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Tuesday, June 10, 2025

French, Frith, Kaiser, Thompson - The Ashkenaz, Berkeley, CA.1987

Back From The Dead Again...Originally posted by Mitch
Monday, September 20, 2010 and July 27, 2015

French, Frith, Kaiser, Thompson

The Ashkenaz

Berkeley, CA. 1987

Soundboard @192

It's time again (by resurrection from the FBS archives) for the usual distribution of musical abuse for the uneducated, unknowing, and those who didn't get back home safely before the blog was nuked. Here are four men who will hand out the punishment: John French (yeah, the same Beefheart drummer and vocalist of the Magic Band), Fred Frith (of Henry Cow), Henry Kaiser (who went to Antarctica as a diver and photographer), and Richard Thompson--whom you should know anyway. May the Lord have mercy on your virgin ears...because we don't have any to spare. If only these guys had made a video....

John French - drums, voice
Fred Frith - bass, guitar, voice
Henry Kaiser - guitar, voice
Richard Thompson - guitar, voice

Notes: This gig took place just after the recording sessions of their first album, Live, Love, Larf & Loaf. The music is fresh, and they obviously have a good time.

Disc1

1. Tuning / introduction
2. Wings a la mode (Adams/French)
3. Killerman gold posse (Thompson)
4. Drowned dog black night (Thompson)
5. Disposable thoughts (French)
6. A blind step away (Thompson)
7. The second time (French/Frith)
8. Where's the money (Frith)
9. Madness of love (Thompson)
10. The same thing (Dixon)
11. FF solo guitar (Frith)
12. Tir-nan-darag (Kaiser/Frith)
13. Back street slide (Thompson)

Disc2

1. Night comes in (Thompson)
2. Quick sign (Frith)
3. Suzanne (French)
4. Drumboogie / Not Fade Away (French)/(Hardin/Petty)
5. Hard headed woman (Demetrius)
6. Same old me (Frith)
7. When the spell is broken (Thompson)
8. The Devil in the Drain (Kaiser/Pinkwater)
9. The Calvary Cross (Thompson)
10. Surfin' USA (Berry)

The Ashkenaz '87