Henry
Kaiser is widely recognized as one of the most creative and innovative
guitarists, improvisers, and producers in the fields of rock,
jazz, and experimental music - Otherminds.org
To say that Glenn Phillips plays guitar is like saying Michael
Jordan takes shots at the basket - Stereo Review
From Glenn Phillips' liner notes:
"In 1989, I got a phone call from Henry Kaiser, who wanted
me to come to San Francisco to record the title track for a Jimi
Hendrix tribute CD, If 6 Was 9. The song would feature
he and I on guitars, and Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead on vocals.
Henry was familiar with me from my solo releases, and we had recorded
together before, most notably on a remake of the Dead's "Dark
Star/The Other One," for Those Who Know History Are Doomed
to Repeat It, his 1988 Bammy (Bay Area Music Award) winner.
The more we talked about me coming to California, the more excited
we got. As both of us were prone to do, we planned a month's worth
of activities for the week I was there in January of 1990. Along
with Henry's friends Greg Gumbel, Gary Lambert and Mark McQuade
Crawford, we played a date at the Great American Music Hall with
Steve Kimock sitting in. After that, we recorded the Hendrix track,
and then in the spirit of some of the jam session records of the
'60s, engineer Oliver Dicicco went on to tape us playing a CD's
worth of material, with vocalists Cary Sheldon, Susan James, Robin
Petrie and Danny Carnahan added to the mix.
Those tracks are being released for the first time on Guitar
Party, over thirteen years after they were recorded."
