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This Last Exit Tee is from the cover of the Classic first Last Exit album cover. This super group - with members Sonny Sharrock, Bill Laswell, Peter Brotzmann, and Ronald Shannon Jackson rocked the improvisational world with their own brand of musical madness. Available for the first time
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After much demand this Machine Gun Tee shirt - From the group's first CD - is now available again. This New York based improvisational ensemble featured the raging saxophone of Thomas Chapin and the ripping guitar of Robert Musso. (Long time collaborator with Bill Laswell) This Machine Gun shirt has an actual schematic of a machine gun on the Tee Shirt! Machine Gun
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Bill Laswell's Material has been making records and CDs since the late 70's and continues today in various forms. One Down, Hallucination Engine, Seven Souls, and The Third Power are just some of the past Classic Material works. Available for the first time - This Material Tee Shirt is just cool! Material
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Buy My Dinner with Abbie My Dinner with Abbie
starring Abbie Hoffman

A Film by
Nancy Cohen & Howard Katzman
DVD
57 Minutes
Buy Robert Musso - InnerMedium
1) Robert Musso – InnerMedium

Robert’s third solo outing with guests: Bill Laswell, Dave Liebman, Byard Lancaster, Charles Burnham, Karl Berger, Lance Carter, and Bernie Worrell

1) Unknown Passage
2) Luminous
3) Stream of Stars
4) Realm of Spells
5) Drifting Shades
6) One Mind
7) Dark Halo
8) From Shadows
9) Silent Code
Catalog # MM0003
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Buy Robert Musso - Absolute Music
2) Robert Musso – Absolute Music
Robert’s first solo CD with guest Bill Laswell

1) Kithara Mu- 3:38
2) Surakarta - 8:14
3) Celtify - 5:42
4) Orientation - 6:15
5) Music of the Spheres - 6:33
6) Moon Lute - 2:56
7) Sounds of the Apocalypse - 7:50

Absolute Music Won Best Downtown CD of 1989 - New York Press
Catalog # MM0001
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Buy Robert Musso – Active Resonance
3) Robert Musso – Active Resonance

Robert’s second solo CD with guests: Bootsy Collins, Jonas Hellborg, Thomas Chapin, Bernie Worrell, Bil Bryant , Jar-Rohm Parker Wells, etc

1) A Dream Supreme - 4:59
2) Alliance - 4:38
3) All Funked Up - 6:18
4) Tanar! - 6:39
5) To Cross the Rubicon - 5:06
6) Ancient Silk Road- 6:28
7) Amu Darya - 7:11
8) The Squidge - 5:31
9) Home Growning- 7:06
10) A Late One - 4:10
Catalog # MM0002
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Buy Transonic I – Downstream Illusion
4) Transonic I – Downstream Illusion

Robert’s first Ambient/ trance CDs originally recorded for Pete Namlook’s Fax Label. Some critics think that Transonic I is the first Trip – Hop CD

1) Time Wave - 7:27
2) Low Space Monitor- 6:15
3) Time Span Zero - 7:16
4) Space After - 9:23
5) Over the Next Rise - 5:35
6) Dream to Dream - 5:07
7) Cascading Down Illusion - 8:51
8) Outerzone (Space After) - 4:11
9) Under Flow- 5:01

Catalog # MM0004
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Buy Transonic II – Virtual Current
5) Transonic II – Virtual Current

Robert’s second Ambient/ trance CDs originally recorded for Pete Namlook’s Fax Label

1) Whirlpool (Slow Spiral Of Clouds) A
2) Whirlpool (Slow Spiral Of Clouds) B
3) Whirlpool (Slow Spiral Of Clouds) C
4) Whirlpool (Slow Spiral Of Clouds) D
5) Wheel Of Heaven A
6) Wheel Of Heaven B
7) Wheel Of Heaven C

Catalog # MM0005
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Buy Transonic III – Future Primitive
6) Transonic III – Future Primitive

Robert’s third Ambient/ trance CDs originally recorded for Pete Namlook’s Fax Label

1) Future Whispers - 7:48
2) Wandering Star- 8:52
3) Gone Beyond - 7:16
4) Flow Cycle- 9:04
5) Astral Isolation - 7:16
6) Fields of Air - 9:23

Catalog # MM0006
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Buy Machine Gun – Machine Gun

7) Machine Gun – Machine Gun
The first Machine Gun CD with guests Sonny Sharrock and Karl Berger

1) In Court - 5:51
2) The Opening of Entry - 3:29
3) Fancy Products - 3:46
4) Prancing In Your Bed- 4:48
5) Dive - 3:46
6) Muffy’s 1st Date - 2:46
7) The .8 Factor - 3:58
8) One for the Chipper- 2:03
9) Trinity Rain - 3:20
10) Hierocryptics - 5:42

Catalog # MM0007
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Buy Machine Gun – Open Fire

8) Machine Gun – Open Fire
The second Machine Gun CD with guest Sonny Sharrock

1) In the Beginning - 5:25
2) A Sultan’s Last Stand - 4:29
3) Pentagon - 6:06
4) Get the Gun - 3:57
5) See Africa - 5:10
6) Brass Tactics - 6:58
7) Recreation - 2:15
8) Arsenal Tech High - 7:03
9) Mommie Sir - 7:04
10) Obsession + Oblivion - 5:13
11) Take No Prisoners- 3:34
12) Muffy Fails French - 5:15
13) Road Worthy - 9:17
14) Chillin - 1:18

Catalog # MM0008
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Buy Machine Gun – Pass The Ammo

9) Machine Gun – Pass The Ammo
The third Machine Gun CD

1) Seethe - 3:56
2) Trance/ Formation - 4:58
3) Brooklyn Brownout - 5:12
4) Muffy’s Congo Vacation - 1:53
5) Wind Vs. Steel - 4:04
6) Court Jestures - 6:02
7) Cybercat- 3:09
8) Wet Zone - 9:26
9) Night Attack - 6:04
10) Brighton Brawl - 3:27
11) To Be Continued - 5:58

Catalog # MM0009
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Buy Last Exit – Headfirst Into The Flames
10) Last Exit – Headfirst Into The Flames

The classic improv group! Featuring Bill Laswell, Sonny Sharrock, Peter Brötzmann, and Ronald Shannon Jackson

1) Lizard Eyes- 5:43
2) Don’t Be a Cry Baby Whatever You Do - 6:37
3) So Small, So Weak, This Bloody Sweat of Loving - 4:37
4) Headfirst Into the Flames - 3:11
5) A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows - 6:18
6) Jesus! What Gorgeous Monkeys We Are - 10:52
7) Hanged Man Are Always Naked - 10:05
8) No One Knows Anything - 5:22
9) I Must Confess I’m A Cannibal - 10:18

Catalog # MM0010
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Buy Improvised Music New York 1981
11) Improvised Music New York 1981

Another classic night captured live with Derek Bailey, Sonny sharrock, Fred Frith, Bill Laswell, John Zorn and Charles K. Noyes


1) Improvised Music #1 - 1:21
2) Improvised Music #2 - 5:04
3) Improvised Music #3 - 4:33
4) Improvised Music #4 - 5:50
5) Improvised Music #5 - 6:42
6) Improvised Music #6 - 5:46
7) Improvised Music #7 - 3:48
Catalog # MM0011
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Buy Pheeroan aKlaff – Sonogram
12) Pheeroan aKlaff – Sonogram

Pheeroan’s drumming at his best featuring Sonny Sharrock, Carlos Ward and John Stubblefield


1) Bit Her - 11:32
2) Serious- 10:13
3) Alligator and Kangaroo - 4:13
4) Tout De Suite - 5:29
5) Sonogram - 3:46
6) Juggler - 3:39
Catalog # MM0012
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Buy Thomas Chapin – Radius
13) Thomas Chapin – Radius

A wonderful document of Thomas’s music featuring Ronnie Matthews, Ray Drummond, and John Betsch


1) One Man Blues - 6:54
2) Radius - 6:32
3) Forgotten Game - 11:15
4) Jitterbug Waltz - 8:17
5) Egg Hunt - 11:51
6) A January Tear - 5:36
Catalog # MM0013
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Buy Thomas Chapin & Borah Bergman – Inversions
14) Thomas Chapin & Borah Bergman – Inversions

This improvisational Sax and Piano CD seems to cross all boundaries.


1) Politics - 4:58
2) Points - 2:29
3) Kitchen Kut/ Ups - 3:06
4) Dallab - 5:56
5) Valse Languide - 8:23
6) Dark Memory/ Shreds- 3:20
7) Propulsion - 6:05
8) Industry - 10:13
9) Grand Design - 7:06
Catalog # MM0014
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Buy Lunar Bear Ensemble – Dark Pastures
15) Lunar Bear Ensemble – Dark Pastures

A rock poetry CD featuring John Lunar Richey (Machine Gun, Young Turks), Martin Atkins (Killing Joke, Ministry, PIL), and Eddie Freeze (Crossfire Choir), and Richard Bear Graham

1) Untied Dogs - 3:30
2) Musical Fatale - 3:13
3) Sera Terminal - 4:18
4) In Spite - 2:57
5) I Believe - 4:46
6) Bleeding Liberal - 2:02
7) Dark Pastures - 4:36
8) AlieNation - 4:30
9) Equinox - 3:06
10) Corner of George - 4:27
Catalog # MM0015
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Buy Robert Musso / Steve Buchanan – Noise Floor
16) Robert Musso/ Steve Buchanan – Noise Floor
Guitar and Sax improvisation at its freest!

1) Noise Floor #1 - 2:58
2) Noise Floor #2 - 4:18
3) Noise Floor #3; - 2:52
4) Noise Floor #4 - 2:43
5) Noise Floor #5 - 6:40
6) Noise Floor #6 - 8:52
7) Noise Floor #7 - 2:00
8) Noise Floor #8 - 7:48
9) Noise Floor #9 - 3:48
10) Noise Floor #10 - 5:43
11) Noise Floor #11 - 6:09
Catalog # MM0016
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Buy Doom Dogs – Personal Nuclear Assault
17) Doom Dogs – Personal Nuclear Assault

A wonderful collaboration from Jair – Rohm Parker Wells (Machine Gun) and Reeves Gabrels (David Bowie)

1) Portrait of Girl with the Tin Machine Gun - 3:40
2) The Wolves of Winterthur- 6:49
3) Pock a Way Goes Off - 4:38
4) Preamble to a Scramble - 8:34
5) I Saw Myself Standing - 6:33
6) Ayler’s Love - 4:43
7) Knit Knot - 5:10
8) Muffy Meets the African Prince - 6:23
9) My Baby Left Me - 6:20
10) Silicon Desire - 4:40
11) Where Cultures Collide - 7:04
Catalog # MM0017
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Buy Mark Daterman & Glen Moore – The Blimp War
18) Mark Daterman & Glen Moore – The Blimp War

Mark Daterman on guitar and Glen Moore on bass ( Oregon ) unite for this jazz/ improv CD. This CD also includes bonus tracks

1) The Figure #5 in Gold - 4:28
2) The Beagle - 6:17
3) Falling Plums - 4:50
4) Bell Fountain Road - 6:51
5) Or What - 3:47
6) The Blimp War - 5:39
7) The Bear Escapes - 8:05
8) Blood of the Fruit fly - 7:08
9) Ominous Water (Bonus Track) - 3:52
10) River Song (Bonus Track) - 2:40
Catalog # MM0018
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Buy John McCracken & Outloud – Blood From a Tone
19) John McCracken & Outloud – Blood From a Tone

Guitarist John McCracken’s Outloud group featuring Thomas Chapin, Charles Baldwin, and Abe Speller

1) Vibes - 7:58
2) The Detuned - 9:21
3) Rough Sax Defense - 13:13
4) Abuse of Power - 11:46
5) Rock Mantras - 5:05
6) Sloblo - 8:06
Catalog # MM0019
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Buy Lunar Ensemble – Off Beat
20) Lunar Ensemble – Off Beat

John Lunar Richey’s new ensemble featuring Lance Carter, Jack Petruzzelli, Tom DiEllo, and Slugger

1) Offbeat – A - 10:48
2) Offbeat – B - 4:04
3) Offbeat – C - 10:04
4) Offbeat – D - 8:50
5) Bleeding Liberal - 6:34
6) Where is the Light - 8:24
7) Mod/ dis/ ease
8) Meteors 1&2
Catalog # MM0020
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Buy Professor Shehab and Robert Musso – Ataxia
21) Professor Shehab and Robert Musso – Ataxia

1) Elephant Alarm - 7:54
2) Archon - 8:03
3) Avatar - 8:22
4) Neter - 7:59
5) Forgotten Ones - 15:14
Catalog # MM0021
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Buy Transonic – Re - Evolution
22) Transonic – Re - Evolution

Robert Musso’s fourth solo CD featuring Bill Laswell. Drum & Bass & backwards guitars!

1) Tranz Sender - 7:33
2) Reversity - 9:32
3) Oki-Naha Passage - 6:22
4) Torque - 8:08
5) Terra Trek - 7:16
6) Mars Cronicle - 7:06
7) Siroccan Wind - 8:42
Catalog # MM0022
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Buy Machine Gun – WFMU
23) Machine Gun – WFMU
Machine Gun live!

1) Out Spoke In - 8:26
2) Munition Secretion - 13:24
3) Guns In Space - 7:22
4) The Chaser - 9:13
5) Muffy’s Slip Knots - 11:25
Catalog # MM0023
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Buy Machine Gun – WUSB
24) Machine Gun – WUSB
Machine Gun live!

1) Vital Signs - 4:38
2) Red Planet Blues - 7:50
3) Rage of Destruction - 14:12
4) Something Else - 1:01
5) Arsenal Tech High - 3:58
6) Classical Rebellion - 6:49
Catalog # MM0024
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Buy Machine Gun - WKCR
25) Machine Gun - WKCR
Machine Gun live!

1. Crystal Field
2. Pentagon
3. Leather Muffy
4. John & Tom
5. Sound Foreseen
6. Jump Line
7. Narrow Ass
8. Sonic Fiction
9. Ascending Time
10. Sharpshooter
11. Over the Edge Leading Slice
12. Tribe

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Readers who like Machine Gun should look out, too, for a bootleg of the group's live set on New York radio station WKCR. (I found my copy on a Camden Market tape stall).
- Steve Lake / Wire Magazine

Catalog # MM0025
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Buy Pheeroan Aklaff – Drum Set Variations

26) Pheeroan Aklaff – Drum Set Variations
A drum sampling CD from Pheeroan akLaff!
Catalog # MM0026

1)Key Zero
2)Key One
3) Key Two
4)Donna V
5) Key Four
6) Key Five
7)Key Seven
8)Jack A
9) Jack B
10) Winnie
11)Doo - Hop
12) Smash - Hop
13)P – Spunky
14)Alma Mater
15)Hispaniola A
16) Hispaniola B
17)Play Ground
18) Berth and Fire One
19)Berth and Fire Two
20)Old and New
21)Saints Floating on the River
22)Hilda
23) Oooh, Pooh
24)Sky
25) EARTHA
26)Peb
27) Ride Cymbal
28) 40 Fills
29)Single Hits
30) Pressure Rolls
Buy Jair-Rohm Parker Wells - Ad Majrorem Dei Gloriam
27) Jair-Rohm Parker Wells - Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam
Jair-Rohm’s new solo CD!

Catalog # MM0027
1) A.L.M
2) In Theory There Is No Difference Between Theory and; Practice, In Practice There is
3) Lethal Beauty
4) Improbable Cause, Likely Effect
5) Libido Management
6) The Annexing Of Jane
7) To Morning Sea Explore
8) Dangerous Curves And A Head
9) Favorable Conditions
10) Sententia Africanus
11) For Peace (Would You Hug A Suicide Bomber?)
Buy Bob’s Jam Band 2007
28) Bob’s Jam Band

1/15/07 - With Joe Russo, Raoul Bjorkenheim, and Dave Dreiwitz
Catalog # MM0028
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Buy Stone Improv
29) Stone Improv

5/19/06 - With Shanir Blumenkranz, Jackson Krall, and Billy Atwell
Catalog # MM0029
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Buy Tonic Improv 5/11/00
30) Tonic Improv

5/11/00 - With Elliot Levin, Lance Carter and Dave Dreiwitz
Catalog # MM0030
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Buy Musso, Laswell, and Carter at the Bowery Poetry Project
31) Musso, Laswell, and Carter

Featuring Bill Laswell, Lance Carter, and Robert Musso (This was one of Lance’s last shows)

11/7/04 - At the Bowery Poetry Project  
Catalog # MM0031
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Buy Transonic Band – Live at the Cooler
32) Transonic Band – Live at the Cooler

4/12/99 - With Byard Lancaster, Charles Burnham, Lance Carter, Elliot Levin, Toby Kasavan and David Gross
Catalog # MM0032
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Buy Dreiwitz, Musso, and Carter at the Bowery Poetry Project
33) Dreiwitz, Musso, and Carter

7/9/03 - At the Bowery Poetry Project
Catalog # MM0033
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Buy Machine Gun Live at Downtown Beirut 9/14/88
34) Machine Gun Live at Downtown Beirut

9/14/88 
Catalog # MM0034
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Buy Machine Gun Live - Brighton Bar 9/14/91
35) Machine Gun Live at the Brighton Bar

9/14/91
Catalog # MM0035
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Buy Machine Gun Live at Bruce Gallanter’s Gemini Jam 9/22/91
36) Machine Gun Live at Bruce Gallanter’s Gemini Jam
  
9/22/91 - Introduction by Bruce Gallanter
Catalog # MM0036
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Buy Machine Gun Live at CBGB’s #1 6/2/87
37) Machine Gun Live at CBGB’s

#1 - 6/2/87 With Sonny Sharrock - Guitar and Karl Berger - Meladica
Catalog # MM0037
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Buy Machine Gun Live at CBGB’s #2 11/29/88
38) Machine Gun Live at CBGB’s

#2 - 11/29/88 Introduction by Peter Wetherbee

Catalog # MM0038
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Buy Machine Gun Live at CBGB’s #3 11/28/92
39) Machine Gun Live at CBGB’s

#3 - 11/28/92 
Catalog # MM0039
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Buy Machine Gun Live at the Court Tavern #1 6/7/87
40) Machine Gun Live at the Court Tavern

#1 - 6/7/87 
Catalog # MM0040
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Buy Machine Gun Live at the Court Tavern #2 2/12/88
41) Machine Gun Live at the Court Tavern

#2 - 2/12/88 - With Tom DiEllo – Bass
Catalog # MM0041
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Buy Machine Gun Live at the Court Tavern #3 11/26/88
42) Machine Gun Live at the Court Tavern

#3 - 11/26/88
Catalog # MM0042
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Buy Machine Gun Live at the Court Tavern #4 2/24/90
43) Machine Gun Live at the Court Tavern

#4 - 2/24/90 From VHS tape
Catalog # MM0043
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Buy Machine Gun Live at the Court Tavern #5 12/8/90
44) Machine Gun Live at the Court Tavern

#5 - 12/8/90 From VHS tape
Catalog # MM0044
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Buy Machine Gun Live at the Court Tavern #6 9/7/91
45) Machine Gun Live at the Court Tavern

#6 - 9/7/91 Introduction by George Billeci
Catalog # MM0045
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Buy Machine Gun Live at the Gas Station 12/3/88
46) Machine Gun Live at the Gas Station

12/3/88 With Sonny Sharrock - Guitar
Catalog # MM0046
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Buy Machine Gun Live at the Knitting Factory #1 11/30/88
47) Machine Gun Live at the Knitting Factory

#1 - 11/30/88 with Elliott Sharp
Catalog # MM0047
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Buy Machine Gun Live at the Knitting Factory #2 11/28/90
48) Machine Gun Live at the Knitting Factory

#2 - 11/28/90
Catalog # MM0048
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Buy Machine Gun Live at the Knitting Factory #3 9/8/91 Disc1
49) Machine Gun Live at the Knitting Factory

#3 - 9/8/91 (Double CD)
Catalog # MM0049
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Buy Machine Gun Live at the Knitting Factory #4 11/2/92
50) Machine Gun Live at the Knitting Factory

#4 - Downtown Music Gallery 1st Anniversary Party - 11/2/92 Introduction by Steve Popkin
Catalog # MM0050
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Buy Machine Gun Live at the Knitting Factory #5 11/27/92
51) Machine Gun Live at the Knitting Factory

#5 - 11/27/92 - with Elliot Levin - sax, flute and poetry; Introduction by Bruce Gallanter
Catalog # MM0051
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Buy Machine Gun Live at the Knitting Factory #6 7/14/95
52) Machine Gun Live at the Knitting Factory

#6 - 7/14/95 with Elliot Levin – Sax and Flute
Catalog # MM0052
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Buy Machine Gun Live at the New Music Café 9/13/91
53) Machine Gun Live at the New Music Café

9/13/91
Catalog # MM0053
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Buy Machine Gun Live at the Greenpoint Studio 2/9/92 Disc 1
Disc 1
Buy Machine Gun Live at the Greenpoint Studio 9/22/91 Disc 2
Disc 2
54) Machine Gun Live at the Greenpoint Studio

2/9/92 - (Double CD)

Catalog # MM0054
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Buy Machine Gun Live at the Theater for the New City 12/2/90
55) Machine Gun Live at the Theater for the New City

12/2/90 - With State of the Union song
Catalog # MM0055
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Buy Machine Gun Live at Trinity College 8/7/87
56) Machine Gun Live at Trinity College

8/7/87 
Catalog # MM0056
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Buy Machine Gun Live at the WEBO Art Space 9/21/91
57) Machine Gun Live at the WEBO Art Space

9/21/91 - Introduction by Cristeen Aebi
Catalog # MM0057
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Buy Machine Gun Live at WRTC 11/29/88 Disc 1
Disc 1
Buy Machine Gun Live at WRTC 11/29/88 Disc 2
Disc 2
58) Machine Gun Live at WRTC

11/29/88 - (Double CD)

Catalog # MM0058
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Buy Ben Face – Ben Face
59) Ben Face – Ben Face

Singer songwriter Ben Face’s first solo CD. “His music is like a combination of Leonard Cohen and Pink Floyd”

1) We’re All Dissenters of The War 3:55
2) Silence 5:14
3) Where Does That Leave Me 4:28
4) Do A Thing 5:02
5) What Ever Happened To? 3:49
6) Alone In The Dark 4:41
7) Family Values 2:33
Catalog # MM0059
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60) Lance Carter Memorial Concert

Live from the Knitting Factory 2007
Coming Soon!
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Buy Bob & Friends at the Bowery Poetry Club 9/22/07
61) Bob & Friends at the Bowery Poetry Club 9.22.07

1) Bruce's Intro
2) Luminous
3) Unknown Passage
4) Up Three
5) Cultured Mannequins/ Mantinaal 1
6) Mantinaal 2
7) Surakarta
8) Many Mansions
Catalog # MM0060
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