Follow Your Footsteps
Jandek album #13, Follow Your Footsteps. Released in 1986.
Young Jandek on the cover. Black and white photo. He is playing BASS!
A major shift happens here on this album. There is clearly another guitarist playing on a lot of this album, playing guitar in a much more traditional rock/folk way. Make no mistake about it, this is still a Jandek record, but when he plays the guitar it is in a wildly unorthodox style. All the tuning Jandek uses is his own, not assigned to any specific pitch. He just tunes to what sounds right to him and that's what he uses. It's plainly obvious that this second guitar player is using standard tuning and chords in a Jandek environment. Jandek also plays guitar, sometimes at the same time as this other player. The two guitars are not tuned to each other, and when they play together it is almost as if they're fighting one another.
This is a much more laid-back album, yet still there are tunes with electric guitar and plenty of drums. For those of you Jandek purists out there, there are a couple of tunes with just guitar and voice, and the last tune is amusing. Sounds like Jandek playing the other guy's guitar (there is also a definite tonal and timbre difference between the two instruments) and both of these guys being a little less serious than usual.
Rotten weather today. Time to stay home and watch TV and listen to music. Oh, and mail D.Verada CDs to radio stations and magazines. Queer Eye premieres of straight guy and straight girl tonight. It's absolutely bizarre how much of a guilty pleasure that show is for me.
Young Jandek on the cover. Black and white photo. He is playing BASS!
A major shift happens here on this album. There is clearly another guitarist playing on a lot of this album, playing guitar in a much more traditional rock/folk way. Make no mistake about it, this is still a Jandek record, but when he plays the guitar it is in a wildly unorthodox style. All the tuning Jandek uses is his own, not assigned to any specific pitch. He just tunes to what sounds right to him and that's what he uses. It's plainly obvious that this second guitar player is using standard tuning and chords in a Jandek environment. Jandek also plays guitar, sometimes at the same time as this other player. The two guitars are not tuned to each other, and when they play together it is almost as if they're fighting one another.
This is a much more laid-back album, yet still there are tunes with electric guitar and plenty of drums. For those of you Jandek purists out there, there are a couple of tunes with just guitar and voice, and the last tune is amusing. Sounds like Jandek playing the other guy's guitar (there is also a definite tonal and timbre difference between the two instruments) and both of these guys being a little less serious than usual.
Rotten weather today. Time to stay home and watch TV and listen to music. Oh, and mail D.Verada CDs to radio stations and magazines. Queer Eye premieres of straight guy and straight girl tonight. It's absolutely bizarre how much of a guilty pleasure that show is for me.
posted by Bill @ 10:40 AM
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