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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 The Palominos' Next Album 1985's Visions Of Excess Would Sound Vastly Different Leaning Towards Songs More In A Folk Vein With A Sound In Some Respects Pre-Dating The Emergence Of The Alt-Country Genre By A Few Years However In An Example Of A Stylistic Jump One Song "The Animal Speaks" Featured A Pronounced Punk-Like Electric Guitar Part And Vocals By The Sex Pistols' John Lydon. This Record Was Also Noteworthy As The Debut Of Singer Syd Straw Whose Songwriting And Vocals Would Be Featured Prominently On This Record And The Groups Next Album. Cream's Jack Bruce Guitarist Richard Thompson And R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe Also Appeared On The Record. Of The Band Members That Were On The First Record Only Fier And Arto Lindsay Had Remained. Blast Of Silence Was Released In 1986 Carrying On In Much Of The Same Vein As Visions Of Excess And With Appearances By Many Of The Same Personnel. It Included Covers Of Two Songs Written By Little Feat's Lowell George Both Sung By Syd Straw. The Record Also Featured Prominent Guest Appearances By Matthew Sweet Don Dixon Peter Holsapple And T-Bone Burnett. A Dead Horse 1989 Carried On In The Sound Of Its Predecessors Slightly But Some Of The Songs Also Crossed Into A Darker More Ambient And Ethereal Sound A Sound Which Would Dominate The Palomino Records Of The 1990s. Syd Straw Had Moved On And Was No Longer In The Band With Most Of The Vocals Now Handled By Amanda Kramer Formerly Of The Dance Music Group Information Society. Fier Would Later Guest On Straw's First Solo Record Surprise. 1990–1995 Drunk With Passion Marked The First Record Not On Celluloid Records With Its Sound Taking From Some Of The Darker Cues Heard On A Dead Horse And Also Using More Processed And Electronic Sounds Giving Many Of Its Songs An Ethereal Feel. This Album Could Be Argued Was More Influenced By Its Guest Appearances Than Any Of The Others Who Included Hüsker Dü's Bob Mould Who Would Go On To Form The Band Sugar The Following Year Richard Thompson And Michael Stipe Who Would Provide Along With A Forceful Solo By Thompson One Of The Band's Finer Moments The Opening Track "Alive And Living Now". Nicky Skopelitis Would Also Became More Of A Cornerstone Of The Band Contributing To The Bulk Of Drunk With Passion's Songs Along With Fier And Kramer. In 1992 Fier Would Release His First Solo Record Dreamspeed. This Is How It Feels Released On Restless Records In 1993 Continued On In Much Of The Ambient Sound Of Drunk With Passion But It Also Incorporated Many Elements Of Club And Trance Music. It Also Marked The Introduction Of New Lead Vocalist Lori Carson Www.Loricarson.Com Who Co-Wrote Nine Of The CD's Tracks With Anton Fier. Bill Laswell Also Returned To Contribute On This Record And His Production Work On This And On The Following Record Pure Would Heavily Influence Laswell's Own Remix Work Of The Late 90's As Seen On The CDs Emerald Ather And City Of Light. The Album Also Contains The First Cover Song Since Visions Of Excess An Ethereal Drum-Machine Laced Re-Interpretation Of Jackson Browne's "These Days". To Further Highlight The Album's Dance Elements An EP Of Remixes Of Songs From This Is How It Feels Entitled Prison Of The Rhythm Was Released Shortly After The CD's Release. Pure Released A Year Later Is Seen By Many As The Band's Most Focused Work Due Much To The Strong Contributions Once Again Of Carson Laswell And Skopelitis. Tracks Such As "No Skin" And "Pure" Continue In The Dance/ambient Style Of The Previous Album. The CD Would Also Stir A Minor Controversy Over The Bare Female Breast On Its Cover With Some Stores Only Carrying A Version Of The CD With A Booklet Where The Cover Had Been Replaced By Simple Text-Based Artwork. Another Remix EP No Thought No Breath No Eyes No Heart Accompanied Pure's Release. Pure Would Also Be The Last Palominos Record For Lori Carson However Interestingly The Song "Little Suicides" From Pure Showed Much Of Same Sparse Sound Production And Strong Yet Quiet Vocals Albeit Less Electronic That Would Influence Carson's Solo Work. Anton Fier Would Produce Carson's 1995 Solo Record Where It Goes. 1994 Also Saw The Release Of Fier's Second Solo Recording Blindlight Which Used Outtakes From Pure For Much Of Its Framework. 1995–2000 Dead Inside 1996 Was Another Stylistic Turnaround For The Palominos And Their Last Proper Album. This Time The Record Had A Deathly Industrial Sound With The Line-Up Consisting Only Of Fier Multi-Instrumentalist Knox Chandler Who Before Joining The Palominos Was Also In A Band With Lori Carson And Went On To Join Siouxsie And The Banshees Nicky Skopelitis And Poet Nicole Blackman. Blackman's Dark And Deliberate Lyrics Tellingly Blackman Had Also Recently Worked With The Industrial German Band KMFDM Made Dead Inside A Challenging Record Its Sound And Tone Stand Out Decidedly As Unlike Any Of The Others. The Album's Opener Is The Brutal Spoken-Word Track "Victim". In 1997 The Palominos Released Another EP Named Dead Outside Composed Of Five Remixes Of Tracks From Dead Inside. However This EP Was Released As Free MP3s On The Internet Made Available For A Limited Time Through Nicole Blackman's Website And Also Through A Fan-Created Band Website Since Decommissioned . "Dead Outside" Consisted Of These Five Remixes Which Were Available For Download For One Month Only As Per Fier's Instructions. 'Victim The Last Thing' By Sean Beavan Whose Credits Include 8MM/Nine Inch Nails/Marilyn Manson With John Van Eaton A Frequent Blackman Collaborator Who Has Worked With NIN For 10 Years 'Ride Pragmatic Spasmatic' By Raymond Watts Of KMFDM/Pig "Belfast Empty As Wire" By Scanner Another Blackman Collaborator "Ride" By Mark Walk Of Ruby "Victim Interference" By John Van Eaton. Post-Palominos Careers And Reunion Both Syd Straw And Lori Carson Have Gone On To Moderately Successful And Critically Acclaimed Solo Careers With Carson A Frequent Contributor To Television Shows And Movies. A Compilation Of Some Of Carson's Contributed Songs Called Stolen Beauty Was Released By Rykodisc In 2003 And A New Carson Solo Record The Finest Thing Was Then Released In 2004. The Golden Palominos Reunited For Two Shows In New York City In 2010 A May 7th Show At Le Poisson Rouge And A May 11th Show At The Living Room. The Personnel On May 7th Was Syd Straw Jody Harris Jim Campilongo Tony Maimone And Anton Fier With Special Guest Robert Kidney On Vocals And Guitar. Both Shows Were An Unqualified Success And Have Led To Considerable Speculation And Likelihood Of Additional Show Dates Through The Fall Of 2010 And Beyond. There Was A 3rd Show On September 10th. read less