It's not all prog rock here. Last Exit were a sort of avant jazz/noise super group, with Sonny Sharrock, Peter Brotzmann, Bill Laswell and Ronald Shannon Jackson. They all had credentials of producing genre busting avant jazz based music and here they teamed up for the first time to produce this live document from 1986. During the 80's Laswell was a bit of a polymath, playing bass, producing, composing across a broad range of projects including Brian Eno, Material, Massacre, John Zorn and various stuff for his Axiom label.
He is an excellent bass player, mixing dub, jazz, funk and rock. Here he lets the other whoop up a noise of a storm, especially from Brotzmann and the late, great Sharrock. It was all improvised and they produced other albums, again mostly live apart from Iron Path, which was recorded for the Virgin Venture label and was quite restrained compared to their live albums. They were of their time and now that both Sharrock and Shannon Jackson are gone, never to be repeated.
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