Frank Lowe, Eugene Chadbourne
Don't Punk Out (LP)
LabelQED RecordsGenreJazz & Improvisation
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condition (record/cover): NM / EX- (minimal wear)
Tenor saxophone and acoustic guitar, one of the least likely duos of the seventies, and it works. Frank Lowe was a hard-blowing free jazz player out of the ESP and loft-scene tradition; Eugene Chadbourne was a Canadian-based improviser about to become one of the great eccentrics of American underground music. Don't Punk Out is the two of them going at it with no rhythm section, no plan and a great deal of humour: Lowe roaring, Chadbourne scraping, prepping and generally treating the guitar as a set of problems rather than an instrument. Released on Chadbourne's own imprint.
Original QED pressing. Prime downtown free improvisation from the moment before anybody had worked out how to categorise it.
Release notes
Stereo recording, New York City, October 13, 1977 Most pieces are complete as performed, no overdubbing has been used. Frank Lowe plays Tenor Saxophone on all tracks except B6 Eugene Chadbourne plays: 6-string guitar with amplification on A1 to A3, A6, A7, B2, B4; 6-string guitar on A5, B1, B3, B6 12-string guitar on A4, B7 DC combined signature of Dave Crawford in runouts following MASTEREDISK A1, A3 to A5,…
| A1 | Composition For David Murray | 1:47 | |
| A2 | If It Should Happen | 4:05 | |
| A3 | Fright | 4:23 | |
| A4 | At Reel's End | 2:31 | |
| A5 | Bobo Did It | 2:31 | |
| A6 | Ghosts | 4:16 | |
| A7 | The Clam | 0:54 | |
| B1 | St Thomas (Fire Down There) | 1:29 | |
| B2 | Phantom To Tower (Parts 1 & 2) | 4:22 | |
| B3 | You Were Right In The First Place | 2:44 | |
| B4 | 45 1st Ave (Parts 1 & 2) | 2:50 | |
| B5 | There's No Place Like Home (Lowe solo) | 2:51 | |
| B6 | Doctor Too-Much (Chadbourne solo) | 2:45 | |
| B7 | Don't Punk Out (Parts 1 & 2) | 3:04 |
- Eugene Chadbourne
- Guitar [6-string, 12-string]
- Dave Crawford
- Lacquer Cut By
- Martin Davidson
- Recorded By
- Frank Lowe
- Tenor Saxophone
