FRED FRITH
1980-04-16 - Poughkeepsie, NY
Interview
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1980-04-16 - Poughkeepsie, NY - Vassar College - fm (aud) (23m)
Fred Frith

1) interview part 1 (9:09)
2) interview part 2 (9:01)
3) interview part 3 (4:48) *
4) announcer out (0:49) **

* "We're recording at CBGB's next Thursday in the city...a 16 track recording and hopefully that will emerge in some form or another either an ep or an album".
** "So it's Fred Frith on April 16th...and that's the College Center...and all he had to say about his new self...".

Source: Stereo FM (AUD) trade tape - Trade tape > Computer WAV > TLH v2.4.1 > FLAC 8 > DIME > you.
[Fred Frith - 1980-04-16 Interview, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY] Flacset shared as torrent on Dime by jschmoe.

No SBE's - TLH analysis - fingerprints (in info file)
"I bought a copy of this tape off of Zorch Enterprises (Chicago) back in 1984 or so.
He hooked me up with my first live Frith / Henry Cow tapes.
So yes this is "FM", a radio broadcast (unknown station) of a pre-concert interview before a "guitars on the table" show at Vassar College.
But apart from the end snippet, it's really a guy with a tape deck & mic, recording Frith talking with him, more "AUD"-like.
This baby is very hissy, but it's still quite listenable.
The audio here was preceded on my tape by the interviewer talking a bit on-air about Frith.
But this was done as a voice-over atop of official music, so I removed that lead-in (about 75sec.)
Since I lopped it out, here's a transcript:
"Fred Frith is one of the foremost pioneers in pop music today.  As well as having played with Henry Cow for, uh, 10 years, and the Art Bears for 2 years, he has aided musicians such as Brian Eno, The Muffins, and Jan Steele (sp?) on several recording projects.  Since the breakup of Henry Cow, mr Frith has vigorously avoided the clumsy, impersonal monolithic rock group, and chosen the path of being a mobile independent musician, which has left him free to choose what he wants to do & when he wants to do it. One direction that Fred Frith has been actively pursuing is that of purely improvised guitar solos.  I'm speaking with him here, in the Vassar College center, before a concert of this kind."
So here you have the interview (which is continuous, but I broke it into a few pieces), and a mini-snippet of the same interviewer, now on-air, confirming the date / noting he's gonna play a Henry Cow track, and then it cuts off. Frith talks about his style of playing, the effect of new wave / punk on people's attitides towards music, & various projects in the works".


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