Jag Solo (1980 - present)
" I've said it before and I'll say it again, Jag's albums are all buffets of cbg riffage. Essential."
Shane Speal, King of the Cigar Box Guitar
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(Note that some songs on my other ftp site will not auto launch, they will be downloaded to your hard drive first (slowly), this is not something I can fix. That's what you get for 300 megs for free).
You can purchase CD's of all of the cassettes below for $15 each,(including $4 UPS shipping.) I prefer PayPal for faster shipping but I also take money orders (sorry no checks, no int'l orders). Please pay to my email address found here.
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JAG solo - (1980 - present)
I started out with primitive equipment and taught myself how to record, engineer and play several instruments. I've been in about a dozen bands, some of which are noted below. I've recorded and produced/engineered 3 nationally distributed CD's as well as composed music for three plays. I've played jazz, blues, punk, experimental, metal and country music. After a 7 year recording hiatus, I resumed with a new genre that I had never really played before: blues.
Bluesboy
Jag LIVE at the White Water Tavern
My fourth electric blues CD. I play all the instruments including my hand made cigar box guitars, drums, harmonica and vocals.
Cigar Box Guitar Extravaganza CD
Recorded 'live to tape' in on a home made
four string banjo made out of a cookie
tin!
Twenty six acoustic songs played on my hand made cigar box guitars as well as acoustic guitars.
Recorded live to tape in one hour on a 3 string hand made cigar box guitar.
4 CD blues box set containing my acoustic blues #'s 6 ("Argenta") and 7 ("Busker Blues"), Piano Blues ("Barrelhouse") and Electric Blues #3 ("Arkansas Bound"). Released just in time for Christmas.
My second 'electric' blues cd.
This one has 18 songs and a slight electronica influence on a couple
but don't worry, it works well ; )
SPAZMOTICS - Plastic World - Re-recorded 15 years later! A bluesy tune compared to Bonnie Raitt. From the forthcoming CD 15th Anniversary SPAZ-OUT!
More acoustic Delta blues played fingerstyle
My first MIDI album in 10 years. This is the sort of thing I've been shooting for in experimental music since I started recording in 1980.
16 electric blues songs, drums, some wailing sax, harp and of course electric guitar.
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21 Songs, most are blues oriented but several step a bit outside the blues idiom and explore country and ragtime styles. Dedicated to 'one little lady'...
Spring 2003
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February 2003
My 32nd recording since 1980, this one has 22 songs, (20 are originals) most feature acoustic guitar, some have harp and one has piano, one has vocals by Traci Spencer-Roche.
Woodrow
Street Rag
(2002, my
second acoustic blues CD) $15 including shipping
22 songs, all are acoustic guitar based, a couple have blues harp overdubbed. Traditional Delta Blues style with minimal instrumentation, similar to 'Jag's Juke Joint Boogie".
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This is my first blues CD. 60 minutes of pure finger style country blues. It was recorded with just one mic and one guitar, they way they USED to do it. No overdubs and no other instruments were used.
The Deconstructionist (1995)
More explorations in low-fi, tonal experiments, feedback, just intonation, La Mont Young, Band of Susans, Sonic Youth influences. This one sold out at Waterloo Records during South by Southwest '95.
A song from the Deconstructionist - A DigiTech 1 sec delay supplies the guitar drone chord while I improvise on top with and without an eBow - recorded live to tape.
Rockabilly, surf covers. Recorded as close to the originals as possible. All instruments by JAG.
My first (and only so far) 'metal' tape. Lots of Sonic Youth references as well as Band of Susans and Band of Ones. Sonic guitar sound explorations, feedback, just intonation tunings and general madness.
My first (and only so far) all MIDI tape. Recorded with a Yamaha DX 100 and an Ensoniq ENSQ tone generator and Alesis Sequencer. Recorded direct to metal tape for better sound quality, then transferred to CD. Most songs were limited by the tone generator (not multi-timbral) so it took me a long time to finish.
Short sound snippets and 'found' recordings from TV, radio, other sources. Lots of drum machine loops and samples on a $10 Casio sampler keyboard. One of my favorites.
Sound Tchotchkes - TV and radio sound bites, $10 Casio keyboard sampler and some studio trickery.
Texturalist - Lap slide guitar, steel salad bowl, fretless bass. Careful this one disintegrates into weirdness.
A return to 'lo-fi' production. Lots of cassette duplication and bouncing.
Bill Jagitsch and the Antigua Orchestra - Club Dada (1992)
The introduction of some MIDI instrumentation.
TEMPORARILY SOLD OUT!
Recorded on a 2 track cassette deck and overdubbed onto another (bouncing)just like the old days.
All
the Noise That Fits (1991)
The great Alesis drum machine makes its debut. I still use it exclusively.
Bill Ya Bahstud - that's Traci form the Spazmotics sampled answering machine message from London.
Catching
A River In A Box (1989)
TEMPORARILY SOLD OUT!
Mor live jams with friends, some careening out of control (that's the funnest part).
I'd
Rather Be Sorry Than Safe (1987)
A collection of my favorites.
My first tape that really started to define my 'sound'. Lots of Police influences with a little Zappa solo guitar, maybe s hint of XTC.
A little more 'accessible' (that means not quite so far out).
By this time I was using the Alesis MidiVerb and Microverb for that special digital reverb sound.
More electronics, keyboards and a spring reverb. Experimental music in the truest form.
Lots of live jams with friends, most former Black Molly and E.T.C. members.
I acquired a Roland SH 101 portable synth (the same one Donnie Osmond used in the ads!)
Mixtures and Suspensions (1982)
Now a REAL multitrack recorder (Fostex X-15) was used. This was probably the most influential recorder ever made as it ushered in a new era of 'do it yourself' recording. Literally millions of people started off with this dandy little device. These songs (if you could call them that) are nothing more than experiments in overdubbing. Most are unlistenable and were created in the process of learning how to overdub.
Big Don Assorted Shorts (1981)
The technology had improved to include a 1960's Sony battery powered mixer and two cassette decks. Tracks were overdubbed while mixing instruments live to the second deck , then bounced back to the first deck with yet more live instruments added. The results were amazingly good considering the primitive equipment.
Jam's With Bill and Walt (1980)
My first recordings with my friend Walt on guitar. Some feature a primitive drum machine and very primitive recording techniques. These are experimentations in the strictest sense - most are unlistenable. Inspired by r stevie moore
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