Hey what's going on, this is Dan Briggs from the band Between the Buried and Me.
I'm at Amoeba Records and this is What's in My Bag.
First CD I found is by a band called Pity Sex.
One of my oldest friends is in a band called Run Forever
and they toured together earlier in the year.
I checked them out and was just completely blown away.
This is a band I just discovered called True Widow. This record came out earlier in the year.
I've only heard one track off it.
I don't remember what it was but they shot a video for it.
It's kind of an oddball release for Relapse Records.
I'm really looking forward to kind of digging into it more.
This is a weird record that I've never seen before. It's by Robert Fripp.
And it's the Robert Fripp String Quartet. The Quintet, actually.
With him and Trey Gunn who played a stick Warr guitar in King Crimson, along with Robert Fripp.
I have no idea what to expect out of this record at all.
Robert Fripp is one of the biggest inspirations on me as a musician.
Someone who's had a career since the 60s
and has constantly been an innovator, constantly pushing himself, trying new things.
Just a constant source of inspiration
And I'm very excited to have heard a month ago or whatever that King Crimson was getting back together
with an insane, like three drummers and, I don't even know.
I'm so excited to see whatever they do. It's gonna be great.
This is probably my newest favorite band.
I just discovered them on tour in the last month.
They're a group from the UK called Haken, and the CD's called 'The Mountain.'
They kind of have elements of the classic Genesis records.
The singer kind of sounds a little bit like John Anderson from Yes
mixed with the singer from Gentle Giant.
Kind of very abstract melodies, very soft kind of voice. And it works so well with what they're doing.
I'm glad to actually have it in physical form now.
Three CDs here by the avant-garde composer John Zorn.
Got John Zorn's 'Film Works' from '86 to 1990.
That was right around when he was starting the Naked City group.
And these are two records from that era that I'm actually not familiar with.
I've never even seen in stores before.
Having a group that had almost kind of like a standard jazz lineup
with keys, drums, alto sax, guitar, and bass or whatever.
These records couldn't be any further from
what you would traditionally think from a jazz set up like that.
The Naked City is a huge inspiration on
a group I do on the side of Between the Buried and Me, called Trioscapes
which is kind of like a bass, sax, and drum trio.
Got the hometown heroes, Oingo Boingo. This band is very close to my heart.
Danny Elfman is one of my all-time hugest inspirations.
Every different step he's taken in his career, from the early days, before even Oingo Boingo
when he had The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo. It was kind of an avant-garde theater show
to Oingo Boingo and this record 'Good For Your Soul'
is kind of from their earlier days, when they were very hyperactive, very energetic.
I'm actually in town to go see him perform on stage for the first time in 18 years.
I couldn't be more excited, so I was glad to find a record that I don't actually own on vinyl.
I have it on CD and I think cassette tape too.
This is a record I was not expecting to find. It's by a band from the 70s called Comus.
They were UK band and they kind of flew under the radar from the other 70s prog groups.
They were pretty out there, and I've been trying to find their records at stores, and it's like
completely a lost cause. I actually found this in the folk section
and I think that's maybe part of the reason why maybe they didn't catch on as well as they did
because I think they're such a hard band to classify.
Really kind of noodle-y, abstract rock folk stuff. It's very cool.
And then, last but not least, Failure
who also announced they were coming back a couple weeks ago.
I can't imagine what they're going to do
but with Ken Andrews at the helm, I'm sure it's gonna be great.
His work as a producer too is pretty cool. Just look him up on Allmusic, y'know.
He's done a random assortment of records over the years
of artists you'd probably be like, really?
I think Candlebox was a band he might have worked with.
Candlebox?
Yeah, yeah, 'Far Behind.' Good tune.
Cool. Thank you so much.
Yeah, I appreciate it guys.