{"id":2371,"date":"1988-06-12T20:41:12","date_gmt":"1988-06-13T01:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevetibbetts.com\/?page_id=2371"},"modified":"2023-01-03T14:32:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T20:32:37","slug":"rolling-stone-june-1988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevetibbetts.com\/rolling-stone-june-1988\/","title":{"rendered":"Yr–Rolling Stone, 6\/88"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n This 1980 D.I.Y. masterpiece of brilliant guitar orchestration and multitrack sorcery, first issued on Tibbetts’s own Frammis label, is like a dream cruise on the Ganges with Tubular Bells\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Axis: Bold as Love.<\/em><\/p>\n Panoramic percussion, dueling tablas and Tibbetts’s animated guitar conversations with himself–acoustic ragas spiked by Hendrixian banshee screams, overdubbed choral riffing erected into high cathedral spires–give\u00a0Yr<\/em><\/a> a trancelike otherworldly quality that is nevertheless rooted in the rock & roll here and now, thanks to periodic wake-up blasts of frenzied Frippaphonic soloing.<\/p>\n