Requiem for What's His Name

Infobox Album |
Name = Requiem for What's His Name
Type = studio
Artist = Marc Ribot


Released = 1992
Recorded =
Genre = Experimental music
Length =
Label = Les Disques du Crepuscule
Producer =
Reviews = *Allmusic rating|4|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:jcfixqu0ldae~T1 link]
Last album = "Rootless Cosmopolitans"
(1990)
This album = "Requiem for What's His Name"
(1992)
Next album = "Marc Ribot Plays Solo Guitar Works of Frantz Casseus"
(1993)

"Requiem for What's His Name" is the second album by Marc Ribot & The Rootless Comopolitans. It was released on the Belgian label Les Disques du Crepuscule in 1992. It was recorded in New York City, except "Commit a Crime" which was recorded live at Desi Stadtteilzentrum in Nuremberg, Germany.

Track listing

All compositions are by Marc Ribot, except where indicated otherwise.
# "Requiem for What's His Name" – 4:29
# "Disposable Head" – 2:50
# "Clever White Youths" – 4:30
# "First Time Every Time" – 2:01
# "Motherless Child" (Anonymous) – 1:06
# "New" – 4:18
# "Reveille" – 1:08
# "Lamonte's Nightmare" (Anthony Coleman) – 5:56
# "March" – 2:00
# "Pony" (Ribot, Coleman) – 2:14
# "Yo, I Killed Your God" – 2:39
# "Commit A Crime" (Chester Burnett) – 3:19
# "Caravan" (Juan Tizol, Duke Ellington, Irving Mills) – 3:48
# "Blues" – 3:11
# "1 Adolph 12" (Ribot, Jones) – 6:57

Personnel

*Marc Ribot – guitars, vocals, E-flat horn, piano, drum sequencing
*Wilbo Wright (1, 2, 7–8, 11, 13) – detuned guitar (on (1)), bass
*Roy Nathanson (1, 2, 4, 6, 9, 13, 15) – soprano, chermia, alto, tenor
*Ralph Carney (1–4, 6–9, 11–12, 14) – alto, sona, tenor, clarinet, assorted duck calls
*Anthony Coleman (1–3, 6–8, 10–14) – pump organ, sampler, piano, organ
*Simeon Cain (1–4, 6–9, 11, 13, 15) – drums, percussion, drum overdubs
*Syd Straw (3, 10) – background vocals, vocals
*Zeena Parkins (6) – electric harp
*Brad Jones (6, 15) – bass
*Greg Jones (12, 14) – bass
*Rock Savage (12, 14) – drums
*J.D. Parran (15) – clarinet