re: solo piano, I love the original album even though I'm not convinced Glass is the best player of his own work.
I'm writing a review comparing the two sets and this is something that's really leaping out at me — the hesitancy and weird pauses on the 1989 record, like he has to stop and think about what comes next and I'm like, dude, you wrote the shit! Shouldn't you know how it goes?
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Sunday, 28 January 2024 01:14 (three months ago) link
I had the idea from something I read ages ago that the surf guitar track on Mishima was played by a band he'd produced. So maybe Polyrock?
― fourth world problems (Matt #2), Sunday, 28 January 2024 02:33 (three months ago) link
He produced the surf band The Raybeats too around that time
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Sunday, 28 January 2024 03:55 (three months ago) link
oh wow - https://www.laphil.com/events/performances/2474/2024-03-19/philip-glass-the-complete-etudes-1-20
― StanM, Sunday, 28 January 2024 19:26 (three months ago) link
xps to my intriguing question: Interesting mention of the Raybeats as their drummer (Don Christensen, also drummer for Contortions) did receive a credit for assistant engineer on Mishima...
Makes me wonder if Glass and Christensen got fellow Raybeats and Contortions alum Jody Harris to play the guitar parts...?
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 28 January 2024 22:01 (three months ago) link