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(1981 – 2000, 2010 – present)

The Golden Palominos were an American musical group headed by drummer and composer Anton Fier, first formed in 1981. Apart from Fier, the Palominos membership was wildly elastic; While the Palominos records usually featured a core set of musicians and emotional feel though the bulk of an album, various guest appearances would result in some stylistic changes from track to track.

Initial line-up

The group first featured Fier, singer-guitarist Arto Lindsay, saxophonist John Zorn, bass guitarist Bill Laswell and violinist/guitarist Fred Frith, with appearances by bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma, guitarist Nicky Skopelitis, percussionist David Moss, guitarist/singer Bob Kidney, turntablist M.E. Miller and others. Their self-titled debut album was released on New York’s Celluloid Records in 1983. The album is notable for having some of the first recorded turntable scratching outside of rap music, courtesy of Laswell and M.E. Miller. They were heavily influenced by so-called no wave music (Arto Lindsay had played in the seminal no-wave band DNA), but their music also contained elements of funk and of the improvisational jazz stylings that would become Zorn’s trademark. This line-up lasted only for the first record, although all of the core members, save for Zorn, would guest on subsequent Palominos recordings.


1985–1989
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  • TripleSol

    dead inside

    8 Jan 3:51am Reply

  • faecool

    awesome lineups and good albums! underrated

    21 Sep 2012 Reply

  • hookbags

    Why so few listeners?

    14 Jul 2012 Reply

  • zelieq

    <3

    20 Apr 2011 Reply

  • mattmacneil

    this is like all of my favorite musicians in one group

    7 Apr 2011 Reply

  • Nochek

    Bill Laswell.

    28 Feb 2011 Reply

  • TrueAruel

    This is gold (Dead Inside).

    7 Nov 2010 Reply

  • QueenOHearts11

    Blast Of Silence. Everything Syd Straw sings is GOLDEN

    29 Jul 2010 Reply

  • wilhelmzwo

    first album (not streamable) = best

    2 Mar 2010 Reply

  • poor-de-chirico

    Mother of God, fucking John Lydon nearly ruined Visions of Excess.

    19 Nov 2009 Reply

  • pethomas

    I'll take Pure... Lori Carson's vocals (her solo cd Everything I Touch Runs Wild is amazing), Bootsy Collins in the rhythm section.. and yeah, it's too bad the naked breast cd cover was censored. I guess someone thought it might be considered sexist/sexy.

    13 Feb 2009 Reply

  • AIDSistRAD

    i drink piss

    7 Sep 2008 Reply

  • Selenaru_Negrea

    And by the way, Pure is great. Too bad that crappy censored artwork has to stay here as main artwork.

    17 Jun 2008 Reply

  • Selenaru_Negrea

    What's with all those tags? Changing styles from record to record, I understand, but what I don't understand is how none of the tags suit Pure, which is the 2nd top album here!

    17 Jun 2008 Reply

  • Salt_The_Fries

    What tha hell is with these tags?????????????????????

    28 Apr 2008 Reply

  • qssl

    Does anyone happen to have Dead Outside? If so, I'd love you for around 99.9 days if you would be willing to share it.

    2 Mar 2008 Reply

  • TripleSol

    I only have Pure, ill check Drunk With Passion out!. How great that strawberry switchblade is in the connections! The music i listen to, tends to correlate in unusual ways.

    24 Jan 2008 Reply

  • swirlyboy

    agreed...Drunk with Passion is the better of the two

    21 Dec 2007 Reply

  • undrentide72

    personally to me, Drunk with Passion has the edge over Pure.

    12 Sep 2007 Reply

  • kurka666

    How would you compare drunk with passion to Pure? I love Pure, but haven't heard the other one

    11 Sep 2007 Reply
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