Search and Destroy: Robert Quine

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from the Metal Shredders thread. I'm familiar with his work with the Voidoids, and his solos on that Matthew Sweet record 100% Fun r0X0r. Suggestions for further listening?

― Dave M., Thursday, 18 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

more voidoid answers

― Dave M., Thursday, 18 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

With James White and the Blacks, with Lou Reed on Blue Mask and Live in Italy. With Hell on Go Now (where Hell reads from his book), with Waits on Downtown Train... and what pinefox can tell you if his work with Lloyd Cole is any good.

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 18 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

there's a Lou Reed concert video where Quine is the just the apogee of casual disruption but i can't remember the name of it.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 18 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

his solos on Sweet's Girlfriend r0X0 harder

― M Matos, Thursday, 18 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

He made a nice alb w/ Ikue Mori and Mark Ribot called 'Painted Desert', released on one of Zorn's labels.

― Andrew L, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What an overdue discussion.

I don't know most of Quine's work - I guess there's a lot of it out there and obscure - but I know extremely well his work on Lloyd Cole's records. And I suppose that what I have to say about them is: they are among the greatest guitar experiences I have ever had.

X (1990): Quine casual and exhilarating - playing on maybe every track. His first solo is Baskin Robbins in the Grand Canyon, or so some critic once swooned.

Don't Get Weird On Me, Babe (1991): less Quine. There's an alternate take of one track (on a B-side) where he realy lets rip.

Love Story (1995): some magnificent stuff, esp. on the 45 'Like Lovers Do'.

The Negatives (2000): Quine only on about 2 tracks. But his 2 (!!) solos on one of them are the greatest, most explosive moments of the whole LP.

Etc (2001): loads of Quine - electric, acoustic, dropping in and out. His work on 'Alright People', 'Memphis' and 'You're A Big Girl Now' approaches some kind of perfection, in a way that makes me sigh like a sated vixen.

― the pinefox, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

word is --> he buys a new guitar pedal almost every day from Matt Umanov Guitars on Bleecker St. My friend who works there says he gives the impression of someone who has more strange thoughts in his head at any given moment that he could possibly share.

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

He did an album with Fred Maher, called Basic. I own it, but have never really listened to it. The critics loved it - but for me, it wasn't as good a hearing him play on a Lloyd Cole or Lou Reed record. Anyone seen him lately? Seems like he used to always wear a sportcoat on stage.. does he still?

― Dave225, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

... and the guitar solo on "Like Lovers Do" makes it one of the finest AM radio songs ever made.

― Dave225, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

!!!! If you've never really listened to it, then...... can I have it??!!?? (I think I once saw it at low price - but that was once, and never again.)

― the pinefox, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dave, both of these are classics:

Robert Quine/Jody Harris - Escape (1981 Lust/Unlust)
Robert Quine/Fred Maher - Basic (1984 Celluloid)

you may also want to check out Jody Harris' playing with The Raybeats & Contortions
plus, Bob Quine was the one who introduced Eno to Get Up With It,
which helped enshrine the legacy of that album and "He Loved Him Madly"
cool, huh?

― Paul, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I guess I shall make it a point to listen to "Basic" this weekend before Pinefox guilts me into selling it. I think I'll watch that Lou Reed video too - whatever it was called.

― Dave225, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

On Tom Waits' Rain Dogs album, he AND Keith Richards both play on Blind Love, a great country number! What a pair of guest guitarists!

― Martin Skidmore, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The stuff on that Richard Hell comp "Time" has real bite to it - the bootleg-ish sound is a lot better at conveying Quine's playing than the overproduced "Blank Generation". BTW, speaking of great things on Rain Dogs, I'm not much on guitar solos for virtuosity's sake, but the Marc Ribot intro to "Jockey Full of Bourbon" is one of the most tasteful things on any record, not just that one.

― Dave M., Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

PF, which solos on the Negatives lp are you talking about? (Yeah, 'Memphis' is fantastic.)

― youn, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

''I'm not much on guitar solos for virtuosity's sake, but the Marc Ribot intro to "Jockey Full of Bourbon" is one of the most tasteful things on any record, not just that one.''

yeah, I love ribot's solos on that rec but especially on that track (i got a copy of it just before i came here but I think this track was quite amazing though the whole rec is very good indeed).

― jUlio Desouza, Friday, 19 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Speaking of the Raybeats, anyone else here own their long-OOP album It's Only a Movie? Am I nuts, or is it intermittently jaw-dropping?

― Lee G, Monday, 22 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

eight years pass...

hey, does anyone have an mp3 of the lester bangs single that quine plays on? can't seem to find it, tho it seems like the kind of thing god created mp3 blogs for.

― tylerw, Friday, 13 May 2011 17:17 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

Hey, does anyone have an MP3 of the Ikue Mori album that Ribot and Quine play on? CD's $50 on amazon.

― Funk/Tonk (FunkyTonk), Monday, 4 March 2013 16:20 (thirteen years ago)

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