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Lou Gare has died
09|10|2017
The UK improv pioneer co-founded AMM in the mid-1960s
Aikido instructor and free improv saxophonist Lou Gare, who died on 6 October, was the co-founder of AMM with guitarist Keith Rowe and drummer Eddie Prévost. He played with the group up until their 1973 album To Hear And Back Again, and then not again until The Nameless Uncarved Block on Matchless in 1990.
During the 1970s Gare moved to Devon where he continued to make music solo and with local musicians such as pianist Sam Richards in Synchronicity, which also featured David Stanley and Sarah Frances. The group performed throughout the 1990s and early 2000s in the Southwest, and they also toured the Czech Republic. In 2005 Gare released a solo album, No String Attached, and in March 2011 he played a two day residency at London Cafe Oto, when he played solo, with his band and former AMM colleague Eddie Prévost..."
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Lou Gare has died
09|10|2017
The UK improv pioneer co-founded AMM in the mid-1960s
Aikido instructor and free improv saxophonist Lou Gare, who died on 6 October, was the co-founder of AMM with guitarist Keith Rowe and drummer Eddie Prévost. He played with the group up until their 1973 album To Hear And Back Again, and then not again until The Nameless Uncarved Block on Matchless in 1990.
During the 1970s Gare moved to Devon where he continued to make music solo and with local musicians such as pianist Sam Richards in Synchronicity, which also featured David Stanley and Sarah Frances. The group performed throughout the 1990s and early 2000s in the Southwest, and they also toured the Czech Republic. In 2005 Gare released a solo album, No String Attached, and in March 2011 he played a two day residency at London Cafe Oto, when he played solo, with his band and former AMM colleague Eddie Prévost..."
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Being very drunk, I once had a go on the piano at the end of a gig, prompting the bass player of the band that had been on to stop packing his instrument and join me, impromptu - whereupon I froze. He said I would be good on ballads, which I guess was a polite way of saying my technique wasn't up to anything faster, and unarguably true! It's amazing how "good" one can sound, given a top quality instrument - as I discovered with the Bosendorfer full-sized concert grand in the Banqueting Room in Bath at the end of a Keith Tippett recital, chandeliers everywhere, when I snuck over for a quick blast to draw attention to my plight while my then-girlfriend was chatting him up. No one tried to stop me, to my surprise!
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