Talk:Bill Laswell

White Zombie?
What's the White Zombie category link doing here when the band is never mentioned in the BL page, and he is never mentioned in the White Zombie page? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.127.185.239 (talk • contribs) 11:53, 1 October 2006 UTC

?? What's the link with White Zombie? (below) I searched this page and the White Zombie band page and could find no reference to Laswell as a member, contributor, conspirator, associate, etc. Any ideas? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.34.24.168 (talk • contribs) 01:30, 25 October 2006 UTC


 * Bill Laswell produced White Zombie's album Make Them Die Slowly . But I'm not sure whether that justifies the link to Category:White Zombie. --Bruce1ee 06:05, 25 October 2006 (UTC)


 * I've removed this cat – he only produced one of their albums. --Bruce1ee 13:00, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

Birthdate?

 * English Wikipedia: December 2, 1950
 * German Wikipedia (featured article): February 12, 1955


 * Google for "bill laswell" "December 2, 1950": 87 hits
 * Google for "bill laswell" "February 12, 1955": 68 hits

Weird that there would be such a split between two completely different dates. Does anyone know for sure? &mdash;The preceding unsigned comment was added by KingTT (talk • contribs).

Well spotted. My $0.02:


 * Really not so different dates if you consider the error sources: The month thing clearly comes from a "02-12" date read either as Month/Day (anglo) or Day/Month (euro), generating those twin dates. The year thing clearly comes from a typo, either 1950 bounced to 1955, or 1955 shifted to 1950.


 * Raw googling numbers mean nothing because of so much Wikipedia content replicated verbatim across hundreds of sites, oftentimes outdated versions with different content. As a rule of thumb, you need to add your Google queries the two exclusions { -wikipedia -encyclopedia } in order to weed out 90% of replicants and avoid auto-intoxication. Another way is to forbid a well-chosen part of sentence from the wikipedia article, such as { -"prolific bassist" }.

All non-wikipedian-based sites returned by such Google query (external) go for February 12, 1955. Also, they all give him born in Salem and only raised in Detroit. I'm updating the article with that... &mdash;The preceding unsigned comment was added by 62.147.39.234 (talk • contribs).

yup, 1955 seems to be correct: 80.134.168.61 14:55, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

1955 is correct from what I know from people associated with Laswell. He also grew up in Albion, Michigan. His Detroit connection is that Detroit was the primary place he could go to see bands play when they toured through the area.--Slntwtchr (talk) 14:50, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Collaborators
This list is not encyclopedic in of itself. If it's to be included, it should be edited down to some highlights and wrapped in some prose. - brenneman  {T}  {L}  23:26, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

In alphabetical order:


 * Ahlam
 * Aisha Kandisha's Jarring Effects
 * Laurie Anderson
 * Atom Heart
 * Azzddine
 * Ginger Baker
 * Afrika Bambaataa
 * Eraldo Bernocchi
 * Lili Boniche
 * Paul Bowles
 * Jeff Bova
 * Peter Brotzmann
 * Buckethead
 * William S. Burroughs
 * David Byrne
 * Ralph Carney
 * Bootsy Collins
 * Dub Syndicate
 * Aïyb Dieng
 * Manu Dibango
 * Divination
 * Sussan Deyhim
 * EBN
 * Brian Eno
 * Flavor Flav
 * Fred Frith
 * Peter Gabriel
 * Gigi
 * The Golden Palominos
 * Trilok Gurtu
 * Herbie Hancock
 * Mick Harris
 * Lili Haydn
 * Graham Haynes
 * Zakir Hussain
 * Jonas Hellborg
 * Whitney Houston
 * Tetsu Inoue
 * Ronald Shannon Jackson
 * Mick Jagger
 * Karsh Kale
 * Kool Keith
 * Last Poets
 * Arto Lindsay
 * John Lydon
 * Matisyahu
 * Master Musicians Of Jajouka
 * Nils Petter Molvaer - please confirm
 * Molvaer appeared with Laswell on Soundstage in 2006 (look under "Season 4" in that article). I'll try and come up with the date of the show. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 21:07, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
 * another performance in 2006 at moers festival --Michl 05:39, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Aside from Soundstage and the 2006 performance, Molvaer has appeared now and again with Laswell and his group Material. Laswell has remixed two of Molvaer's tracks and Molvaer has appeared on Laswell's "Dub Chamber 3" album amongst others.--Slntwtchr 17:55, 18 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Motörhead
 * Pete Namlook
 * Yoko Ono
 * Mike Patton
 * Daniel Ponce
 * Public Image Limited
 * The Ramones
 * Nile Rodgers
 * Badal Roy
 * Pharoah Sanders
 * Akira Sakata
 * Klaus Schulze - on Dark Side of the Moog 4 to 7
 * Style Scott
 * Shankar
 * Sonny Sharrock
 * Archie Shepp
 * Nicky Skopelitis
 * Sly & Robbie
 * DJ Spooky
 * Sting
 * Henry Threadgill
 * James Blood Ulmer
 * Steve Vai
 * Tom Verlaine
 * Jah Wobble
 * Bernie Worrell
 * White Zombie
 * John Zorn

I'll work on pairing this down and making it neater...my formatting on Wikipedia is not the best, but I am re-doing the whole of Laswell's page - naturally comments and edits are welcome.--Slntwtchr (talk) 14:48, 13 June 2008 (UTC)


 * I've just created an article for Akira Sakata, who played on Last Exit's 1987 live album. Any help expanding this article would be appreciated. Bondegezou (talk) 10:35, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

References go here, not External Links
I have moved the link farm under the External links section here. They do not belong there, like a parking lot. Please leave all sources needed for the article here, where they do belong. Once you are convinced they have been used up, or are not usable as reliable references-- (I haven't had the chance to look them over), just cross them off the list like this. Thank you. --Leahtwosaints (talk) 01:34, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Official M.O.D. Technologies site
 * Official Method of Defiance site
 * Official Tokyo Rotation site
 * discography at silent-watcher.net
 * discography at turning-groove.de
 * Sacred Dub fan site/community site, includes podcasts
 * Last.FM: Bill Laswell pages
 * Innerhythmic.com (current record label)
 * 2011 Innerviews interview
 * 1999 Innerviews interview
 * Method of Defiance "Inamorata" review by Mark Jenkins, The Washington Post, December 21, 2007
 * Bill Laswell Interview by The Wire Magazine. December, 1994
 * Part 1 of Interview with Directors of Destroy All Rational Thought DVD - which celebrates the work of Brion Gysin and William Burroughs. Contains music/text by Bill Laswell
 * Part 2 of Interview with Directors of Destroy All Rational Thought DVD - which celebrates the work of Brion Gysin and William Burroughs. Contains music/text by Bill Laswell

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