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Old 29th November 2005   #20
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I saw Bill play recently at a tiny performance space in the east village. It was dark but I believe he was using an Ampeg 6x10 with a ton of pedals of all shapes, sizes, and age. I wish I had taken a picture. A lot of distortion and filter pedals, some delays, a whammy, a couple Moogs, 3-4 volume and wah pedals at the end of the chain.

He was just bugging out and improving over some DnB, slamming pedals like a madman and making people sit up straight and look around "thats the bass player???"

It was a beautiful thing.

One of my favorite Laswell produced albums of is Nicky Skopelitis' Ekstasis.

If you're at all into world music, or the ridiculous drumming of Jaki Liebezeit (formerly of Can), I highly recommend it.

Another classic Laswell production in the rock genre is Praxis Transmutation.

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