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Old 01-29-2011, 05:59 PM   #22 (permalink)
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Anyone can just scream unintelligibly, play saxophone strangely, and play thrash-like guitar.
Naked City is actually quite a bit more complicated than that. The thing that's amazing about Naked City is that none of it is improvised, really. The technicality comes in the fact that the assortments are basically constructed exactly as they are, and followed to a T. The entire point of Naked City was to be difficult to perform. Whether your ear likes it or not, is up to you. But don't dis the amount of technicality that's going on there.

< Watch at 3:11 where Fred Frith describes how Naked City operated.
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