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No other band has had the impact and influence on my genetic structure
like SCG has. A great deal of that is wholly laid square on the
shoulders of Charles, the utter abandon with which he approached his
prolific life is a constant reminder of where I'd like to be, in my
head, and where I am not.
― sonofpazuzu (sonofpazuzu), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:26 (seventeen years ago) link
Devastating. All seems quite pointless now. I knew he'd been very ill - AB told me in December, but he also said he was totally in the clear at that point. In many ways he was the Sun City Girls, the inspiration, the true genius spark and the man who lived it like he talked it. He will be sorely missed and his writings and his music are only beginning to be understood by those who think they know. Without compare. Rest in peace, good sir.
― myopic_void (myopic_void), Thursday, 22 February 2007 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link
eulogy from his dad (so I'm told)
"After he's passed through this form, the department will take his
body, remove the skeleton, and hollow out the bone marrow. They will
be used as instruments for a thirteen-piece orchestra. The eight bones
that comprised his arms and legs will have trumpet mouthpieces
attached to one end, and will be used as horns. The five remaining
bone sections -- the rib cage, the hip bone, the shoulder bone, the
back bone, and the skull -- will be used as the percussion
instruments, with the hands and the feet serving as the beaters. The
musicians will be instructed in the methods taken from his writings
pertaining to improvisational music. During the orchestra's
performance -- delivered annually on November 12, his birthday -- his
internal organs, preserved in a canopic jar sitting on the stage
front, will be guarded by a young Nepalese milkmaiden who, during the
course of each ceremony, will fall into an ecstatic possession trance,
and invoke his spirit in the same manner as he is invoking mine right
now. Listen to his song. Let me leave you with one last thought: If
his idea seems too preposterous, and if you don't believe in the
reincarnation of the soul, how do you know that we're not all dead
already? "
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 22 February 2007 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link