Sir Richard Bishop: C or D?

I played the new album yesterday and was kind of put off it by the number of people that came up and asked if it was The Shadows...!

:-(

At least they know who the Shadows are...? Don't you like surf?!

Also, it doesn't look like the Oaxacan dudes are the dudes who play on the record, unless the record dudes are playing under pseudonyms.

great last night! and oaxacan were cool too. great to see them in such a small place too. one jam reminded me of a saharan surf version of a robin trower song or something. with all the twang in the air i was kinda hoping he would do a number by his old labelmates JFA.

if you are in boston you should go tonight.

dude from oaxacan stopped by my store during the day and he was a little worried that people wouldn't show up, but there was a good crowd. not PACKED, but respectable for a tuesday night in turner's falls massachusetts.

sad i missed this.

scott is your store open?

yup. open for 3+ weeks. next to tofu a go go on main street in greenfield. noon to 7 every day except sunday.

cool! what's it called?

Also, it doesn't look like the Oaxacan dudes are the dudes who play on the record, unless the record dudes are playing under pseudonyms.

― ian, Sunday, May 24, 2009 4:57 PM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I think they are pseudonyms, cause the only guitarist listed is Rasheed Al-Qahira who I assume is SRB.

"cool! what's it called?"

john doe jr.

(we are still waiting for our cool new sign to go over our door. should be ready by friday.)

oh, and my brother's store is called john doe. which is why i called mine john doe jr. cuz i'm the younger brother.

good to hear the report i'm going to see this tour in mpls.

freak of araby is a great too...total weirdo ventures-gone-world music vibes

urgh, wish he was coming through my city. loving this new album.

he plays here (Eugene OR) July 2nd. so psyched. picked up the Freak LP 2 days ago but I keep just listening to my bad MP3s, gonna have to break it out today.

listened to this today. soooooooooooooooooo prog. space bass prog, even.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_TPGvgtLrAHs/SYdZMvYfJXI/AAAAAAAADHg/BJNfddUFZH4/s320/61tzRiOpiaL._SS500_.jpg

oops! wrong thread.

although an alphonso johnson/richard bishop jam would be pretty cool. they could do dark star together.

I played the new album yesterday and was kind of put off it by the number of people that came up and asked if it was The Shadows...!

:-(

― krakow, Sunday, 24 May 2009 09:23 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

At least they know who the Shadows are...? Don't you like surf?!

Also, it doesn't look like the Oaxacan dudes are the dudes who play on the record, unless the record dudes are playing under pseudonyms.

― ian, Sunday, 24 May 2009 20:57 (3 weeks ago)

Heh, I would have been asking if this was the new Richard Bishop and not known who the Shadows were.

Oh i c, they're British.

going to see him saturday nite! so excited : )

tonight, should be good

saw the show with oaxacan at the music gallery.
i was expecting mystical improv madness, so i had to readjust for the surflike stylings of his freak of araby material.
really liked what the oaxacan drummer was doing during their opening set.

Saw them on teh 3rd. Oaxacan were great (I bought both their CD-Rs.) Bishop was good but seemed slightly tired (he actually remarked on this a couple of times). . . for some reason I was expecting more jokes. One of the stranger audiences I've seen in recent memory too.

the show i went to was great!

yeah he was great in Eugene on the 2nd. Played "Sidi Mansour" in like triple time with a raging extended solo. I was thinking this lineup is kind of a dream gig for that particular kind of Sun City Girls fan who never really liked much other than Torch Of The Mystics. They also did "Wild World Of Animals" as an encore, that was slow and sad and sweet.

best garage sale ever? http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2009/08/21/sir-richard-bishop-is-having-a-garage-sale

Wished I lived in Seattle.

daaaaaamn

I will stop by tomorrow and check it out

will you buy a guitar 4 me? also some erotica

request noted

Wow! I can hardly bear to imagine what goodies he might be selling. His record collection is going to be something special.

yeah no kidding -- sort of curious why he's going the garage sale route? has he never heard of ebay?

going to richard bishops garage sale sounds like much more fun than ebay

"If you want the music to stop, just buy the guitars." lol

oh yeah, totally more fun, just seems like he could make more $$$ on ebay

ahhhgg i want to go to this!!!

I hope there's at least a whole bunch of photos taken.

I also love this wee snippet from the directions on how to get there...

"Sale is in the BACK yard — follow path through bamboo grove."

He has a bamboo grove!

I notice he's not selling any LPs, just CD/DVD/tape.

yeah no kidding -- sort of curious why he's going the garage sale route? has he never heard of ebay?

― tylerw, Friday, August 21, 2009 9:07 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

RB is a noted ebay bookseller in fact.

ah, right, I see there's a link on this very thread. durr.

So, did anyone go? I'd love to hear more...

how did I miss this great interview:

http://www.markprindle.com/bishop-i.htm

http://www.unfictional.com/joseph-moshe-mossad-bioweapon-swine-flu-vaccine-westwood

anybody know who the support is for tonight's London show?

should go really, but it's £9. and a Monday. and he's up against University Challenge.

I can't answer your qu but I saw him on Saturday and enjoyed it a great deal - played most of 'The Freak of Araby' and two or three old SCG songs, seemed like a really sincere and decent guy to boot

The Glasgow show last week was wonderful, pretty much as per DJ Mencap describes. Varied, charming, fun.

http://krakow.zenfolio.com/img/v3/p822185574-3.jpg

Click image for more...

Nice pics! Anyone have any recent live recordings of him?

My only disappointment was that he didn't have any handmade tour cd-rs like he has in days of old. I got a very nice t-shirt though.

new one http://www.unrock.de/sir-richard-bishop-the-unrock-tapes-lp/
translated (awesomely) from the German:
Bishops capabilities allow various influences come together in his game, could give rise to the absurd impression that it was in his solo work for world music (as we know it). His playing is his fire and his fascination but rather through traditional irreverence. The Spirit of the Sun City Girls pervades the album, even if it is less a musical similarity to disclose this fact, as the approach. Disrespect / Respect, a game of opposites, which is used here by exaggerated wink. Musically, full of allusions to the tradition of Sun City Girls on the one hand, characterized by respect and appreciation congener (Omar Khorshid) on the other. Bishop's stunning guitar work, an Impetuous hybrid that can operate because of its subtle skills almost effortlessly across calls, rightly, a shameless authenticity of which he recognized that history in mind, no one will seriously deny.

Looking forward to that one. SRB is also releasing the vinyl version of last year's cdr "Intermezzo" soon.