Radio Free Gristle

Radio Free Gristle Artist: Greg Koch
Label: Favored Nations
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 690897224025
EAN: 0690897224025
ASIN: B00008IAI9


Release Date: 2003-03-25

Radio Free Gristle


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Tracks:

  1. Where Phat Means Flavor
  2. The Mansqwatch Chronicles
  3. Cauldron of Gristle
  4. Chopin's Redneck Hideaway
  5. Bassman Euology
  6. Death of a Bassman
  7. Stack of Dimes
  8. Ila Rose
  9. Torn
  10. Journey to the East
  11. Mulligatawny Delta
  12. Torn Asunder
  13. Acid - Dhartha
  14. Parochial Schools
  15. Sassy Strumpet
  16. Percy-itus Lemonsqueezosis
  17. Push
  18. The Joy of Ax
  19. The Buchananites
  20. Dry Ice
  21. The Slipper Monologue
  22. The Slipper
  23. Rosebud's Beckoning
  24. Rosebud
  25. The Blues Jam Guy
  26. Your Blues (Give Me the Blues)
  27. Protect Your Home Family

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  1. The Grip
  2. Greg Koch Guitar Gristle
  3. 4 Days in the South
  4. Blues Signature Licks
  5. 13 X 12

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Guitar Master.......2006-11-04

Heck if Steve Vai says he's good he his. Greh Koch has the most inventive and off-kilter brain since frank zappa. He is a very quirky guy if youve met him or seen his videos or articles he writes. The music on this album runs the gambit of styles all in all a very good album. and his technique of three fingers and pick makes for some amazing sound and amazingly fast licks.

5 out of 5 stars Greg Koch - Chet Hendrix Meets George Carlin ??.......2006-06-18

For hype, see my review of Greg Koch's CD "The Grip". This is just phenominal stuff too. I'm all over my family reminants in SE Wisconsin for not knowing who he is. I'm Flying back to Milwaukee's Summerfest in July 06 just to see his 2 shows. The comedy bits are pretty good too, but the music (every track!) is a stunner.

5 out of 5 stars Another amazing one from Greg........2004-08-22

I was just thinking how few attempts have been made to mix "guitar god" playing with humor. Joe Walsh & Paul Gilbert are the only ones who come to mind.

Greg Koch seems to have both. He's good enough to never be heard on the radio and he just happens to be a funny guy, too. BTW, his instructional videos are excellent and yes, very funny. I agree, The Grip is a bit more focused but there's still a lot of meat on Radio Free Gristle.





1 out of 5 stars Telemania!!.......2004-06-16

Mr. Koch's "Axe Prowess" makes him a dangerous man to any potential Guitarslinger out there and with his merciless and irreverent assault on various genres of music, he's got no worries about being forever "Radio-Free." G.K. also has a unique sense of humour, which is almost a pre-requisite for anyone wanting to survive in the music business with their sanity intact. The thing that bothered me with this CD was, that it was overkill in tongue-in-cheek, hence the lower rating. I much prefer G.K.'s earlier recording, "The Grip," which contained better tunes and a good balance of humour and great playing.

5 out of 5 stars Absolutely Ruthless!.......2003-10-16

In terms of the Greg Koch catalog, RFG is the cream of the crop -- a savage, frontal assault on the blues/rock genre that demonstrates (once and for all!) that Greg Koch can take his place quite comfortably alongside the venerable likes of Warren Haynes, Steve Morse and Dickie Betts.

This disc drips a nuclear sweat akin to Buddy Guy's "Damn Right I Got the Blues," and does so without the usual pretention that normally walks hand in hand with guitar instrumental ensembles. RFG shows a ferocious guitarist playing truly for the love -- a welcome foil, by the way, to the current crop of shameless guitar virtuosos, who are more than willing to foist vain, byzantine meanderings through every nook and crany of the fret board on their audiences.

Unlike the L.A. reviewer below, I love Koch's odd, quirky vignettes between the songs! His eccentric wit and trademark humor create an unique one-to-one intimacy, that makes it feel like he's playing and gaggin' with you over a beer in your basement.

The great disappointment of this record is that its TOO good. But, that's both boon and bane. It's rare that real music ever wins a Grammy, and even rarer still that talent comes to the top in a music industry driven by profit rather than art.

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  5. Precious ~ Cubic U
  6. G.I. Blues: Collector's Edition ~ Elvis Presley
  7. Best of (Stereo) ~ Johnny Winter
  8. Herz ~ Rosenstolz
  9. North Marine Drive ~ Ben Watt
  10. Live at the Manchester Free Trade Hall ~ Jack Bruce

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Einfach Danke ~ Vico Torriani

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