The reason I mentioned Robert Wyatt was that, in his case, the spirit really did carry on (and develop further) after being similarly alienated out of the band he had been a mainstay (whilst Soft Machine gradually spiralled downward to the point where not a single original member remained). There's only one Icecross album and only one (proper) album by The Unicorns but they stand up so much on their own merits I'm perfectly happy with that being all we got. QuoteBesides, Barrett's boundless lysergic playfulness meandered well enough into his solo material (and after Mastodon went crap Brann Dailor lent his astonishing heart attack jazz metal percussion to Today Is The Day for In The Eyes Of God) so it's not as though it was just a flash in the pan. You don't really need a point to think something's great or otherwise it just is. Instead of wasting time pondering what could have been you can treasure the fact that something so singularly wonderful got a chance to exist in the first place. Quote from: The Mollusk on June 18, 2023, 04:56:10 PMWhilst I acknowledge I've reacted the same way about music from my generation (the first Mastodon album being the only good one, bursting with vitality before they slipped quickly into bloated tedium, the worst aspects of prog) I do think it's pointless to be so precious about these things.
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