John Knight profile picture

John Knight

Adeptive Radiation

About Me

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Belgian Waffles, I have started Adeptive Radiation which is a tribute band to them. But since the Belgian Waffles are a noise/free jazz/punk band,we have a greater degree of freedom than other cover bands. The current lineup is on drums and vocals is John Hardwick who I met when the Bloomington band Exo had an unexpected jam session at Landlocked Records. On violin is Candice Beck with no prior experience in rock and roll groups,but does rock out. On upright bass is her twin Nicole Beck.Those are the Bloomington members.In Chicago we have Toru Hironaka, Kurt Forney,and Nate Fremont. Toru,on sax, was in 1234 whose last album can be heard for free at 4boxs. Kurt was roughly half of my groups,is on vocals and electronics. Nate Fremont,guitar, was in Steltch,F.Lawrence Grassen & the Floating Gondulas,and the controversial Psychic Santa Clause Disreunion concert. No single person on the planet is more qualified,except for Benny of Everthus the Deadbeats, to be in a Belgian Waffles coverband than Nate. On saxophone and MIDI windcontroller for Bloomington,we have Chris Rall from the bands DMC,That Bitch Reptile,Piney Woods, and Blue Label.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/29/2006
Band Members: Adeptive Radiation:John Knight,Elizabeth Richey,Nicole Beck,John Hardwick,Candice Beck,Kurt Forney,Clare Hubbard,and Nate Fremont
Influences: The Belgian Waffles!,Mx80 Sound,Yardbirds, Sidney Bichet,Sonny Roliins,Charlie Parker,Anthony Braxton,Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band,Neil Young & Crazy Horse,Traffic,Spencer Davis Group, Edgar Varese,Gong,John Coltrane,Mehter music, Chinese music, Mayan music, Seefeel,Autechre, Wire, Albert Ayler,John Cage, REM, Melvins, Bill Frisell, Ruins,Magma, Genesis, King Crimson, Charles Ives, Karlheinz Stockhausen,Hawkwind, Sex Pistols,Roxy Music,Can, Derek Bailey, AMM, Shaggs, Last Exit, Stooges,Genesis,Stranglers, Eno, Nihilist Spasm band,Stranglers,Walking Ruins,Soft Machine, Velvet Underground, and we mustn't forget two great cover bands:Musical Box,Roxy Magic
Sounds Like: Cross between Vital era Van Der Graaf Generator and Nihilist Spasm Band.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Annotations

I wanted to let everybody know that you could learn more about Adeptive Radiation by going to our founding violinist's blog which could be found at http://www.bloomingtonautica.blogspot.com/ There you...
Posted by John Knight on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 06:06:00 PST

Improv vs nonimprov

Its a tricky thing this thing called improvization. Numerous times I have gotten kicked out of noise bands for being too noisy. Now as a band leader myself, I try to figure out strategies for the othe...
Posted by John Knight on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:53:00 PST