Pete Cosey

[cosmonaut]

is anyone familiar with him?

i got to meet him..
cool cat....
crazy cool guitarist

wow

[Stacco]

Yup! Love his work with Miles and Electric Mud.

He still have that funky white afro???

[archlilim]

WAHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Reason I started playing. Reason I named my band Neon Magus (well Miles is there too). Where'd you meet him????

[cosmonaut]

Yup! Love his work with Miles and Electric Mud.

He still have that funky white afro???

no fro, but he had this cool thin beard.
This was for something called "Miles from India" that played last night in San Francisco.

My friend played the mridangam .. got me on the guest list... etc..
Honestly i had never really known much about Cosey. just heard his name in passing.

Anyways, i thought his playing was just so amazingly coool, cool and reserved! So my friend just introduced me...
shook Pete's hand.. It's so weird being so uninformed and meeting such a positive person.. the positivity hits you first...., his legendary status hit me later when i was "schooled" by my friend haha.

It's been more than 30 years since the height of Electric Miles era.... he has some kind of diseaase.. i dont know much about... \

I thought Pete just liked Electric Mud...
he was in Muddy's band?

i am such a n00b...

it's cool somebody here appreciates legends like this..
he seems to have been integral in crosspollenating among Blues & Jazz & Rock.

i might re--edit this messy post later..
i was sleeeeeeeeeeeeping hahaa..
crazy night last night..

here's the silly tiny info in pdf:

[cosmonaut]

WAHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Reason I started playing. Reason I named my band Neon Magus (well Miles is there too). Where'd you meet him????

man!!
you're gonna have to turn me on to some required listening haha.
really!

My friend Anantha Krishnan played in that Miles from India thing with Pete.
Not to give Anantha a swelling head, but you will know about him in the future.. He's one of thebest musicians i know and know of.
He's been playing mridangam since he was small, and plays a meeeeeeeeeean tabla.. he's studied with Zakir Hussein, who played with John McLaughlin in Remember Skakti..

Anylord, i'm off to hang out for a bit and take him to the airport.

We should talk later!!
i must be schooled haha..

cheers!
cosmonaut

[archlilim]

man!!
you're gonna have to turn me on to some required listening haha.
really!

My friend Anantha Krishnan played in that Miles from India thing with Pete.
Not to give Anantha a swelling head, but you will know about him in the future.. He's one of thebest musicians i know and know of.
He's been playing mridangam since he was small, and plays a meeeeeeeeeean tabla.. he's studied with Zakir Hussein, who played with John McLaughlin in Remember Skakti..

Anylord, i'm off to hang out for a bit and take him to the airport.

We should talk later!!
i must be schooled haha..

cheers!
cosmonaut

Whoa, Isn't that dude doing some current world fusion stuff with McLaughlin, I heard he was regrouping some Skakti members. I saw something about it in Guitar World or somewhere. That's fucking redic--I think I have a bootleg of that Miles/Pete/Indian influence somewhere, but it's really shittily recorded--your man took part of that??? I'll have to check the names.

Anyway, as far as required listening involving Pete, the big 3 are Miles Davis' Dark Magus, Agharta, and Pangaea. Fucking amazing trilogy of live albums, and if you're into noise and effects Pete brings it hard. Most people consider Agharta to be the best, and as far as musicianship it probably is, but Dark Magus is my favorite because of mood and noise, and it's recorded at Carnegie Hall, so it's probably one of the most bass stomping albums I've ever heard--I think Q Magazine named it one of the 50 heaviest albums of all time. Miles really strove ahead with the Post-Hendrix / Acid Rock Jazz combination thing and Pete really made that happen with some amazingly unique sounds. And as I said I really started playing guitar because of that man and those albums.

[cosmonaut]

Whoa, Isn't that dude doing some current world fusion stuff with McLaughlin, I heard he was regrouping some Skakti members. I saw something about it in Guitar World or somewhere. That's fucking redic--I think I have a bootleg of that Miles/Pete/Indian influence somewhere, but it's really shittily recorded--your man took part of that??? I'll have to check the names.

Anyway, as far as required listening involving Pete, the big 3 are Miles Davis' Dark Magus, Agharta, and Pangaea. Fucking amazing trilogy of live albums, and if you're into noise and effects Pete brings it hard. Most people consider Agharta to be the best, and as far as musicianship it probably is, but Dark Magus is my favorite because of mood and noise, and it's recorded at Carnegie Hall, so it's probably one of the most bass stomping albums I've ever heard--I think Q Magazine named it one of the 50 heaviest albums of all time. Miles really strove ahead with the Post-Hendrix / Acid Rock Jazz combination thing and Pete really made that happen with some amazingly unique sounds. And as I said I really started playing guitar because of that man and those albums.

That would be Zakir Hussein who did/does stuff with Mclaughlin. My friend studied under Zakir.

I think i only lack dark Magus.. The other 2 I have somewhere... recorded live in Japan. Fusion has always been really difficult to digest.. Stuff like Mahuvishnue Orchestra's Birds of Fire? took me a long time to begin to appreciate..
same with those last 2 miles albums you listed.. Now that i know who was playing guitar i'll have some context...

In general, i tend to like elemental stuff... (blues like Skip james, of course, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Stax & early Motown, blue beat label, be bop & "Cool", early Ska, garage, proto punk) or resynthesis (british invasion, *-gaze, the many permutations of psychedelic) note: this is not a representation of my tastes.. just making a point here..

Fusion always disturbs me at first. or so it seems..
To make it work definitely requires a kind of mastery or genius to carry it off well. Obviously, Mclaughlin is one great example. I've yet to really digest/understand Cosey's music.

FYI, his part in Friday's concert was very smooth, classy, subdued. Understaand, i had no clue as to who he was... He just looked like a fat sitting Buddha character with a little thin and twisted tuft of a beard.. like a short little lightning bolt of a beard haha. I assure you he looked like a truly enlightened guitarist whose movements were subtle and deliberate.. unlike the other guitarist who sucked but moved a lot. Of the dozen or so musicians, Anantha and Pete were 2 of about 4 who really made the night work.

Thanks for the listening suggestions.
I hope this post makes some sense.. i'm pretty tired.

happy Sunday!!

Cheers!
Cosmonaut



Cheers!

[Stacco]

I've had some of the sleaziest, darkest, most delightfully decadent sex of my life listening to Dark Magus....

I've had the best lovemaking to Kind of Blue tho... but Dark Magus.... oh man! It's the sound of HEROIN running thru your veins!

[archlilim]

Oh, thanks for the names.

I personally might not consider Pete and Miles' work fusion only because it transcends jazz itself in my opinion, and fusion is much more orchestrated and progressive. Anyone, that's really semantics. Yeah, I've seen videos of Peta playing with Miles, and he sits there was really dark sun glasses and just rips without much movement at all.