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stevie wonder and ian dury are the obvious ones but who are some of the more obscure disabled performers

― born clippy, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

kevin shields.

― fields of salmon, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

whats wrong with him

― born clippy, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Vic Chesnutt, who totally fuckin rocks.

― Nick A., Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Moulty of the barbarians, who had a hook and sang about it.

― Colin Meeder, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Ray Charles and Robert Wyatt.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Before anyone can make a joke about Bono's hyperinflated ego or Ringo's lack of rhythm.... Not funny.

Bowie has that one bad eye -

― Dave225, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I think Epic or someone have signed a young female singer with cystic fibrosis, and while I think it's great she's got this opportunity, I find it worrying that the record company are ACTUALLY CONSIDERING using it as a marketing ploy. 'Charity' records and appearances on the National Lottery with Charlotte Church can't be far behind.

― Matt DC, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Tony Iommi, in a just-missing-ends-of-fingers-and-not-really-disabled- at-all sort of way. There's an Argentinian band (whose name escapes me now) who have a drummer/vocalist with Downs Syndrome. They were in the Wire a couple of months ago.

― Microkomputer, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Def Leppard's Rick Allen. One-armed drummer, yo.

― sean, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Jerry Garcia was missing his middle finger from a woodcutting accident. (Not that I listen to the dead.)

― Manny Parsons, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Django Reinhardt

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Jeff Healey, blues guitar slinger in the vein of SRV, is blind and plays sitting down with the guitar laying across his lap. Sorta T- Bone Walker but fingering from the top. Incidentally, he *smokes*.

― Possum Slimm, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Oh yes, and Prince, if webbed toes count.

― Possum Slimm, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

What's wrong with Robert Wyatt?

― , Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Microkomputer is thinking of Reynols, who are terrific.

― Colin Meeder, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

ddb -- nothing, if you overlook the whole "stuck in a wheelchair and can't do concerts because of incontinence" thing.

― Colin Meeder, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

What's wrong with Robert Wyatt?

Back in the early seventies -- at a party celebrating the End of a Ear release, I gather -- Wyatt fell out of a window. The result was permanent injury and paralysis, and he has been using a wheelchair ever since.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

just out of curiosty, and because no one will know - reynols had a side project band called "no reynols" with a different drummer with downs syndrome. anyone hear the double cd (one disc reynols, one no reynols) that came out?

― your null fame, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Curtis Mayfield, from the early '80s onward.

― Nate Patrin, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I thought Mayfield wasn't injured until like 1991 or so.

― paul, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

http://www.content.loudeye.com/large-010026/0051585.jpg

― chaki, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Teddy Fucking Pendergrass and James Brown has a crack problem.

― Chris, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Damn, that's right, it happened in 1990. My mistake.

Bushwick Bill was a one-eyed midget. Plus his hands can't be in good shape after that whole concrete-punching incident.

― Nate Patrin, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"was a one-eyed midget" and still is, actually. Unless he got a new eye installed like Spike from Cowboy Bebop.

― Nate Patrin, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Aint the Blind Boys of Alabama actually blind? Not that I listen to them.

― Mr noodles, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

How about that conjoined twin country singer? She's actually a shit singer, but hey...

Wesley Willis obviously rears his godlike head in this area as well. The guitarist from Life Without Buildings was on crutches when they supported Belle and Sebastian, whether he's permanently disabled or that was just a one-off... dunno.

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

the almighty volvox (see http://www.dualplover.com)

― jack cole, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

also, chris knox of the tall dwards and solo has epilepsy.

― jack cole, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

just out of curiosty, and because no one will know - reynols had a side project band called "no reynols" with a different drummer with downs syndrome. anyone hear the double cd (one disc reynols, one no reynols) that came out?

Never say Never...Friends have it and swear it's their best release to date. I'ts hrd to come by a copy now.I saw then live last year.Migel wasn't allowed to go on tour with them but a giant banner with his mug strangely brought the aura of him being there.When they lose Migel's psychedelic wanderings it does take something away, but who else is doing music in such an original way?

― brg30, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Four members of the aforementioned Blind Boys are blind. The other three are the bass player and the two guitarists. Saw them on Monday night, quite entertaining - bootlegged Amazing Grace and House Of The Rising Sun (unless HOTRS actually rips off AG anyway).

― Mr Swygart, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Brian Wilson with that bad ear rendering him unable to hear stereo. Among other assorted disabilities.

― briania, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

...and then there was Beethoven's deafness, as eloquently lamented by Joni Mitchell in "Judgement of the Moon and Stars": "No tongue in the bell / And the fishwives yell / But they might as well be mute / So you get to keep the pictures / That don't seem like much..."

Oh, that's a sad and lovely tune.

― briania, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

2Pac Shakur - he has DIED! and yet still releases a tonne of material.

― Lek Dukagjin, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Daniel Johnston. Jose Feliciano is blind. And jazz trumpeter Tom Harrel (or jazz saxophonist Tom Harrell) has schizophrenia.

― nickn, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

She's not a musician, ok, but I was disturbed to recently learn that fab actress Susan Tyrrell has lost BOTH her legs to a blood disease.

― Sean, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Not many people know this, but Fred Durst is a spastic.

I know I know, there was no need for that.

― clotion, Friday, 2 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

2Pac also only had one testicle. Whether this is sufficient enough for him to claim disability benefit, I know not.

― Dom Passantino, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Fred Durst is legally retarded, I'm pretty sure. He's got the mongoloid eye thing going on.

― maria, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

kevin shields.
-- fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon@yahoo.com), August 02, 2002.
whats wrong with him

-- born clippy (rimjockey@hotmail.com), August 02, 2002.

Crippling agoraphobia, which makes it very difficult to come out of the recording studio.

Percussionist Evelyn Glennie is deaf, but performs with orchestras by feeling the beat.

Does serious stage fright count? I'm thinking of Andy Partridge (XTC) and Liz Phair.

― j.lu, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

There are also the Five Blind Boys Of Mississippi, among others such. Other clues can be found in the names of Blind John Davis, Blind Boy Fuller, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Willie McTell, Blind Alfred Reed and Blind Joe Taggart. There's also Crippled Clarence Lofton. Was the Reverend Gary Davis blind too?

― Martin Skidmore, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Ray Charles is blind. Pete Townshend has bad hearing loss.

― aaron m, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

so does bob mould, accounting for how bad the post huskers stuff is, maybe.

― mike (ro)bott, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

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