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I'm not that up to date on his later work, but all of that earlier Soft Machine stuff has made a big impact on me so this is truly sad news. will be playin Third soon
― sonderangerbot, Sunday, 7 June 2009 21:01 (fourteen years ago) link
this sucks, as far as I could tell the guy was still making music at a good clip. search the Caveman Hughscore album he did with Seattle folks in the 90's as well.
RIP
― sleeve, Monday, 8 June 2009 15:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Had no idea he was ill. Saw him a few years ago with Charles Hayward and possibly Phil Miller, was still going strong.
― Enemy Insects (NickB), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 09:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Best Soft, Hopper Tunity Box, Parabolic Versions. For these past couple of days I've played these three almost constantly.
Yes, like it was said upthread, HH kept making good music all the time. Though it seems that from 1979-82, or thereabouts, he didn't record or perform for some years, instead doing quite varied odd-jobs -- upon which he later commented in an interview that (I rely on memory here, so it's hardly word for word, but it ran along the lines of) "writing fiction and writing music reviews is basically the same thing".
Reading what other musicians, including Wyatt, have had to say about him, he appears as one of the kindest and sanest personalities, probably one of the most modest also, of that generation.
I only exchanges a few rather short messages with him, and got pretty much a similar impression.
Great guy. R.I.P.
― t**t, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 10:37 (fourteen years ago) link
just heard about this.... had no idea he was ill either..
RIP..
Now playing Moon In June (Radio 1 session version)
― Jack Battery-Pack, Tuesday, 9 June 2009 11:46 (fourteen years ago) link
three weeks pass...