Tony Conrad - Ten Years Alive on the Infinite Plain 2LPFor its 1972 premiere at New York's The Kitchen, Ten Years included Conrad on violin as well as Rhys Chatham and Laurie Spiegel performing on instruments of the composer's own making. Chatham played the Long String Drone a 6 foot long strip of wood with bass strings, electric pickup, tuning keys, tape, rubber band and metal hardware while Spiegel carried out an arrhythmic bass pulse throughout. It's the quintessential Tony Conrad work.