Jeff Cotton
Jeff Cotton (born May 31, 1948 in Porterville , Tulare County , California ), also known as Antennae Jimmy Semens , is an American guitarist . He is best known for his work with Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band and with Mu . In addition to slide guitar , he also plays the bass clarinet and electric bass .
Career
In 1962 Jeff Cotton moved to Lancaster with his parents . Already at the age of 14 he founded the band Merrell & The Exiles together with Merrell Fankhauser, who had several surf hits with The Impacts , and his high school friends Greg Hampton and Jim Ferguson. Later John French also belonged to the band. After the band broke up in 1966, Cotton played in Blues In A Bottle (together with John French, Mark Boston and later Bill Harkleroad ). In 1967 Cotton became a guitarist with Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, succeeding Ry Cooder . Beefheart also gave him the stage name Antennae Jimmy Semens . After working on the legendary Trout Mask Replica album , there were disputes over Beefheart's "leadership style" and Cotton left the band in 1970 after Jeff Bruschell, the Magic Band's then temporary drummer, assaulted him and broke several ribs.
After his recovery he founded the "legendary" band Mu in 1970 with Merrell Fankhauser, Randy Wimer and Larry Willey . After an unsuccessful album and a lack of commercial success, this band broke up in 1975. Recordings from 1974 for a second album were not released until the 1980s. Disaffected by the music industry, Jeff Cotton found his calling in the Christian priesthood.
Trivia
- Jeff Cotton was the cast of Cecil Sweeney in Frank Zappa's "teenage opera" Captain Beefheart vs. The Grunt People , a stupid nephew of janitor-scientist Billy Sweeney (cast with Bob Guy )
Discography
With Merrell & The Exiles
Singles:
- 1964: Please Be Mine / Too Many Heartbreaks
- 1964: Send Me Your Love / Don't Call On Me
- 1965: Sorry For Yourself / I Saw Suzie Cryin '
- 1965: Can't We Get Along / That's All I Want From You
- 1967: Tomorrow's Girl / When I Get Home
Albums:
- 1996: The Early Years 1964-1967
- 1997: Desert Island Treasures (with The Impacts, Merrell & The Exiles and others)
- 2000: Wild in the Desert
With Fapardokly (actually Merrell & The Exiles)
- 1966: Fapardokly
With Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
- 1968: Strictly Personal
- 1969: Trout Mask Replica
- 1971: Mirror Man
- 1992: I May Be Hungry But I Sure Ain't Weird
- 1999: Grow Fins: Rarities (1965-1982)
- 2008: It comes to you in a plain brown wrapper
With MU
- 1971: MU
- 1981: The Last Album
- 1985: Children of the Rainbow
- 1988: Best of MU
With Merrell Fankhauser
- 1976: The Maui Album
Web links
Space Blues The musical career of Jeff Cotton
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jeff Cotton Biography in Discogs , accessed November 21, 2012
- ↑ Merrell & The Exiles ( Memento of the original from June 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Jeff Cotton Biography ( Memento of the original from June 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 21, 2012
- ↑ Jeff Cotton Biography in Discogs , accessed November 21, 2012
- ↑ Harkleroad, Bill. Lunar Notes: Zoot Horn Rollo's Captain Beefheart Experience . SAF Publishing 1998. ISBN 0-946719-21-7 , p. 31
- ↑ Harkleroad, Bill. Lunar Notes: Zoot Horn Rollo's Captain Beefheart Experience . SAF Publishing 1998. ISBN 0-946719-21-7 , pp. 67 f.
- ↑ Jeff Cotton Biography in Discogs , accessed November 21, 2012
- ↑ Jeff Cotton Biography in Discogs , accessed November 21, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cotton, Jeff |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Semens, Antennae Jimmy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American guitarist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 31, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Porterville , California |