[NewMusic] beech's brew

[David Slusser]

On Jul 3, 2007, at 3:15 PM, Phillip Greenlief wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> On Behalf Of dmichalak
> Subject: Re: [NewMusic] beech
>
> Isn't there a local group called Bitches Brew? Ezra Gale, Slusser on
> electronics + others? D.
>
> PG:
> There is. I'm on Ezra's mailing list - and I see the gig notices.  
> But I
> haven't seen one for a while. Are you still in operation Mr. Slusser?

The group officially called it quits years ago, but keeps getting gigs
here and there, because they made some friends along the way.  It
started upstairs in the club on the corner across from Slim's on 11th
St. that I can't recall just now.  My friends Jack Chandler and Ken  
Kearny
were in it, and they kept asking me down to fill the horn section.  Ezra
was on guitar then, with Mitch Marcus on Rhodes and tenor.  This was
like 3 trumpet players before the current one, "Jab", who co-leads with
Ezra.  When Mitch quit, I became the keyboard player, and they welcomed
the Slussomatic and my sick samples.  One of the percussionists, John
Merrill, started processig 8-track tapes and radio, and we had an
incredible psychedelic stew for a while.  This was years before Kaiser's
Yo-Miles supergroup.  John Ingle and Aaron Bennett (and Vicky Grossi
Len Paterson, Scote and Ralph Carney) put in time with the group.
When they started getting a lot of gigs (Ezra has a touch for this) I  
had
to bow out.  I remained a reliable sub, since I knew the book.  Last  
time
we played (late this spring) Ara Anderson did a remarkable job  
filling in
on trumpet.