Damo Suzuki dead?

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On May 21, 2004 a bunch of Japanese children that had been kidnapped in the late 70's and early 80's were released along with their families...

Now we all know Damo Suzuki left CAN in 1973 soon after recording Future Days to become a Jehova's Witness. A perfect front (a Watchtower with very few exterior facing windows) for someone to steal the reigning Shogun of Krautrock, and given Suzuki's wanderlust and panache for enigma this wouldn't have seemed all that strange. He just dissapeared for nearly a decade... In 1983 he resurfaced to play shows with Dunkelziffer and in 1997 he gave birth to (a 9 pound!) Damo Suzuki Network/Band soon after the release of the Live in 1985 Dunkelziffer album.

WHAT IF: this legendarily Krautrocker was among the Japanese kidnapped by the N. Koreans to train spies with. Does this explains the relative obscurity of post-CAN Kenji Suzuki? Whatever happened to his faith in Jehova and whatnot? Was it stolen by Kim Jong-Il's RED BASTARDS ? Did he act as father figure to the roughly estimated 13-15 Japanese children held incommunicado until yesterday? And how sure are we that "Charles Robert Jenkins" (if that is even his real name) wasn't sent to N. Korea to protect the future of West German music, and that Mr. Jenkins is being prevented from returning to Japan with his wife Hitomi Soga because he KNOWS that the REAL Damo Suzuki died in N. Korea sometime during the 1970's? Did Charles Robert Jenkins failure to save Damo Suzuki trigger his defection to the North Korea? Is 1983-Present Damo Suzuki a cheap North Korean imitation of the prolific and mysterious Kenji "Damo" Suzuki?

― Archduke Von Joey (walden993), Friday, 28 May 2004 00:22 (twenty-one years ago)

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― JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 28 May 2004 00:26 (twenty-one years ago)

♥

― Ian Johnson (orion), Friday, 28 May 2004 00:27 (twenty-one years ago)

A possible clue:

"Jaki sometimes sees sinister connotations in the name (Damo), such as Dangerous Active Mode Organisation." (from The Can Book)

― Tim Ellison, Friday, 28 May 2004 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a guy named Kenji Suzuki on the first Seal album. Always wondered about that...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 28 May 2004 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe Seal actually got that big scar on a commando mission rescuing Damo from North Korea...

Is Seal in fact a NAVY SEAL?

― wetmink (wetmink), Friday, 28 May 2004 01:21 (twenty-one years ago)

FUCK YOU ALL I SH OOT YOU.

― stephen morris (stephen morris), Friday, 28 May 2004 01:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Naive Teen Idol, that is actually Damo!

― JW, Friday, 28 May 2004 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)

swell!
m.

― msp, Friday, 28 May 2004 01:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Consider this recent photo of Suzuki:

http://www.aikenpromotions.ie/images/paul-mccartney.jpg

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 28 May 2004 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

― Ian Johnson (orion), Friday, 28 May 2004 02:17 (twenty-one years ago)

We need a wang check stat.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 28 May 2004 02:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I NEVER KNEW THAT IMAGE WAS SO BIG!!! eek, sorry guys.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Friday, 28 May 2004 02:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Can someone please explain Damo on a Seal album?

― Laszlo Kovacs (Laszlo Kovacs), Friday, 28 May 2004 02:40 (twenty-one years ago)

he better have gotten a lot of $$$ for that.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Friday, 28 May 2004 02:41 (twenty-one years ago)

My roomie lost his virginity to the Batman forever soundtrack!

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Friday, 28 May 2004 02:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Can someone please explain Damo on a Seal album?

Yes, please. And this thread title was very cruel.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 28 May 2004 02:59 (twenty-one years ago)

So was forcing Damo Suzuki to train spies! So was killing Damo Suzuki... and at a critical point in the "Damo converting the children to Jehova's Witnesses" subplot. What will the children do when the May Day celebrations come around?

― Archduke Von Joe (walden993), Friday, 28 May 2004 03:16 (twenty-one years ago)

has anyone seen suzuki's wang ca. 1973, you can compare notes with spencer (?i think?).

― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 28 May 2004 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)

it ws ethan! i tried to see it once but he ws wearing that exact tshirt in the picture above, but untucked, which obscured a lot.

― jeremy jordan (cruisy), Friday, 28 May 2004 04:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Believe it or not, he's now fronting my mate's band (Fuzz Against Junk) in Bristol. I'm not kidding, btw...

― Jez (Jez), Friday, 28 May 2004 06:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Damo has righteous elbow skin!!

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Friday, 28 May 2004 06:28 (twenty-one years ago)

dude, righteous

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 28 May 2004 06:33 (twenty-one years ago)

dude?

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Friday, 28 May 2004 06:35 (twenty-one years ago)

dude

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Friday, 28 May 2004 11:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuzz Against Junk are fucking awesome, although I saw them w/out Damo. Or "Damo" -- I ain't taking sides on this.

― Hurlothrumbo (hurlothrumbo), Friday, 28 May 2004 12:32 (twenty-one years ago)

CONSPIRACY!

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 28 May 2004 12:42 (twenty-one years ago)

(who stole my bongoes)

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 28 May 2004 12:43 (twenty-one years ago)

R.S.P.C.A., T.G.W.U.!

― Jez (Jez), Friday, 28 May 2004 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw Damo live in Melbourne and he looked and sounded 100% genuine. No forger could do such an immaculate job i'm afraid. Sorry

― Vijay Thillaimuthu, Friday, 28 May 2004 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)

DAMO SUZUKI IS

― Archduke Von Joey (walden993), Friday, 28 May 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

TERRY RILEY IS A ROBOT

― Be sure to Loop! Loop, Loop, Loop. (ex machina), Friday, 28 May 2004 15:08 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

WHAT DOES THE DAMO/SEAL STUFF SOUND LIKE

― Holy Crap! Typhoon is Coming!!! :O (ex machina), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

He's not dead, cos he's playing an alldayer here in october.

― jellybean (jellybean), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 21:21 (twenty-one years ago)

what????

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 5 August 2004 06:48 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah.. audioscope. they've just announced the line up, and it looks excellent.
Damo Suzuki
Oxes
The Telescopes
Bikini Atoll
Vibracathedral Orchestra
Cat On Form
Large Number
Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies
Sunnyvale Noise Sub-element

― jellybean (jellybean), Thursday, 5 August 2004 10:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Green-on-white translucent Hawaiian shirts
Back on the rack
Damo Suzuki's dead

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 5 August 2004 12:05 (twenty-one years ago)

That looks good. More importantly it presumably means Oxes are touring in October. *gets on case*

― DJ Mencap0))), Thursday, 5 August 2004 12:10 (twenty-one years ago)

why are oxes still playing music?

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 5 August 2004 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

"I got no time for Western medicine-ah!
I Am Damo Suzuki!"

― neil tacus (tacit), Thursday, 5 August 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

i think my mom likes can! I was listening to them and she was asking questions about them in a genuinely interested fashion

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Thursday, 5 August 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

my mom likes Monster Movie and Tago Mago

― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Thursday, 5 August 2004 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

IS YOUR MOM TOO GOOD FOR EGE BAMYASI?????????/

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Thursday, 5 August 2004 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

nineteen years pass...

For real though, RIP to a true original https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/feb/12/damo-suzuki-obituary

― BrianB, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 18:57 (two years ago)

We've been talking about it in the possibly more tasteful CAN thread here: BEST CAN ALBUM! (POLL Closes 4th May)

― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 19:42 (two years ago)

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