BEST CAN ALBUM! (POLL Closes 4th May)

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It's time for Best can album and Dada can argue some more (and still not vote for Unlimited Edition)

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Ege Bamyasi 47
Tago Mago 38
Future Days 27
Monster Movie 12
I Don't Like Can11
Soon Over Babaluma 6
Soundtracks 6
Saw Delight 3
Delay...1968 3
Cannibalism 1 3
Landed 2
Cannibalism 2 1
UNLIMITED EDITION 0
Cannibalism 3 0
Rite Time 0
Can 0
Flow Motion 0
Out Of Reach 0


Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

Canthology. Ha ha ha ha ha!

Masonic Boom, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

Christ, so many fucking polls that you don't even bother to do different ones?

I eat cannibals, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

Where's "Prehistoric Future"?

Tom D., Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

Dada moaned about the other one not including UNLIMITED EDITION.
x-post Dada Get Tae Fuck

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

"The Peel Sessions"?

Tom D., Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

"Sacriledge!"

etc.

Mark G, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

Dad doesn't think Tago Mago is the best album. Who is gonna argue with him?

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:44 (eighteen years ago)

It is my fave rave as I had the UA version, back inthe day.

Mark G, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:45 (eighteen years ago)

Future Days

Alex in SF, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

Monster movie. Yoo do right > all.

jim, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

ILM = "Future Days" or "Tago Mago".

Boring. Why bother with the poll?

Tom D., Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

Any of the first five bar Soundtracks.

Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:49 (eighteen years ago)

But what did you vote, dada?

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:53 (eighteen years ago)

I haven't voted

Tom D., Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

Because you cant choose!

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

I can

Tom D., Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:04 (eighteen years ago)

ok tubbs

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

We know your fave is Future Days anyway..

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

It's one of my favourite songs

Tom D., Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

I'm gonna go with 'Soundtracks'

baaderonixx, Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:29 (eighteen years ago)

Guys I heard a Reggaeton song that used a huge sample of 'Bel Air' for ambiance!

THIS PIECE, RENDERED IN 1992-ERA CONSUMER-GRADE SOFTWARE, FEATURES A COMMENTARY , Thursday, 26 April 2007 15:30 (eighteen years ago)

Future Days.

resolved, Thursday, 26 April 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

I think I may the only person here who prefers Can post-Damo Suzuki. It may not be their best, but Saw Delight has long been my favorite of theirs. Probably because it was the first one I heard. Got Landed recently - it may become my favorite over time, we'll see.

I think I have a natural preference for the tighter/funkier side of Can rather than the jammy/hippie-ish tracks from their early days.

Moodles, Thursday, 26 April 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

Well that's a first!

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

Ege Bamyasi

Tim Ellison, Thursday, 26 April 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

Well that's a first!

I'll probably vote for Saw Delight though. Very underrated.
-- Dr.C, Thursday, 26 April 2007 14:30 (2 hours ago)

Tom D., Thursday, 26 April 2007 17:01 (eighteen years ago)

I think I may the only person here who prefers Can post-Damo Suzuki.

"Soon Over Babaluma" is post-Damo

Tom D., Thursday, 26 April 2007 17:03 (eighteen years ago)

I think I voted Ege Bamyasi, cos it has a lush title, and will probably get outweighed by Tago Mago which I feel is unjust.

Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 17:07 (eighteen years ago)

I'll go with Tago Mago because it's one of my fav albums ever. Picking one here really doesn't say much.

sonderangerbot, Thursday, 26 April 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

hahahaha DADA CANNOT YELL!

Myonga Vön Bontee, Thursday, 26 April 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

Future Days

Keith, Thursday, 26 April 2007 18:00 (eighteen years ago)

Did I say Future Days? I meant Saw Delight.

Keith, Thursday, 26 April 2007 18:01 (eighteen years ago)

Ege Bamyasi I suppose.

circa1916, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:11 (eighteen years ago)

I love their first nine albums (even Flow Motion), but I'm going to go completely against convention, and say Babaluma.

A. Begrand, Thursday, 26 April 2007 21:06 (eighteen years ago)

I too vote for Soon Over Babaluma.

van smack, Thursday, 26 April 2007 22:12 (eighteen years ago)

I voted for Ege Bamyasi, but I don't know all of their albums, maybe Soon over Babaluma is better, or even this I Don't Like Can one, which I've never heard of and amazon don't stock it. Is it any good?

I know, right?, Thursday, 26 April 2007 22:18 (eighteen years ago)

I considered voting for Cannibalism 2, but ultimately went with the boring choice of Tago Mago.

abanana, Thursday, 26 April 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

I wish I had voted for Tago Mago now. I retract my Ege Bamyasi. For the official toll subtract one from Ege Bamyasi and add one to Tago Mago.

I know, right?, Thursday, 26 April 2007 22:31 (eighteen years ago)

and then add another for ege

strgn, Thursday, 26 April 2007 23:04 (eighteen years ago)

people: "pinch"

strgn, Thursday, 26 April 2007 23:05 (eighteen years ago)

"Future Days" was actually a rather nice listen. At least if kept in the background.

Geir Hongro, Thursday, 26 April 2007 23:51 (eighteen years ago)

Any album that has Yoo Doo Right on it.

dlp9001, Friday, 27 April 2007 00:39 (eighteen years ago)

Soon Barack Obama. Might be cool.

ellaguru, Friday, 27 April 2007 01:16 (eighteen years ago)

It's funny whenever i see his name I think of Can.

Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 27 April 2007 09:57 (eighteen years ago)

Ege Bamyasi is way better than Tago Mago.

Scik Mouthy, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:37 (eighteen years ago)

It goes like this;

Ege Bamyasi
Future Days
Monster Movie
Tago Mago
Soon Over Babaluma
Soundtracks

And then some stuff I never got round to hearing.

Scik Mouthy, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:38 (eighteen years ago)

Toss up between Ege Bamyasi & Monster Movie for me.

Colonel Poo, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:43 (eighteen years ago)

Saw Delight, as predicted by Tom D.

Dr.C, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:59 (eighteen years ago)

I'm voting for Cannibalism 1, partly because it was the first Can album I bought but mainly because it includes all of Monster Movie (which would have probably got my vote otherwise) except "Mary Mary So Contrary"; plus most of the best tracks from Soundtracks, Tago Mago, Ege Bamyasi, Future Days and Soon Over Babaluma.

Stewart Osborne, Friday, 27 April 2007 11:56 (eighteen years ago)

Damn, thanking him for the killer tunes. Such a talent

H.P, Sunday, 11 February 2024 01:11 (one year ago)

rip big guy, there's nothing to say about his time in can other than that it was perfect

call all destroyer, Sunday, 11 February 2024 02:56 (one year ago)

hero. all time. re the tweet above where he shook everyone's hand in the venue. he did the same one time i heard him.

stirmonster, Sunday, 11 February 2024 03:32 (one year ago)

got Future Days on now, insane this album is 50 years old, could've been recorded yesterday

frogbs, Sunday, 11 February 2024 05:00 (one year ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrgVuGHb-fo

assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 11 February 2024 06:10 (one year ago)

Future Days sounds like it was recorded tomorrow.

dan selzer, Sunday, 11 February 2024 12:39 (one year ago)

Maybe that's why they call it "Future Days"

dan selzer, Sunday, 11 February 2024 12:40 (one year ago)

RIP legend. Last night I was sipping whiskey in one of those “hi fi listening” bars in mexico city and the dj played Future Days on vinyl in its entirety. I was so happy listening to it and hadn’t heard the news about Damo passing. Now the music selection makes sense.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 11 February 2024 14:48 (one year ago)

RIP, I saw him in the late 90s playing with a band including Michael Karoli and Mani Neumeier, probably the closest I was ever getting to a Can reunion! Never did see him again but it was good to know he was out there on his eternal tour. Someone I was talking to who'd played with him said he preferred it if his backing bands didn't try to sound like Can, although I guess that's precisely what most of them did.

the most powerful man in cornish politics (Matt #2), Sunday, 11 February 2024 15:37 (one year ago)

When Damo Suzuki was going to be deported, Stockhausen wrote to the Cologne authorities... without which no Tago Mago. pic.twitter.com/XnEoBq8jkv

— Liam Cagney (@LiamCagney) April 19, 2018

wang mang band (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 11 February 2024 15:51 (one year ago)

Dear god, that 'love of regulations' quip. Black humor doesn't begin to describe THAT.

Ned Raggett, Sunday, 11 February 2024 16:22 (one year ago)

Karlheinz otm

a hyperlink to the past (flamboyant goon tie included), Sunday, 11 February 2024 16:25 (one year ago)

Yesterday afternoon I cranked Ege Bamyasi and the run from “Sing Swan Song” to “Soup” was breathtaking, five guys one mind, a delicate and brutally powerful balance. Damo was like some spirit guide lighting the way.

assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 11 February 2024 18:26 (one year ago)

youth from killing joke wrote something about Damo's passing on his social accounts - he said if he ever gets stuck in a producing session, he just has to listen to Can for 5 minutes (or 20!) and then the way forward becomes clear

this definitely rings true from my (collaborative) jamming/songwriting experiences - often someone will suggest a particular Can song which might have a clue, and then after that all possibilities feel like they are on the table - the solution might not be audibly influenced by Can (although it might be) but there is something about their vibe that helps you think outside conventional rock/pop constraints

he spent a fair bit of time here in Australia & I'm glad I got to see him on his first tour play with local group The Holy Soul (they also did some shows subsequently with Gareth from The Drones/TFS, probably regret missing these in retrospect!)

Kraal Disorientation Chamber (emsworth), Sunday, 11 February 2024 21:34 (one year ago)

I know there are a lot of negative things you can say about Kanye, but while drawing influence and referencing Can is definitely one of the cooler things you can do, reinterpreting the lyrics of Sing Swan Song to say "drunk and hot girls" is really annoying.

dan selzer, Sunday, 11 February 2024 22:30 (one year ago)

after that all possibilities feel like they are on the table

All Gates Open, as it were

assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 11 February 2024 22:39 (one year ago)

it's amazing how many people I know or have met that have played with him

I never actually saw him live which I now regret quite a lot

Colonel Poo, Sunday, 11 February 2024 23:31 (one year ago)

I never met Damo Suzuki but I think I was a the WFMU record fair where he was backed by the guys from Cul De Sac.

I did however meet Malcom Mooney. It was a really interesting night. Bryan, who runs the brooklyn techno parties Bunker, used to live in this big loft with his then fiance Seze in brooklyn. I think it was Seze's idea to get a bunch of people together for dinner one night and invited my wife and I, her (Seze's) mother, her mother's partner, Guy who was an old Feelies fan/associate or something, and also Rick Brown of Blinding Headache, V-Effect, Timber, Fish and Roses, Run On, 75 Dollar Bill and 1000 other great things, whom I had met when I wanted to reissue V-Effect, and Malcom Mooney. Rick's partner Sue Garner showed up as well.

And that's the whole story more or less. Just dinner and hanging out with those people for an evening. Malcom was very sweet and charming.

dan selzer, Sunday, 11 February 2024 23:47 (one year ago)

I was offered the chance to release a single by Ava Mendoza and Malcolm Mooney. I said no because I don't do vinyl, but if there had been an CD's worth of material I would definitely have considered it.

Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Monday, 12 February 2024 00:31 (one year ago)

trying to figure out what club i saw him in (Tokyo 06), found this extensive list.. https://www.damosuzuki.com/live/ !

maf you one two (maffew12), Monday, 12 February 2024 02:39 (one year ago)

Nice Malcolm Mooney story.

I never saw Damo live, let alone meet him, but I did once speak to Jaki Liebezeit and shake his hand. That's good enough for me.

The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Monday, 12 February 2024 08:32 (one year ago)

Has your heartbeat been rock-steady ever since?

assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 12 February 2024 08:45 (one year ago)

i wanted to see damo in '19 but he couldn't get a us visa :( really wish karlheinz stockhausen hadn't died...

Kate (rushomancy), Monday, 12 February 2024 16:04 (one year ago)

Malcolm Mooney poem about Damo: https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=906404777596192&set=a.565994238303916

timellison, Monday, 12 February 2024 18:27 (one year ago)

trying to figure out what club i saw him in (Tokyo 06), found this extensive list.. https://www.damosuzuki.com/live/ !

17 years later wondering why on earth i didn't go to this where he was backed by a bunch of xpressway/corpus hermiticum types. a portion of it got released by galbraith on his label, but have never seen a copy.

rip damo!

no lime tangier, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 04:23 (one year ago)

what Galbraith release? he is my very fave of that whole scene, set looks fantastic

Surfin' burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (sleeve), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 04:25 (one year ago)

Damo in Dunedin

bulb after bulb, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 04:36 (one year ago)

^^^ https://www.discogs.com/release/1561919-Damo-Suzuki-Damo-In-Dunedin

50 copies! time to fire up soulseek.

no lime tangier, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 04:57 (one year ago)

only available from Volcanic Tongue

grggggrrrrr

Surfin' burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (sleeve), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 07:04 (one year ago)

My mate Dave used to book the bands for the Dewsbury Socialist Club and he was the one who organised both of the Damo gigs. IIRC, he charged £500 plus meals and somewhere to stay for the night for him and his partner. Dave also provided the backing band, made up of him and assorted others, who just played continuous, seemingly random stuff and Damo improvised with his vocals. Don't think they rehearsed anything with Damo beforehand. Twas a bit different to watching your average local band.

I had no idea he had played a couple of gigs up the road from me.

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 08:22 (one year ago)

I was invited to play in a Damo show in 2019. Or rather to join The Damo Suzuki Network. He sends out a 6 page booklet explaining his concepts of improvised music. It was explicitly stated that the band could not rehearse beforehand and could not play anything pre-arranged.

Also he wrote “negativity, witchcraft, occult magic, violence, religious symbols or any form of political endorsement or propaganda will NOT be tolerated”

bbq, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 19:07 (one year ago)

Yeah, Damo talked a little bit about these types of shows in this interview from a few years back:

AD: Before you play with the musicians, these sound carriers, before you hit the stage do you give them any kid of direction or idea? “I want to do this tonight. I want this kind of feel?” Or do you just walk onstage and start playing?

Damo Suzuki: No. Because this is already information—playing any kind of music will result in information. Everybody has such elements and space to go: 360-degree angles, anywhere you can go. I just talk to the people maybe 15 minutes before we go on the stage. However we start is important. How we stop is not that important. The end comes, somehow, naturally. But how we start is actually quite important. That’s why nobody has music charts and nobody gets nervous. Because to make improvisations is not everybody’s cup of tea, not everyone is keen on it. I have to make them comfortable. That’s why for 15 minutes before we go on, just to talk about a good oyster in the world, or something like this. And we talk about how we start. Each time is so different but maybe now I feel like not everybody…because I also feel like audience gets into it, very slowly, and not “rush.” Because it’s not natural. I like to get together with nature and also the show itself, must begin with a natural beginning.

So like last time, I said to them, “Think of minutes in your head. And pick a number between one through nine, and which minute you like, you keep in your head.” And someone says, “I have a two!” and I say, “Good, then you go on the stage and go first!” (Laughs). But for me, it doesn’t matter which kind of music or instrument they are playing. Because it’s all instant music. Anything just happens. So if there’s a note that’s an “accident,” those are the most beautiful things, you try to match the accident, you try to do something new; you try to get into the time. And you are much more freer, and you are much more concentrated, and at this moment everyone’s going to begin onstage to try and communicate, then after, we come together with the mistake we made. So in Miami it will be different; well, it must be different. Because I played in England, and now in the USA, I must make some different thing. I don’t like to think about so much things, by myself, because today it’s all-better to do it like this. So I don’t “try to create.” Because it’s not my lifestyle.

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 13 February 2024 19:09 (one year ago)

He sends out a 6 page booklet explaining his concepts of improvised music

I was actually in the Network for a show, and he did not do this. It was stipulated that we shouldn't rehearse anything for the show, though, that much is correct, but that seems like common sense for an improv show.

I posted up a small tribute on fb and haven't really had the energy to think of something else to say here about him, but man, he will be missed.

emil.y, Tuesday, 13 February 2024 21:03 (one year ago)

I could post the booklet here if anyone is interested

bbq, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 01:58 (one year ago)

Yes please - would be interested to see if we accidentally broke any rules!

emil.y, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 02:06 (one year ago)

Being Present

One cannot truly plan ahead for the day, the moment, life, though we try - one can only establish
precedents, develop methods, learn techniques, (or at the worst, habits,) all of which inform our reactions to
each second.
Sometimes, we get comfortable when no new task or stimulus has come our way in a while - actions become
automated, predictions become projected fact and we cease to be reacting. This is when we are no longer
present in each moment of life. We fall prey to ignorance through inattention in thinking we are
precognisant of everything.
In ignoring each second for its uniqueness, we are not experiencing it - moments fly by in bulk,
indistinguishable from one another - and when our consciousness is such, we are not living our life.
Be comfortable, be honest, be a particle of matter vibrating in tandem with and out of reaction to the
millions of other particles around you.
This is important both on stage and always.

“Plan and system is not asked.
Fresh, organic energy is best to create positive energy and share with audience. “
- Damo Suzuki

bbq, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 02:25 (one year ago)

sound carrying

Sound carrying is a technique to keep art in line with unretouched, unfalsified life.
The Sound Carrier Network is made of hundreds of individual musicians who create “spontaneous magic”
together that is an entirely organic response to the present moment, unaffected by forethought or planning.
This spontaneous reaction to the moment goes so far as to have the guitarist play bass, or have a musician
pass off their instrument to an audience member that “feels right.”
Use your time Sound Carrying to feel completely free of identity, ego, or preconception.
You are the bending string of individual experience, to channel a passing moment of reality through your
being, into the sound wave, out across the room, into the web of all matter, off the back wall of the venue
and back through your monitor - to grasp the new moment, to escort it also to freedom.
The music needs you to be honest and nothing more.
Input: awareness; output: meditation.
“I’m really pleased to all sound carriers who like to join to create very special moment, their act to join is
already a positive ef ort, so nothing go wrong way. “
- Damo Suzuki

bbq, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 02:26 (one year ago)

instant composing

The shows are completely improvised, through what Damo has deemed instant composing. It’s subtly
different from what we have come to know as improv, where players develop cues, techniques, and
portfolios of jams to provide the framework for a set.
Instant composing is a philosophy more than a technique - forget techniques for now; they will keep you
pacing around the room where you learned them - it is an interesting and beautiful method of creating
evolving music more similar to life.
Though you can try to plan, there are events transpiring around you all the time that you cannot dictate but
must simply react to... you can not plot out life. Once music has been composed it is no longer a fluid
expression of life, as it operates with assumption and will ignore the moment, the present, the situation.
Damo will give abstract guidance like - "the start of the show reminds you of the movie where you are
running from tiger" or "now we imagine we are earthworms in too dry soil,” and “channeling the bad vibe
from the server who was rude to bassist at coffee shop into a 10 minute opening war-chant-style song that
leads into an ode to the way it feels to stretch on a warm sunny morning.”

It is best if Sound Carriers don’t meet up before and practice for this event - I like things happen “by
accident” and this moment is most personality,
original and natural. “
- Damo Suzuki

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bbq, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 02:26 (one year ago)

joining the network

Damo Suzuki is an improvisational performer who performs with a rotating cast of international musicians.
This is called "Damo Suzuki's Network". No performance is rehearsed or premeditated. Damo will be
meeting most of his U.S. band members, which he refers to as Sound Carriers, for the very first time. He
holds a brief meeting with his band prior to the show and the rest is magic.
• Are you completely comfortable with collaborating, live, with numerous additional musicians in an
improv fashion with no rehearsal?
Welcome to Damo Suzuki's Network, a network that spans decades and the globe. Made up of local "sound
carriers" in each city that will be collaborating, sometimes for the first time ever even meeting, entirely
improv, the Network exists to create a "spark of magic" with the chemistry created by spur of the moment.
You are now a member of a Network made of thousands of musicians from hundreds of countries on every
continent.

“It's always nice to perform new faces, beginning of friendship?
As social life is colorful with characters, nice to have dif erent characters
in this space. “
- Damo Suzuki

bbq, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 02:27 (one year ago)

arranging

Damo wants not to act as a stand-in front man for a rehearsed band, but as a composer for the moment that
is a shared moment between the crowd, the band, the physical space itself. A band's developed chemistry
might conflict with the spontaneity of the performance.
Instant composing works best with a collection of musicians from different musical projects. The Sound
Carriers may at no time perform an existing composition.
Absolutely NO CAN SONGS will be performed. Damo has toured the world as an improvisational vocal
artist and has performed with his international “Network” of “Sound Carriers" since 1983.
There can be many instrumentalists, as many fit on stage, with some even waiting off-stage for the moment
it feels "right' to take the guitar from the current carrier, or hop on the extra percussion. We suggest a
minimum of three to five sound carriers, with no max - performances seem common with up to eight on
stage.
We've heard some pretty interesting stories about off-the-cuff collaboration and it's really been allowing us
to rethink the “instrument.” On a previous tour, Damo had a guitarist play bass because he "played the
guitar like a bass anyway.” Imagine something similar to oblique strategies but live on stage, and always
evolving.

“I create time and space of the moment with ever changing
local sound carriers (musicians).
You curate local sound carriers.”
- Damo Suzuki

bbq, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 02:29 (one year ago)

conclusion

Good, open, peaceful vibrations. Each show is an opportunity to nurture a really far out, one-time-only
experience that leaves a lasting impact on everyone in attendance.
Genuine, positive intention, spiritual energy and fearless spontaneity should be the key driving forces
behind each musical performance.
Damo’s specialty lies in fluid improvisational exchanges between he and his band, including (energetically)
the crowd and the venue.
Damo Suzuki hasn't toured the U.S. in over 10 years. He has recently won a battle with cancer, and his
story is inspirational and awe-inspiring, to say the very least.
The show must be billed as "Damo Suzuki's Network", or “Damo Suzuki (and/with) The Sound Carriers.”
Personal projects and names of the Sound Carriers should be mentioned in all print and online promo, but
not in the format “Damo Suzuki and Motorhead.”
Fine to say, “Damo Suzuki’s Network with Sound Carriers featuring members of Motorhead” or “Damo
Suzuki and the Sound Carriers featuring Lemmy Kilmister (Motorhead)”
If and when referencing CAN, please note “early 70’s” or “1970-1973.”
Negativity, witchcraft, occult magic, violence, religious symbols or any form of political endorsement or
propaganda will NOT be tolerated if represented/endorsed by the venue itself, the venue staff, supporting
bands, and/or the promoter. This applies to all musicians, sound carriers, and their personal interests,,
poster art, online promo, the venue design, DOS playlist music, or as a part of any promotional material
associated with this show. If this rule is not adhered to, it is possible that Damo will refuse to perform and
may result in cancellation of the event.

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bbq, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 02:31 (one year ago)

thank you!

Surfin' burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (sleeve), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 03:57 (one year ago)

superb!
am genuinely thinking about how this applies to my life.

assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 04:50 (one year ago)

I rented ENERGY: A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT DAMO SUZUKI and highly recommend it. It’s not polished but lets Damo speak for himself, and I felt I understood a lot more of his life after “that German group”. Affectionate and insightful.
One fascinating tidbit was his companion on some UK shows, mentioned only as “E-Da”, whom I assume is the E-Da who helped make Seefeel a massive dub fourpiece in 2011.

assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 11:38 (one year ago)

E-Da became the 4th member when the Boredoms morphed into Voredoms (w/ EYE, Yoshimi & ATR), but he had been involved with the band as far back as Super Roots 7.

citation needed (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 12:30 (one year ago)

Oh yeah I forgot his Boredoms origin. He was described as “a musician and taxi driver” in the doco.

assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 12:42 (one year ago)

He also has this weird and kinda terrible band where they project things on a huge sphere while he mucks around with percussion equipment.

That booklet is really interesting, my band supported the Network in London once, Karoli was on guitar too, he was really drunk, I passed Damo in a corridor after we played and he nodded and said 'very good'

I have a recording of Damo with 23 Skidoo and IIRC it's all just 23 Skidoo songs with Damo singing on top.

Maresn3st, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 12:50 (one year ago)

E-Da is indeed the same E-Da, and he's v v nice!

emil.y, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 14:23 (one year ago)

(Also if you look very hard you can just about see me as a blurry shape in that documentary - lots of pals who you can see more clearly, though)

emil.y, Wednesday, 14 February 2024 14:24 (one year ago)

nice! For anyone curious the film can be streamed as a 48h rental via Vimeo https://vimeo.com/ondemand/energythefilm

assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 14 February 2024 21:18 (one year ago)


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