Administrators sam_webmaster Posted July 1, 2011 Administrators Share Posted July 1, 2011 MINIBUS PIMPS John Paul Jones and Helge Sten (from Supersilent) announce the debut performance of a new and unique collaboration entitled 'Minibus Pimps' at this year's Punkt Festival in Kristiansand, Norway. Using electronics, samplers, processors, instruments and ipads, the duo will be creating instrumental improvisations that will at times be ferocious and at other times intricate. Come and take a ride with us! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveAJones Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 Minibus Pimps - come and take a ride with us! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Melanie Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 That sounds really cool but could they not afford to get a full bus? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperDave Posted July 1, 2011 Share Posted July 1, 2011 Thanks Sam. Sound like a real good time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators sam_webmaster Posted September 2, 2011 Author Administrators Share Posted September 2, 2011 facebook.com/pages/Minibus-Pimps/156033504469221?sk=wall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPJ = the groovinator Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 Came into this thread hoping to find JPJ in a pimp suit on a mini bus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swandown Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 Sounds like an adult website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vega Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 so much for TCV? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecube Posted September 3, 2011 Share Posted September 3, 2011 Them Crooked Pimps! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 so much for TCV? I certainly hope not! Much like Homme's and Grohl's other projects/bands they are associated with, they will come back to work with them in due time. Since the Foos are promoting their latest with touring the world, it'll take some time.... Seemed like they all enjoyed playing together too much to just abandon TVC. They said ideas for the second album were worked on already. Anyway, JPJ certainly has kept busy these past few years! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BMV Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 That sounds like it could be very creative, great name as well. Beats something lame like both their last names together. Jones gets it. He's the star of the last decade, easily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happiness Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 Minibus Pimps - come and take a ride with us! Or....pimp my minibus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators sam_webmaster Posted November 4, 2011 Author Administrators Share Posted November 4, 2011 Minibus Pimps perform live as part of PUNKT @ Enjoy Jazz Festival Monday, November 14, 2011 at 8:00pm Alte Feuerwache Mannheim official Minibus Pimps Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Minibus-Pimps/156033504469221?sk=wall Enjoy Jazz Fest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators sam_webmaster Posted November 14, 2011 Author Administrators Share Posted November 14, 2011 JPJ interview - http://www.morgenweb...0002462646.html Google Translation: Interview: Ex-Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones on his performance with the Minibus Pimps in the Old Fire Station. "You will not fall asleep!" - Jörg-Peter Klotz As a bassist and keyboardist John Paul Jones was a member of the greatest rock bands ever: Led Zeppelin. On Monday, 14 November, wants the 65-year-old Briton at the Old Fire Station Mannheim at the second appearance of the duo Minibus Pimps explore entirely new sound spaces. In our interview, he gives an insight into the unusual sound. Mr. Jones, previously there was only one appearance at the point of Minibus Pimps festival in Norway. Can you explain what you and Helge Sten can happen on stage - or is it completely open? John Paul Jones: (laughs) It's been very open. Since there is a kind of map, supplied by the computer programs and music Kyma language. We play instruments, Helge bass guitar and I to control the sounds of the processors. And Ipads. Within this map, we improvise. For this reason, no one knows exactly what will happen. There will be textures, sounds, noise arise. But also notes ... (Laughs), but not very many. I can promise you that it sounds very intense - you will not fall asleep! What attracts you to such experimental music? Jones: I improvise for a long time, electronic music has always interested me. When Led Zeppelin we have used very early synthesizer. It was just always a problem to control the sound. Emerged as a computer, which was the next step. After that, I've been involved for example in John Cage's Musicircus. On the other hand, you currently play with a lot of blues rockers Seasick Steve comparatively simple blues-rock - you need both sides of the musical coin? Jones: Music has more than two pages! It is always the same phenomenon, there are just different ways to play it. Monday I play with Helge, then with Seasick Steve, back in March when John Cage - for me that is always the same game and everything exists side by side. Also, I'm currently writing on a classic opera based on Strindberg's "Ghost Sonata". What do you find important for the general development of music: Experiments in Sound Lab à la Minibus Pimps or redefining traditional styles that you maintain with different partners? Jones: Again, there is room for both. Music must stay alive. Therefore one must not only look into the past. Without experiments, it has no future. But anyway, the old styles important and valuable: There is still much to talk about the blues and in rock music. I will always love to play bass, guitar, mandolin or fiddle in a band. But I also do this in order to renew music - a development takes place here all by itself. Quite natural. On the concept of the imported Enjoy Jazz Festival is one point that then remixed live concerts. Listen to the "After-Show" by Sidsel Endresen, Jan Bang and Erik Honoré on? Jones: Sure. This is a great idea. I find it very interesting to see how other people play the material. Led Zeppelin's 40 year old ballad "Stairway To Heaven" is still winning the most votes on the most popular rock song. Find this backward? Jones: Oh, it's always good when people like your music. Why should I interfere with that? As of 2010 it Them Crooked Vultures played at Rock am Ring, sprayed between you and drummer Dave Grohl of the spark. If he were not ideal for a Led Zeppelin reunion? Jones: There are no Led Zeppelin reunion! But Dave and I have been a very good rhythm section (laughs). And he has blasted because he enjoys his time to not only a drummer and front man like the Foo Fighters. In 1980 two were the last Led Zeppelin concerts with the late drummer John Bonham in Mannheim. Do you have a memory of the city? Jones: That is difficult. On this kind of tour you do not see much other than sedans and airports. But there were a lot of Americans in the audience, I know it well. -- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazedjeffy Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Kt81YYUPG8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 My goodness, JPJ was smokin', I mean he was REALLY SMOKIN'! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Janvier Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 Minibus Pimps are scheduled to appear next Thursday, September 6, in the city of Århus, Denmark. They're playing the UJazz festival which is organised in connection with the Århus Festuge. see:http://aarhusfestuge...28US/NO%29.aspxhttp://www.fondenvox...&-voxhall-ujazzhttp://gaffa.dk/nyhed/63975 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators sam_webmaster Posted September 3, 2012 Author Administrators Share Posted September 3, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janvier Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 source: Aarhus Festuge facebook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janvier Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 http://www.nattjazz.no/index.php?Dag=5&Konsert=40 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nirvana Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 That sounds like it could be very creative, great name as well. Beats something lame like both their last names together. Jones gets it. He's the star of the last decade, easily. Seriously..."star of the last decade"...what does that make Robert Plant? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookie0024 Posted May 2, 2013 Share Posted May 2, 2013 First Facebook update since 03/09/2012: Minibus Pimps will be performing Nattjazz on the 26th May. http://www.nattjazz.no/index.php?Dag=5&Konsert=40 http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=482920918447143&id=156033504469221 Facebook event here: http://www.facebook.com/events/189396001213724/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Duck Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 In my more whimsical moments I wonder if JPJ is drawn to musical projects with outrageous or humorous names. First he produced for the Butthole Surfers, then he formed Them Crooked Vultures and now he's going to be a Minibus Pimp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boogie woogie Posted March 4, 2014 Share Posted March 4, 2014 I see Cloud to Ground is now available on vinyl and MP3, not sure about other formats. I'm Looking forward to giving it a listen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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