Eugene Chadbourne

Eugene Chadbourne (4 January 1954 in Mount Vernon, NY) is a USA composer, improvisor, guitarist and banjoist. He has also been a reviewer for the All Music Guide (AMG), and a contributor to Maximum RocknRoll.

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4 January - 1954 - Composer - Improvisor - Guitarist - Banjoist - Review - Maximum RocknRoll

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He is also known as the inventor (and indeed, the greatest living master) of the electric rake. This musical instrument (though some would hesitate to call it "musical") is made by attaching a microphone or an electric guitar pickup to an ordinary lawn rake. The sounds that it can produce are impossible to describe.

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Microphone - Electric guitar

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Chadbourne started out playing rock and roll guitar, but quickly grew bored with the form's conventions. He started studying other genres, including blues, country, bluegrass, free jazz, and noise - eventually synthesizing all those heterogenous influences into a unique style of his own. He was also influenced early on by the experimental stylings of Captain Beefheart and the Mothers of Invention.

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Rock and roll - Blues - Country - Bluegrass - Free jazz - Noise - Captain Beefheart - Mothers of Invention

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Chadbourne has worked with numerous artists including Derek Bailey, Carla Bley Band, John Zorn, Camper Van Beethoven, Jello Biafra, and Jimmy Carl Black.

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Derek Bailey - Carla Bley Band - John Zorn - Camper Van Beethoven - Jello Biafra - Jimmy Carl Black

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