Solo Guitar Series No. 5 LIVE AT G's CLUB Derek Bailey solo electric guitar Recorded at G's Club, Sidecar, Placa Reial, Barcelona 10th February 2004
How is this?? I don't think I have ever heard Derek play solo on electric guitar, except perhaps a few single tracks +25 years ago.
On some releases that feature Bailey on electric guitar, you hear a different kind of playing than what you hear when he plays acoustic guitar. For example, Harras (Avant, 1994,with Zorn and Parker) and Mirakle (Tzadik, 1999, with Jamaaladeen Tacuma and Calvin Weston), you can identify the same "riffs" and these riffs are something that you only hear from an electric guitar. On other releases, Bailey plays the electric guitar in the same manner as the acoustic guitar. This solo live show in Barcelona is in the latter vein. It's a mellow, low-key, enjoyable Bailey solo guitar show, which happens to be performed on an electric guitar. It is not first and foremost an "electric guitar" show. At least that is what I have heard in it. David K.