Golden Palominos

The Golden Palominos were an American musical group headed by drummer and composer Anton Fier, first formed in 1981. Aside from Fier, the Palominos membership has been wildly elastic, with only bassist Bill Laswell and guitarist Nicky Skopelitis appearing on every album through 1996. While the Palominos' records usually featured a core set of musicians and a certain emotional continuity throughout the bulk of an album, various guest appearances resulted in stylistic changes from track to track.
The group first featured Fier, singer-guitarist Arto Lindsay, saxophonist John Zorn, bass guitarist Bill Laswell and violinist/guitarist Fred Frith. Their self-titled debut album was released on New York's Celluloid Records in 1983, and featured guest appearances by bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma, guitarist Nicky Skopelitis, percussionist David Moss, turntablist M.E. Miller and others. The album has some of the first recorded turntable scratching outside of rap music, courtesy of Laswell and M.E. Miller. M.E. Miller also used vocal splitting technique to create harmony on the song he sings.
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 became Zorn's trademark. This line-up lasted only for the first record, although all of the core members apart from Zorn were guests on subsequent Palominos recordings.
==Links to Peel==
Peel played the band's material in the early and mid 80's on his radio programmes. On his 22 July 1985 show, Peel mentioned his technical man saying that the 10,000 Maniacs track Maddox Table sounded like REM (a band that Peel was not fond off) and threatened to box him in whilst the Propaganda track was playing, despite him playing a Golden Palominos track ('Omaha') earlier on in the show, which featured vocals from Michael Stipe of REM.
==Shows Played==
;thumb|220x220px1982
*21 July 1982: Palomino's Theme
;1984
*18 April 1984 (BFBS): Cookout (album - The Golden Palaminos) OAO
*18 April 1984 (BFBS): Hot Seat (album - The Golden Palaminos) OAO
*24 April 1984: Clean Plate LP - The Golden Palominos) OAO
*02 May 1984 (BFBS): Clean Plate (album - The Golden Palaminos) OAO
*25 November 1984 (BFBS): Hot Seat (album - The Golden Palominos) Celluloid
*11 December 1984: Clean Plate (album - The Golden Palominos) Celluloid
*16 December 1984 (BFBS): Clean Plate (album - The Golden Palominos) Celluloid
;1985
*15 July 1985: Omaha (7") Celluloid SCEL 56
*22 July 1985: Omaha (7") Celluloid SCEL 56
*22 July 1985 (BFBS): Omaha (7") Celluloid SCEL 56
==External Links==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
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