RIP Damo Suzuki -- Can

[Grinderman]

Krautrock singer Damo Suzuki dies aged 74

Colon cancer got him. He'd lived with it for an extraordinary number of years.

 

[WG Plum]

Goddamn.

 

[Killing Floor]

Legend. I had exposed a friend to Can not long ago and left out the part that the music he was hearing was over 50 years old.

I’m a fan of the new band Yoo Doo Right, they are nailing that sound today.

 

[Grinderman]

Legend. I had exposed a friend to Can not long ago and left out the part that the music he was hearing was over 50 years old.

I’m a fan of the new band Yoo Doo Right, they are nailing that sound today.

I'd never really heard Can, as far as I was aware of, until around '89 when my college roommate turned me on to Tago Mago.

Monster Movie is kind of okay.

 

[Wood and Wire]

R.I.P.

 

[Michedelic]

Slowly but surely, there will be this kind of attrition. They were an outfit that broke all the rules, even those of their own supposed realm of music, and were a stealth influence in unlikely places.

 

[smoothbrain]

disturbance in the force

 

[OnTheDownLow]

He almost made it one more Saturday night.

RIP

 

[T-boneParish]

Dang….
I remember the first time I connected with the music of CAN. I was in a used-vinyl shop in the East Village of NYC in the ‘90s. The girl working the register was playing CAN over the sound system. I was browsing, looking at different stuff, listening to the music, not recognizing it, thinking to myself, “This music has a great vibe.” One song after another, each one sparked the same thought in my mind. And yet, I couldn’t place it. I asked the employee what it was, and she just smiled and held up the album. I can’t remember if it was Tago Mago (1971) or Ege Bamyasi (1972). I asked her if they had any copies for sale, but they didn’t. Have loved and respected that band ever since.

Rest in peace, tone brother Suzuki-san!

 

[brianrost]

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That leaves only Irmin Schmidt and Malcolm Mooney as the last of the original lineup (actually Damo replaced Mooney).

 

[Maxi Funkl]

Don't know anything about him but F cancer!

 

[Bunk McNulty]

Irmin Schmidt talking with Anthony Bourdain:
"We have fans who are 16 years old and think this is new music."
Prodded by Tony, he admits that yes, this is very satisfying.

 

[FunkHead]

RIP Damo!

 

[Michedelic]

Dang….
I remember the first time I connected with the music of CAN. I was in a used-vinyl shop in the East Village of NYC in the ‘90s. The girl working the register was playing CAN over the sound system. I was browsing, looking at different stuff, listening to the music, not recognizing it, thinking to myself, “This music has a great vibe.” One song after another, each one sparked the same thought in my mind. And yet, I couldn’t place it. I asked the employee what it was, and she just smiled and held up the album. I can’t remember if it was Tago Mago (1971) or Ege Bamyasi (1972). I asked her if they had any copies for sale, but they didn’t. Have loved and respected that band ever since.

Rest in peace, tone brother Suzuki-san!

That just goes to show, that here you were, hearing their stuff 20 years after it was recorded, and it sounded fresh, challenging, no point of reference. And that this girl, who might have been born after it came out, was into it.

 

[Michedelic]

It was always funny how this band, who sound nothing like Can(they draw from the Stooges and MC5)combined the two singers’ names to make up their own…

 

[T-boneParish]

That just goes to show, that here you were, hearing their stuff 20 years after it was recorded, and it sounded fresh, challenging, no point of reference. And that this girl, who might have been born after it came out, was into it.

True. So true.

 

[gtirard]

I’m a fan of the new band Yoo Doo Right, they are nailing that sound today.

Thanks for the discovery, I didn't know that band and I love it, playing their 2 albums all day long.
It reminds me of Mogwai as much as Can.

A witness to the tensions and despair of our times