Fighting 2 Quarters and a Nickel

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Fighting 2 Quarters and a Nickel
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Live album by Rake.
Released 1998 (1998)
Recorded January 10, 1993 (1993-01-10) – April 12, 1997 (1997-04-12)
Genre Experimental rock
Length145:36
Label VHF
Producer Rake.
Rake. chronology
G-Man
(1996)		Fighting 2 Quarters and a Nickel
(1998)		 Resume the Cosmos
(1998)
Professional ratings
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Fighting 2 Quarters and a Nickel is a live performance album by Rake., released in 1998 through VHF Records. The front cover photograph and design is a direct reference to the 1978 album Heavy Organ by organist Virgil Fox .

Rake. was an art rock/noise rock musical ensemble from Northern Virginia, founded in 1989. Not aligned with the post-punk/hardcore bands more commonly associated with the local underground music scene, Rake. took a more experimental route and were more closely associated with fellow Virginia-based bands Pelt and Wingtip Sloat. Throughout the 1990s, a relationship cemented via their principal label, VHF Records.

VHF Records is an American record label, known for their extensive work with several major experimental artists. The label is based in the Washington, DC suburb of Fairfax, Va., and it initially focused on indie and experimental bands from that region. The label has since branched out to release innovative and offbeat music from around the world, although Northern Virginia artists are still prominently featured in the catalog. The label was founded by Bill Kellum in 1991, originally to release a single each by his own band, Rake, and that of his friends, Wingtip Sloat. After a handful of releases by both bands, Kellum acquired the US rights to the first releases by UK psychedelic group Flying Saucer Attack including the CD edition of their debut album. Following this, Kellum released an album by Matthew Bower's Skullflower, which in turn led to the release of an LP by Bower and Richard Youngs. Since then, Youngs has released a dozen collaborative albums on the label, including 6 with Simon Wickham-Smith, 3 with Alex Neilson, one from his progressive rock unit Ilk and one with Makoto Kawabata. Kawabata has also released 3 solo albums for the label. Other artists include Vibracathedral Orchestra, Roy Montgomery, Jack Rose, Pelt, and Stephen O'Malley's Æthenor. Matthew Bower released another 2 Skullflower albums on the label, one Total release and several more under his most recent solo alias, Sunroof!.

Virgil Fox American musician

Virgil Keel Fox was an American organist, known especially for his flamboyant "Heavy Organ" concerts of the music of Bach. These events appealed to audiences in the 1970s who were more familiar with rock 'n' roll music and were staged complete with light shows. His many recordings made on the RCA Victor and Capitol labels, mostly in the 1950s and 1960s, have been remastered and re-released on compact disc in recent years. They continue to be widely available in mainstream music stores.

Contents

Track listing

All music composed by Rake.

Disc one
No.TitleLength
1."Milk Bar, Philadelphia, PA 4.7.95"4:44
2."Black Cat, Washington, DC 9.7.95"32:05
3."Duke University Coffeehouse, Durham, NC 2.3.95"6:25
4."9:30 Club, Washington, DC 8.23.94"1:51
5."9:30 Club, Washington, DC 8.4.95"15:31
6."Hole in the Wall, Richmond, VA 4.27.96"11:56
Disc two
No.TitleLength
1."Duke University Coffeehouse, Durham, NC 2.3.95"0:32
2."Klang Festival, Richmond, VA 7.30.94"4:38
3."Duke University Coffeehouse, Durham, NC 2.3.95"5:59
4."Here Art Gallery, New York, NY 1.10.93"2:55
5."Northern Virginia Community College Mail Art Show, Annandale, VA 12.4.95"3:50
6."Black Cat, Washington, DC 1.10.94"3:15
7."9:30 Club, Washington, DC 5.27.94"12:35
8."Tommy's Warehouse, Richmond, VA 4.12.97"35:00
9."9:30 Club, Washington, DC 8.4.95 / Margaret's Café, Chapel Hill, NC 3.9.93"4:20

Personnel

Adapted from the Fighting 2 Quarters and a Nickel liner notes. [2]

Rake.
Electric guitar electrified guitar; fretted stringed instrument with a neck and body that uses a pickup to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals. The vibration occurs when a guitar player strums, plucks, fingerpicks, slaps or taps the strings. The pickup generally uses electromagnetic induction to create this signal, which being relatively weak is fed into a guitar amplifier before being sent to the speaker(s), which converts it into audible sound.

Singing act of producing musical sounds with the voice

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music that can be sung with or without accompaniment by musical instruments. Singing is often done in an ensemble of musicians, such as a choir of singers or a band of instrumentalists. Singers may perform as soloists or accompanied by anything from a single instrument up to a symphony orchestra or big band. Different singing styles include art music such as opera and Chinese opera, Indian music and religious music styles such as gospel, traditional music styles, world music, jazz, blues, gazal and popular music styles such as pop, rock, electronic dance music and filmi.

Bass guitar Electric bass instrument

The bass guitar is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

Release history

RegionDateLabelFormatCatalog
United States 1998 VHF CD VHF#33

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References

  1. ↑ Raggett, Ned. "Rake: Fighting 2 Quarters & a Nickel > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved September 12, 2015.
  2. ↑ Fighting 2 Quarters and a Nickel (booklet). Rake. Fairfax Station, Virginia: VHF Records. 1998.
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