Eugene Chadbourne (born January 4, 1954) is an American improvisor, guitarist and banjoist. Highly eclectic and unconventional, Chadbourne’s most formative influence is free jazz. He has also been a reviewer for Allmusic and a contributor to Maximum RocknRoll. (More from Wikipedia)
As with many of my later Wikipedia articles as well as the UARB and UARA posts, I relied largely on information given on the Allmusic website, the best source that I have found about older rock bands and artists. Surprisingly, after I wrote up the Wikipedia article on the Head Shop, the Eugene Chadbourne piece about the band on Allmusic disappeared, even though Chadbourne still has several other pieces on other rock bands. I have often thought that I should question them about that, wondering if they were aiming to be “Somemusic” rather than Allmusic. I later found the Chadbourne piece on www.barnesandnoble.com, though that one is gone as well. I just found something by Eugene Chadbourne about the Head Shop on Allmusic, but it was filed under the artist Joe? and seems to be mostly a gag piece.
(September 2013)
