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
This track is from a recording session with Jah Wobble where the only bit he used from the entire session was Wobble tuning up...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cXshWlOkc4
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 September 2017 09:46 (six years ago) link
oh wow first Walter Becker, now Holger - damn. Really feels like the closing of an era.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 6 September 2017 10:20 (six years ago) link
Can was my gateway drug out of a fairly claustrophobic indie rock environment in the early 90s. Holger was the linchpin and I'd expect that my musical tastes would be so much more narrow if it weren't for the massive appeal that his work had (and continues to have) for me. RIP.
― doug watson, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 10:31 (six years ago) link
What's his best solo album?
― JB, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 12:09 (six years ago) link
Movies, I'm guessing.
I've been looking for a copy of "On the way to the peak of normal" off and on the past year. Just bit one and got it off ebay just now.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 12:13 (six years ago) link
i feel sad for irmin :(can't even get his name spelled right in the paper!
Maybe about 12 years ago, Holger Czukay's name was stuck in my head for several days during a period of extreme stress, just cycling through every time i had an idle moment. Over and over and over, Holger Czukay. Persistent like a bassline, RIP
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 6 September 2017 12:33 (six years ago) link
― Dominique, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 12:43 (six years ago) link
Movies is his most impressive, seems like a real technical and musical achievement, does that make it his best? I don't know. I like all of his albums, there's only a couple I haven't heard, they're inconsistent but they're always interesting - I don't think he could be boring if he tried.
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 September 2017 13:25 (six years ago) link
Movies is definitely his Can - iest solo record right? Most of the band is on it anyway ... Was listening to "Persian Love" on repeat this morning, so gorgeous.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 14:14 (six years ago) link
On the Way to the Peak of Normal is the one I come back to the most.
― nerve_pylon, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 14:19 (six years ago) link
just saw this news, this really sucks - rip big man, hope he, jaki and michael are jamming in heaven
― Wesley Shackleton explained "look at that beast." (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 6 September 2017 14:32 (six years ago) link
ON the Way To The Peak of Normal is pretty sublime. It got reissued on cd a few years ago so I picked it up cheaply in HMV.Movies seems to have been reissued as Movie with a bonus disc, not sure what.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 14:44 (six years ago) link
from the obituary thread:
Jesus, losing the CAN rhythm section is like one of the laws of physics being rescinded.
― new noise, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 14:56 (six years ago) link
Movies is definitely his Can - iest solo record right? Most of the band is on it anyway ... Was listening to "Persian Love" on repeat this morning, so gorgeous
"Oh Lord, Give Us More Money" uses Can backing tracks - sounds like the base material for "Hunters and Collectors" - but apart from Jaki, he plays everything else, which is pretty mindblowing."Radio Wave Surfer", an album I admittedly haven't heard in years, always seemed pretty Can-like: live(ish), improvised. Everyone is on it but Irmin, Sheldon Ancel is doing his sub-Mooney thing and Holger is back to playing old style Can bass, like he hadn't done since "Future Days" or thereabouts.
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 September 2017 15:05 (six years ago) link
... plays everything else on "Movies" that is. Reebop is on "Cool in the Pool" playing organ!
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 September 2017 15:08 (six years ago) link
Geeta's memorial piece is up.
http://www.vulture.com/2017/09/remembering-cans-holger-czukay.html
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 16:01 (six years ago) link
that's great. anyone know when Rob Young's Can bio is scheduled to come out? Looking forward to it.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 16:08 (six years ago) link
curses -- not out til next summer: https://www.amazon.com/Untitled-Can-Biography-Irmin-Schmidt/dp/0571311490
― tylerw, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 16:43 (six years ago) link
Also a good piece from Sid Smith: http://teamrock.com/feature/2017-09-06/remebering-holger-czukay
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 17:31 (six years ago) link
there isn't a SINGLE Steely Can mashup on Youtube. surprising.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 17:54 (six years ago) link
there is some mercy in the universe
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 6 September 2017 18:02 (six years ago) link
RIP.
― more Allegro-like (Turrican), Wednesday, 6 September 2017 18:39 (six years ago) link
:( When I saw the thread had been bumped earlier, I immediately thought 'Oh shit, please say this isn't an RIP revive'.RIP for real.
― Bobbins The Mule (Mr Andy M), Wednesday, 6 September 2017 19:41 (six years ago) link
aw, RIP
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 6 September 2017 19:49 (six years ago) link