Zero Tolerance For Silence
(Coq au Vinyl) LP $25.00
2022 reissue of the 1994 “jazz Metal Machine Music.” Loud, dissonant layers of electric guitars and overdriven amplifiers are in stark contrast to the smooth, melodic jazz upon which the Metheny legend is built. At the time, some theorized it was a contract-ending “fuck you” to his label, while others in-the-know swear it’s a pure expression of sounds Metheny had dreamt of making for some time. The man himself describes it as “a 2-D view of a world in which I am usually functioning in a more 3-D way. It is entirely flat music, and that was exactly what it was intended to be.” Knowing who to believe is the first hurdle with any masterpiece of free improvisation, so lace up them running shoes, Pierre. 140-gram vinyl. Paste-on cover with obi. Hand-stamped edition of 333
Laguna Beach Happening
(Coq au Vinyl) LP $28.00
Live audience recordings from December 25, 1970, at a concert billed as a “West Coast Woodstock,” created by the Brotherhood of Eternal Love (aka the Hippie Mafia, best known as the international LSD trafficking ring that rubbed shoulders with Timothy Leary, Jimi Hendrix and — rumor has it — members of the Manson Family). Previously released as a ’70s bootleg called 100% Unknown Fibers: Odd Lots, the album boasts several amazing tunes by psych / blues rock / acid folk unknowns (and apparently Buddy Miles and Bryan MacLean of Love are present), along with plenty of between-band banter and rants from local burnouts, festival “security” and a Black Panther or two. White jacket with blotter paper front cover. Edition of 300