Bill Laswell's Material
July 13th, 1983
Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland

Bill Laswell Bass; Michael Beinhorn Synth, Drum Machine
Grandmixer DST Turntable, Voice, Synth; Sonny Sharrock Guitar
Henry Kaiser Guitar; JT Lewis Drums; Keith Haring  Magic Marker

1. D S T (06:19)
2. Don't Lose Control (Instrum) (04:34)
3. Disappearing (03:28)
4. New York City (04:31)
5. Rock It (instrum) (10:45)
6. Metal Test (05:39)
7. Reduction (instrum) (06:49)
8. July ? 1983 - somewhere in Italy (bonus)

This version of Material was something of a musical trainwreck. Laswell comes
up with some great band concepts(Last Exit, Praxis, Arcana.....) but this is not one of them. Check the audience reaction before and after the encore
This is a multi camera pro shot vid, that was intended for release. I was told by
the band member I got this from(and you might notice the scene in the vid), that
Laz was pissed at the crew for keeping the camera on him and Henry while Sharrock
was soloing, among other things, so it was shelved.
The quality on this VCD rip is only so-so. I don't have the time and equipment to do anything better like a DVD for now, so you'll have to live with the glitches and artifacts.
There are a few interesting/funny stories I heard about this tour........
......This was the only tour where Material performed Rockit, which was originally
slated to be a Material album, but was instead bought by, and put out under Herbie Hancock's name. When Herbie accepted his Grammy for the album, he looked almost
embarressed, and thanked Laswell & Co profusely .......This tour was nearly cut short 
when one of the band members was caught bringing pot into Italy.........Sonny being
interviewed, and responding to the question "So Sonny, how long have you been into
scratching?"  with "Ever since my ass started to itch"........priceless