Robert Wyatt: Classic or Dud?

fair enough, I'm just cranky, ignore me

no prob, thanks yall. That's all I got in the stash about Wyatt, and any new takes will be shorter, at least.

https://thebluemoment.com/2024/07/01/on-visiting-a-friend/

:)

Do love him mid 70s Rock Bottom, Drury Lane and with Henry Cow.
& the stage before where he was with Matching Mole and the stage before that with Soft Machine.

May like him a bit later too. Think I may have picked up a few more titles in FOPP a few years back.

But Matching Mole are so great.

The biography from about 10 years ago was quite good.Different Every Time

harrumphing a bit that williams thinks the band is called "the soft machine"

first alb is the soft machine by the band "soft machine" IMO; second is the soft machine: volume two, also by soft machine

any printed artefact to the contrary is a typo caused by drugs and the hippie slackness endemic to the times qed

The biography from about 10 years ago was quite good.Different Every Time

'k, dow expressed interest in reading this piece i wrote in december 2022... link should be active for about one month. :)

https://pastebin.com/eJnVVVPE

Thanks! several of his and your comments are startling glimpses of the truth-go-round, new 'uns for me.
Listening to all those unearthed, bandcamped live Softs sets upthread, plus considering the way their studio albums were going, with all those industrious instrumental studies, I was glad he left (however it happened), and regained breathing room to sing, with Matching Mole and others. Even though his thoughts went floating back and around, like his sound.