A loveable old wheelchair-bound Stalinist...

sleepy pete — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 10:47:48 -0800

Robert Wyatt is not dead. In fact, he recently released a new album titled Comicopera. Robert Wyatt was a part of the psych/prog combo The Soft Machine in the late 60s. In 1973 he fell out of a window at a party and broke his spine, leaving him in a wheel chair. Wyatt's music can be jazzy, avant garde, and psychedelic, as well as combinations of beautiful, ethereal, political, and depressing, usually all at once (his first solo album after the accident was titled Rock Bottom, a play on his condition and mental state with cover art depicting divers and liner notes saying, "songs and drones by Robert Wyatt"). Here's Wyatt doing Elvis Costello's "Shipbuilding" and a YT version of one of my favorites "Heaps of Sheep" from the Eno collaboration Shleep (Wyatt provided percussion and backing vocals on Eno's Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) as well). Here's some more Robert Wyatt youtube stuff. Here's a discography up to 2002 that includes his Soft Machine and Matching Mole material and here's another that includes albums released after 2002 (in case you wanted to know). By the way, the post title was taken from this comment. When I first thought about this post months ago, it was about the only time Wyatt had been mentioned on MeFi, so I thought (and still think) it was fitting.

more simian than human

kmartino — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:37:37 -0800

'Contributed To Culture Of Death' That Spawned His Killer? That's the charge that William Grim, Contributing Editor of the popular conservative web site The Iconoclast makes. There is a thread at Blabbermouth on this, but I'd like to hear what you folks think. Me? It's been a while since I've been called a barbarian.

the game gets ugly

alumshubby — Thu, 21 Oct 2004 07:23:42 -0800

Remember the (Crawford, TX) Lone Start Iconoclast's Kerry endorsement? Here's a second editorial, describing the fallout from it. Apparently some people took it pretty hard. The Iconoclast published letters to the editor, too.

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A loveable old wheelchair-bound Stalinist...

more simian than human

the game gets ugly