Wednesday, April 28, 2004, 12:01:36 PM, one spoke: EdV> Yesterday I saw a couple of Jack Smith cds from Table EdV> of the Elements, if I'm not wrong, but I hesitated. I EdV> read somewhere that they're spoken word recordings EdV> made by Tony Conrad. Is that right? Broadly, yeah. There's a bit of the soundtrack for Smith's _Flaming Creatures_, but otherwise it's pretty much Smith doing his routines with the Conrad axis sometimes improvising behind him, basically one-mic home recordings. Sometimes it's like reading Warhol's _a_. I'm glad the stuff's been preserved because it's academically "important" but I think you have to pretty much be into Smith (that is, into the exp. film-early performance art-camp/queer culture aspects as opposed to the musicians) to get much out of it (compared to all that good stuff on the Conrad, Cale, Maclise, Palestine etc. releases). IMHO. EdV> Also, would anyone care to recommend Angus Maclise EdV> stuff? I'd start with _Thunderbolt Pagoda_ and work on from there. There's good stuff on all three CDs but that's the most consistent. -- Jim Flannery newgrange@newgrangemedia.com