Radio Free Gristle

Another guitar tour de force from MR. KOCH. On this outing we are subjected to even weirder and more bizzare styling then on GRIP. The spoken segments reveal what his musik has always suggested. KOCH has got one of the most outrages senses of humor in musik. After i wiped the laughter tears from my face and picked myself up of the floor, I was left to marvel at the musical insanity perpetrated by MR.KOCH. He is the best and this reinforces that believe. Only KOCH could create and play this.If you like the guitar you simply must have KOCH's 2 CD's.

Great recording by a great performer.

Fantastic playing from the Gristleman!

Great lyrics and I love his humor.

While I can do away with the little “ditties’ between cuts (although the guy with zeppelin tourettes is pretty clever) this album is a monster. Actually Greg is s monster; both technically and compositionally. Much of the album actually has Vai nuances within jazz and country contexts. This is a pretty texturally complex platter of notes and noises...and I like it. Greg’s techniques really shine through and his ideas sound fresh and powerful. The band is great the album mix is exceptional. Get it and burn out the grooves trying to figure those licks out my friends!!!

A radio show for Tele obsessed guitar players!Great idea for a concept. Like if the guys at National Lampoon all played serious guitar. Those guys were funnier though and cutting edge. Koch is simply thrilled with himself.It's mildly amusing. Not really out and out funny. Koch is a guy who sounds like he can sit in a room all by himself and crack himself up. There's something to be said for that I guess. It's basically inside jokes for guitar freaks. Our little club where only we get the jokes. Aside from that he can play guitar like nobody's business and can cop all the sought after blues based and country Tele styles.Kinda like if Steve Vai was from the back woods of Michigan and grew up on Roy Buchanon, Danny Gatton, and James Burton. Then you take the official Steve Vai record producing class and burn away all the spontaneity.The production has a real claustrophobic vibe. Like it's mostly Koch doing over dubs when everyone else went home. Very anal in a do it all by yourself way as opposed to a true collaboration (Just like Steve Vai!). It would have been nice to hear some real live band interaction with fewer Vai-esque triple tracked over dubbed melody lines from hell. Brian May already beat that to death 25 years ago. Leave it alone and just play!Koch is chops city and needs to step out of the box and do a real album with a real live band where he can show the world what an incredible player he is without winking, making faces, and over stating the fact that he can mimic all the great Tele players of the world.Forget the jokes. Just like I don't like comedy in my Martial Arts ala Jackie Chan (I prefer the more serious Jet Lee!), I'm not that thrilled about guitar comedy. JUST PLAY THAT GUITAR LIKE YOUR HAIR IS ON FIRE! What hair there is left.

Really this guy is a true example of perfect guitar playing! This will not disappoint guitar lovers! I still might like Grip a bit better but still awesome! Awesome tone and style and chops!

In terms of the Greg Koch catalog, RFG is the cream of the crop -- a savage, frontal assault on the blues/rock genre that demonstrates (once and for all!) that Greg Koch can take his place quite comfortably alongside the venerable likes of Warren Haynes, Steve Morse and Dickie Betts.This disc drips a nuclear sweat akin to Buddy Guy's "Damn Right I Got the Blues," and does so without the usual pretention that normally walks hand in hand with guitar instrumental ensembles. RFG shows a ferocious guitarist playing truly for the love -- a welcome foil, by the way, to the current crop of shameless guitar virtuosos, who are more than willing to foist vain, byzantine meanderings through every nook and crany of the fret board on their audiences.Unlike the L.A. reviewer below, I love Koch's odd, quirky vignettes between the songs! His eccentric wit and trademark humor create an unique one-to-one intimacy, that makes it feel like he's playing and gaggin' with you over a beer in your basement.The great disappointment of this record is that its TOO good. But, that's both boon and bane. It's rare that real music ever wins a Grammy, and even rarer still that talent comes to the top in a music industry driven by profit rather than art.5 (((((WHAMMY BARS ))))))!

Greg Koch ist ein herausragender Gitarrenvirtuose. Diese CD ist ein Sammlerstück, da Greg sie nur noch in einer Version ohne die lustigen Zwischenspiele verkauft, die auf dieser CD sind.

Greg Koch の他のアルバム Strat's Got My Tongue に比較するとイマイチ。タイトル通り、ラジオ放送っぽく録音し、Greg のしゃべくりの後に曲が流れるという形式。ラジオらしさを演出するためにか、音質全体がS/N比のよくないダイナミクスに欠ける感じです。曲目は多いものの、テクニックに走りすぎて、聴かせるとう曲は少ない。残念。しかし、同時購入した Strat's Got My Tongue のアルバム出来のよさのおかげて、そんなに損した感覚はない。

Greg Koch est un guitariste américain qui joue essentiellement sur Fender, marque qu'il apprécie beaucoup, au point de travailler avec pour la mise au point de ses instruments. Cet album, que je trouve sans intérêt, est une suite de titres à majorité instrumentaux, tendance hard-rock, entrecoupés de commentaires. Les riffs et les solos de guitare se succèdent sans vraiment captiver et je préfère, de loin, les albums "the grip !" et "13x12" où Greg Koch nous présente des titres blues et jazz-rock très inspirés.