Eugene Chadbourne

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Eugene Chadbourne


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January 04, 1954

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Eugene Chadbourne (born January 4, 1954) is an American jazz guitarist and music critic.

Chadbourne was born in Mount Vernon, New York, but grew up in Boulder, Colorado. He started playing guitar when he was eleven or twelve, inspired by the Beatles and hoping to get the attention of girls. Although he was drawn to Jimi Hendrix and played in a garage band, he found rock and pop music too conventional. He gravitated to the avant-garde jazz of Anthony Braxton and Derek Bailey. Braxton persuaded Chadbourne to abandon his intention to enter journalism and instead pursue music.

During the early 1970s, he lived in Canada to avoid military service in the Vietnam War. Returning to the United States, he moved to New York City in the mid 1970s and play
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I Hate the Man Who Runs Thi...

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“Don't Happy. Be Worry.”
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