Bret Hart / Delicate Furies

Bret Hart

Delicate Furies

unaccompanied solo performance (1975-present), The Half-Baked Band ('76-77, Liverpool, NY; 1979, Houston,TX), Trouble Boys ('79-80, Potsdam, NY), One Night Stand (1980, Ithaca, NY), Johnny and the Lawnchairs (1981, Potsdam, NY), Curious Dogs #1 (1981, Potsdam, NY), The Blunt (1982-83, Syracuse, NY), Ondas do Mar (1983-84, Monterey, CA), Curious Dogs #2 (1983,Potsdam, NY), X's 4 Eyes (1984, Pacific Grove, CA), The Throatless Brown Pelicans (1984,Monterey, CA), "orchestral period" (Anjong-Ri, South Korea, Atsugi, Japan, Olongapo, Phillipines, Laurel, MD, (1984-1991), The Hart-Fioretti Corndog Extravaganza (1986), Zzaj-Art (Kunsan, South Korea, 1987-88), "Blind Pineapple" Phillips concept (Boston, MA; Chebeague Island, ME, Fitchburg, MA, Worcester, MA, Eden, NC, 1991-present), Maximum Love Vibes (Chebeague Island, ME, 1991-present), Progress (Fitchburg, MA, 1992-93), Coffee (Fitchburg, MA 1993), Ear-Relevant (Fitchburg, MA, 1993), HipBone (Ashby, MA and Fitchburg, MA, 1993-96), The Wormtown Rounders (Worcester, MA, 1996-97), Elizabeth's Loaves (Worcester, MA, 1996), The Cheagles (Worcester, MA, 1996-97), The Bones (Worcester, MA, 1997-98), Runs With Scissors (Worcester, MA, 1997), The Bob n' Bret Show (Worcester, MA, 1997- 98), Kudzu (Douglas, MA, 1997- present), The OxyMorons (Grafton,MA, 1998), The Harts (Eden, NC, 1998- present), The Rockingham County Recyclers(1999-present), Hot Planet (1998- present).

HipWorks Productions and MusicWurqz (including the HipWorks Mobile Tone-Magnet & InstrumenTales Records) is his other 'baby'.

(Kamsa Tapes, 2nd Bedroom Records, O-Right! Records, HipWorks Productions)

sound-recordist/percussionist Mark McGee, keyboardist/poet Dick "Rotcod Zzaj" Metcalf, multi-instrumentalist Peter Zolli, songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Rebby Sharp, just-intonationcomposer/microtonal guitarist Dan Stearns, clarinetist Jim Capone, percussionist Rev. Keith Prescott, multi-instrumentalist/ improvisor Bob Jordan, reedman Jack Wright, bassist Ben Wright, pots-n-pans percussionist Jonathan Thomas, fretless bassist Bart Mallio, slide guitarist Kevin Maul, drummer Paul VanPatten, drummer/ percussionist Jim Gass, percussionist/Christian performance artist Scotty Irving, saxophonist David Wortman, harmonica-genius Chris Thomas, songwriter Sarah Valentine, poet David Nader, guitarist/bassist Steve Blake, sound-sculpture artist J-ME Johnson & Industrial Sonic Echo, keyboardist Scott Lipman, voice artist Ladd Yost, slide guitarist/drummer Greg Sullivan, fiddler/woodflutist/guitarist Bryan Church Smith, and banjoist Jim Eanes

The Potsdam Racquette

Op, Option, and Sound Choice

Massachusetts Cultural Arts Council Grant

F.-A.R.M.

W.A.G.

The Cat's Pants, Fred “Gentlemaniac” Hall, Dick Metcalf, Ernesto Diaz-Infante, Scotty "Clang Quartet" Irving, Automatic Music, the "Usual Suspects" at Toad Hall, Mark “Arte Biglips” McGee

Open Circuit Records

Music Folks May Know Of:

No More Bandages!

Duck or Mask?

Maximum Love Vibes

HipBone

KUDZU

'Simple Song'

F.E.S.T.E.R.

(Friends Encouraging Smelly Tonguers to Emulate the Residents)

'Devo Corporate Anthem'

SpudSuckers

'Lust For Life'

I Wanna Be A Stooges

try Amazon.com

[reviewed/discussed in Op, Sound Choice, Gajoob, The Improvisor, Improvijazzation Nation, Option, Electronic Cottage, Lowlife, Bad Newz, regional newpapers and independent publications]

For details of Bret's recordings and musical activities, browse some of these zones 'n' archives. Those which are extremely not-current, are so due to inability to recall a password.

Links

Data:
http://pages.about.com/oddmusic/oDDmUSIC.html
http://pages.about.com/oddmusic/InstrumenTales%202%20Tell.html
http://home.interpath.net/hipworks/index.htm

Automatic Music:
http://artists2.iuma.com/IUMA/Bands/Automatic_Music

Alonzo "Blind Pineapple" Phillips
http://instantdog.easynews.com/BPP.html
http://home.interpath.net/hipworks/bpphillips.htm
http://pages.about.com/alonzophillips/index.html

F.E.S.T.E.R. (rESIDENTS TRIBUTE CD)
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/63/fester1.html

SpudSuckers
http://www.outside-the-skin.com/spudsuckers/spudsartist.html

Delicate Furies

A slowly maturing, wonderful, and mind-bending not-for-profit effort compiling highly individualistic guitar solos by 21 international artists; including

Fred Frith, Nick & Leo Didkovsky, Ben Horrendous, Graham Halliday, Phil Kellogg, Bret Hart, Clang Quartet, Wade Coldwater, Bob Jordan, John Morgan, Chuck Brown, Al Destructo, Remora, Ken 42R, Fred Hall, Jeff Mills, Ernesto Diaz-Infante, Mark Kissinger, and Things Outside the Skin

Delicate Furies may be pre-ordered, postpaid, for $10 US/$15 overseas - a substantial discount from the $15/$20 cost following duplication/printing.

By subscribing to "Delicate Furies" in this way, you significantly assist in the growth of a project which will purchase new hoops and backboards for a rural middle school in Rockingham County North Carolina.

Link

bhart@rock.k12.nc.us

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