Mysterious artists who made a handful of impressive recordings, then completely disappeared from the radar

that's a polaroid!

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bizzy bone went from upstaging 2Pac and Biggie on 2 songs in the same year to dropping off the map into a weird alcoholic mediocrity (granted he had a lot of work before these songs but they sort of signalled the end)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSHTFiiYLHA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfxvgi0i1nc

John Wilson, the guitarist and bass player on early Heaven 17/BEF records, in particular the Pavement side of Penthouse and Pavement.

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Bizzy Bone has released something like 20 solo albums (the latest in 2012), plus obviously he was on the best-known Bone-Thugs-n-Harmony albums, so I wouldn't really say he was a mysterious artist or that disappeared after a handful of recordings.

A long time ago, I found a cut-out of No Dirty Names, Dave Van Ronk's '66 LP. It was mostly good-to-great, pulling in a cohesive variety of songs from several sources, incl. DVR himself. But the one that got most deeply under my skin and never left, was and is "Mean World Blues," with a note floating by: "Well I'm goin', goin' away baby, and don't you look for me. I'll be hidin', hidin' in the deep blue sea." Credited to one Neila Horn, whom Van Ronk mentioned briefly, respectfully, on the battered back cover---was she dead? I started to remember people who sang one seemingly awesome song in a crowded, old smokey apartment, and were never seen or heard of again, at least by me.
Many years later, Numero put out Songs of Leaving from an ancient acetate of songs by Niela Miller. She was bummed by the music biz before ever becoming truly professional: for inst., one of the songs on the former acetate was the or a very probable source of "Hey Joe," copyrighted by her ex, Billy Roberts, so that's the or a major reason she split. You can read all about both of 'em on the WWW, of course, but man, that song.

I should have said that her song was *a* probable source, since he did change some of it, and as was pointed out to her online, "You can't copyright a chord progression." (Or a Q & A format re the lyrical pattern.) Anyway, nobody ever lifted nothin' from "Mean World Blues," far as I know: it's too all-to-itself for that, passing though.

How about Ronnie Singer- legendary jazz guitarist who committed suicide along with his wife at the age of 25 in 1953, leaving behind no official recordings, but only one heavily bootlegged live excerpt?

http://ronniesinger.blogspot.com/

Bizzy Bone has released something like 20 solo albums (the latest in 2012), plus obviously he was on the best-known Bone-Thugs-n-Harmony albums, so I wouldn't really say he was a mysterious artist or that disappeared after a handful of recordings.

Of course, like I said, but he dropped off pretty hard, pretty quick granted the substances etc caught up though. All those solos after The Gift are all just cheap throwaways essentially, by a rapper sounding nothing like who he was in the 90s.

"got shitty" is kind of fundamentally different from "completely disappeared from the radar"

Robert Plant in the 80s thread got me wondering about what happened to guitarist Robbie Blunt. Aside from a tiny number of YouTubes he's dropped out of sight.

I am the recording artist John Scoggins from the album Pressed For Time> I did not disappear plus you gossiping old ladies don't seem to know where to search for the actual John Scoggins, jes. you go on google and there's like hundreds of john scoggins's that are NOT ME. Go to UTUBE, and ITUNES, You'l find the Actual artist John Scoggins is alive and well and still making and releasing Music. There,s currently an original album vinyl on EBAY right now JAN> 2016 BUT probably not for long, music on Warner music on ITUNES, Amazon and every other digital site AND NEW Music on UTUBE> god search for a musician on music sites Google will just give you all sorts of people with the same name that ain't me.

lol

I am the recording artist John Scoggins from the album Pressed For Time> I did not disappear plus you gossiping old ladies don't seem to know where to search for the actual John Scoggins, jes. you go on google and there's like hundreds of john scoggins's that are NOT ME. Go to UTUBE, and ITUNES, You'l find the Actual artist John Scoggins is alive and well and still making and releasing Music. There,s currently an original album vinyl on EBAY right now JAN> 2016 BUT probably not for long, music on Warner music on ITUNES, Amazon and every other digital site AND NEW Music on UTUBE> god search for a musician on music sites Google will just give you all sorts of people with the same name that ain't me.

― John Scoggins, Monday, January 18, 2016 4:58 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

whoa

welcome back!

checkin out scogg on UTUBE, sounds good!

you gossiping old ladies

lol, fair assessment

so do you, like, hoard sealed copies of Pressed for Time and put one up on ebay about every 6 months and then just sit back and watch the bids roll in? that's what I'd do if I were rare private press psych folk powerpop recording artist John Scoggins.

I, too, listened to one of your songs on UTUBE, and it sounds great! any chance of a reissue?

"i did not disappear you gossiping old ladies" would be a good board description

one-time King Crimson percussionist Jamie Muir probably belongs here

George Murray, Bowie's brilliant bassist in the last half of the 70s. Last seen on a Jerry Harrison solo album and then apparently got out of the music business entirely.

i wish someone would reissue those Shelagh McDonald records mentioned above. or re-reissue them in an easy/affordable way.

yes! was just trying to track down some of her stuff recently and it seemed like even the early 00s comp was pretty pricey.

George Murray, Bowie's brilliant bassist in the last half of the 70s. Last seen on a Jerry Harrison solo album and then apparently got out of the music business entirely.

― Elvis Telecom, Monday, January 18, 2016 9:45 PM (24 minutes ago)

i suppose there are a billion of those old blues guys out there, but bayless rose.