There are few stories i would less like to bring you. On friday the reclussive genius passed on to other things.
Trout Mask Replica his audio masterpiece is beyond comparrisson and remains a life changer. The outsider artist was 69 and thinking of him in rock terms is to not hear. At age 5 he knew he was a child art prodigy, his parents would feed him through the bedroom door of the studio he refused to leave. At high school he met his greatest champion and worst pain in the arse. As a self mythologist beyond compar there are too many Beefheart legends to list, many are true, the rest are even more true. You either already know Beefheart or don't. His self emposed isolation added to his strange relationship to culture, as does te fact that the geatr pat f hs crativ output was painting, the most written of music. Death somehow hasn't the finallty itould mean for most as in most ways he had already moved on. We've missed ou a long time.
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