Nine Short Films

Artist: Terry Bozzio & Billy Sheehan
Label: Magna Carta
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 026245906228
EAN: 0026245906228
ASIN: B00006J41X

Release Date: 2002-09-24

Nine Short Films

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Tracks:

Live By The Gun
Black Wisdom
Water And Blood
Tornado Alley
Distant Horses
One More Winter
Edge Of A Circle
Finger Painting
The Last Page
Sub Continent

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Album Description

The sounds on the album seem to vary from Zappaish to Crimsonesque to Peter Gabriel-inspired all the way to modes that call to mind The Police, with little that falls in-between left untouched. This one will most likely surprise you, but should certainly thrill you, too. Terry Bozzio - Drums, tuned percussion, keyboard synthesizers, guitar live, synth. Solos, vocals and lyrics. Billy Sheehan - all basses, baritone rhythm, guitars, lead guitar solo on 'Edge of a Circle'. Magna Carta. 2002.

Customer Reviews:

Where's Dale when you need her ??.......2005-07-27

I probably missed the overall intent of this effort. But that doesn't matter, as I had to suffer through the unbearable vocals Terry strapped to this CD to try to glean a little bit of good drumwork from him. I've always been a fan, since those first heavy handed Missing Persons days that have influenced us all. What a great guy, and a great teacher! TB is as technically interesting as they come. I just wanted to hear some good and inspiring percussion. Unfortunately, Dale Bozzio would have been a better sub-in on the mic on these songs. Put the complete lack of a point to any of these tracks aside, there is not even a lot of drum material here for me to dissect and ruminate over. (sigh) Sorry TB. It's probably an old joke by now. The next time boredom strikes, take a vacation, relax, then come back and do what you do best in the studio. We love ya'...but Geez!

Terry the best modern drummer.......2005-07-26

Terry Bozzio is an incredible musician, a man who own a special talent. He's a true artist, a perfectionist behind the drums and a man with his own sound and distinctive musical personality. You can say almost the same things for Billy Sheehan (but please let him play only the bass .. his guitar parts are pretty primitive!!!). But even if these two guys are so great (and they truly are as instrumentalist in this cd too) this project lacks contents in some places. It's not even Terry's voice or lyrics which are disturbing to me, the fact is that the music itself, if you don't consider the exceptional display of technique, is not that great. The atmosphere is dark and psychotic and it's not even this thing that is disturbing. It is in the most simple words I know, that the music is poor. Simple as that. Fantastic musicians, fantastic techniques involved, fantastic drumming, impressive bass work, but poor music. It reminds me of Marylin Manson here and there. So even if Terry is in my opinion the overall best modern drummer and listening to his drum work (ven here) is a pure joy, I wouldn't buy this album in your place. It's not a big thing. You can find good moments here andthere, but probably they're not enough to justify your purchase. I hope to find some other projects with Terry involved as good as were Sex and Religion by Steve Vai, or Guitar Shop by Jeff Beck. Or even the album from Torn (Polytown?, I can't remember the exact title). Drumming provided by Terry, music provided by great music writers.

Give it a chance.......2004-10-28

This is one that truly gets better with every listen. I admit I hated the grunting of Bozzio when I first heard it. After a couple listens however, it grew on me. Drums are awesome as expected from Bozzio. Melodies and guitar work are awesome as expected from Sheehan. Some very interesting poetry, though I needed to read the cover to find out many of the lyrics. I would recommend that you listen to 'Tornado Alley' and 'Live by the Gun' before dismissing this album. I know I'm glad I did.

AAAAGGGGHHHH!!!.......2004-01-22

With the talent on hand for these sessions the next masterpiece of progressive and challenging music should have been delivered and I should be writhing in joy and listening repeatedly with abandon just struggling to find the right adjectives and hyperbole to properly describe the joy that is Bozzio/Sheehan. Oh, I'm looking for the hyperbole all right, it's just that I can't find enough words to express my extreme dissappointment with this, uh, effort. All right, maybe it's not quite as bad as all that but it ain't good either. Muscically it's everything I could want (and much more). It's challenging, surprising, beautiful, progressive. But for crying out loud, why on earth did Terry decide to sing!!!!???? He's awful. His delivery's awful. His phrasings are awful. He delivers the vocals in sneering, gutteral, whisper which is completely distracting to the music. I've tried over and over to listen to more than one song in a row from this work but Terry's voice and delivery is just so grating. Everytime I put it on to try just once more to give it a shot I just end up curled up in a ball and screaming AAAAGGGGHHHH!!! I'm gonna sell it to a used CD dealer tomorrow. God, I can't wait. Then I'm gonna run right back home to order another Lonely Bears CD or anything where Terry just plays drums and leaves the singing to someone more qualified.

Nine Short Films.......2003-03-21

Unfortunately, the "singing" is needed to add melody to an otherwise monotinous album. Nevertheless, very, very nice chops.

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