the strange life of peter daou

my favorite twitter hate-follow needs his own thread

https://theoutline.com/post/2207/the-strange-life-of-peter-daou

Daou has never been ashamed of Fear of Flying in the way his mother has, even though it contains lurid accounts of his aunt’s douching process and portrays his father as a greasy nymphomaniac. To the contrary, he seemed to embrace the book. In 1992, Peter and his then-wife Vanessa formed The Daou, a dance-pop group that scored a minor hit with the single “Surrender Yourself.” To follow it up, Peter and Vanessa opted to record a concept album about Fear of Flying in 1994. Yes, really. The album, billed as solo Vanessa Daou and produced by Peter, was titled Zipless. Lead single “Near the Black Forest,” which takes its title from a chapter of Fear of Flying, is about as sexual as you could get in 1994 without triggering an obscenity trial. The video opens with a hand undoing a zipper, and then it reveals Vanessa caressing her hips and breasts atop a platform in a steamy, possibly gay nightclub — in character, as Peter’s aunt. Just to reiterate, Daou and his wife wrote and recorded an album about his aunt’s sex memoirs in which a character based on his dad pressures her into a blow job. Sit back, crank up the sweet sounds of Daou, and just try to take it all in.

No

this way we can keep the daou talk in here and you won't have to hear about him anymore!

I'm just like, I did this research experiment on the dude last week, sad irrelevant man's life is still sad and irrelevant. To me.

I was expecting your "usual" more-money-than-sense older version of the fyre festival twerp but then I read up on him and listened to some of the tunes and it was more than just lame, it got very weird and mildly depressing (as above)

I'm just like, I did this research experiment on the dude last week, sad irrelevant man's life is still sad and irrelevant. To me.

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, September 12, 2017 5:52 PM (twenty-eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i swear i read an old post recently where you said the same thing about GG Allin so i'm not convinced

possibly the saddest moment of this sad man's sad life came in 1990 when he was interviewed by none other than me, for a piece in wire magazine on the (then-still newsworthy) interraction between house and dance music fashioned from samples, and jazz and other experiments

he only gets a short paragraph and one quote* in the piece, which is mainly pointing to the some of the nu-groove titles he'd engineered or played piano on: one by VANDAL (which was vanessa daou, his then-wife) plus (from memory) bobby konders' "the poet" and maybe one or two others

i suspect he took a very bad conceptual direction with the erica jong project (tho i haven't played it to prove this to myself) but these 1990s cuts are good not bad IMO, in a minor footnote-y way

*but i'm fairly sure i have a whole tape of interview with him in a box somewhere

I really ysed to love that Vanessa Daou "Zipless" album. Played it so many times in 1995-96 or whenever it was