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[dubdobdee]

realised as i was labouring away yesterday that i needed at least a sentence describing some exemplary harmolodics as per the brief i'd given myself, hunted down r.shannon jackson's (1984) DECODE YOURSELF -- tellingly NOT all over slsk -- and my what a grebt LP it is! So it is soundtracking today's "cutting"... (yes so far since day's work began i have added 300 words!)

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[rechabite.livejournal.com]

Decode Yourself is the reason I was so lukewarm over Living Colour; next to this Vernon Reid sounds like he's coasting. Also RSJ is perhaps only capable of doing one thing/drumming one way but this and the first Last Exit LP (though the second has its moments) sees him doing it the best. Oh, and Dancing In Your Head (which AFAIWC was to the first Clash LP what DY was to Psychocandy, i.e. THIS IS WHAT THEY SHOULD BE DOING ulp).

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

Yes fair enough re LC: there's stuff on Time's Up which points out towards what they could have done, but I think he needs not to be the leader, basically. RSJ's shuddering brute simplisticism is a discipline that's good for Vernon, plus he doesn't get to choose his sidemen.

[koganbot]

I recall Jackson getting booked fairly regularly (or at least noticeably more than once, since I saw him at least twice) in NY downtown nonjazz clubs that veered towards, e.g., B-52s, Raincoats, Lounge Lizards, Bush Tetras, Joe King Carrasco, and the like.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

not sure if the thing after no wave had a name really (and you were there and i wasn't) but jackson was pretty solidly part of it: plus laswell's first material LP featured whitney!