With Friends Like These (album)

With Friends Like These
Studio album by Fred Frith and Henry Kaiser
Released	1979 (1979)
Recorded	July 8, 11 and 17, 1979
Studio	Mobius Music, San Francisco
Genre	Experimental music, free improvisation, noise
Length	42:10
Label	Metalanguage (US)
Producer	Fred Frith and Henry Kaiser
Fred Frith and Henry Kaiser chronology
With Friends Like These (1979) Who Needs Enemies? (1983)
Fred Frith chronology
Guitar Solos (1974) With Friends Like These (1979) Gravity (1980)

With Friends Like These is a 1979 studio album of improvised experimental music by Fred Frith and Henry Kaiser. It was recorded in July 1979, and was released on LP by Metalanguage Records later that year. It was Frith and Kaiser's first collaborative album, and was followed in 1983 by Who Needs Enemies?

In 1987 SST Records released With Enemies Like These, Who Needs Friends?, a CD with five tracks from With Friends Like These, seven tracks from Who Needs Enemies?, and four additional tracks from an unreleased live album by Frith and Kaiser. In 1999 Cuneiform Records released Friends & Enemies, a double-CD containing all the tracks from With Friends Like These and Who Needs Enemies?, plus unreleased live and studio material.^[1]