Stone Tiger
Percy Jones- bass
Bill Frisell- guitar
Kenwood Dennard- drums ??? (this seems to be in question, some seem to think Doug Lunn or Chester Thompson is the drummer here)
My Father's Place
Roslyn, N.Y. 83
(unknown date, 1st Long Island show,
probably quite early in the year, late wintertime)
performance quality B+ (quite good)
recording quality: B+ (a great aud)
source: master audience tape
runtime: 50:14
lineage: Naka. CM-100 microphones >
Sony D-5 cassette deck (dolby off) >
Maxell XLI-S cassette >
played on Naka. 125 into soundforge 4.5 >
FLAC 6 > torrent.
setlist:
1: Heidelburg switch
2: Zimbabwe
3: Barrio (up to 106th St)
4: untitled job #1 > replicant
5: hydraulic jump
6: untitled job #2 (which eventually became Squelch)
comments:
I did not get to see this concert, (although I have seen all 3 elsewhere after this time), but the Doctor
did, and for whatever reason it just wasn't his thing. (he goes more for Squeeze, Clapton, the Stones, Frank Zappa
and Jean-Luc Ponty) So he just said here you can have this. What doctor would do this? The Doctor of Stud Muffin
Productions, that's who. The one with the Sony D-5 deck. He's made some great recordings with it and many years ago
shared about 15 or so of them with me. Most are 1st generation, this one is the master tape. Not sure if it's the
full show, I think it is. the taper told me the drummer is Dennard, but that seems to be in doubt. He may not care
much for Percy but he does like Dennard.
this post is partly for punkjazz and DeusIrae and all their support of the Stonetiger Support Network.
Since preparing this for upload, I have seen some Stonetiger shows pop up on dime, which is good to see.
This trio was a very good combination, and they only played a few shows before a change of drummers (to Chester Thompson).
Chester is quite good too, but Dennard is one of my all time favorites. You can hear someone in the crowd (of maybe 15
people I would guess) ask "Hey Percy, when's the album coming out?" I did see one Stone Tiger torrent a few months ago on
the dime, a 1984 FM broadcast of a Percy interview with some live and studio demos. I haven't seen much live Stone Tiger
here on dime and suspect the biggest (perhaps only) reason for that is because there isn't very much to hear. I don't
think they made it much past the N.Y.C. and N.J. area, and only a few shows around there. I believe Stone Tiger started
up in late 82 and was all over by the end of 84. This was a diversion for Percy, one of the few to include a rhythm section
of Brand X, (if this is actually Dennard) during a long period of Brand X-lessness, which would end several years later,
so for those who had been "jonesin" for Brand X or something like it, this was as close as it got from after 1979 until 1992.
Even the 92 Brand X sounds less like Brand X than this does, and you can't beat a Stud Muffin Production. Hundreds have tried,
a few have come close, but nothing beats a Stud Muffin production for an 80's analog recording. The tape flip was before the
last song. The Doctor is still out there somewhere, and traded in his worn out D-5 to become a DATboy, unless he's become
Batman and found his own DATboy (but unlikely- he's married to a woman, and a doctor has NO time for anyone or anything).
Do not sell this recording.
Trade freely and losslessly.
And may the FRIZZZ be with you.
(even if you're bald).