ON THE DANCING............SPOT
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 21:00 (seven years ago) link
xp I sing Cool in the Pool five times a day facing Mecca
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 21:01 (seven years ago) link
http://r-ec.bstatic.com/images/hotel/max300/348/34832490.jpg
― They could have been Stackridge. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 21:04 (seven years ago) link
We are so NORMAL
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 22:16 (seven years ago) link
ty for reminding me to listen to this important artwork
hollywood symphony also superb from that album, got that breezy germanic cheerfulness I find irresistible
― ogmor, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 22:56 (seven years ago) link
thrilled that this was not an rip revive, long may his moustache reign
― brexit through the rift shock (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 22:57 (seven years ago) link
movies (home of 'cool in the pool') has just been reissued as movie!.
― Justin Townes' URL (haitch), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 23:17 (seven years ago) link
"Reworked" LOLger.
LP version has an instrumental CITP, buy otherwise the same?
― Noel Emits, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 23:44 (seven years ago) link
*but"
Instrumental mix of "Cool in the Pool" is objectively awesome. It's like a miniature of everything I like about Holger. Weird varispeed dictaphone edits, jittery French horn and synth blasts, chunky little guitar rhythms, and his very underrated liquid guitar leads.
Have to say: I've always struggled a bit with the two longer tracks on Movies (née Movie). They feel a lot like Can's mid-period stuff but leave me a bit cold.
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 6 July 2016 02:02 (seven years ago) link
Dammit.
http://www.ksta.de/koeln/deutsche-rock-ikone--can--bassist-holger-czukay-tot-aufgefunden-28364470
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 22:58 (six years ago) link
Oh come on
― albvivertine, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 22:59 (six years ago) link
Oh no
― harbinger of failure (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 5 September 2017 23:00 (six years ago) link
Holger Czukay is dead. The great Cologne musician and co-founder of the band "Can", died at the age of 79 years in the legendary "Can" studio - an old cinema in Weilerswist - which he had converted into the apartment in recent years.When and exactly what the musician with the black hair and the conspicuous mustache has died, is currently determined by the Kripo.Because construction workers had not seen him on the site for a few days, they informed a neighbor who was looking-and found Czukay lifeless in his apartment. An emergency surgeon could only determine his death.Holger Czukay, who revolutionized the musical world from 1968 to 1978, died only a few days after his wife Ursula, who died on July 28th on her 55th birthday.
Because construction workers had not seen him on the site for a few days, they informed a neighbor who was looking-and found Czukay lifeless in his apartment. An emergency surgeon could only determine his death.Holger Czukay, who revolutionized the musical world from 1968 to 1978, died only a few days after his wife Ursula, who died on July 28th on her 55th birthday.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 23:04 (six years ago) link
damn ... RIP. one of the best.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 23:06 (six years ago) link
:-(
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 23:14 (six years ago) link
Oh man, I caught my breath there, thought he might have died!― Tom D., Friday, 4 April 2008 09:09 (nine years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Tom D., Friday, 4 April 2008 09:09 (nine years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
... and now he has ;_; One of the most important and talented musicians of the last 50 years, RIP Holger. Sad times. ;_;
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 September 2017 23:15 (six years ago) link
Rotten news
― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Tuesday, 5 September 2017 23:16 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjZHN1CX77Q
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 September 2017 23:18 (six years ago) link
RIP big guy
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 23:19 (six years ago) link
Will be throwing on Ege Bamyasi as loud as possible tonight. RIP, a legend.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 5 September 2017 23:24 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBSLVtg083U
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 September 2017 23:36 (six years ago) link
Thank you, Holger Czukay.
I am becoming less sure that we're not in the hands of some horrible cosmic jokers at this moment in world history.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 5 September 2017 23:41 (six years ago) link
With Stockhausen, pre-moustache...
http://www.czukay.com/news/122/images/stockh.jpg
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 September 2017 23:47 (six years ago) link
JUst had to ask myself if he was still with us. I knew he was getting on. I think he was already oldish for a new band member when Can started. Sad tohear he's gone though.Hope his passing wasn't overly painful or slow.
He's left behind some awesome music anyway. THink I need to pick up another couple of titles by him. I iknow On The Way to the Peak of Normal is great. NOt sure what else fo his solo stuff is as necessary.
Is Irmin Schmidt still with us?
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 23:49 (six years ago) link
Yes, Schmidt is still here, along with Malcolm Mooney and Damo Suzuki.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 23:50 (six years ago) link
Irmin is still with us. He was the oldest too.
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 September 2017 23:50 (six years ago) link
One More Night one of my top 5 favorite bass lines of anyone ever
― harbinger of failure (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 5 September 2017 23:54 (six years ago) link
RIP my dude. ;_;
― emil.y, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 23:56 (six years ago) link
grateful for such a true original musical adventurer and brilliant mind.
― brimstead, Tuesday, 5 September 2017 23:58 (six years ago) link
Undoubtedly played more of my favourite basslines than any other bass player... even Bootsy!
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 September 2017 00:00 (six years ago) link
Love him. RIP.
― jmm, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link
RIP to one of the greats, sad I never got to see him play live
― めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Wednesday, 6 September 2017 00:20 (six years ago) link
RIP, great guy
― Michael F Gill, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 00:45 (six years ago) link
rip :(
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 00:55 (six years ago) link
RIP :( <3
― Dancing on the Pylons, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 01:20 (six years ago) link
Another one down ...
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 01:51 (six years ago) link
A great loss. :(
― yesca, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 02:00 (six years ago) link
This makes me sad. I knew he wasn't in good health but still. In addition to being a genius, Czukay was such a titanic influence on so many geniuses.
Gonna spin Persian Love for my man this evening.
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 04:30 (six years ago) link
Back in my graduate school years, I was hosting a show on the local college radio station. I never, never got calls from people listening saying anything in regards to what I was playing. One night, I got a call from a listener asking about a song I had played. He was a music teacher he told me that he really liked the bassline of a song he'd heard because he thought it would be a great introductory song to his students learning the bass guitar. I told him it was "She Brings the Rain" by Can and thanked him.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 05:13 (six years ago) link
From an album Holger & Jaki go full tilt on, something they often did live but less so in the studio...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zKl3S-Ousw
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 September 2017 08:25 (six years ago) link
the dum-dum, the dsda, the daddy. rip hc
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Wednesday, 6 September 2017 08:54 (six years ago) link
just the absolute greatest spirit behind what he did, so loveable as well as everything else, he had a fkn awesome life
― ogmor, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 09:12 (six years ago) link
Oh man, his wife had died in July. :(
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 September 2017 09:15 (six years ago) link
RIP
I don't like any of Can dying, because they were gods in my formative years.
― calzino, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 09:18 (six years ago) link
and she was only 55 apparently
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Wednesday, 6 September 2017 09:18 (six years ago) link
Xp obv
That's from the Guardian obit which also mentions that 'Irwin Schmidt and Malcolm Moody' recently played in London, don't know who those guys are though.
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 September 2017 09:19 (six years ago) link
RIP Holger. I was sad he didn't play at the show the Guardian made a hash of reporting on earlier this year.
― André Ryu (Neil S), Wednesday, 6 September 2017 09:39 (six years ago) link
Strange days as Holger wanders out at the end of "Never Going to Cry Again" to play his trademark elephant-in-distress French horn...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2rRLc1Dmv4
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 September 2017 09:39 (six years ago) link