EPISODE · Oct 15, 2022 · 24 MIN
"Dig This!"- The Saga of ESP Disk Records- PART TWO -Bill Mesnik and Rich Buckland Unravel the Musical Strings That Made ESP Disk Sing- This Remarkably Innovative Label Gave Birth To The Fugs, Pearls Before Swine and Intense Free Form Jazz- Dig This!
from DIG THIS WITH BILL MESNIK AND RICH BUCKLAND- THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS · host Rich Buckland and Bill Mesnik
Despite all the trouble that dogged the label, there’s a reason ESP-Disk’ recordings still hold listeners spellbound 50 years later. It’s as simple as the motto that was on the back of every album: “the artists alone decide.” While that may seem to be a recipe for chaos, it often worked with Stollman’s shoestring operation, usually with just the one studio engineer, Richard Alderson, who got off one of the book’s better lines: “Sun Ra is Duke Ellington on acid”.
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"Dig This!"- The Saga of ESP Disk Records- PART TWO -Bill Mesnik and Rich Buckland Unravel the Musical Strings That Made ESP Disk Sing- This Remarkably Innovative Label Gave Birth To The Fugs, Pearls Before Swine and Intense Free Form Jazz- Dig This!
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