The Friday Morning Listen
Published April 02, 2004
We Saw a Bozo Under the Sea - Zoot Horn Rollo
It's a good thing I bought my dad a nailgun for his birthday, because it's been raining up here in the northeast for what seems like the better part of a week. We're having the wood delivered today so as to get an early jump on the ark-building project tomorrow morning. Somehow, "We Saw a Bozo Under The Sea" just sorta fit.
Rollo (real name: Bill Harkleroad) was the guitar player in Captain Beefheart's Magic Band for several albums including: Unconditionally Guaranteed, Clear Spot, Spotlight Kid, Lick My Decals Off, Baby and of course, the ultimate in weird & unique music fun: Trout Mask Replica.
Rollo's album here isn't nearly as weird as I expected it would be. It's an all-instrumental 'jazz' record that every so often tosses out Zappa elements here, Marc Ribot chunks there. A track or two get a little too close to the F-word for me (like Larry Coryell, maybe) but taken as a whole it's a fine listen.
(First posted on Mark Is Cranky)
Mark Saleski is a writer and music obsessive based out of the Monadnock region of New Hampshire. On his best day, he hopes to channel the ghosts of Lester Bangs and Jack Kerouac. He spends the hours of 9:32PM to 1:37AM carving out music reviews and essays for Jazz.com, Blogcritics.org and other publications.
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Bought this the moment it came out. Zoot has more creativity in a single passage than most guitarists can put on an entire album. Every lick is so unique. Pretty cool to send your money directly to the artist too. He even signed my packing. I do miss lyrics though, even though I usually don't hear them till the 13th listen. Man I miss the Captain. Thanks Mark for drawing attention to these deserving musicians.