Wesley Willis has a Rockstar tour bus. He commands a pretty high
penny for his performances. I know as my friend is a promoter who
has booked him three times. Besides demanding strange things like a
gallon of soy milk along with a 12 pack of diet/sugarfree/caffiene
free/ coke, he also demands quite a bit of money. He must be doing
pretty well if he can pay the upkeep of that tour bus, or pay for its
lease and fuel, whatever the case may be. Granted he has someone
managing his tour and he would be incapable of organizing any of this
himself, it still amazes me that he can generate such a turnout.
He is also quite a gifted self taught artist. His pen and ink
drawings of the chicago skyline are really nice. He sells these at
most of his shows.
Has anyone else seen Wesley Willis perform? Is it just me or does
every song, musically, sound the same? Just a different set of lyrics
for each song!?!
aLEKs
On May 27, 2005, at 6:43 AM, Richard Whitelaw wrote:
It is worth bearing in mind that Irwin has done a lot to promote and
disseminate the work of some of the most marginalised and off the
radar US musicians - Peter Grudzien, Judson Fountain and R. Stevie
Moore being good examples.
point 2 is wrong - if you have read his book you will note that while
he drawn connections between Beefheart and Partch this is not
judgmental as regards quality of work. Outsider music is not a genre
but a concept for considering the output of an extremely diverse
group of musicians, some commercially successful (like Beefheart and
Syd Barrett) and others less so (Shooby Taylor, Wesley Willis).
Concepts of good, bad, better and worse tend to become meaningless
when discussing much of this music.
cheers
Richard
On 26 May 2005, at 19:22, jacob felix heule wrote:
I'm not really into Irwin Chusid. Two reasons: (1) He looks at his
subjects with mockery. He talks about Jandek, but only derides him
for
being the worst "musician" ever to attempt making a record. I don't
think he sees anything in music like that other than a weird cultural
phenomenon to archive, make fun of, and profit from. (2) He classes
artists like Harry Partch and Captain Beefheart alongside artists
like
Wesley Willis and Shooby Taylor. There are major differences between
these two groups, which I think should be clear to anyone here.
jacob
On 5/25/05, ian stewart <artsonics@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
the intrepid diy-music preservationist, Irwin Chusid. He is also,
of course, the
author of Songs in the Key of Z: The Curious Universe of Outsider
Music
(2000, A Cappella Books).
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http://heule.us
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