The 1986 Listening Post - Gone - Let's Get Real, Real Gone for a Change

Gone - Let's Get Real, Real Gone for a Change

#304/1429   LISTENING POST DISCOVERY

July 1986

Gone

Let’s Get Real, Real Gone for a Change

Genre: Jazz Rock

4.75 out of 5

Highlights:

Peter Gone

Climbing Rat’s Wall

Watch the Tractor

Lawndale Rock City

As much as a surprise that first Gone record was, this is ljust as good. 

We did these out of order and I kind of wish we hadn’t. In fact, I wish we just listened to them back to back. Now I’m not sure which one is better. 

 It sounds like what happens when you own a recording studio and have a LOT of free time and know a ton of fantastic musicians. 

When it kicks it’s monstrous (ala the Highlights above) but when it doesn’t it’s only slightly self-indulgent, like, “Hey! I have a riff, let’s play it to death!”. An example of my frustration is “Rosanne”. A series of riffs, played in a row but it never takes off and just ends up sounding like a soundtrack to a skateboard video. 

I had to give myself over to it and, after I did, it rocketed up my spine in great ways. 

https://music.apple.com/us/album/lets-get-real-real-gone-for-a-change/115820406

The 1986 Listening Post - Gone - Gone II But Never Gone

Gone - Gone II But Never Gone

#126/1291 LISTENING POST DISCOVERY

April 1 1986     

Gone 

Gone II But Never To Gone 

Genre: Punk/Jazz

4.5 out of 5

Highlights:

New Vengeance

Turned Over Stone

Adams

GTV

More Greg Ginn and his free form Punk-Metal-Jazz fusion. And, like his other post Black Flag DC 3 stuff...I like it. Which has me wondering... Was Henry Rollins the problem all along??

Gone was improvised stuff by a group of really talented guys who thrashed. This album is fantastic. 

https://music.apple.com/us/album/gone-ii-but-never-too-gone/117989106