HENRY KAISER AND FRIENDS 
1988-09-25 Late Set 
Knitting Factory NYC, NY 

List of Musicians: 
John Oswald - alto saxophone 
Eliot Sharp - doublenecked guitarbass 
Gary Lambert - bass 
Henry Kaiser - guitar 
David Gans - guitar 
Mark Crawford - drums 

- From the "Teddy Ballgame/ billydee" Archive 

- In memory of 'Larry Sellers', our good friend Kris Wescott. 

- This is a 16 bit 44.1khz file set 

Recorded by: Bill Doherty, Gail, Ted Mattes 
Source: Schoeps cmc441 PCM/beta 16 bit 
Transferred by: The Philly Crew 
Lineage: emphasis decoded 

Set list: 

01. s2t00 - intro 00:13.37 
02. s2t01 05:50.46 
03. s2t02 - I'm So Glad [Cream] 06:58.45 
04. s2t03 10:21.41 
05. s2t04 - Alice in Blunderland [Captain Beefheart] 06:12.27 
06. s2t05 11:04.34 
07. s2t06 - Orange Moose 07:37.63 
08. s2t07 10:05.29 
09. s2t08 - What's Become Of The Baby [Grateful Dead] 06:32.05 
10. s2t09 - St Stephen William Tell Bridge [Grateful Dead] 03:00.07 
11. s2t10 - The Eleven [Grateful Dead] 07:00.55 
12. s2t11 - Let Me In [Grateful Dead] 05:49.14 
13. s2t12 - Cryptical Envelopment [Grateful Dead] 01:51.40 
14. s2t13 - Drums 02:44.12 
15. s2t14 - The Other One [Grateful Dead] 08:32.24 
16. s2t15 - Blues for Allah [Grateful Dead] 03:26.18 
17. s2t16 - St Stephen [Grateful Dead] 07:07.49 

Total: 104:28.21 


Notes. 
1. small drop outs at 1:29.5, 2:11 - 2:22 (first 2 tracks) 
2. balance adjustments ~ 2:35 during track 2 
3. right channel balance lower during I'm So Glad 
4. tape file at start of s2t07 
5. During the portion of the set starting at s2t08, at one point Kaiser remarks that this is "discontinued grateful dead" i.e. songs not played 
5. soundfield panning in St Stephen (s2t16) 
6. tape ends while St. Stephen is in progress 
7. set list help appreciated. Musicians listed were mentioned by Kaiser during the tape or in NY Times review (see below) though his review is for the early set 
https://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/29/arts/reviews-rock-skewed-blues-and-chunky-counterpoint.html 

Reviews/Rock; Skewed Blues and Chunky Counterpoint 

By JON PARELESSEPT. 29, 1988 
September 29, 1988, Page 00019 The New York Times Archives 

Henry Kaiser, the Berkeley-based guitarist who's collaborated with all sorts of rock and jazz avant-gardists, devoted his first New York performance since 1982 to neo-psychedelic jamming. On Sunday at the Knitting Factory, opening a two-night stand, Mr. Kaiser played two hourlong sets for his early show. The first, he said, would be ''a bunch of weird junk'' and the second, he announced mysteriously, would be ''a wide variety of G. D. material.'' The concert amply demonstrated Mr. Kaiser's eclecticism, but it played down his own music in favor of tributes. 

''Weird junk'' has made Mr. Kaiser's reputation. Along with Fred Frith, Derek Bailey and lesser-known guitarists, he often treats the electric guitar as a half-dozen string-controlled oscillators, generating abstract noises and textures instead of chords and melodic lines. Mr. Kaiser used those plunks and scrapes for comedy in ''Devil in the Drain.'' Then, with Mark Crawford on drums and Gary Lambert on bass, he played themes - a choppy Captain Beefheart-style chunk of counterpoint, a skewed blues piece and a quick, jittery tune written for Swedish television news - that turned into free-form jams featuring Mr. Kaiser's coils and blobs and squirts of sound, like a more dissonant Cream. 

Next came improvisations. Mr. Kaiser played a solo, with effects, that sounded like cracked gongs and shattering icicles. Elliott Sharp, on doublenecked guitarbass, joined him for a more clattery duet, with passages evoking colliding oil tankers and trolls chewing on mountains. John Oswald on alto saxophone played high-speed sputters and squeals in a pair of improvisations, and Mr. Lambert and Mr. Crawford reappeared to play a Captain Beefheart piece and a final, open-ended vamp. As Mr. Sharp and Mr. Kaiser traded blues leads like a latter-day Butterfield Blues Band, all that was missing was a light show. 

For the second set, ''G. D.'' turned out to stand for Grateful Dead. Mr. Kaiser and David Gans on guitars, along with Mr. Lambert and Mr. Crawford, played a close facsimile of a good Grateful Dead jam, drifting from ''Dark Star'' through ''Here Comes Sunshine,'' ''New Speedway Boogie'' and a song the Dead wrote but never put on an album, ''Mason's Children.'' It was a serious tribute; the band recaptured not just the Dead's favorite licks, but its way of noodling toward the next song and its ambling or tumbling momentum. For an encore, Mr. Kaiser played a slow, blues-tinged solo on electric guitar in John Fahey's suspended-time style. Perhaps Mr. Kaiser's other shows, in which he promised different material, said more about his own musical identity.