Assembled from a book I'm reading:- a quiz about an obscure guitarist what nobody likes....at least one of these is eminently guessable.

1) In what suburb of Sheffield did Bailey grow up?

2) In what year did he get his first engagement as a professional musician? 1952 (Friendly Visitor)

3) What was the name of the fictitious senile and embittered musician Derek credited with the invention of free improvisation?

4) Name the tap dancer Bailey recorded with. Will Gaines- (1 point to friendly_visitor.) There is a vid of this going on on Youtube! A friend of mine nearly crashed his car laughing when they played this on Radio 3

5) The percussionist with whom Bailey recorded “Dart Drug” was briefly a member of which revered prog band? King Crimson (1 point to Cappy)

6) which comedy duo did Bailey play with in Blackpool in 1965 ? Morecambe and Wise...."bring me sunshine...SPLLANNNNGGGG in your smile,,,,BOINK KTING!!!" (1pt Reformed Marmot)

7) What was the magazine launched by Bailey in 1975 dedicated to improvised music? Musics. (1 point to friendly_visitor.)

8) Name the Austrian composer that influenced Bailey's playing style. Anton Webern. (1 point to friendly_visitor )

9) Composer Joseph Holbrooke, after whom Bailey named his first improv trio, was called the Cockney what? The Cockney Wagner (1 point to huh)

10) What was the one guitar effects pedal that Bailey regularly used? Volume or swell pedal (Fritter 1 point)


THE SCORES SO FAR (though Bailey didn't like scores preferring to improvise)

FRIENDLY_VISITOR 4 points
CAPPUCCINO AND A SLICE OF QUICHE 1 point
REFORMED MARMOT 1 point
HUH 1 point
FRITTER 1 point

Is 3 Frank Zappa?

He wasn't fictitious (you see what I did there?)

10) Volume pedal
4) Was it Min Tanaka?
2) 1958 (guess)

7) Smash Hits, obviously -_-

I'll lob 'em up, you volley them in!

6. Morecambe and Wise

10 is right, one point.
4 and 2 wrong (MinTanaka not a tap dancer as such)

point to Reformed Marmot

He wished!

1) Grenoside?
Hillsborough?
Parsons Cross?
Attercliffe?

5 - First guess = Soft Machine.

Second guess = King Crimson.

7 - Hustler.

8 - I don't suppose he considered himself the anti-Strauss? He seems the type...

5 = King Crimson- Jamie Muir. Was on "Lark's Tongues". (adopts stern Jeremy "the new Bamber" Paxman voice:) I will give you the point, but in future I will only accept the first answer you give.

All the rest of the ponts are still up for grabs. And what do points mean? Well not prizes because Bailey's art eschewed commodification by its very nature.

:lol:

10 Was he posh?

If so...Dore

4. Lionel Blair???

Oi! Some of us here are fans, you know! :rant: :D

Anyway:

4 - Will Gaines

7 - Musics

8 - Anton Webern


PS- Which is the book that you're reading by the way? I'm definitely interested. :)

Is it Improvisation you're reading...?
Great book. I suppose i could go and source the answers but that would be cheating.

Joseph Holbrooke was the 'Cockney Wagner', and that band was with Tony Oxley and Gavin Bryars.

The book I am reading is called "Derek Bailey and the story of free improvisation" and is by Ben Watson, which means I occasionally have cause to skip gaily past great swathes of annoying verbiage. When I am not laughing myself silly. Did you know? There are two quite distinct sorts of silence in music, "composed silence" and "improvised silence"...and improvised silence is better. (He left out "equipment fucking up silence").
On the plus side there is lots of Derek talking (he was far from posh DJash), and even an anecdote of "when Eric Morecambe spoke to me".

3 whole points. You have leapt into the lead!

2) 1954

I saw him lots of times, but always enjoyed 'him' more than his music to be honest - although the one with feedback is fantastic. I loved the idea of him practising by playing along to Pirate Junglist Radio Stations in Hackney.

No but close (and I concur). In the book is much about his practicing and playing along to just about anything.

I think the quiz master deserves a point for that...

1 Hunters Bar?

nups

1 Norton?
Walkley?
Ecclesfield?

No ?????I hope for the sake of fuck Ben Watson hasn't made up a part of Sheffield. That's just the sort of thing a cunt like that would do!

2) final attempt: he was born in about 1930 and I know he started playing at a young age, so....1948

nups

2) 1953. My last guess before it starts to get demeaning :rolleyes:

Was he born on 13 December 1939 to coincide with the Battle of the River Plate (the first major naval battle of WW2) ?

3) What was the name of the fictitious senile and embittered musician Derek credited with the invention of free improvisation?

Joseph Holbrooke?

It wasn't. You are very close. But you think you'll sqweeze a point out of me after I was cruelly robbed in the Quizzle?

No, But he did die on Christmas Day 2005, to coincide with the birth of Jesus Christ, our saviour and redeemer.

No. Like Frank Zappa, he wasn't fictitious. But I don't know about the other 2 categories.

Oh dear. :wacko:

Think I'll pass on that one then.

Early 50s sounds right to me too.

1952 maybe? :unsure:

By the way here's the Bailey & Gaines video GVAB mentioned:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mTvAfN07WM

Here's a sound-only clip of Bailey playing over some drum & bass beats created by Ninj, from the Guitar, Drums 'N' Bass album:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2awo7PdlUU

Bailey interview about the drum & bass recordings here:

http://www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/fulltext/jungle.html

1952 it is! 1pt


And so far there hasn't been THAT much of the Wire writer bs. I'll let you know if it gets worser toward the end.

:applaud: for links!