) provided the Kaossilator.  I did the fuzz bass, and drum arrangement. Everything else--guitar, bass, voices--comes from the incident.  And the voices say certain words that are inappropriate for many workplaces and homes.

The audio is NSFW.

Here's the video:

And finally...

[launched]

I can dig it!!!

Seriously, this was a brilliant arrangement. Right up my alley. Loopy, samply sounding genius!!

I'm a huge Bill Laswell fan, more on the lines of Praxis, Material, Golden Palomino's, etc. This whole arrangement is definitely in that kind of spirit.

Make a whole album of this shit!! Sweeeeeeeet!! 

Mark

[hooper]

  Heh.... loved the woodstock pic and caption. 
And nice job of putting together a sample and loop project. 

[Bluesberry]

Nice bass playing.  Horny Harold came out to play, nice Rick Wakeman lines there.  This is just great, I really like it.

 I can dig it.

[oldrottenhead]

i can dig it 2

[guitarron]

i can dig it 2

me too

very creative-love the loop work-fantastic!!!

great groove

[Ted]

I'm a huge Bill Laswell fan, more on the lines of Praxis, Material, Golden Palomino's, etc. This whole arrangement is definitely in that kind of spirit.

Make a whole album of this shit!! Sweeeeeeeet!! 

I'm embarrassed to say that I'm not familiar with any of those artists, except Bill Laswell (barely).  I'll have to check them out.  I wondered what someone who knew this genre would think of this.  (The only research I did into this genre was to listen to The Rockafeller Skank by Fatboy Slim a couple of times to convince myself that listeners might tolerate "I can dig it" so many times.)

As for a whole album: I can't dig it. The Micro BR is definitely not the ideal environment for this kind of project.  A simple thing like nudging the words "dig" and "shit" to their intended beats was extremely tedious.  The slicing and looping took countless hours.  I hardly touched a guitar or bass for a month.  Whenever I had time to work on music, I was pushing those little silver buttons.  I've probably heard Abbie Hoffman say "pile of shit" more than any person alive.

I should mention that Nigel, with his adventurous spirit, jumped on this project given only the sketchiest description.  And, when I was only expecting a synth solo for the middle, he provided me with textures for every part of the song. 

Big thanks to you, Hornigerryman!

[launched]

Ted, I would like to warn you that there is a whole world of Bill Laswell, some of which sounds nothing like the song you and Nigel created. A legendary bass player that has traveled across the entire sound spectrum. His focus is mainly odd world fusion stuff and funk. He has collaborated with Bootsy Collins, Bernie Worrell, Buckethead, Nicky Skopelitis, etc.

Your note filled bass playing and beat choices remind me of some of the music he has created in the past. Unfortunately, You Tube is a tough weed-through regarding Laswell. I did manage to find this one - It includes a profound narration from William S. Burroughs:



Sorry to ramble - I just love that old Axiom/Subharmonic Records world...

[OsCKilO]

Holy Shit!!!!!!


I can Dig this Big style!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Awesome Tech Job!



Sounds Amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Peace

T(Osckilo)

[Ted]

I did manage to find this one - It includes a profound narration from William S. Burroughs:

I can dig it.

I remember a Bill Laswell piece on a compilation cassette I had years ago.  Didn't like that particular piece much, and never gave him much thought again.  He's probably one of those missed-connection artists for me.  Been there all along, right under my nose, and I never noticed.

Thanks!

[SE]

Loopy fantastic, I can dig it too love,in the mix, excellent work all round.

[Blooby]

The effort shows.  Really unique post.

Do you now have "George Jetson finger" from pushing all those buttons?

Blooby

[SteveG]

You did all that on the recorder?

Bloody hell!!!!

[Geir]

i can dig it 2

me too

and me !!

Can't believe you did that on the br!!! Very impressive and a great result !!

[Ferryman]

Wow Ted, I REALLY dig it. I loved the groove on this when Ted sent it to me, it actually reminded me of Pil/Jah Wobble, esepcially the fuzz bass, and I loved it. So I couldn't resist Kaossilating all over it. Blooby and Steve hinted at how clever Ted's work really is here and he has shared to tortuous process it must have been! Doing all the cutting up/looping on the BR is damn impressive. I sent him a mixed stereo track of Kaossilations, and he has even cut that up and spread it around the track so that the end result is way better than the rough mix I heard.

Ted, I love what you've done here and I really like the way you changed the end part. It was great fun to collaborate on this and the end result is very cool in my book. And yes, even Horny Harold got a look in!

Cheers,

Nigel