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Eugene Chadbourne (January 4, 1954 in Mount Vernon, NY) is a USA composer, improvisor, guitarist and banjoist. He has also been a reviewer for the All Music Guide (AMG), and a contributor to Maximum RocknRoll. January 4 is the 4th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ... Improvisation is the act of making something up as you go along. ... A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. ... Noted musicians who play the banjo include: Danny Barker Perry Bechtel Dock Boggs Eugene Chadbourne Roy Clark Eddie Condon Billy Connolly J. D. Crowe Lonnie Donegan Jimmy Driftwood Jem Finer Béla Fleck Papa French Tony Furtado Håkon Gebhart Creole George Guesnon John Hartford Burl Ives Papa Charlie Jackson... Look up Review in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Maximum Rocknroll Issue #1 Maximum Rocknroll (also known as MRR) is a a widely distributed, monthly underground punk rock and punk culture fanzine based in San Francisco, USA. Featuring interviews, columns and reviews from international contributors, Maximum RocknRoll could be thought of as one of the most important presences in...


He is also known as the inventor of the electric rake. This musical instrument (though some would hesitate to call it "musical") is made by attaching a microphone or an electric guitar pickup to an ordinary lawn rake. The sounds that it can produce are impossible to describe. A microphone, sometimes referred to as a mike or mic (both IPA pronunciation: ), is an acoustic to electric transducer that converts sound into an electrical signal. ... Left: Rosa Hurricane, a heavy metal-style solid body guitar. ...


Chadbourne started out playing rock and roll guitar, but quickly grew bored with the form's conventions. He started studying other genres, including blues, country, bluegrass, free jazz, and noise - eventually synthesizing all those heterogeneous influences into a unique style of his own. He was also influenced early on by the experimental stylings of Captain Beefheart and the Mothers of Invention. Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... Blues music redirects here. ... country music, see Country music (disambiguation) Country music, also known as country and western music or country-western, is a blend of popular musical forms originally found in the Southern United States. ... Bluegrass music is considered a form of American roots music with its own roots in English, Irish and Scottish traditional music. ... Free jazz is a movement of jazz music characterized by diminished dependence on formal constraints. ... Noise music is music that uses sounds regarded as unpleasant or painful under normal circumstances. ... Don Van Vliet in a 1982 promotional photo. ... Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 - December 4, 1993) was an American rock/jazz fusion musician, composer, and satirist. ...


Chadbourne has worked with numerous artists including John Zorn, Fred Frith, Derek Bailey, Han Bennink, Carla Bley Band, Paul Lovens, Camper Van Beethoven, Jello Biafra, and Jimmy Carl Black. John Zorn (born September 2, 1953) is an American composer and saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist. ... Fred Frith performing at the Moers Jazz Festival, 1 June 1998. ... Derek Bailey pictured at the Vortex Club, Stoke Newington, 1991. ... Han Bennink (born April 17, 1942) is a Dutch jazz drummer and percussionist. ... Carla Bley, née Borg, (born May 11, 1938 in Oakland, California) is an American jazz composer, pianist and band leader. ... Paul Lovens was born in Aachen, Germany, 6 June 1949. ... Camper Van Beethoven was founded in 1983 in Santa Cruz, California as an alternative rock, new wave music, and punk rock group. ... Eric Reed Boucher (born June 17, 1958), better known by the stage name Jello Biafra, is an American punk rock musician and political activist best known as the former lead singer and song writer of the Dead Kennedys. ... Jimmy Carl Black at Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen, October 3, 1968. ...


While in Canada in the 1970s, he produced and hosted a radio program on Radio Radio 104.5 Cable FM in Calgary, Alberta. His show was notorious for obscure and remarkable music. Radio Radio is now the last quasi-pirate station in Canada. Calgary is a city in the province of Alberta, Canada. ...


Chadbourne also fronted Shockabilly (1982-1985) with Mark Kramer (bass/organ) and David Licht (drums), releasing four eclectic albums. Shockabilly was a band which included Eugene Chadbourne on guitar/vocals, Mark Kramer on bass/organ, and David Licht on drums. ... Alternatively, see Mark Kramer (jazz) international jazz pianist, composer, producer/engineer, and recording artist for Telarc, Twinz records, Mythic Jazz Records, Art of Life Records, Lightyear Entertainment, and others; prime collaborator with bassist Eddie Gomez; see Mark Kramer and Eddie Gomez website. ...


Chadbourne currently resides in Greensboro, NC.


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  • In episode 35 of Bleach, Sado makes a pun out of his name.

Articles reviewed by Chadbourne in All Music Guide

Sugar Pie DeSanto is the name of a popular rhythm and blues songstress of the 1950s and 1960s. ... Tod Dockstader (born May 22, 1932 in Saint Paul, Minnesota) is an American composer of electronic music, and particularly musique concrète. ... Djivan Gasparyan (b. ... Marvin Gaye (born Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. ... Don Sugarcane Harris (June 19, 1938 - November 30 (or December 1), 1999) was a American rock & roll violinist and guitarist. ... Kenny Lattimore (born April 10, 1970) is an American R&B singer. ... Cyndi Lauper CD single Stay, 2004 Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper (born June 22, 1953), better known as Cyndi Lauper, is a Grammy Award-winning singer and Emmy Award-winning film, television and theatre actress. ... Gloria Lynne (born Gloria Alleyne 23 November 1931 in New York City) is an American vocalist on several rhythm and blues hits in the 1950s and 1960s. ... Theodore Ted Nugent (born December 13, 1948 in Detroit, Michigan) (aka The Nuge, Uncle Ted, Terrible Ted,Sweaty Uncle Teddy, Ted the Almighty, Theodocious Atrocious and The Motor City Madman) is a hard rock guitarist from Detroit, Michigan, originally gaining fame as a member of the Amboy Dukes, and recently... Freda Charcelia Payne (born on September 19, 1942 in Detroit, Michigan) is an African-American singer and actress. ... Richard Teitelbaum (May 19, 1939 in New York, NY) is a composer, keyboardist, and improvisor. ... Anthony Braxton (born June 4, 1945) is an American composer, multi-reedist and pianist. ... The Enrichment Center Percussion Ensemble is a musical group based at the Enrichment Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina formed from adults with developmental disabilities and professional musicians. ... A Hupa man, 1923 The term Indigenous peoples of the Americas encompasses the inhabitants of the Americas before its European discovery in the late 15th century, as well as many present-day ethnic groups who identify themselves with those historical peoples. ... The Tarahumara are a Native American people of northern Mexico, renowned for their long-distance running ability. ... approximation of the extension of the Mayo habitat The Mayo are a mexican indigenous people living in the mexican state of Sonora and Sinaloa, originally living by the Rio Mayo in Sonora. ... This is the current Indonesian Collaboration of the week. ... Gamelan - Indonesian Embassy in Canberra A gamelan is a kind of musical ensemble of Indonesian origin typically featuring a variety of instruments such as metallophones, xylophones, drums, and gongs; bamboo flutes, bowed and plucked strings, and vocalists may also be included. ...

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Eugene Chadbourne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (350 words)
Eugene Chadbourne (4 January 1954 in Mount Vernon, NY) is a USA composer, improvisor, guitarist and banjoist.
Chadbourne started out playing rock and roll guitar, but quickly grew bored with the form's conventions.
Chadbourne also fronted Shockabilly (1982-1985) with Mark Kramer (bass/organ) and David Licht (drums), releasing four albums ranging from strange to terrifying.
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